Sentences with phrase «flooded by heavy rains»

In one scenario, methane's rise may come in part from a drop in hydroxyl, a chemical that acts as an atmospheric detergent; in the other, the gas is emanating from tropical wetlands flooded by heavy rains in recent years.

Not exact matches

Palestinian rescuers members evacuate a man from a flooded home using a fishing boat during a heavy rain storm in Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017 (AP Photo / Khalil Hamra) In the time since the operation, the army and government have put into practice some, but not all, of the recommendations made by Shapira in his reports.

But while Australian demand for the fruit has been fueled by its store of healthy fats, supply has been strangled by heavy rain and bushfires, and because growers in western Australia, anticipating a fall in demand after Christmas, exhausted their stocks to flood the market in the lead - up to the holiday season.

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation)- It could take months for Haitian farmers to recover as heavy rains brought by Hurricane Irma have flooded parts of the impoverished Caribbean nation, humanitarians said, calling for better disaster preparedness.

While the housing markets were shaken up by new tax regulations announced in April 2017 and the turbulence at Home Capital, a large mortgage broker, heavy rains and flooding across the region made matters worse.

Rochester, NY — With the possibility of heavy rain and flooding as Tropical Storm Lee bears down on the Northeast, NYSEG encourages customers in flood - prone areas — and even customers who experience persistent basement flooding — to consider how their electricity and natural gas services could be affected by high water.

A Two - and - a-half-year-old baby girl has reportedly been swept away by flood waters as heavy rain engulfed parts of the Greater Accra region Thursday morning.

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.

The Oneida County Health Department is urging residents impacted by recent flooding conditions to take precautions when dealing with flood waters resulting from the heavy rains and overflow conditions.

A number of local residents and officials have blamed actions by the IJC for recent flooding, although members of that organization and the U.S Army Corps of Engineers have maintained that most of the issue is due to weather factors including rain during the Spring that was much heavier than usual.

In a letter to Cuomo, the IJC says flooding was triggered by heavy spring rains.

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The flash flooding brought on by the heavy rains of June 27 and 28 devastated many communities across Central New York.

Catastrophic flooding, often driven by unexpectedly heavy rain events, has swept through many states, and many of those big rain events caught people by surprise in places like Houston and Baton Rouge, La..

Mudslides and floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains have killed scores of people in the island nation.

The playing field, which was prone to flooding, had been affected by heavy rains before the injury occurred.

Located in Brooke village about six miles South of Norwich, The Brooke Church of England Primary School is a brick building surrounded by an asphalted playground which tended to flood when there was heavy rain.

But like many areas of California, the city is occasionally threatened by wild fires and by flooding from heavy rains.

While tornadoes can be accompanied by heavy rain, it's important to understand that homeowners insurance policies generally do not provide coverage for flood damage.

What's in a typical policy: Flood insurance covers direct physical losses by flood and losses resulting from flood - related erosion caused by heavy or prolonged rain, coastal storm surge, snow melt, blocked storm drainage systems, levee dam failure or other similar causes.

Indeed, over 40 percent of homeowners think that standard homeowners insurance covers flood damage caused by heavy rain, according to the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.).

The HSUS is also assisting in the transport of more than 30 dogs from Plaquemines Animal Welfare Society, which was damaged by heavy rain and flooding, to the Humane Society of Saline County in Arkansas, where they will be available for adoption.

As Paris is pounded by heavy rains, several towns to the east and south of Paris are experiencing the worst flooding for decades.

Alertnet: Muhammad Mushtaq moved his family and several neighbours to safety last September when their homes in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani - administered Kashmir, were flooded by an overflowing stream during heavy monsoon rains.

Jakarta has vowed to keep its 10 million inhabitants safe from heavy rain - induced flooding by building 3,000 water - absorbing child - friendly parks by 2022.

Heavy rains also doused southern China in June, with nearly 14 million people affected by floods and landslides that killed 120 people, the WMO said.

Which forms the basis for the IPCC claim of high climate sensitivity (mean value of 3.2 C), resulting in significant global warming (up to 6.4 C warming by 2100), «extreme high sea levels», increased «heat waves», increased «heavy rains» and floods, increased «droughts», increased «intense tropical cyclones» — which, in turn, lead to crop failures, disappearance of glaciers now supplying drinking water to millions, increased vector borne diseases, etc. (for short, potentially catastrophic AGW — or «CAGW»).

It warned, prior to the floods, that heavy rains, flash floods, disease outbreaks and rising temperatures were all an inevitable future reality forced upon Pakistan by climate change.

Late snowmelt over the region in late April / early May, followed by heavy rains in late May / early June, resulted in extremely high water levels in the Danube, Elbe, and Rhine, with coastal flooding in early / middle June there (49).

«The fruit trees conserve the environment by contributing to reduction of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and provide protection against flooding during heavy rains,» she explains.

Infrastructure across the U.S. is being adversely affected by phenomena associated with climate change, including sea level rise, storm surge, heavy downpours, and extreme heat... Floods along the nation's rivers, inside cities, and on lakes following heavy downpours, prolonged rains, and rapid melting of snowpack are damaging infrastructure in towns and cities, farmlands, and a variety of other places across the nation.

Bleaching is a very minor contributor to coral mortality, just 5.6 %, and that bleaching can be induced by warm or cold temperatures, heavy rains and floods or high irradiance from anomalously clear skies.

A week after China released its action plan on climate change (sans emissions caps), 76 people have died over a six - day period in China's southern and eastern provinces due to severe flooding, brought upon by heavy rains.

Flood insurance covers direct physical losses by flood and losses resulting from flood - related erosion caused by heavy or prolonged rain, coastal storm surge, snow melt, blocked storm drainage systems, levee dam failure or other similar causes.

The NFIP, operated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, works with more than 90 private insurance carriers to provide flood insurance to cover damage that results from flash floods, hurricanes, winter storms or heavy rains.

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.

But like many areas of California, the city is occasionally threatened by wild fires and by flooding from heavy rains.

However, like many places in the area, the city was impacted by Hurricane Katrina; heavy rains, a storm surge, and flooding caused many broken bridges and power outages.

Your policy does not cover mudslide damage, even if the damage was caused by heavy rains and flooding.