Sentences with phrase «higher damages from flooding»

The United States is facing increasingly frequent and intense precipitation events and ever higher damages from flooding each year due to climate change and urbanization.

Not exact matches

Warming temperatures and high precipitation levels contribute to destructive wildfires, extensive property damage and costly flooding, as was recently seen in northern California and in the aftermath of the rain and resulting flooding from Hurricane Harvey in Houston.

California Flooding: $ 1.5 Billion When: Feb. 8 to 22, 2017 Deaths: 5 The damage: Heavy rainfall — and the subsequent high water, fallen trees, avalanches mudslides and sinkholes — caused severe property damage in Northern and Central California from.

So no, floods are not covered by renters insurance in High Point, or anywhere else in the country, but you can get separate coverage for them and there are plenty of types of damage from water that can be covered by your renters insurance.

One of the reasons for high storm damages over the past ten years has been the pressure from developers to develop land that is beautiful, but subject to flooding risk from storms.

In 1968, Congress created the NFIP to help homeowners in special flood hazard zones protect themselves from the high cost of flood damage.

In addition, the park boardwalk suffered severe structural damage from the severe flooding and high winds associated with Hurricane Irma.

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...&floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...&Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

Charging the harbor users to clean up this mess is akin to a high - rise condo owner asking his neighbors below to pay for the flood damage in their apartments from water that originated in his residence.

While water damage results from a malfunctioning utility or pipe, flood damage occurs when heavy rains, an overflowing body of water, or snow melt rise to a high enough level to enter your house or overload your plumbing system.

Does your homeowners insurance policy adequately protect you from the damage of high waters and flooding rivers?

If you live in a place where earthquakes, high winds or floods have been known to happen, it's important to have enough coverage to protect your car from these types of weather - related damages.