Sentences with phrase «flood damaged regions»

Congressman John Faso, County Executive Kathy Jimino and State Senator Kathy Marcione were among the elected officials who toured the flood damaged regions of eastern Rensselaer County Monday.

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When Hurricane Harvey submerged Houston the last week of August, Mexico quickly offered to help — proffering logistical aid for flood - damaged regions, including food and medical personnel — just as it had done when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005.

Prosecco Blamed for Italy Flood Deaths The tragic deaths of four people swept away by flash floods in northern Italy have been blamed by critics on the regions burgeoning Prosecco industry accused of over-planting and damaging the lands ability to deal with rainwater...

The Army Corps of Engineers argues that this spring's heavy rains prompted the flooding, but Godfrey told them that the region has received more rain in several other years when there was no flood damage.

Damages from extreme events like floods are even more relevant than the mean sea level itself when it comes to the costs of climate impacts for coastal regions.

Colorado's floods have killed at least eight people and damaged some 18,000 homes — will the region also suffer a lingering legacy of pollution from fracking operations that were inundated in the disaster?

New research predicts that coastal regions may face massive increases in damages from storm surge flooding over the course of the 21st century.

To avoid facing up to $ 1 trillion in annual flood - related damages for the period 2005 - 2050, the governments of the most at - risk regions would need to spend a collective $ 50 billion on structural adaptations, complex systems of adjustable dykes, gates and levies that they would be able to raise and lower according to the location and nature of the risk.

Although torrential rainfall has inundated the Southeast region this spring, there is something you can do in your own backyard to help prevent damage from flooding and runoff.

A couple of weeks ago, the incredibly intense and powerful Hurricane Irma hit our home of Florida, causing high flooding and damage to southern region...

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,

And another group reports in Nature Geoscience that the alternating impact of a blistering El Niño and its chillier sister, La Niña, could bring more extreme flooding and more damaging erosion to the entire Pacific region.

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...&floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...&Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

However, while annual peak daily streamflow (APDF) during the spring freshet in the FRB is historically well correlated with basin - averaged, annual maximum snow water equivalent (SWEmax), there are numerous occurrences of anomalously large APDF in below - or near - normal SWEmax years, some of which have resulted in damaging floods in the region.

In the six months since Hurricane Harvey battered the Houston region, local leaders have talked at length about not just restoring flood - damaged neighborhoods and infrastructure, but hardening the area against future disasters.

However, while annual peak daily streamflow (APF) during the spring freshet in the FRB is historically well correlated with basin - averaged, April 1 snow water equivalent (SWE), there are numerous occurrences of anomalously large APF in below - or near - normal SWE years, some of which have resulted in damaging floods in the region.

The dynamics of this storm were almost identical to that which led to flooding and infrastructure damage in June and July of 2011 in the Pine Pass / Chetwynd region of northeast BC.

Flood mapping of five major metropolitan regions suggests that if critical components of the electric grid are insufficiently protected, they risk inundation and the flood damage and failure that can ensue.

Water may become less scarce in regions that get more precipitation, but more precipitation will probably also increase flood risk; it may also raise the groundwater table, which could lead to damage to buildings and other infrastructure or to reduced agricultural productivity due to wet soils or soil salinization.

Choi and Fisher (2003) estimated the expected change in flood damages for selected USA regions under two climate - change scenarios in which mean annual precipitation increased by 13.5 % and 21.5 %, respectively, with the standard deviation of annual precipitation either remaining unchanged or increasing proportionally.

Water and food scarcity, flooding or extreme weather events, violent conflicts, economic collapses, and a number of other climate damages could precipitate mass migration to the United States from regions worldwide.

During 19 — 21 June 2013 a heavy precipitation event affected southern Alberta and adjoining regions, leading to severe flood damage in numerous communities and resulting in the costliest natural disaster in Canadian history.

Even though the flooding did not cause any major damage, it reopened the question of risk management and the region's vulnerability to flooding.

South Asia on a whole and Pakistan in particular once again had to face climate change debacle in the form of heavy floods across the region which not only resulted in loss of lives but also catastrophic damages [continue reading...]

Effects: Rising sea levels are expected to increase the risk of flooding, storm surges, and property damage in coastal cities and regions.

Economic damage from climate - related events − ice storms, drought, flood, windstorms and heatwaves — has been on the increase for decades, but one explanation for this is population growth and economic development, even in the poorest regions.

Similarly, we have been able to show a statistical relationship between various measures of precipitation and flood damage, even though the spatial and temporal area that experience floods are far smaller than the regions over which precipitation is measured.

Already this season, there have been bushfires in the southern States, and severe thunderstorms have affected several regions, with associated structural damage, damaging hail and flash flooding.

Hurricanes, floods and strong storms can easily hit the region, causing property damage across the board.

Hurricanes can bring strong winds, big waves and flooding — or all three — to a region, seriously damaging properties from top to bottom.

Gulf Coast hurricanes can drop an unusual amount of rain on the region sometimes, and this can result in wind damage and flash floods.

From catastrophic floods to massive wind damage, areas across Texas, most notably in the greater Houston region, -LSB-...]

The initiative, put in place following the floods which affected the Eastern region of Monteregie last spring, is intended to provide brokers with tools to meet the challenges inherent in real estate transactions of damaged properties.

Across the region, an estimated 200,000 homes were damaged, and about five in six do not have flood insurance, which could result in a $ 150 billion to $ 180 billion of estimated economic impact, according to a report by brokerage firm Marcus & Millichap.