Sentences with phrase «floodwater for»

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..

Floodwaters for the most part have receded from the torrential rains but some roads remained impassable on Thursday morning as the cleanup continued.

Always take photos of items damaged by floodwaters for insurance purposes.

Not exact matches

«We'll be watching for skin infections from people who have had direct contact with floodwaters,» Hotez added, «especially if they've had open wounds.»

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick is shuttering a large section of the Trans - Canada Highway and warning motorists to be on watch for wildlife seeking refuge as floodwaters rise to record levels along the Saint John River.

When the floodwaters recede and Houston looks toward repairing and rebuilding its damaged infrastructure, there very may well be state and local officials advocating for more mitigation projects.

My concern with myth has been motivated, in fact, by the realization that analogy as employed in metaphysics appears unable to hold back the floodwaters of rationalism, once the tenuous «appeal for an imaginative leap» gives way to a more definitive mood of logical analysis.

Genesis 6:5 is written to provide an explanation for why the floodwaters came upon the earth.

They had been trapped in their house in New Orleans for two weeks by 10 feet of floodwater.

In the bushland of Rhodesia a stout band of Africans have been fighting for three bruising and bloody years to save the game herds from the floodwaters of the Zambezi River

Floodwaters reached the rooflines of single - story homes yesterday, and people could be heard pleading for help from inside as Harvey poured rain on the Houston area for a fourth consecutive day after a chaotic weekend of rising water and rescues.

«I have seen first - hand the damage these floodwaters have wrought, and I believe it clearly meets the threshold for a federal disaster zone.

Sodus Point, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)- Four months after an international body approved a new plan for regulating Lake Ontario's water level, property owners who had claimed the rules favored muskrat lodges over lakeside homes are piling sandbags against just the kind of floodwaters they had feared...

For years, when floodwaters swamped the elementary school, dedicated teachers improvised classrooms in whatever spaces were available, including parks and private homes.

It stores water for trees and the Alpine flora, while at the same time reducing floodwaters after heavy downpours.

«I thought we all were going to drown in floodwaters and die that night, and we had to put up staying on the rooftop of a clinic for two days.

Miami Beach, for example, has begun installing a multibillion - dollar network of pumps to return the floodwater to Biscayne Bay.

Although floodwaters in Prague have begun to recede, the German city of Dresden is bracing itself for the river Elbe to rise 16 feet higher than normal.

But because Jebel Barkal is a lone mountain, isolated from other buttes in the area and sometimes nearly engulfed by the Nile's floodwaters, the priests may also have seen it as the perfect metaphor for the primeval mound: the island where Amun pulled himself out of the waters of the Abyss and created the first gods by masturbating.

«There is a need for additional floodwater storage in the confluence area of the greater Ohio - Mississippi Rivers,» says Olson.

In 2011 Terranova Ranch manager Don Cameron diverted Kings River floodwater in Fresno County onto 240 acres of vineyards and other farmland, inundating them for five months.

Miller said the researchers also plan to assemble a functional trait database for the ant communities to test whether the Harvey floodwaters favored some types of ant species — such as those with larger bodies or more - protected nests — over others.

Rescuers answered hundreds of calls for help as floodwaters from the remnants of Hurricane Harvey began to fill second - story homes.

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.

When feed needs can not be met via vehicle or boat for animals marooned by floodwaters, the Texas Army National Guard has flown in and air dropped more than 210,000 pounds of hay, generously donated by individuals across the state and nation.

The goal: rescue all 21 available dogs and 31 cats from the shelter to make room for an anticipated flow of additional animals that would be displaced by the storm's floodwaters.

Heartworm disease is transmitted by mosquitos — stagnant receding floodwaters will provide excellent breeding ground for that vector.

MGM Resorts International's Gold Strike Casino Resort Tunica will reopen its doors for business today — just two weeks after rising Mississippi River floodwaters forced a mandatory closure of all Tunica County's nine casinos.

Opponents must dodge the floodwaters in «Hydro» as they contend for dominance of this hydroelectric dam facility in Pakistan, filled with treacherous spillways.

At Clearing, Ryan Foerster eschews his usual all - over-the-place installations for a neat row of photographs, the better to emphasize the entropy within the images: They are portraits that turned abstract when hit by Hurricane Sandy's floodwaters at Mr. Foerster's Brighton Beach studio.

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.

Months after Harvey's floodwaters swamped Houston, the extent of the environmental assault is beginning to surface, while questions about the long - term consequences for human health remain unanswered.

Coastal marshes absorb and store large amounts of carbon dioxide from Earth's atmosphere; they help filter out pollution in coastal waters; provide habitat for wildlife; help protect coastlines from erosion and storm surge; and can store huge amounts of floodwater, reducing the threat of flooding in low - lying coastal areas.

They force floodwaters into narrower paths, creating jet - like torrents, said Alan Lulloff, chief scientist for the flood plain managers association.

But the house — and every other structure along the floodway that was surrounded by water — raised the overall flood height and disrupted the flow of floodwaters, said Lulloff, chief scientist for the flood plain managers association.

He noted how Bangladesh had seen its mortality rates from flooding drop sharply since the 1970's, mainly by adopting simple means of getting people to higher ground, some as basic as installing high platforms for people to climb above the floodwaters.

So far, three people are confirmed dead, and ABC News reports that emergency authorities in Houston are receiving thousands of calls for rescue as rapidly rising floodwaters have forced residents to seek higher ground on their rooftops.

The last two decades have seen a progressive policy shift towards programs to give «room for rivers» (Rohde et al. 2006; Opperman et al. 2009), aimed to increase the storage space of rivers by restoring floodplains and thus reducing the flood depth by spreading floodwaters over wider areas.

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.

Suppose for the sake of argument that an attribution study determined that 5 % of Pakistan's floodwaters could be attributed to global warming.

If the damage is caused by both rainwater and flood then you may still be able to get your claim paid where, for example, the rainwater entered your house first or the damage was caused by rainwater coming through a hole in the roof (even if floodwater entered the house as well).

Homeowners insurance policies do not provide coverage for flood damage; only a flood insurance policy through the NFIP can protect your investment when floodwaters rise.

And while you may like to swim in the water, floodwaters are deadly and dangerous for any person or structure in its way.

Houston officials on Wednesday approved a rule for new homes and other buildings in the city's flood plains that will require them to be elevated higher off the ground to avoid floodwaters.

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Bush communities in Western Australia's north say the string of cyclones has brought an unexpected benefit, with floodwaters cutting off the supply of alcohol and illicit drugs, making for a peaceful few months.

Floodwaters, which left properties sitting in water for several days to a week, were not the only source of damage.

Another area of relief for business owners may be from an inability to physically access operations because of floodwater, which will affect primarily industrial, retail and hospitality properties, he says.