Issue of Regional Floods Miscellaneous Coursework
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Flash floods last for a few hours, but have a major impact, on agricultural land, infrastructure, and homes. Flash floods rarely have a major economic impact, but they can be gruesome. On the 12th of August 1997, 11 tourists hiking in the Antelope Canyon near Page, Arizona, were killed by a flash flood that had its origins in a distant, unseen cloudburst.