Sentences with phrase «floodwaters along»

Aerial view of homes submerged in floodwaters along the Pearl and Leaf Rivers after record breaking storms dumped rain across the deep south, 13/03/2016, St Tammany Parish, Louisiana.

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.

But many parts of Florida are reckoning with significant wreckage and floodwater along its coasts and on inland farms.

Not exact matches

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.

During Irene, strong winds, heavy rain and flooding caused floodwaters within the Minisceongo Creek to damage the concrete panels and retaining wall that help maintain the embankments along the creek.

Floodwaters hit near - record levels along the Meramec River, and in St. Louis, the Mississippi lapped up the steps leading to the base of the city's iconic arch.

A host of laws need rewriting New structures that must be built along the coast should be elevated, they say, to allow periodic floodwaters to sweep in without causing damage to a building itself.

Floodwaters from an intense storm may have swept away and buried hundreds of pterosaur eggs in this bone bed, along with the scattered remains of a few adults.

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.

People ride on country boats through the floodwaters to catch a ferry along the river Brahmaputra in Nimatighat, about 322 kilometers (201 miles) east of Gauhati, India.