Sentences with phrase «flooded during a storm»

Severe coastal flooding during storms in January and March of this year jolted Massachusetts residents and officials into an unwelcome awareness of just how vulnerable we are to rising sea levels.

Buy a new one, and you're essentially the guinea pig testing how well the HVAC system works and whether the basement floods during a storm.

The title of the show, «My Eye Travels,» pays homage to a work Cooper lost when her storage unit flooded during the storm.

Erosion from high tides and storm events is already wearing away San Francisco's Ocean Beach, and the bay is lapping the edges of the Embarcadero causing flooding during Storms.

Find out if it's an area that experiences severe flooding during storms, if there are any obvious evacuation routes, and the closest hospital in case of an emergency.

Is it an area that experiences severe flooding during storms?

Was your home once flooded during a storm and suffered mold as a result?

This will boost demand for apartments in the area, but as many as one out of six — or 100,000 — multifamily units were flooded during the storm, according to a report from real estate services firm CBRE.

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.

During Hurricane Harvey, we saw how a city's layout can worsen the effects of a storm, as Houston's urban sprawl and scant zoning likely set the stage for catastrophic flooding.

It was the case in Katrina, and it will be in Houston as well, from the some 80 percent of the hardest hit Houstonians that don't have flood insurance to the fears of undocumented Houstonians seeking shelter during the storm.

Demos, who took office in April, inherited a years - long problem at Lake Ellyn, where overtopping during rain storms has flooded residents three times in the last five years.

That facility, activated most recently during a blizzard in February and storm flooding in March, has room for as many as 60 representatives of emergency - response agencies.

14 million gallons of saltwater flooded two of the tunnels during the storm, corroding cables and the tunnel structure.

Storms said the town board has worked toward flood resiliency during her tenure, receiving grants to rebuild bridges and roads damaged by flooding.

JAMESTOWN - The Jamestown City Council has approved a resolution to continue repair work to the Jamestown Police Station after it was flooded and damaged during a heavy rain storm last year.

Multiple severe storms during June and early July left culverts and drainage areas on the Utica Zoo's property plugged with debris, creating the potential for flooding and erosion.

Not all flooded during the 2012 storm, but climate change in the form of rising sea levels is increasing the risk of future damage, and higher flood insurance bills.

The building was flooded and damaged during Tropical Storm Irene.

«Staten Island University Hospital is at - risk of flooding during a future storm and FEMA should invest now in the hospital's flood - prevention plan so that the next storm does not cripple this essential health care facility,» said Schumer.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — In the wake of terrible flooding and storms during 2011, Gov. Andrew Cuomo directed state officials to purchase four, flatbed dump trucks and preposition them around New York for his use to tour flooded and snow - bound disaster scenes, the Albany Times Union reported today.

The city's flood - control system consists of a series of drainage wells that use gravity to push stormwater underground and off the streets during storms, said Jennifer Jurado, director of the Broward County Natural Resources Planning and Management Division.

During a powerful storm in 2009, multiple streets flooded and insurance claims skyrocketed, including for car owners faced with saltwater damage to their vehicles, according to Castro.

During a recent storm, flooding got so bad that the «city could not keep up» and water poured into manholes, said Maria Loucraft, utilities laboratory manager for the city.

In this research, we used a three - dimensional hydrodynamic model to simulate surges in the Clyde during storms; our findings suggest that floods are caused not only by extreme surges but also by moderate surges coupled with high spring tides.

The eggs weren't found at an original nesting site but had been jumbled and deformed, probably transported by a flood during an intense storm, Kellner says.

During that storm, dual - polarization radars proved more accurate in detecting precipitation rates, and therefore predicting flooding, than conventional Doppler radars farther north.

For New York City (which suffered the same flooding during Superstorm Sandy in late October 2012 as the coast in nearby New Jersey, shown), floods due to either a storm surge of 1.15 meters (enough to overtop Manhattan's seawall) or a 1 - day rainfall of 12 centimeters (4.7 inches) occurred, statistically, once every 245 years, the researchers found.

From the heavy rains that sent the Seine into the streets of Paris last year to a parade of storms that left southern England waterlogged during the winter of 2013 - 2014, there have been startling examples in recent years of the heavy toll that flooding can levy in both human and economic terms.

But when land subsidence is also taken into account, the area vulnerable to flooding during high tides and storm surges rises to between 130 and 430 square kilometres.

The USGS measured Sandy's flooding by deploying temporary tide gauges at selected sites during the storm, and by sending out teams of observers afterward to record mud and wrack lines on buildings, roadways, and other infrastructure.

Since Katrina the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has done a lot of mapping of storm surges along the coasts, trying to give themselves a sense of the risk of flooding during different sized storms.

Modeling Animation: Storm - tide flooding of the Battery in New York City through several tidal cycles during Hurricane Sandy as modeled by Professor Harry Wang and colleagues at VIMS.

Inland areas in Scotland experienced extensive flooding owing to heavy rainfall during Storm Frank in December 2015.

But if land subsidence is also taken into account, the area vulnerable to flooding during high tides and storm surges rises to between 130 and 430 square kilometres.

Extreme sea levels are the maximum levels of the sea that occur during a major storm and produce massive flooding.

The more the seas climb, the more high tides inundate areas that previously flooded only during big storms.

New construction will have to sit two feet above the 500 - year flood - plain, which is land predicted to flood during a once - every -500-years storm (17 - 19 inches of rain in 24 hours).

Rising sea levels will, over time, inundate low - lying property and increase the amount of flooding that occurs during coastal storms.

the last week came down to surviving and staying warm during days without power, snow storms, house flooding, etc. it was actually helpful to have to focus on the basics.

A dark storm builds during their riverside pursuit, and Poppa tragically gets swept away by a flash flood, Mufasa - style.

Then before we could take it in the front windows were activated by thunder during a storm and when we came out the next day the car had 1 inch of water inside and the dash, console, doors and seats were soaking wet, basically like flood damage.

This area on the inter-coastal waterway historically floods during major storms.

Even if your Shih Tzu is outdoors trained, you may not be able to exercise him outdoors during the storm or if the yard floods.

With the possibility of damaging storms and floods during spring, April is a great time to remind Green Country pet owners to ensure their pets have current identification.

also took in a number of pregnant cats and moms with kittens before the storm made landfall and during the catastrophic flooding that followed.

«Getting a pet emergency bag ready to go in case you need to evacuate due to flooding or loss of electricity during a storm or other disaster is a very important part of disaster preparedness.»

The storm flooded Houston and much of the region and was one of several hurricanes that impacted the United States during a volatile 2017 season, including Hurricane Irma in Florida and Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.

The shelter will pick up and house any pets owned by homeless people who enter a shelter during flooding from Tropical Storm Harvey.

The new sidewalks allow easy access, while drainage prevents flooding during rain storms.