Sentences with phrase «flood waters rising»

We still have at least another day or two of rain and flood waters rising, so the devastation will only increase.

Remember the joke about the man trapped on his house as flood waters rise up?

Residents of the villages nearest the dam, Vagdam and Manibeli, have for the past two years threatened to remain at home when the flood waters rise.

Check out the one - sheet before the flood waters rise in theaters March 28.

That the film becomes far less ambitious in its aims after the flood waters rise is to be expected, given the reduced scope of the world with which to work, but Aronofsky and Handel accommodate this shift by putting the focus squarely on Noah's attempt to determine exactly what his and his family's role as the sole survivors of humanity (save for one unanticipated stowaway, who — forgotten often and disposed of quite easily — serves no purpose but for unnecessary external conflict).

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

When earthquakes hit, hurricanes blow, wildfires rage or flood waters rise, animals will find help in a new partnership between the American Red Cross and the Humane Society.

In the first days of 2005, after writing a long team - reported account about the march of waves after the great earthquake off Sumatra, I wrote an essay, «The Future of Calamity,» laying out the mix of factors leading to outsize losses when flood waters rise or tectonic plates heave.

If the flood waters rise to above - ground floors, the damages will be far more expensive, as personal property such as electronics, furniture, flooring and wall treatments will often need to be replaced.

Contact an agent in the Trusted Choice network to compare Indianapolis flood insurance quotes and protect your home when flood waters rise.

If the flood waters rise to above - ground floors as well, the damage will be far more expensive because walls, flooring and personal belongings will need to be replaced.

If the flood waters rise to above - ground floors, the damages grow far more expensive, because many personal belongings can be damaged or destroyed.

Not exact matches

In other words, rising sea levels and flooding threaten to ruin drinkable water supplies, making these islands virtually impossible to live on.

Water rapidly rose up against the city's levees, a series of walls designed to keep the area from flooding.

These areas have shallow water, which means sea level can rise faster and water can reach further inland making the flooding worse.

At the height of the flood, the water had risen to 6 feet in the house; the cat had hidden in a dry space above a bedroom closet.

Rising sea - levels — particularly when combined with storm events — are just one of several factors that could endanger the integrity of the Delta's 1,100 miles of earthen levees, which protect the state's water supply and the region's agricultural, transportation, and energy systems from flooding and saltwater intrusion.35 Earthquakes, land subsidence, and floods present serious threats to the aging levees as well.

neighbors check on a household that is cut off from everyone else due to rising flood waters.

This rouses God's ire, and the waters of judgment rise in a universal flood, as if God intends to wipe the earth clean, starting over again with a new creation.

When one looks at the various Christian beliefs that were once firmly believed — Adam and Eve, Noah's flood, people living to be 700 or 900 years old, the Red Sea splitting, water turning into wine, a talking snake, a man living in a whale's belly, people rising from the dead, Jesus driving demons out of people and into pigs — but which are now acknowledged by most thinking people to be mere mythology, it is pretty hard to give a lot of credibility to what's left.

Russian River Rising, More Rain on the Way: A driver in a Hummer became trapped in flood waters on a rural road west of Santa Rosa early Monday afternoon, generating a large emergency response including the Sonoma County sheriff's helicopter, a swift - water rescue team and a boat of firefighters...

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

While the flood waters continue to rise all around him, the old man waits on his roof, waiting -LSB-...]

While the flood waters continue to rise all around him, the old man waits on his roof, waiting for a sign that that God will save him, and in the process, turns down three rescue attempts.

By providing a setting for the salt marsh to migrate, Rough Meadows is projected to play a key role in assisting this important coastal ecosystem threatened by sea level rise, while also providing tangible public health and safety benefits by storing flood waters and blunting storm surge in the important years ahead.

While the recent change of principal characters in US foreign policy suggests a sea - change, this has arguably been a gradual rising of the waters rather than a spring flood.

National Guard units on Monday continued to assist homeowners amid ongoing flooding at Lake Ontario as residents continue to struggle with rising water levels.

While awaiting a decision by the commission, Cuomo said he's focused on the response to flooding and the long - term impact of rising water levels.

Rapidly rising waters of the Susquehanna River and the Owego and Huntington Creeks caused severe flash flooding that resulted in flood damage to 85 percent of the homes, businesses and municipal structures in the Village.

As water levels on Lake Ontario continue to rise, state lawmakers are working on financial assistance to homeowners still assessing flood damage.

Also in a paper presented by Nurudeen Bello on «Effects of Climate Change in Nigeria,» he stated that the adverse effect of climate change such as temperature rise, erratic ranfall, sandstorm, desertification, low agriculture yields, drying of water body lake Chad basin, gully erosion and constant flooding were daily realities in Nigeria.

Some residents have been allowed to return to their homes but flood waters are still rising in other areas.

Governor Cuomo has directed state agencies to assist local communities in Cayuga, Jefferson, Monroe, Niagara, Orleans, and Wayne counties for possible flooding issues due to rising water levels on Lake Ontario and is urging all residents in the region to prepare for flooding.

A view of some of the damage caused by flood waters at a home along Hall Street on Sunday, July 2, 2017, in Hoosick Falls, N.Y. Rising waters came flowing in from behind the garage carrying debris into the driveway and yard.

Snow melt and rain will cause many rivers and streams to rise, potentially breaking ice layers causing ice jams and localized flooding with water covered roads, especially in low lying areas and urban and poor drainage areas.

«So that the next time we have a heavy downpour, the creek, rather than rising up, will actually collect the water and hold the water for the period of the weather event and stop it from flooding businesses and homes,» Cuomo said.

He called for the building of levees or other barriers to counter the threat of storm flooding as sea level rises; in New York Harbor the water is about a foot higher than it was a century ago.

During flooding, the waters rise up around the foundation, and when the water level reaches 2 feet, it begins to float.

«They are followed by aquatic grasses that need to grow extremely fast to surpass the rising floods and then die off during the receding - water period.»

Fifteen years later we had to build a new sea wall, because the water kept on rising... Today, the sea comes right up to the houses and we have a flood every year.

When JSC became inaccessible due to dangerous road conditions and rising flood waters, the team at Marshall Space Flight Center's Payload Operations Integration Center in Huntsville, Alabama, who serve as «Mission Control» for all station research, worked to connect Wallace to Whitson using Wallace's personal cell phone.

A study in the journal Nature reports the discovery of rapid - growth genes in rice varieties that can withstand flooding by quickly rising above the new water line.

When the water sources that empty into a river rise simultaneously, they can trigger one or more successive flood waves.

We suffer deluges in the form of floods, tsunamis and rising sea levels, while at the same time one in six people on the planet do not have access to safe drinking water.

Previously, some teams have proposed that these floods resulted when immense subterranean reservoirs of ice were suddenly melted by the rise of molten material from deep within the Red Planet, and others have suggested that the water was carried from distant regions via aquifers and then somehow abruptly released.

Storm surge is the abnormal rise of water generated by a storm, causing extreme flooding in coastal areas.

Rising heat is blamed for stoking wildfires, heat waves, droughts, floods and more powerful downpours that disrupt water and food supplies.

Marshes and other natural coastal bulwarks can grow taller as seas rise, protecting against floods, but most of them need sediment - rich waters to do so.

Inside the NHC's Storm Surge Unit, forecasters try to gauge how waters will rise along the coasts and where the most serious flooding could develop.

Those levees, most of which are simple earthen berms, are weak and vulnerable to earthquakes, seasonal floods, and rising waters expected as a result of climate change.