Sentences with phrase «deadliest flood on»
It was the third - deadliest flood on record in West Virginia, according to the West Virginia state climatologist Kevin Law.
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Even though mountains should not exist at this point (because mountains only come about via deadly tectonic plate shifts and everything was very good on day seven), the flood waters covered the highest mountains.
Forecasters said as much as a metre of rain could fall on some isolated areas of Haiti, raising fears of deadly mudslides and floods in the heavily deforested country where many families live in flimsy houses with corrugated metal roofs.
Snyder was rightly criticized for Superman's lack of regard for saving human lives in the first film, so in this film he tries to rectify that with a montage early on showing Superman saving people from burning buildings, exploding rockets, deadly floods.».».
Where they were and what they endured when they were missing may have more disastrous effects on the city than that fateful deadly storm and its subsequent ruinous flood.
Landslides, earthquakes, melting glaciers and deadly floods make life precarious on the Nepal - Tibet border
For Munich Re, which puts billions of dollars on the line by backing up insurance companies, there's little doubt that the damages from severe thunderstorm outbreaks are linked with global warming, although this year's outbreak in the U.S. may have also been related to the emergence of a pool of extremely warm water off the coast of South America, which also caused deadly flooding in Chile, Peru, and Colombia.
Masters on Brazilian floods: Brazil's deadliest natural disaster in history The role of near - record sea surface temperatures January 16, 2011 http://climateprogress.org/2011/01/16/brazilian-floods-brazil-deadliest-natural-disaster-in-history/
A streak of freak floods in the US, a deadly heat - wave across Central Russia, record drought in the Amazon, deadly floods in Colombia and Venezuela, record highs all over the globe, and a catastrophic flood in Pakistan that affected 20 million people: this is the year when the impacts of climate change no longer appeared hazily in an abstract future, but seemed to be knocking on our collective doorstep.
In some countries, elected politicians have been jailed for such actions: In France, the mayor of a coastal resort town was sentenced to four years in jail for hiding deadly flood risks, and, a few years earlier, the mayor of Chamonix was convicted of second - degree murder for failing to evacuate chalets on an avalanche - prone mountainside in time to prevent fatalities.
Focus on Focus Earth: Flooding in Venice Using the «Flash» from Lightning To Predict Deadly Floods Lessons From The Midwest Floods California's Flood Risks: A «Disaster Waiting to Happen»?