Sentences with phrase «flooded as a result of the storms»

While officials dismiss accounts from inmates that cells flooded as a result of the storms, a comparison of prison locations with data from the Dartmouth Flood Observatory shows that the areas surrounding several facilities did in fact flood.

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The legislation also provides up to $ 10 million to reimburse Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, and Allegany counties for damages sustained as a result of the severe storms and flooding in July 2015, and for Monroe County for damages resulting from the severe storm of March 2017.

Caribbean island states are already experiencing more intense tropical storms, longer and harsher droughts, and more frequent floods, as a result of climate change.

They point to direct effects resulting from rising temperatures and changes in the frequency and strength of storms, floods, droughts, and heat - waves — as well as to less direct impacts, such as changes in crop yields, the burden and distribution of infectious disease, and climate - induced population displacement and violent conflict.

Similar negative effects occur with worsening air pollution — higher levels of ground - level ozone smog and other pollutants that increase with warmer temperatures have been directly linked with increased rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease — food production and safety — warmer temperatures and varying rainfall patterns mess up staple crop yields and aid the migration and breeding of pests that can devastate crops — flooding — as rising sea levels make coastal areas and densely - populated river deltas more susceptible to storm surges and flooding that result from severe weather — and wildfires, which can be ancillary to increased heat waves and are also responsible for poor air quality (not to mention burning people's homes and crops).

Those opportunities include not just more demand for the company's privatized disaster response services but also «demand for its military products and services as security concerns may arise as results of droughts, floods, and storm events occur as a result of climate change.»

As a result of climate change, global temperatures are expected to continue to rise, resulting in sea level rise and an increase in the frequency of extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, landslides and stormAs a result of climate change, global temperatures are expected to continue to rise, resulting in sea level rise and an increase in the frequency of extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, landslides and stormas floods, droughts, landslides and storms.

More than 370,000 people died during the decade as a result of extreme weather and climate conditions — heat, cold, drought, storms and floods, according to data from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters.

According to Friends of the Earth Europe, any delay will mean more people suffering from more intense weather disasters as a result of global climate change, including in the United States, but also in Europe, as the 2005 floods, droughts and storms show.

Millions of people will suffer, die and be displaced as a result of extreme heat waves, sea - level rise as much as 100 cm by 2100 with continuing large rates of rise, and by more severe storms, droughts and floods.

The report explores attitudes toward policies that relate to climate change due to extreme weather events such as extended periods of high heat, flooding, and storms resulting in the transmission of disease and decreased air quality.

One is that, as I have just pointed out, it's not just a matter of having warmer weather — many of the costs of climate change are likely to result from droughts, flooding and severe storms.

Whether it is the result of devastating storms such as Hurricane Katrina or the annual deluge of river flow, floods can strike without warning and leave a path of destruction in their wake.

Natural Disaster is defined as widespread disruption of human lives by disasters such as flood, drought, tidal wave, fire, hurricane, earthquake, windstorm, or other storm, landslide, or other natural catastrophe or event resulting in migration of the population for its safety.

While some floods are caused by tropical storms and hurricanes, many more occur as a result of thunderstorms and heavy rains, rapid snow melt and breaches of levees or dams.

Early Childhood Australia will use its reasonable endeavours to perform its obligations under these terms of trade but will not be liable for any failure to deliver ordered goods where such a failure is as a result of an act of terrorism, an act of God, strike, lockout or other interference with work, war (declared or undeclared), blockade, disturbance, lightning, fire, earthquake, storm, flood, explosion, governmental or quasi-governmental restraint, expropriation, prohibition, intervention, direction or embargo, unavailability or delay in obtaining governmental or quasi-governmental approvals, consents, permits, licences, authorities or allocations, and any other cause, whether of the kind specifically enumerated above or otherwise which is not reasonably within the control of Early Childhood Australia.

As of July 1, the Federal Emergency Management Agency had declared disaster areas in 19 states in 2002 — the result of ice storms, flooding, snowstorms, tornados, earthquakes, and wildfires.