Sentences with phrase «floodwaters from»

Cut off by floodwaters from homes and family, hurricane evacuees needed communication almost as much as they needed food and water.

Naval Aircrewman (Helicopter) 2nd Class Jansen Schamp rescues two dogs after floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey reached the grounds of a shelter in Vidor, Texas, Aug. 31, 2017.

Residents evacuate their homes near Houston's Addicks Reservoir as floodwaters from Harvey rise, Tuesday, August 29, 2017.

The dramatic display was the latest chapter of a chemical disaster, caused, in part, by floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey.

Houston is still fighting floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey and rescuing thousands of stranded residents.

BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA, April 11, 2017 — Months after floodwaters from the devastating, record - breaking August 2016 flood have subsided, local animal shelters and rescue organizations in Louisiana are still struggling...

Floodwaters from Superstorm Sandy destroyed the first floor of this house in Staten Island, New York.

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.

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.

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

On Monday, Hickey and I visited ABC Carpentry, which has been shuttered since floodwaters from Woods Brook inundated the business.

Rising floodwaters from the remnants of Harvey were inundating thousands in Houston on Sunday.

Just six weeks after floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey damaged thousands of homes in Houston, home sales there have rebounded.

Tunnels will have new barriers installed to block floodwater from entering with water - tight barriers to protect the tunnel and its facilities.

Immediately downstream is a huge basin that floodwater from Imja would naturally spill into.

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 man carries sandbags to reinforce the barrier he build to keep the floodwater from reaching his house in Gurnee, Ill., Friday.

Volunteers evacuate people and pets from a neighborhood inundated by floodwater from Tropical Storm Harvey on Aug. 28, 2017, in Houston.

Not exact matches

Emergency crews plucked people from rooftops using aircraft, dump trucks, and boats as the floodwaters rose.

«My brother and I spent three sleepless nights guarding my mother's house, our family home from floodwaters.

Smith points to the threats the pipeline poses to British Columbia's tourism industry, rising floodwaters in Bangladesh and the Maldives, drought in sub-Saharan Africa and Mexico, the homes that will be lost in future forest fires, respiratory health impacts in communities from Vancouver to Kamloops and Quesnel, and future hurricanes in the Caribbean and Gulf states as climate impacts that are left out of the narrative about the project.

«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.»

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.

«And behold, I Myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die» (Genesis 6:17).

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

The blast was caused when floodwater washed stored fuel into a nearby fire while victims were sheltering from torrential rain.

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.

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.

Some 3,000 people were evacuated from a parish outside New Orleans and hundreds of others needed to be rescued from rising floodwaters.

Cracks are now obvious in the Labour dam and the floodwaters may start flowing from 2nd May.

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

Floodwaters are expected to rise still further in the inundated Texan city of Houston, where more than 30,000 people have been forced from their homes in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.

The uninflated plug integrates seamlessly into a subway tunnel without impeding the flow of normal train traffic, but can be quickly inflated to stop water from rushing through the tunnel and remain inflated to withstand the incredible pressure of restrained floodwaters.

Floodwaters may also be contaminated with toxic waste washed from tailings left by gold and silver mining, says Linda Figueroa, a wastewater engineer at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden.

At its height, the floodwaters could be seen from space, with the Indus spreading more than 20 miles wide at some parts.

It lives in underground aquifers in Slovenia, surfacing only when floodwaters sweep it from its lair.

Correa said she hopes the Harvey floodwater plume continues to travel down the coast to the southwest because that will carry it farther from the fragile reefs.

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.

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.

«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..

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

Boellstorff said floodwater might contain substances from upstream, such as manure, sewage from flooded septic systems or wastewater treatment plants or other contaminants.

He'd been walking home from school when the floodwaters came from all sides.

It can also bring health threats from contaminated floodwater.

A far better school system has emerged from the floodwaters.

He reveals the most daunting water issues we face today, among them the threat of flooding in China's Yellow River, where rising silt levels will prevent dykes from containing floodwaters; the impoverishment of Pakistan's Sindh, a once - fertile farming valley now destroyed by the 14 million tons of salt that the much - depleted Indus deposits annually on the land but can not remove; the disappearing Colorado River, whose reservoirs were once the lifeblood of seven states but which could dry up as soon as 2007; and the poisoned springs of Palestine and the Jordan River, where Israeli control of the water supply has only fed conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

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.

As floodwaters rose around the dog, the photographer freed him from the chain and took him to safety.

Lizzie's hurricane finally ended on a bright September day in a Washington townhouse, four weeks and 1,400 miles from the floodwaters that overwhelmed her Houston neighborhood in August.

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