In the United States, flash floods are responsible for more deaths than any other thunderstorm phenomenon. Year to year in Colorado, only lightning is more deadly. Flash flooding usually is the result of very heavy rain in a short period of time over a small area, which causes small streams to raging out of control, out of their banks.

Mike and his wife, amanda, are arguing about his in-laws. mike doesn’t want them to visit because they fight all the time when they come to the house and he is worried about the effect that their fighting is having on mike and amanda’s children. amanda finally yells out: “what about our fighting? ” mike replies, “well, that’s different. we fight because we’re having a disagreement, they fight because they hate each other! ” this is an example of