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spencermountain

 I notice though you have created a flood type in a disaster2 base - is this what you are referring to? 

 The flood type is good, I will update the 'led to flooding disaster' property of the 'Dam failure' type to point to the 'flood' type. (don't have the time to migrate the data at the moment, but will get round to it in the next few days).

I've made some changes to Dam Failure - it is now a topic itself (rather than a CVT) and is a specific event, which leads onto a flooding disaster event.

See South Fork Dam which had the South Fork Dam Failure event andthat  leads onto the Johnstown flood. 

Note how I have slightly changed the meaning of your 'Flood Cause' type - rather than being assigned to generic terms, such as 'rain' or 'dam failure', it is now pointing to a specific topic of dam failure, in this case the 'South Fork Dam Failure'.

Similarly instead of having 'rain' as a cause of a flood, it would be better to link it to a specific weather event e.g. Hurricane Katrina.  

hey cool, terrific job iain. In response to your moves here i am rethinking my http://crime.freebase.com/type/schema/base/crime/crime crime topic- which i could really use some help with now aswell.

same issue as dams- though maybe less clean a solution.  Ive made a clever cvs type that links specific crimes, criminals, and crime types -but doing it this way requires a topic for every crime a person commits, like a topic for every dam failure, but if someone has a large criminal record we would need a topic for every crime they've commited, which is crazy. is there a way to make the specific crime topic optional here do you think? im stuck. i added you as admin to the crime base This has the potential to be a really complex, though valuable type.