Sentences with phrase «caused widespread flooding»

In 2008, for example, the East and West Fork White Rivers, the Flat Rock River and many of their smaller tributaries overflowed and caused widespread flooding after nearly a foot of rain fell on already saturated ground in a few hours.

Record - breaking rain across Texas and Oklahoma this week caused widespread flooding, the likes of which the region has rarely, if ever, seen.

TOPSHOT - Members of the Olson family remove debris and damaged items from their father's home in the Twin Oaks Estate after Hurricane Harvey caused widespread flooding in Houston, Texas on August 31, 2017.

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.

CSEA President Danny Donohue said union members should follow all appropriate safety guidelines as they recover from the storm, which caused widespread flooding, damage to homes, businesses and infrastructure and downed trees and power lines.

In Houston, Hurricane Harvey caused widespread flooding that led to power losses and interrupted home phone, TV or internet service for at least 284,000, according to FCC numbers.

Sandy left millions without power, caused widespread flooding that may shut New York City's subways for days, and killed potentially dozens of people up and down the U.S. east coast.

Six months after Hurricane Maria hit the island on September 20, 2017, uprooting trees, destroying homes, and causing widespread flooding, many remain without power.

Global warming is also responsible for more frequent and more intense storms that can cause widespread flooding.

Hurricane Harvey gathered speed above unusually warm water Gulf of Mexico before slamming into Texas this weekend causing widespread flooding and a growing human toll (Photo: NOAA / NASA GOES Project)

More than 40 inches of rain fell on some areas over four days, causing widespread flooding.

Islip, New York, got slammed with 35 + cm of rain in less than a day on Aug. 13, 2014, causing widespread flooding.

These storms can cause widespread flooding and major property damage.

Tropical storms and hurricanes frequently bring damaging winds and also cause widespread flooding.

Not exact matches

While strong winds can rip shingles off roofs and tear down power lines, flooding often causes more widespread, costlier damage — and can be more dangerous for humans.

Now, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and other members of the Texas delegation are requesting federal assistance in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, which has caused widespread damage and flooding in Houston and other parts of the state.

2007 September - The worst floods for more than 30 years cause widespread devastation, destroying much of the annual harvest.

Now, new research from Washington University in St. Louis links the river's increasingly deadly floods to a widespread pattern of human - caused environmental degradation and related flood - mitigation efforts that began changing the river's natural flow nearly 3,000 years ago.

These changes cause widespread effects including drought in eastern Australia and floods in Peru («El Niño goes critical», New Scientist, 4 February).

As the same volume of water now has to pass through a narrower channel, high tides rise higher, causing deeper and more widespread floods (Global and Planetary Change, doi.org/s8h).

In the days after Hurricane Sandy battered the Eastern Seaboard, educators across multiple states faced the daunting task of reopening thousands of schools amid widespread power outages, flooding and wind damage, and other aftereffects of a storm that caused one of the largest disruptions to schooling in the United States in recent years.

Something causes the pancreas to release a flood of digestive enzymes prematurely, leading to widespread inflammation and damage to the pancreas and surrounding tissues.

Political instability in some overseas destinations has also added an undesirable dimension to some holidays abroad, while climatological factors such as flooding and heavy snowfall have caused widespread disruption that has had a big impact on overseas travel.

For instance, what is the cumulative likelyhood of a combination of drought and floods causing a very widespread famine before 2030?

This post is truncated by the troubles I'm having getting online in a blacked - out part of the Hudson Valley, but I want at least to start a discussion of the prime question of the moment: What are the political, economic, societal and personal traits that caused one of the world's wealthiest and most sophisticated cities to end up (despite longstanding warnings) with flooded tunnels, subways and neighborhoods and widespread flood - triggered loss of electricity?

Widespread flooding and fires caused extensive damage in New Jersey and New York.

With Hurricane Katrina, it was the surge that caused the widespread coastal flooding of New Orleans.

Irma comes less than two weeks after Hurricane Harvey smashed ashore in Texas, knocking offline almost a quarter of U.S. oil refining capacity and causing widespread damage, power outages and flooding.

On 4 - 6 December 2015, the storm «Desmond» caused very heavy rainfall in northern England and southern Scotland, which led to widespread flooding.

This was thanks in part to (ex --RRB- Tropical Cyclone Oswald, which tracked down the coast in January and caused heavy rain and widespread flooding from northern Queensland all the way south to Sydney.

The focus was on extreme weather events that occur on a seasonal timescale, and specifically on the United Kingdom floods of Autumn 2000 which occurred during the wettest autumn ever recorded, causing widespread damage and an estimated insured loss of # 1.3 billion.

A larger number of simulations for each of the Industrial and Non-Industrial Autumn 2000 climates were completed.The focus was particularly on the United Kingdom Autumn 2000 floods because, aside from causing widespread damage, they occurred during the wettest autumn since records began in 1766.

The two strongest El Niños in the last 30 years — 1982 - 83 and 1997 - 98 — both caused widespread damage from flooding in California.

Instead, they paint a stark picture of rising temperatures causing floods and wildfires, food and water shortages, damage to human health, and widespread disruption of services and destruction of roads, railways bridges and buildings.

Heavy rains falling on already saturated ground sometimes overwhelm drainage systems and cause widespread area flooding.

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina caused widespread devastation in the community, with water and wind damage and destructive flooding along the shores of Lake Pontchartrain.

But on Missouri's rivers, flooding can last for months and cause widespread harm to structures and property.