Sentences with phrase «destruction of the flood waters»

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The photo, which was posted to Twitter Tuesday, showed 24 - packs of bottled water selling for $ 42.96 and led to accusations the store was price gouging in the wake of extensive flooding and destruction wrought by the storm, CNBC reports.

Damages include flooded homes, lack of drinking water and electrical services, massive destruction of plantations and crops, risks associated with mosquito - borne and water - borne diseases, collapsed structures, public safety issues, and millions of evacuees in shelters.

We now know that nature can not take care of itself, that human beings can degrade it not only locally but globally, that the species God created and saved from the flood are threatened by human expansion into their habitats, destruction of their food supplies, pollution of their air and water, and excessive hunting and fishing.

According to what God says in Isaiah 54 about the flood, He did not bring the waters of destruction; the destroyer brought them.

Since sin cannibalizes itself, the sin of the people at the time of the flood brought the waters of destruction upon themselves.

In other words, if all that God could do in the flood event was rescue as many people as possible from the waters when they threatened to take the life of everything that breathes, how can God guarantee that humanity will never be so sinful as to invite the same destruction upon their heads again?

Floods and landslides affected at least 38 million people and resulted in the evacuation of 1.3 million residents, economic losses of $ 6.2 billion, the destruction of nearly 1 million acres of farmland, and shortages of clean drinking water.

Water is important, of course, from a force for life, to a force for destruction (boiling and / or flooding).

Instead, they paint a stark picture of rising temperatures causing floods and wildfires, food and water shortages, damage to human health, and widespread disruption of services and destruction of roads, railways bridges and buildings.

Rain followed and on the third of the ides of july a great tempest of hail in the trent valley marvellously beyond the ordinary nothing like it had been seen before with widespread destruction of crops by floods of water in the valley of the trent such as had not happened for a long time

The result is an increase in the severity and frequency of floods, the displacement and destruction of habitat for fish and other water dependent species, and a decrease in base flows in our streams and water in our aquifers.