Sentences with phrase «floodwaters in»

If properties are found to be above the floodwaters in a 100 - year storm, the owners can submit a Letter of Map Amendment to the Federal Emergency Management Association and have their homes remapped outside flood zones.

According to weather reports, floodwaters in Quebec peaked Sunday and floodwaters are beginning to recede in some areas but the clean - up effort is still underway and expected to take some time.

In June last year, monsoon floodwaters in the Indian Himalayan region swept entire houses off their foundations, washing them downstream.

After a summer of wildfires in Southern Europe and the Western United States, we now watch floodwaters in Texas and India recede and powerful winds in the Caribbean and Southeastern United States die down.

He made the statement on Sunday 16 January, well after the majority of floodwaters in Queensland had subsided but before the communities of Toowoomba and Grantham had begun to bury their dead.

Left: Demese Black, left, helps Michael Arceneaux empty his boots of floodwaters in the living room of his home Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017, which was hit by a tornado during Hurricane Harvey in Sienna Plantation.

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

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

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.

ABFEs are the recommended elevation of the lowest floor of a building calculated to reduce the risk of floodwaters in the event of catastrophic events.

Hurricane Maria whipped through Puerto Rico, leaving a path of destruction and dangerous floodwaters in its wake.

Others have remarked that the timing of the release was insensitive, given the floodwaters in Houston and racial violence in Charlottesville.

Tens of thousands of people have been stranded and at least 20 have been killed since last week by surging floodwaters in the eastern Indian state of Orissa.

Smith points to the threats the pipeline poses to British Columbia's tourism industry, rising floodwaters in

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.

The National Weather Service called the rainfall event «unprecedented», and while the National Hurricane Center's warnings of «catastrophic and life - threatening flooding» have subsided, the floodwaters in southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana will take days, if not a week, to retreat.

The young entrepreneur and architect's parents» home in Houston, Texas, was inundated with floodwater in the aftermath of the Category 4 storm.

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.

Residential neighborhoods near the Interstate 10 sit in floodwater in the wake of Hurricane Harvey in Houston.

Floodwater in the two districts also inundated public facilities, such as community health centers (Puskesmas) and schools.

FEMA estimates that as little as two inches of floodwater in a 1,000 square foot home can cause about $ 10,000 in damage.

According to estimates reported by FEMA, as little as 2 inches of floodwater in a 1,000 square foot home can result in as much as $ 10,000 in damage.

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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.

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.

Ahmed stands in the center of the town of Khairpur Nathan Shah, which had been totally submerged by floodwaters.

Despite the floodwaters that have inundated the shop where she works in the Taweewattana district of Bangkok La - awtip Iamjaitong continues to do her job of weighing vegetables.

Margaret Clegg is shocked as she surveys the floodwaters and the damage inside her home in Toll Bar village outside Doncaster.

Starting in late July, floodwaters swamped large swaths of the Southeast Asian country, leaving hundreds of people dead and hundreds of thousands homeless.

Since the floodwaters receded, SBP has made significant progress on the ground, partnering with local organizations to help build their capacity and better inform their decision making, holding training sessions with homeowners to share vital information, beginning muck & gut operations in a hard - hit neighborhood, and has established a permanent field office in the Houston area.

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

Inside they found the Chihuahua, perched on top of a couch floating upsidedown in the floodwaters.

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.

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.

That they may not drown in the floodwaters of judgment.

«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).

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

Beaumont and Silsbee were virtually isolated and surrounded by floodwaters so OBR flew thousands of meals in helicopters provided by the National Guard and the US Customs and Border Patrol.

We fellow dairy farmers can stop pushing each other under in trade deals that throw farmers and workers, American or otherwise, into the floodwaters.

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

Carolina gave birth to Rositha while she was trapped in a tree just feet above swirling floodwaters.

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.

• In general, foods that have come into contact with floodwaters are not safe to eat, and areas that have been subjected to flooding should be decontaminated prior to reoccupation.

Water Update • The Suffolk County Department of Health Services (SCDHS) has received reports of fuel spills and potential sewage releases in areas that continue to be affected by standing floodwater, including Lindenhurst, Mastic and several other low - lying areas of the County that have been flooded by Hurricane Sandy.

It was in late June and early July that floodwaters caused severe damage in parts of the Mohawk Valley, and the recovery continues as the cold weather moves in.

It said in a statement issued Friday that the floodwater has mixed with human excreta and «flowing through people's homes».

The hospital, which was evacuated in the early stages of the flood event, suffered extensive floodwater damage and was subsequently closed indefinitely.

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

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

Above: An aerial view of Jones Beach in Wantagh, which was ruined by heavy winds and floodwaters brought ashore by superstorm Sandy.

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.