Sentences with phrase «after the flood waters»

With the impacts of the flooding likely to continue well after the flood waters have retreated, Nature examines the escalating humanitarian disaster.

Just two months after the flood waters began to subside, an Oxford University project assessing global warming's effect on the odds of very wet winters has produced its first results.

That the film becomes far less ambitious in its aims after the flood waters rise is to be expected, given the reduced scope of the world with which to work, but Aronofsky and Handel accommodate this shift by putting the focus squarely on Noah's attempt to determine exactly what his and his family's role as the sole survivors of humanity (save for one unanticipated stowaway, who — forgotten often and disposed of quite easily — serves no purpose but for unnecessary external conflict).

According to Science editor David Grimm, the fact that many people died in the floods because they wouldn't leave their animals behind — as well as the sight of hundreds of abandoned cats and dogs after the flood waters receded — prompted major changes to state and federal laws regarding the evacuation of pets during disasters.

Not exact matches

Flooding from a water main break added to the misery of travelers after a winter storm canceled or delayed hundreds of flights in recent days.

That's only two months after passengers said that the floors were «flooded with sewer water.»

At this point parts of the city were completely under water after nearby dykes broke in the flooding that devastated many river communities along the Danube that week.

Nicholas Pinter, a University of California, Davis, geoscientist who studies flood risk and water management, said that Florida is well - situated to build more wisely after this disaster because it already has a statewide post-disaster redevelopment plan and requires coastal communities to have their own.

Hurricane Harvey flooded the homes of thousands in the Houston area — but it also revealed heroes like Wil Scott who didn't only help in the immediate crisis, but continue to volunteer, long after the waters receded, to help others rebuild their lives.

Building in coastal cities: «We have to learn how to live with water» After hurricanes in Texas and Florida cause flooding in major cities,...

How could there have been any bodies of fresh water after the flood?

Also, after flood rain could be a source of fresh water.

Babylonia was rich in its alluvial soil, the age - long deposit of the Euphrates and the Tigris, those two great rivers that year after year unceasingly carried their load of silt to a resting - place, first in the Persian Gulf, then in the swamps that were slowly forming, and at length in the plain which gradually emerged from the waters, though at inundation each year it once again was claimed by the floods that had made it.

The world wide flood killed all the fresh water fish but after the flood receded, the salt water fish evolved, no strike that, adapted, no strike that too.

After you've outlined all of the cookies with the red, mix 1 cup of red royal icing with water to create the red flooding icing.

After floods have receded, releasing environmental water into the system may provide healthy water, creating refuge flows and improving water quality.

After soil preparation, the site is surrounded by a berm (raised soil) that will hold water during flood irrigating or after rainAfter soil preparation, the site is surrounded by a berm (raised soil) that will hold water during flood irrigating or after rainafter rainfall.

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

But from the distance of my home in Eugene, Ore., it seemed inconceivable that a 26 - mile race could be run through the city just six days after the storm, with fires having leveled blocks in Queens, with neighborhoods in Brooklyn under eight feet of water, with the subways and the airports flooded and 40,000 left homeless.

North of this point lies the «potato patch,» at the mouth of San Francisco Bay, where a few years ago a wine tanker foundered after a particularly large dollop of water fell off a wave and found its way down the tanker's stack, flooding her engines and sending her to the bottom.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente said residents need to be aware of the health hazards posed by possible raw sewage in the water flooding many basements after touring flood damaged areas of Whitesboro.

A resident dumps buckets of water out of a flooded home in the Miramar neighborhood after Hurricane Maria made landfall on September 20, 2017 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The Rensselaer County Village of Hoosick Falls is looking toward the future after being dogged by more than a year of negative headlines surrounding a water contamination crisis and most recent devastating flooding.

Many parts of Accra were submerged in flood waters, curtailing vehicular movement after the hours of rain.

The LSPWC boss, who recalled that the initial drainage system with a width of 0.6 meters was inadequate to contain the flow of flood water, said the agency had to reconstruct it to a size of 1.2 meters after which massive rehabilitation work commenced on the road.

Many parts of Accra and Kumasi have been submerged in flood waters, curtailing vehicular movement after few hours of rain on Friday morning.

Offering a solution to the problem, the President advised residents living in flood prone areas to take the initiative to develop positive waste management practices saying, «if the rain water doesn't have an open cause to be able to go into the sea, it will flood city... even after we have done the Conti project, if we don't change our attitudes, we will continue to have this problem.»

After the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant flooded with nine feet of water, two pipes ruptured under the storm pressure, sending raw sewage flowing into homes in Baldwin and East Rockaway.

Brenda Peters, 61, has been displaced from her Far Rockaway home since it was flooded with two feet of water after the storm.

After major floods in 2006, Oxfam International and the Kenneth Lee Foundation looked to the past for a solution: an ancient water management technique used by pre-Inca cultures in the region.

Causing an estimated $ 108 billion in property damage, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2005 and flooded 85 percent of the city after its levees were breached by a surge of storm and coastal waters.

After all, preparing for floods means lowering water levels in the reservoir to allow for extra water, resulting in reduced hydropower output.

A «300 - foot gash in the hull» was often mentioned - just like the image we show in our issue from two weeks after the tragedy: Later calculations looked at the rate with which water flooded the ship during the two hours and 40 minutes it stayed afloat after the collision and showed that «the gash» in reality would have resulted in only slight damage to the hull, perhaps amounting a dozen square meters in total.

That is apparently what happened to the 99 villagers of Miaohe, 10 miles (17 kilometers) upstream of the Yangtze, who saw the land behind their homes split into a 655 - foot -(200 - meter --RRB- wide crack last year, soon after the reservoir water level was lowered for the summer floods.

Perhaps methane flows through after flash floods, like water in a desert on Earth.

«We're targeting primarily rice water weevils, and they only move into the field when producers establish the permanent flood about three to six weeks after planting,» Gore said.

Even after first flooding the ground to minimize the effects of recent weather, the team found that the soil near pika burrows soaked up water at least two to three times faster than similar soil from pika - free fields.

«Two weeks after flooding treatment with simulated salt water, net photosynthetic rate of broccoli, kale, spinach, and tomato was reduced by 43 % to 67 %, transpiration rate by 35 % to 66 %, and stomatal conductance by 51 % to 82 %.»

You need embankments and, in particular, sluices to ensure rapid water retreat after flooding.»

Then it could be used by the homeowners as non-potable water to save money or simply released after the risk of flood is gone.

After water purification, one of the most important regulating services of páramo... environments is flood control,» said Daniel Ruiz, an associate professor of environmental engineering at Antioquia School of Engineering and researcher at Columbia University's International Research Institute for Climate and Society.

Exposure to the slurry of water and other chemicals formed after coal is washed would be more dangerous to human health than exposure to MCMH — and there have been numerous coal slurry floods and spills in West Virginia and U.S. history.

One of the greatest health threats from flooding comes after the waters recede, when people return to homes that may be full of toxic mold, said Patz.

I would often find NPCs in the middle of the jungle atop mobile homes flooded by water or makeshift treehouses in the middle of rivers who would do nothing but stand or sit there, even after I completed their mindless quest.

Spanning 10,000 years in four and a half minutes, our ecologist shows how acting locally to look after the surface of the peat has a significant global impact in trapping carbon and slowing flood water.

The water will not return by the hoses an flood backwards... N remember, huge pressure here putt the hose back again after few sec n tighten them n refill the radiator, or stoop the engine first now you just fill all up n left the engine get the try.

While reading the tragic stories of flood victims, I couldn't help but think about Jeffrey Jackson's book Paris Under Water, which I blogged about after hearing the author speak at Davis - Kidd Booksellers.

If there's one thing you can count on after a major flood or natural disaster, it's that the used - car market will be flooded with water - damaged cars.

Residents of the ironically named Watterson Towers found themselves several feet deep in water after flooding from a broken water main.

TOPSHOT - Volunteer rescuer Matt Clarke searches for local residents after a mandatory evacuation was ordered in the area beneath the Barker Reservoir as water is released, after Hurricane Harvey caused widespread flooding in Houston, Texas on August 31, 2017.