Heavy rains falling on already saturated ground sometimes overwhelm drainage systems and
cause widespread area flooding.
Not exact matches
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has temporarily closed off access to several
areas near the Kinzua Dam on the Allegheny River in Warren County, Penn, but they're not saying exactly why, leading to
widespread speculation as to the
cause.
After several years of discussions, researchers from Aarhus University (Denmark), Lund University (Sweden) and Stockholm University (Sweden) have determined that nutrients from the land are the main
cause of
widespread areas of oxygen depletion.
Such an earthquake will
cause widespread damage to structures, transportation and utilities, as well as economic and social disruption in the eastern region of the San Francisco Bay
Area (East Bay).
Unlike blunt force trauma, where damage / injury is usually localised to one
area of the brain, blasts create a shockwave that affects the whole brain —
causing widespread damage.
More than 40 inches of rain fell on some
areas over four days,
causing widespread flooding.
Non-core vaccines are those that protect against organisms that
cause only mild diseases — the kind that usually «clear up» on their own — and which are not
widespread in the
area or easily transmitted from one animal to another.
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.
Scores of convulsing sea lions are washing up on Central California beaches after eating fish poisoned by a plume of toxic algae that could spread north toward the Bay
Area and
cause widespread problems, marine biologists said.
January 23, 2018 — This year's flu season is the most
widespread in more than a decade, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
causing concern among travelers who are closely gathered in crowded
areas such as airports and planes.
SAN FRANCISCO — The weather outside last Thursday was frightful as a howling storm ravaged the Bay
Area,
causing power outages and
widespread wind damage.