Sentences with phrase «damaged by rainfall»

about U.S. Transportation Secretary Foxx Announces $ 750,000 in «Quick Release» Emergency Relief Funds for Roads Damaged by Rainfall in Detroit

WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced the immediate availability of $ 750,000 in emergency relief funds from the U.S. Department of Transportation to help the Michigan Department of Transportation cover the costs of repairing roads and bridges damaged by rainfall in the Detroit metro area.

Not exact matches

Even a dip in revenue caused by spider mite infestations is nothing when considering the damage wrought by this year's abnormally low rainfall.

Hurricane Harvey: $ 125 Billion When: Aug. 25 to 31, 2017 Deaths: 89 The damage: Houston saw unprecedented amounts of rainfall — up to 60 inches — by the time Hurricane Harvey had run its course.

North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana Drought: $ 2.5 Billion When: March 1 to Dec. 31, 2017 Deaths: 0 The damage: A «flash drought» characterized by extreme high temperatures and little rainfall hit North and South Dakota and Montana beginning in March.

By Anna Flávia Rochas and Roberto Samora SAO PAULO, Jan 9 (Reuters)- Southeastern Brazil is getting some rainfall a year after a record drought started, but not enough to eliminate worries about an energy crisis, water shortages or another season of damaged export crops, meteorologists said.

The final totals on rainfall and damage wrought by this unprecedented storm are yet to be determined, but more than 50 inches of rain fell in parts of southeast Texas.

In June 2008, a record flood event exceeded the once - in -500-year flood level by more than 5 feet, causing $ 5 to $ 6 billion in damages from flooding, or more than $ 40,000 per resident of the city of Cedar Rapids.85 The flood inundated much of the downtown, damaging more than 4,000 structures, including 80 % of government offices, and displacing 25,000 people.86 The record flood at Cedar Rapids was the result of low reservoir capacity and extreme rainfall on soil already saturated from unusually wet conditions.

The damage that hurricanes inflict is caused by high wind speeds, heavy rainfall, storm surge, and tornadoes.

And there has been a range of serious impacts from the severe weather, including damaging gales and properties flooded by rivers that have burst their banks following sustained and heavy rainfall.

The IPCC was accused of exaggerating the extent to which the Amazon rainforest could be damaged by a decrease in rainfall.

Some of the ancients, such as the Sumerians, damaged land by the unsustainable use of irrigation, but this seems to be less used by those who wrote the Bible, it seems that they were more reliant on the seasonal rainfall.

Hence the damage to canopy trees by fires depends on the factors that control intensities and return intervals: temperature, humidity, duration of the dry season, occurrence of dry season rainfall, sources of ignition, and fuel loads (Adams, 2013).

Furthermore, climate change could damage the system itself, including erosion of pipelines by unusually heavy rainfall.

For instance, rivers fed by rainfall enable irrigation and transportation and can enrich or damage landscapes.