- For elderly and disabled persons living on their own, with no family or community support, the impact of the floods is significant. They will not be able to rely on family and friends to help, and may not be able to afford the cost £20k or £40k to repair their home or to replace damaged mobility aids, leaving them further isolated.
- Emergency grants to repair their homes.Emergency grants should they need temporary rehousing. Emergency grants to replace mobility aids damaged in the floods. Dedicated support from us to hire contractors to clean up and repair their homes. Dedicated support from us to hire contractors to install mobility aids.
- If your skin comes in contact with flood water, make sure to wash it with soap and disinfected water because the contents are unknown. Flooding is caused by spring thawing (snow and frozen grounds melting in the spring), heavy rains, snow melt runoffs, flash floods, and mudflows.
- Great Salt Lake's water level fluctuates dramatically due to seasonal shifts in inflow water volume and the rate of evaporation. The Utah lake is a closed basin with no outlet for water, so floods like those of the mid 1980s can be severe and destructive.
- A flood occurs when water overflows or inundates land that's normally dry. This can happen in a multitude of ways. Most common is when rivers or streams overflow their banks. Excessive rain, a ruptured dam or levee, rapid ice melting in the mountains, or even an unfortunately placed beaver dam can overwhelm a river and send it spreading over the adjacent land, called a floodplain. Coastal flooding occurs when a large storm or tsunami causes the sea to surge in land.
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