many recommendations in the full article may actually make subsequent floods worse! Evidently, the work is structured along traditional civil engineering paradigms, which mostly ignore environmental concerns, and new understanding regarding the value of renaturing rivers and streams, and the deleterious effects of some anthropic interventions... Anyway, at least some personal safety  suggestions seem appropriate...

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many recommendations in the full article may actually make subsequent floods worse! Evidently, the work is structured along traditional civil engineering paradigms, which mostly ignore environmental concerns, and new understanding regarding the value of renaturing rivers and streams, and the deleterious effects of some anthropic interventions... Anyway, at least some personal safety  suggestions seem appropriate...