Sentences with phrase «danger of flooding because»

The original Hidalgo County Courthouse in the City of Hidalgo was under frequent danger of flooding because of the town's proximity to the Rio Grande,...

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Animals of the more complex type have greater «freedom» compared to plants because they have senses and locomotive powers to sense danger and flee from enemies: floods, heat, drought, etc..

My worst problem here from flooding (because I live on the fifth floor) is that the subways could stop working again (like they did a couple weeks ago, throwing the entire city into a panic), but for most of you, flooding is a serious physical danger that could kill you and destroy your home and all your stuff.

Dorothy Atwood, one of the course participants, notes that «the reality of increasingly dangerous climate change — the rising temperatures and sea levels; the droughts, floods and stronger storms; the acidic oceans; the increasing forest fires; the expanding health dangers; the economic costs of floods, drought, hurricanes and sunken coastal cities — are very real to us and demand our personal and group response because it makes both environmental and economic sense to change the way we live and solve these problems.»

Because we may see really extreme precipitation events, with very powerful atmospheric rivers, that dump a ton of rain and put us in danger of devastating floods, we need to continue investing in our flood management infrastructure.

Even if you don't live in a high flood risk area, you're in some danger of loss from a flood, because 20 percent of all flood claims are filed in low to moderate flood risk areas.