Rescue workers dug quickly Monday through the debris of two ski lodges buried by a landslide, fearing rain and flash floods forecast for the Snowy Mountains will trigger more slides before they find nine missing people.
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Flooding will worsen in the next few days as waters in the country's three river basins _ Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna _ continue to rise following heavy rains, the Flood Forecast and Warning center in Dhaka said Wednesday.
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When the first flood forecasts were issued, townspeople began building temporary levees to keep water out of the riverfront business district, but the city has resisted building permanent flood structures that would wall off the city from the river.
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All the rivers in the region _ the Monu, Khowai and Kushiara _ have burst their banks and in some places washed away mud embankments meant to protect villages from flood waters, officials at Dhaka's Flood Forecast and Warning Center said.
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The output of a flood forecast is typically a maximum expected water level and the likely time of its arrival at key locations along a waterway, and it also may allow for the computation of the likely statistical return period of a flood.
