Sentences with phrase «by flooding last»

For the residents of the Somerset Levels, UK, an area particularly badly hit by flooding last winter, it may come as a relief to hear that such weather is not expected to become the norm.

«These loans will help New Yorkers impacted by the flooding last summer rebuild their livelihoods and their communities.»

The Democrat says the funding is part of the $ 55 million the state is committing to lakeside communities hit by the flooding last spring and summer.

The money would be drawn from the state and municipalities funding to boost the previous aid for homeowners whose properties were damaged by flooding last year.

Not exact matches

Other matching fund offers flooded in from techies, including Patrick Collison, chief executive of online payment company Stripe, and Nat Friedman, co-founder and chief executive of Xamarin, the software development company acquired last year by Microsoft (msft).

Last year, for instance, it sent emergency drinking water to communities affected by California's wildfires, floods in Louisiana, and Hurricane Matthew, which made landfall in South Carolina.

Hundreds of thousands are still displaced by last week's flooding, many still living in shelters.

The setback in the South could have been caused by the floods that inundated parts of Texas last month.

Great flood: the filly of a large basin by raising oceans during the warming period after the last ice age.

a set of cosmological and anthropological views that owed not a little to the vast mélange of Hellenism and Orientalism flooding the world where he grew up, and providing him with the unique setting for still other ideas, of sin, Satan, death, of the sinful and therefore mortal nature of man — as «flesh» — of the «spiritual» forces arrayed against God and his Messiah and all the faithful, of the victory to be won by the Messiah when he should at last appear — all these ideas were shaped to the mold of certain half - Jewish, half - pagan ideas which Paul seems to have derived from the world about him.

The last time we put a president in the White House, and he supposedly heard God speak to him, we got attacked by terrorists, we got floods, we got into two trillion dollar wars, the bottom of our economy fell, jobs left our country in droves, and started handing out taxpayers money to banks and businesses like they were growing on trees.

Finally no I don not believe that the last dinosaurs drown in the flood but were killed off by humankind.

You Said:» Finally no I don't believe that the last dinosaurs drowned in the flood but were killed off by humankind.»

The first time I visited this site and saw the nice picture of the Barbari, I found myself overtaken by a flood of memories of the last time I had perceived the scent of a true Barbari bread.

We have been flooded with submissions for Towne Park's «Featured Artist Contest» ever since it was introduced by Matt Cahill, Executive Vice President — Hotel Division, at last month's Leadership Summit in Nashville.

Production was suspended last summer due to price cutting and flooding of the market by local producers during the first half of 2009.

The best of the worst came from Duncan Schaper, 10, of Ohio Township, Pa. (outside Pittsburgh), who asked for the money because the mound, fence, parking lot and Port - A-Potty at his field were swept away last year by a flood caused by Hurricane Ivan.

Swansea came to the Emirates last night with the obvious idea of trying to emulate Chelsea by flooding the midfield and defence to try and stop Arsenal scoring.

It was, though, over an opponent you would have expected Arsenal to teach a lesson or two to in relegation favourites Blackpool, but it was nevertheless a commanding display from Arsene Wenger's players and they will look to build on their resounding Emirates victory by registering a win at a venue which may well have memories of a nightmare outing last season flooding back.

The state says emergency relief assistance may be available to low - income residents affected by flooding that began last month in parts of Michigan's Lower Peninsula.

A flood of Google searches by people looking to give him even more money during and after last Thursday's Democratic debate... something Clinton most definitely did not see.

«After the severe flood damage of last year, a commitment was made by the Governor and New York State government to assist the homeowners impacted,» said Sen. Joe Robach.

When the White House officially declared a major federal disaster last month for communities affected by the flooding along the Lake Ontario shore this spring and summer, Monroe County was conspicuously left off the list.

BY BILL EGBERT The Inauguration of President Trump last week flooded Downtown's streets with protesters as part of a nationwide demonstration that may well have been the biggest in the country's history.

«Nobody wants to see a repeat of the carnage caused by last summer's floods, which ruined the lives of thousands of people and cost the economy billions of pounds,» LGA environment board chairman Paul Bettison said.

Cuomo says his request to President Obama for a major disaster declaration for all those affected by the devastating floods last May has been approved.

The $ 55 million for victims of Lake Ontario flooding is pared back from a $ 90 million package that was approved by the Senate and Assembly last week, but stalled at Cuomo's feet.

-- Last month, we reported on concerns expressed by local residents about the city's plans for an East River flood barrier.

About $ 1 million will be used to restore infrastructure damaged by last year's flooding, while the rest will be used to find projects to help prevent further damage in the event of future flooding.

The thing that pushed me along those lines was after that disaster last year, apart from working with TV3 and various partners at that time to actually provide relief for the various communities that were affected by the floods, we raised funds which was basically to help support all of that.

ICYMI: Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo told me during a CapTon interview last night that she's worried Southern Tier school districts impacted by recent flooding won't be able to stay within the 2 percent property tax cap pushed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and passed by the Legislature this past session.

Last week, while Benue State was submerged by flood, the President travelled to his hometown where he was receiving his old classmates.

No fewer than 20 communities have been ravaged by flood in Agatu local government of Benue State, following the torrential raindrops in the area throughout last week.

A leaked document purporting to comprise Unite's «political strategy» last week, suggested that the union «flood» the local constituency Labour parties with Unite members, which would be marshalled by central command, with the aim of delivering the union's strategy within the party.

Gibson, she said, was in 10 of the district's counties last week, often meeting with constituents affected by recent flooding.

New York State will double available funding for homeowners impacted by shoreline flooding along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River last year.

Dennis Wilson is from the village of Fort Plain, in Montgomery County, which was devastated by flash flooding just last summer.

Prior to New York passing «marriage equality» last June Leiter editorialized that Noah's flood was provoked by same - sex relations and natural disasters can be expected as a result of this legislation.

Over the last 500 years, the highest water flow during a century flood has increased by 20 percent (red line).

Because there has been a flood of wonderful and, I think, profound discoveries in just the last few years that were made by studying the DNA record of evolution.

Look at Pakistan, which was ravaged by the worst monsoon - induced floods in its history last August.

Arkema said the company had no way to prevent fires because the plant is swamped by about 6 feet (1.83 m) of water due to flooding from Harvey, which came ashore in Texas last week as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, knocking out power to its cooling system.

Describing the find at a meeting of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, last month, Shimada speculated that the ancient tooth might have been washed downstream to Nebraska by floods, or carried as a ritual object by early humans.

Now, after decades of grim losses, the news from the Aral Sea is good: Since the dam's completion last August, the smaller, northern part of the Aral Sea has swelled by 30 percent, flooding more than 300 square miles of parched, sun - bleached seabed.

The U.S. Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO), in a report last November, related desperate actions by TEPCO crews to contain the reactor accident in the critical first week of the crisis, as they tried to operate crucial valves and instruments with truck batteries; hauled massive emergency power cables over flooded passageways where manhole covers had been dislodged; and faced a series of hydrogen explosions and sudden spikes in radiation.

The research contradicts other suggestions that the large valley networks on the red planet were the result of short - lived catastrophic flooding, lasting just hundreds to a few thousand years and perhaps triggered by asteroid impacts.

The new rules would have protected 90 percent of the Houston homes that flooded last August, excluding those affected by water released from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoirs.

Driving in also posed an extra challenge, as there was a flash storm last night, so my route into Reading was flooded and my parking space was just far enough away from the restaurant that by the time I arrived, my carefully straightened hair had adopted more of a drowned - rat chic.

The trick is that Everett Ulysses McGill is a chain gang prisoner, on the same chain as dumb Pete (Turturro and dumber Delmar (Nelson) and on the run from the police as they supposedly rush to get some loot from McGill's last heist before his old cottage is flooded by the opening of the Tennessee River by the TVA.

The Pike County, Ky., school system's use of more than $ 9 million in federal flood - relief funds is being investigated by officials of the U.S. Education Department, a county school system official said last week.