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A flood can go as high as the land and water allow. There is no limit to the rise of flood waters because a flood is not a controlled event.
A flood comes before the rise of the water table. The rise of the water table is a gradual rising of the areas that are actually under water all year round. A flood is a sudden rise in the water level.
The water is estimated to have risen about 15 cubits high during the biblical flood described in the Book of Genesis.
To keep the water contained should the water level rise.
Well, it depends on how large the storm surge. I have seen water rise 10 feet from a river during a storm surge. It also depends on lake or river, because of if it is moving water or still water.
Levees can cause flooding when they fail or are overtopped by a higher volume of water than they were designed to withstand. This can happen during heavy rainfalls or storm surges when water levels rise and put excessive pressure on the levee structure. If the levee breaches or fails, water can flow rapidly and uncontrollably into areas that were supposed to be protected, leading to flooding.
A:A cubit is too small a measure for the biblical Flood. Taken literally, the Flood would have risen kilometres above normal sea level, to cover the whole earth, including the highest mountains in Tibet. As the flood waters receded, The Ark supposedly landed on Mount Ararat, the highest peak in the Middle East.
People build banks so that the water doesn't rise up and flood the city.
It is called a flood.
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A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation., The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood., A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency., Menstrual disharge; menses., To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley., To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency.