Sentences with phrase «dangerous flooding in»

Harvey stalled for a few days, leading to dangerous flooding in Texas and Louisiana.

Not exact matches

Hurricane Harvey became the nation's first Category 4 landfall in almost 12 years, hammering the Texas Gulf Coast with an extremely dangerous combination of torrential rainfall, storm - surge flooding and destructive winds.

We hear almost daily about a storm that resulted in dangerous flooding or deadly tornados and left a grim scene in its wake.

After past disasters such as hurricanes, fires or floods, children have died in dangerous cribs, often donated to the families with the best intentions.

Promotion of artificial feeding in these areas is dangerous not only to HIV / AIDS infected families, but to other families if the community becomes flooded with formula products.

They were especially alarmed after heavy rains created serious flooding in the Southern Tier, adding to the worries that runoff from fracking fluid would make the process even more dangerous.

It, however, said that in spite of improved standards, the industry was regarded as one of the most dangerous in the world, with recurring mishaps including flooding, explosions and fire outbreaks.

Existing research from the Department for Transport in 2013 shows winter is a dangerous time of year for motorists, with a reported 57,260 cars across England and Wales involved in accidents as a result of wet, flooded and icy roads.

Since Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas last Friday, dangerous flooding has driven tens of thousands of people from their homes, leaving «unprecedented» rainfall and winds to wreak havoc.

«This suggests that there's a certain slope, around 22 degrees in our experiments, where sediment is the most stable, but these channel slopes are also potentially the most dangerous because here the sediment bed can fail catastrophically in rare, large - magnitude flood events,» Lamb explains.

When JSC became inaccessible due to dangerous road conditions and rising flood waters, the team at Marshall Space Flight Center's Payload Operations Integration Center in Huntsville, Alabama, who serve as «Mission Control» for all station research, worked to connect Wallace to Whitson using Wallace's personal cell phone.

Evacuations ordered in New York City New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo suspended all subway, rail and bus service in the city yesterday starting at 7 p.m., as the downstate region braced for the prospect of mass water intrusion into underground transit, high winds and dangerous coastal flooding.

They identified 25 glacial lakes across the Bolivian Andes as potentially dangerous to communities and infrastructure, as they could result in very damaging floods.

Exposure to the slurry of water and other chemicals formed after coal is washed would be more dangerous to human health than exposure to MCMH — and there have been numerous coal slurry floods and spills in West Virginia and U.S. history.

«The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate, and if we do not act forcefully, we'll continue to see rising oceans; longer, hotter heat waves; dangerous droughts and floods; and massive disruptions that can trigger greater migration, conflict and hunger around the globe,» Obama added.

From a couple scraping by in the depths of the flood channels located beneath Sin City, to a man living in a reclaimed military bunker in the middle of the dusty California desert, and beyond the stratosphere to a place where Mars and Earth have become one and the same place, this motley crew of individuals have been flung into dangerous circumstances.

Despite Granddaddy's attempt to warn the mayor of the city that the ominous plunge in the barometer means the approach of a dangerous storm, a tragic flood strikes.

While the Internet is flooded with cute images of Chinchillas holding raisins, nuts, and other typical «critter treats», these are in fact the most dangerous foods of the lot.

Be sure to secure pets if your home or yard has been damaged, and be aware that flooding can bring in snakes or other dangerous animals that aren't normally present outdoors.

Unfortunately, many people are not so scrupulous in their breeding plans, and thus, the market becomes flooded with dogs that are potentially quite dangerous.

This is an issue that could be addressed at a federal level as well: if the government can fund «flood insurance» that in so many instances subsidizes homeowners in wealthy communities who insist on building and living in places that are dangerous and inappropriate, why can't we establish something similar for low income families who want to take animals into their lives?

Water shortage, flooding, construction at adjacent properties, loss of power, water or plumbing system breakdowns, pest infestations, appliance malfunctions, telephone, cable service or interruption of heating due to service or equipment failure, mandatory evacuations of the area by State of Oregon, Clatsop County or City of Cannon Beach due to tsunamis or other potentially dangerous situations will not result in refunds.

Why it was chosen: Even after all these years there are still fewer things that make you feel worse in gaming than accidentally leading your squad of Pikmin into a dangerous area and seeing a flood of Pikmin ghosts float away into the sky.

The gallery below showcases Lara Croft within a multitude of dangerous situations and environments, from exploring an old and ominous ruin to combating against strong water currents in the midst of a fearful town flood.

Last week, the White House released a report that found that climate change is already creating changes in the United States by threatening the Southwest with heat waves, the Atlantic Coast with dangerous hurricanes and the middle of the country with flooding.

Instead of maximizing the number of houses in a subdivision by placing some in dangerous locations for fire, landslides, and floods, there could be some reconfiguration of lot layouts to reduce the extreme hazards that some locations face.

The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate, and if we do not act forcefully, we'll continue to see rising oceans, longer, hotter heat waves, dangerous droughts and floods, and massive disruptions that can trigger greater migration, conflict, and hunger around the globe.

Whether Irene is a strong tropical storm or hurricane over New England will make little difference in the expected impacts of damaging winds... a dangerous storm surge... and flooding rains.

The Guardian: Millions of mobile phones, laptops, tablets, toys, digital cameras and other electronic devices bought this Christmas are destined to create a flood of dangerous «e-waste» that is being dumped illegally in developing countries, the UN has warned.

As a consequence we fight the overwhelming elements in New Orleans, we build homes on flood plains, we build cities on earthquake faults, we expand into deep forests which natures regularly refreshes with fire, we put reservoirs in dangerous places, we create great open sores on our land and watch Nature fill them with poison (Berkeley Pit).

«The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate, and if we do not act forcefully, we'll continue to see rising oceans, longer, hotter heat waves, dangerous droughts and floods, and massive disruptions that can trigger greater migration, conflict, and hunger around the globe,» Obama said.

We pay for climate disruption every day in the form of hurricanes, droughts, floods, heat waves, and other dangerous weather events that pose significant health and economic risks.

Included here are the climate - change - related costs of extreme weather events such as Hurricanes Irene (which resulted in damages totaling $ 20 billion) and Sandy ($ 65 billion), along with the costs we incur from increasingly dangerous floods, wildfires, and heat waves that are fueled by global warming.

Big storms with extreme rain can become dangerous, leading to flash flooding and mudslides, as seen back in 1997 - 1998.

I was amazed at the Government and Green responses to the serious flooding in the English Midlands a couple of years ago, when increassed rainfall due to alleged Man - made Global Warming was trumpeted as a cause for the flooding; anyone who pointed out that generations of covering flood plains with buildings, concrete and ashphalt was quite a dangerous thing to do was derided as a simpleton or an ignoramus.

The number of severe weather events in Russia is growing by 6 % a year - and most dangerous are the floods.»

The concentration of oil and gas wells in flood - prone areas speaks to one more risk of what [environmental activists] see as a dangerous industry.

The concentration of oil and gas wells in flood - prone areas speaks to one more risk of what they see as a dangerous industry.

A new university study and the ever - increasing use of wireless devices, such as the BlackBerry, could result in a flood of lawsuits against employers for creating an allegedly dangerous environment where unpaid overwork is required for success, promotion and job security, a leading law firm warns -LSB-...] Giving rise to possible claims, is a recent study by Gayle Porter, Associate Professor of Management at Rutgers University in New Jersey, which suggests possible liability for companies if they keep their employees on «electronic leashes» as part of their job requirements.

If you live on the ground floor, near a flood plain, in a dangerous city or in a high - crime suburb, then your cost of renters insurance may be higher than expected.

Avoid living in dangerous locations: Nature effects some locations more than others: avoid flood -, or earthquake - endangered areas when choosing a house.