Sentences with phrase «floodwaters surging»

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.

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.»

Not exact matches

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.

It would then take only one big storm surge to breach the seawall, just as hurricane Katrina sent floodwaters racing past New Orleans's levees.

Now, with the city in chaos and floodwaters still surging, schools are closed, and the lives of so many families have been disrupted.

This is where storm surge meets raging river floodwaters.

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.

It won't be that 2.8 metre storm surges of the kind that delivered floodwater to the streets and subways of America's iconic city will be any more frequent.