{"id":43591,"date":"2017-03-16T15:05:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T21:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuredco.us\/elem-flex\/facts-about-flash-floods\/"},"modified":"2017-03-16T15:05:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T21:05:19","slug":"facts-about-flash-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuredco.us\/elem-flex\/posts-news\/facts-about-flash-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts About Flash Floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flash floods occur as a result of heavy rainfall, rapid snow thaw, city drains overflowing or dam\/levee failures. They occur quickly and unexpectedly, within 6 hours of the events that caused them. Here are more facts to give you an idea of how dangerous flash floods can be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Every region in the United States can be affected by flash floods, especially low-lying areas: near river beds and coastlines.<\/li>\n<li>Cities are more likely to be affected by flash floods due to the predominant impermeable surfaces, such as asphalt, and the lack of natural drainage systems.<\/li>\n<li>The water from flash floods can reach a height of 20 feet, which can severely damage anything in its path. <\/li>\n<li>Just 2 feet of floodwater moving at 9 feet per second (standard speed of flash floods) is enough to sweep vehicles away, move 100 pound rocks, uproot trees or level buildings.<\/li>\n<li>Just 6 inches of rapidly moving floodwater can sweep someone off their feet.<\/li>\n<li>Between 2004 and 2013, an average of 75 people have died from flash floods in the United States per year.<\/li>\n<li>Nearly all who perished during flash floods tried to outrun the waters rather than going to a higher area.<\/li>\n<li>Two thirds of the deaths claimed by flash floods occur in vehicles, when the drivers try to pass through the floodwater.<\/li>\n<li>Flash floods can cause extensive structural damage: 12\u201d of floodwater on a 2,000 square foot building can cause $50,000 worth of damage or more.<\/li>\n<li>Flash flood warnings are issued by the National Weather Service when a flash flood is imminent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flash floods occur as a result of heavy rainfall, rapid snow thaw, city drains overflowing or dam\/levee failures. They occur quickly and unexpectedly, within 6 hours of the events that caused them. Here are more facts to give you an idea of how dangerous flash floods can be: Every region in the United States can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","omw_enable_modal_window":"enable","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts-news","entry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuredco.us\/elem-flex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuredco.us\/elem-flex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuredco.us\/elem-flex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuredco.us\/elem-flex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuredco.us\/elem-flex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuredco.us\/elem-flex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuredco.us\/elem-flex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuredco.us\/elem-flex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}