| Flood defence experts are to give householders in the Hambleton area advice on how to protect their homes from inundation. |
| Some maps also included information about how fast the flow of water might be over land or how long the inundation might last. |
| Provided burial is not too deep, plants will recover within weeks or months of inundation. |
| Dangerous areas cannot be identified systematically and consistently, nor can reliable data be obtained on frequency of inundation. |
| Following persistent inundation, forests may be destroyed in a relatively short period of time. |
| The Epic of Gilgamesh describes a flood which preceded the Biblical inundation by at least a thousand years. |
