Sentences with word «floodwater»

«Whether it's a cruelty case in Tennessee, rescuing animals from the threat of rising floodwaters in Mississippi, or shutting down a puppy mill in our home state of North Carolina, the Cashiers - Highlands Humane Society is proud to be an HSUS Emergency Placement Partner.

The more than 13 trillion gallons of floodwater from Hurricane Harvey have created a massive plume of freshwater in the Gulf of Mexico that is threatening the coral reefs of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary about 100 miles offshore of Galveston.

A boy hugs his grandmother's dog after being rescued from rising floodwaters in Spring, Tex., on Monday as devastation from Hurricane Harvey continued.

COLLEGE STATION — The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and others are collaborating to offer another set of free water testing opportunities Feb. 14 - 15 for private well owners in areas affected by floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey.

It's hard not to be inspired by the cooperative duo, particularly considering that snakes are quite fond of eating frogs, and vice versa.Armin snapped a photo of the peculiar pairing while inspecting the damage caused by floodwaters in the town of Dalby.

So far, only a handful of deaths have been formally confirmed, but when combined with suspected deaths, US media reported that the toll could be 30 so far — and still rising — as floodwaters recede in some areas and bodies are found.

The homes in Matt's neighborhood had never flooded before and were now inundated with floodwaters for the next few days (and some even weeks).

Last week, when floodwaters surged into Greater Downtown Miami's Brickell financial district and Coconut Grove, as well as Fort Lauderdale's Las Olas Boulevard, Cervera Real Estate's marketing team kick - started a campaign called «Keep Calm Miami Is Still Strong.»

A typical home insurance policy won't cover floodwater damage.

But when Houston and surrounding towns start to rebuild after floodwaters recede from Tropical Storm Harvey, they won't be required to plan ahead for the next big storm.

A crucial YouTube film showed the claimant actually sustaining the injury when he leapt into floodwaters in full view of a crowd of onlookers.

The 2011 activation of the Birds Point - New Madrid (BPNM) Floodway resulted in the diversion of floodwater for 35 miles before it was directed back to the Mississippi at New Madrid, Mo..

If your home does not have a basement, as is the case with many of Tennessee's manufactured and mobile homes, or if floodwaters rise to aboveground floors, your damage will be far more expensive.

«The Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri farmers» and land owners» response to the additional volume and height of the Mississippi River from the diversion channel valley and the prevention of the Mississippi River floodwaters from flowing into the ancient Mississippi River valley and Big Swamp was to build floodwalls and levees,» Olson says.

Expedition member and GERG scientist Kathryn Shamberger, a Texas A&M oceanographer who took measurements at the reef in late September, said the team is collaborating with scientists across Texas to track the plume of Harvey floodwater as it migrates through the Gulf.

People walk through floodwaters on Telephone Road in Houston on Sunday after 2 feet of rain from Hurricane Harvey pummeled the Gulf Coast.

Many residents also buy federal flood insurance, since home insurance does not typically cover floodwater damage.

Selfie enthusiasts capture rushing floodwater at the Katulampa sluice gate in Bogor, West Java, on Feb. 5.

Here is the quote from Genesis: «I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy ALL life under the heavens, EVERY creature that has the breath of life in it.

A young woman strides through floodwaters on her way to church on a Sunday morning in Igbogeni in Bayelsa State, one of the 14 states affected between July and November 2012 when Nigeria experienced its worst flooding in half a century.

More than a half - year after floodwaters swamped...

In addition elevated floodwaters at the Main Street Bridge in Whitesboro where a storm sewer line meets the creek damaged that pipe increasing the damage from flooding.

«From a public health perspective, the caution to the public is to avoid contact with contaminated floodwaters,» says Mark Salley, communications director with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

This was the message Washington University geology professor Bob Criss presented to a small room of environmentalists, water experts and river rats at Union Station just a few months before the December floodwater came to St. Louis.

IRIN: When asked what resilience means, the head of city planning for the Philippines» second largest city, Davao, said that for Filipinos it means how high floodwater reaches before they agree to be evacuated.

New York's Chelsea art district is fighting its way back from the devastating floodwaters of Hurricane Sandy.

Besides recharging groundwater supplies and trapping floodwaters, wetlands serve a variety of important ecological functions

And think about purchasing a separate flood policy, since floodwater damage will not be covered by your home policy.

But on Sept. 11, Hurricane Irma sent floodwaters rushing into 500 homes and forced more than 200 people to evacuate.

There is a safe exit to a secure area of the roof — a feature that needs no explanation for longtime Lower Ninth Ward residents like Green, who lost both his mother and his three - year - old granddaughter in 20 - foot - high floodwaters after the Industrial Canal levee broke in the wake of Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005.

Floodwaters affected over a million and a half people and destroyed thousands of houses.

The neighborhoods surrounding the reservoir are still experiencing severe flooding due to the accumulation of historic levels of rainfall, though floodwaters are beginning to recede in many parts of the city.

If floodwaters make their way into your condominium or townhouse it is going to be up to you to find a new place to live, repair the damages and cover the cost of replacing your things.

According to Feldstein's account, he told the hotel's building manager he could do the job cheaper than his competitors, who were hauling floodwater away with vacuum trucks — an expensive, inefficient option.

Now, more recently, devastating floodwaters submerged parts of the Midwest.

These communities found themselves at the epicenter of an unusual weather pattern that dumped record rainfall on northwestern Pakistan and sent floodwaters surging from the north to the rest of the nation.

The undead of World War Z are also most effective in numbers, but they move quickly, they're animalistic and acrobatic, moving in seething, rushing herds that are more like floodwater than a stampede.

A cabinet had survived the surge intact and the glasses inside were full to the brim with Katrina floodwater.

The system handles about 30,000 cars a day and has been closed to handle floodwaters around 44 times so far.

9/5/17 — As floodwaters still plague Houston after Hurricane Harvey, two water - resource specialists say that a report on the Great Flood of 1993 in the upper Midwest showed policy makers how to mitigate or prevent severe flooding, but the advice went largely unheeded.

The city of Dallas says state officials have asked them to prepare The Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center as a mega shelter to house Hurricane Harvey evacuees seeking safety from the deluge of rain and rising floodwaters along the Texas Gulf Coast.

When floodwaters finally hit the Memorial Medical Center in Uptown New Orleans, the chaos over evacuations led to dozens of deaths, some at the hands of nurses.

Following the devastating storm, an estimated 13 trillion gallons of floodwater flowed into the Gulf of Mexico.

«During the rainy season when floodwaters hit, the Puebloans would capture runoff water from small canyons known as the Rincons and local arroyos (periodic streams) such as Chaco Wash and the Escavada Wash..

Although floodplain wetlands are greatly reduced from their historical extent, those that remain still absorb floodwaters and reduce the effects of high flows on river - margin lands.

Rescuers battling heavy downpours plucked hundreds of people from rising floodwaters left in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, answering desperate calls for help all along the ravaged Texas coastline where at least two people were killed and up to 14 injured.