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You Asked, We Answered! Transcript of the podcast Hello!  It’s Payton Filippone here.  I am a student at Penn State Brandywine and today I will be talking about flooding.  I will be answering the question: “what causes floods?”  Flooding is an important topic to understand because it affects many communities around the world every year.  Let’s begin by learning what a flood really is.  The National Severe Storms Laboratory, or NSSL, says that a flood is “an overflowing of water onto land that is normally dry”. [1] National Geographic adds that flooding happens when normally dry land is “soaked” by an abundance of water. [2] Australian Government.com, which comes from Australia which is a country that has to deal with flooding just as much as the United States, says that flooding can be defined as “the covering of normally dry land by water that has escaped or been released from the natural confines of any lake, or any river, creek or other natural watercourse.” [3] Putting all of these defini