Sentences with phrase «foot of rain»

The floods are being called a «1,000 - year event,» having produced more than two feet of rain in some areas.

It could dump more than 3 feet of rain on the region — creating severe flooding.

In the last 9 months we have seen 10 feet of rain come and go.

It will take months, maybe years for people to recover from the damage, rebuilding their homes and their lives in the wake of storms that drenched some areas with several feet of rain in a matter of days.

These artificial rain storms allegedly covered 42 percent more land area, and the rain output was 137 percent more and produced 120,885 acre - feet of rain at a cost of less than $ 11 per acre - foot.

It may be hard to fathom what feet of rain — amounts equaling yearly averages falling in a few days — look like.

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

Forecasts have told us to brace for 3 feet of rain tonight and tomorrow.

Hurricane Harvey dropped several feet of rain on Houston, flooding homes and forcing thousands to evacuate.

The remnants of Hurricane Harvey (once a Category 4 storm) have dumped feet of rain on the city.

It dumped several feet of rain, destroying thousands of homes and businesses, killed an estimated 60 people and displaced more than 1 million.

As the wettest storm on record in US history bore down in the last days of August — dropping five feet of rain in some areas — completely inundating Houston, killing more than 70 people, and damaging almost 200,000 homes, at least five prisons on the east coast of Texas were evacuated.

Harvey dumped more than 4 feet of rain on Houston, setting a new record for the greatest amount of rain recorded from a single tropical storm or hurricane in the continental United States.

FEMA authorized this level of aid for Texas 10 days after Hurricane Harvey flooded the Houston area with 4.5 feet of rain.

When it made landfall in Puerto Rico, Maria brought 155 mph winds, storm surges of 6 to 9 feet, and an estimated 2 feet of rain, according to CNN reports.

In Baton Rouge and its surrounding parts, the Area Chamber estimates that over 100,000 homes have been damaged or destroyed by the flooding caused by the mid-August storm that dropped over two feet of rain in a day's time.

Texas officials warned of «catastrophic» and potentially historic flooding in Houston, the nation's fourth - largest city, as Harvey continued to pummel the state, dropping more than two feet of rain and causing dire, and deadly, flash floods.

With flooding continuing in Houston, plus more than a foot of rain likely still to come through Friday, predictions of damage have ranged as high as $ 100 billion, and Wall Street and Washington are braced for the repercussions of the costliest U.S. natural disaster since Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

Oneida County officials say the area was submerged in as much as half a foot of rain over the weekend, and residents are still cleaning up.

A foot of rain dumped by tropical storm Agatha was probably the final straw.

Australia got about a foot of rain more than normal over that period, said Fasullo.

- Hurricane Mitch, an unusually slow - moving storm, ambled into Central America in 1998 and dumped almost six feet of rain, primarily on Honduras and Nicaragua.

Two and a half days after Hurricane Harvey made landfall and dropped more than 2 feet of rain, thousands of people in Houston and along the Gulf Coast have been displaced.

Hurricane Harvey hit the Texas coast with over 3 feet of rain and 125 mph winds.

Most of Louisiana has gotten at least a foot of rain since Friday, with some places getting as much as 30 inches, according to the National Weather Service.

Hurricane Harvey dumped 4 feet of rain in parts of Texas and left at least 70 dead.

An uncharacteristically late super storm is expected to barge into the Bay Area in the next 24 hours, surfing an atmospheric river called a «Pineapple Express» and dumping more than a half - foot of rain in the coastal mountains and Sierra foothills.

On the way to Quinault, take a side trip to the Hoh Rain Forest Visitors Center, deeper in the interior of the Park, to learn more about the western valleys that are drenched in more than 12 feet of rain each year.

In August, Hurricane Harvey dumped as much as five feet of rain on Houston - an accumulation that climate change likely raised by at least 19 percent, according to a new study - and left much of the metropolis underwater, blacked out or both.

But what's just as significant with this fossil, combined with other fossils of plants found around it, is the resulting picture of a tropical ecosystem thriving — with an estimated 12 feet of rain a year — in temperatures that the discoverers assert must have been many degrees hotter than today's tropical norm (an annual average of 75 to 79 degrees).

Harvey, already the worst deluge in U.S. history, has delivered several feet of rain to Houston and surrounding areas.

[19] Parts of southeast Houston received over two feet of rain in 24 hours during the storm.

Then another major burst on December 1 — a foot of rain fell on that one day.

WHEN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA was inundated by a foot of rain, several feet of snow, and lethal mudslides earlier this year, the news reports made no mention of climate change — even though virtually all climate scientists agree that the first consequence of a warmer atmosphere is a marked increase in extreme weather events.

Observers are calling the record floods a «classic signal of climate change» — and high - resolution models predict another one to two feet of rain by Saturday evening.

And Texas, already flooded by four feet of rain in Harvey, will be cutting stocking rates of cattle as forage production drops in the heat and drought.

On September 1 a foot of rain fell in the Burkina Faso capital city of Ouagadougou in just 10 hours.

One flabbergasted Pensacola resident live - tweeted his rain gauge throughout the night, ending up with more than 2 feet of rain:

In 2008, for example, the East and West Fork White Rivers, the Flat Rock River and many of their smaller tributaries overflowed and caused widespread flooding after nearly a foot of rain fell on already saturated ground in a few hours.

In March 1997, nearly a foot of rain fell, causing more than $ 500 million in damage and destroying more than 14,000 homes.

Hurricane Harvey has intensified into a hurricane and is aiming for the Texas coast with the potential for up to 3 feet of rain and 125 mph winds.

Within 48 hours, areas of East Baton Rouge, Livingston, and St. Helena received two feet of rain.