Sentences with phrase «cascading wall of water»

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In a matter of minutes, 43 people lost their lives as a wall of mud, sand, clay, water and trees cascaded down the hillside into the Steelhead Haven neighborhood, a relatively new housing tract.

He spent his lifetime piecing together the story of how a raging wall of water hundreds of feet high roared across eastern Washington, carving deep channels before cascading down the Columbia River Gorge as a wall of water high enough to turn Oregon's Willamette Valley into a vast backwater lake.

The waterfall consists of a seasonal wide cascade of water flowing down a stepped rock wall into a shallow pool which can be used for swimming.

Some of the landmarks on this tour are only accessible by air, such as Sacred Falls, a thousand - foot cascade of water that falls from the walls of the luscious Kaluanui valley.

Rudyard Kipling rated this fiord as the eighth natural wonder of the world and it is truly breathtaking, with steep granite walls plunging over a thousand metres to the Tasman Sea and waterfalls cascading into deep inky water.

Your journey to paradise starts at the portico where you are greeted by a wall of water that cascades into a finger bowl and continues below into a sand - rinsing foot bath.

A smaller Zen pool inside a stone - walled garden produces a sensation of serenity from the sounds of its gently cascading waters.

Photographed in six segments, the out - of - focus falls will cascade down the walls of the atrium to the ground floor where it will reflect back on itself in a pool of water.

It has two curved steel and glass towers and its outer design includes a 270 - foot long wall of cascading water.