Sentences with phrase «flood hit the region»

When another flood hit the region two years later, these people were high and dry.

Not exact matches

The biggest storm in a century hit Sydney and the Hunter region of NSW on April 22, killing three people, upending power poles and flooding houses.

The Philippine rice crop was also hammered by floods as two back — to — back typhoons hit the country's major rice growing region before the crop could be harvested.

The announcement had originally been planned for July but the couple decided to postpone it out of consideration for a southern region hit by heavy rains and flooding in the month.

That evening, shortly after the first line of storms hit the village, his office issued its first flood advisory at 6:53 p.m. for Hoosick Falls and the region.

Two days after the torrential rains that hit parts of the Northern Region rendering many communities flooded, the Nanumba North and South districts still remain inaccessible with vehicles and passengers unable to access or exit the Bimbilla township.

Hundreds of residents within the eastern corridor enclave suffered from recent flooding which hit six districts in the region.

The coastal region of Tohoku was one of the hardest hit, with tsunami waves as high as 40 meters sending floods up to 10 kilometers inland.

Mud - filled stumps in the area show that mangrove trees died from flooding around 1676 and 1762, when strong earthquakes hit the region.

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...

The region was recently hit by a major rain storm, which triggered massive flooding on rivers in Oregon and Washington.

Klaus Jacob, an earth scientist at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory who pretty precisely projected the flooding a big hurricane surge could cause in New York City long before Hurricane Sandy hit, reflects in this video on the impacts on the region — including on his own storm - flooded home in Piermont, N.Y., a tiny town along the Hudson River a few miles north of the George Washington Bridge.

Qamar uz Zaman Chaudhry, vice-president of the World Meteorological Organisation's Asia region, corroborated the report's findings at the seminar, saying that Pakistan was hit by extreme events or floods in 2010, 2011 and 2012 and severe droughts from 1999 to 2002.

With warm oceans releasing more water vapour, we saw floods of biblical proportions hit the agricultural regions of Queensland, killing 22 people and impacting an area larger than France and Germany.

The region was one that regularly flooded when the monsoons hit.

Even now, as I'm writing this, important regions of the Midwest, the «breadbasket» of the nation, are getting hit with severe storms and flooding that will surely affect crop yields and food prices.

It was the worst flooding since a category 2 hurricane hit the region in 1935.

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

Over the past couple of days, the state of Texas was hit by a ferocious hurricane, devastating the region with severe flooding and forcing 30,000 residents towards evacuation shelters.

«Whether it's a tornado, flood, hurricane, or earthquakes like those that hit Colorado and the Eastern U.S. this week, virtually every region of the country is susceptible to nature's unexpected fury,» said Phipps.