Flooding Case Studies

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What is the MEDC flooding case study?
Storm Desmond, Cumbria
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When did it take place?
5th December 2015
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What was the death toll?
2
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What were the impacts?
5,200 homes damaged, 40 schools closed, less than 2000 livestock killed, infastructure damaged, 43,000 homes without power, £400-£500 damage, tress ripped up, land slides, waterfall at Malham cove, ton sof sediment washed downstream
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What were the responses?
more than 100 flood warnings and 70 adverts, RNLI, 200 military personnel helped with aftermath, £400,000 rasied within the public, government spent £72 million
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What is the LEDC flooding case study?
Pakistan floods
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When did it take place?
2010
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What was the death toll?
2000
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What were the impacts?
20 million affected, 6 mil homless, 4mil no food/water, 1,8 mil homes flooded, 10,000 schools destroyed, disease outbreak, 200,000 livestock killed, infastructure damaged, power lines down, $2.9 bil crop damage, land mines wasked downstream.
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What were the responses?
Flood warnings a month before, US helecopters with aid, Pakistan Federal Flood comission received $900 mil but governement are corrupt.
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