Sentences with phrase «deadly flooding as»

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Texas officials warned of «catastrophic» and potentially historic flooding in Houston, the nation's fourth - largest city, as Harvey continued to pummel the state, dropping more than two feet of rain and causing dire, and deadly, flash floods.

Peru «s geographic extremes help fuel the often deadly force of the mudslides known locally as huaycos, the indigenous Quechua word for flash flood - landslide.

Climate change made Hurricane Harvey more powerful and increased its deadly flooding, according to new research released as major storms may be driving more Americans to worry about global warming.

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.

Then, as the flood waters rise, a corpse is discovered — and Brunetti must wade through the chaotic city to solve his deadliest case yet.

Updated, 4:03 p.m. As news spread of the devastating and deadly flooding west of Austin, Tex., last weekend (followed by so much more), I started exploring what's known about flood risks along the Blanco River and other waterways in Texas's «Flash Flood Alley.»

So how do we explain that in the span of just five months, the United States logged no fewer than four deadly 1,000 - year floods in states as widespread as Texas, West Virginia, Maryland and Louisiana — following a 1,000 - year - flood that ravaged South Carolina last October.

So it stands to reason that as the Southwest does continue to Dust Bowl - ify, the Mississippi continues to break flooding records, drier dry seasons give rise to more wildfires in Texas and California, and deadlier hurricanes threaten to make landfall, more people will start taking climate change more seriously.