Sentences with phrase «flash flood»

Imagine air travel where the crew has no idea of what hazards lay ahead; an urban environment where no one knows where an airborne toxic hazard is headed; a wildfire where the firefighting crews have no idea which way the wind is blowing or where the fire will move; and severe weather where a community has no warning of an impending tornado, hail storm, or flash flood.
The SPIEGEL is currently covering what is called a Natural Disaster, official eyewitnesses from the natural disaster response describe the flash flood event as unprecedented.
A young man was swept away in a geoengineered flash flood in Forest Falls yesterday.
Flash flood watches have been issued by the NWS in parts of the Southern California burn areas, as well as the foothills of the Sierra Nevada below 8,000 feet due to the combination of snow melt and heavy rainfall.
A recent flash flood on 16 - 17 June, affected over 50,000 people in the mountain state of Uttarakhand, while it is estimated that over 5000 [continue reading...]
(12/20/2011) As the Philippines begins to bury more than a 1,000 disaster victims in mass graves, Philippine President Benigno Aquino has ordered an investigation into last weekend's flash flood and landslide, including looking at the role of illegal logging.
Turning up your AC, learning how to get out of your car quickly in case of a flash flood; stacking up on canned goods when crops fail; getting to a shelter quickly when that tornado strikes in places where it's never struck before?
Around the United States, a network of thousands of streamflow gauges that can help generate flash flood warnings is steadily eroding under tightening budgets.
The weather service, according to news reports, issued a flash flood warning at 2 a.m. Friday, but it was of little help to the sleeping campers in the hilly region with scant cell - phone service.
The Marfa crowd was unfazed, so bottles of wine were salvaged, glasses were shared, cheese and sausage plate were annihilated while this flash flood reigned on.
They track the damage due to industrialization and natural disasters, like California after a flash flood for Joel Sternfeld.
Sam did a 4 - day camel trek through the Thar Desert many years back and he's got some good stories from that trip — including surviving a flash flood that involved climbing trees and then seeking refuge in a small village!
Originally only three falls existed here, but in 2008 a flash flood redirected...
A flash flood emergency was in effect for parts of the Houston area.
According to the photographer, Michael Greene, a flash flood altered the canyon creating a smaller, yet equally impressive waterfall.
The weather conditions here change rapidly and you can get caught in a flash flood before this time to backtrack.
While the worst of the storm was over by mid-day Saturday, many parts of the state remain under a flash flood wash through Wednesday.
(Check the weather report before setting out to hike here as the canyon can flash flood and lightning can strike the ridges.)
My legs and lungs were begging me to stop, but the thought of a flash flood kept me going.
Then I remember Scott telling me he didn't feel comfortable pitching our tent so close to the river in case there is a flash flood.
Well, at least our campsite at Joshua Tree wasn't in a flash flood zone — or I may have reconsidered the trip.
We hiked a section of the Kalalau Trail (an 11 - mile trail that leads from Ke'e Beach to Kalalau Beach) and were advised by a ranger to turn around after 2 - miles due to flash flood warnings.
My mind wanders to thoughts of the 2008 flash flood at this campground when everyone had to be evacuated and people were stuck on the other side of the raging, muddy river.
The memory of the night I thought we might drown in a flash flood at Havasu Falls was still too fresh in my mind.
Since adventure seems to follow us wherever we go, we also got to experience the most frightening thunderstorm while camping next to a river in a flash flood zone.
Driss and Khalid had bickered endlessly over trivial matters; gritty desert winds had pushed the temperature at times to more than 100 degrees; Berber tribals had taken us for insurgents and threatened us; and a flash flood — the summer bane, often lethal, of the High Atlas — had trapped us for a night on a mountain ledge.
Whether it's a flash flood or a few inches of excess water, flooding can cause massive damage to your dwelling and its contents.
But the city is also located on the southern edge of America's «tornado alley,» and has the dubious honor of being in a central Texas area known as «flash flood alley.»
However, what's excluded is water moving along the ground, such as from a flash flood.
When Laurel escapes to the river to sort out her feelings, she's caught in a storm and nearly drowned in a flash flood.
I'm not exaggerating when I say that you're the most valuable source of practical marketing advice that I've encountered anywhere — and I get a flash flood of email marketing advice every day.
A flash flood is a sudden release of water that inundates an area, and is differentiated from a normal flood by its duration; by definition, a flash flood lasts less than six hours.
As One Was Lost (Sourcebooks Fire) opens, a flash flood cuts off Sera and three classmates from the rest of her senior field trip group.
In Malaysia, flash flood is common phenomena throughout the year which at times drivers are unable to avoid.
Our otherwise wonderful Corolla was totaled out when there was a flash flood back in March, 2018.
Just before my visit, a party of hikers was killed when a flash flood swept through a slot canyon not far from here.
Thanks to the ARRA Stimulus, the state of education spending is about to transform from widespread budget freezes to flash flood of funding.
A dark storm builds during their riverside pursuit, and Poppa tragically gets swept away by a flash flood, Mufasa - style.
A helicopter flies above the rugged terrain along the banks of the East Verde River during a search and rescue operation for victims of a flash flood on Sunday in Payson, Ariz..
July 16, 2017 • A flash flood plowed through a popular rural Arizona swimming hole Saturday afternoon, killing at least nine people, local authorities say.
Explosion, purposely - lit fire, man beaten with tree branch, threatened hanging, flash flood with some surviving while others presumed dead.
Regardless of the end - of - the - world steamy and flash flood - inducing weather here in the Northeast, Sunday Supper is providing some respite today with some refreshingly cool recipes.
I don't care if there's a flash flood warning, we're doing this photo shoot!
Zonulin incites a flash flood by telling the tight junctions to open enough for water to flood the intestines and wash away the unwanted debris.
Many single and multiple stress - tolerant lines (flash flood, stagnant flood, drought, salinity, etc.) introduced by IRRI in India are now being evaluated or promoted nationally.
«It was essentially a winter flash flood on a continental - scale river,» Criss said.
A flash flood inundated the gorge, cutting off the animals» escape route.
A flash flood of the Ewaso Ng «iro River in Samburu National Reserve, Kenya, washed away a major research center devoted to the study of wild elephants this morning.
Benjamini identified the tiny round shells of foraminifera and fragments of red coralline algae; these marine organisms suggested that the ocean, rather than a river or a flash flood, had been involved.
It was as if a flash flood had hosed most of the ash away, leaving these remnants behind.
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