Sentences with phrase «in a flash flood»

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When Laurel escapes to the river to sort out her feelings, she's caught in a storm and nearly drowned in a flash flood.

Since adventure seems to follow us wherever we go, we also got to experience the most frightening thunderstorm while camping next to a river in a flash flood zone.

The memory of the night I thought we might drown in a flash flood at Havasu Falls was still too fresh in my mind.

Well, at least our campsite at Joshua Tree wasn't in a flash flood zone — or I may have reconsidered the trip.

The weather conditions here change rapidly and you can get caught in a flash flood before this time to backtrack.

Here is an excerpt of the research paper, «When It Rains It Pours», from Environment America, showing a statistically significant spike in flash flooding and other extreme precipitation events since 1948: «Weather records show that storms with extreme precipitation have become more frequent over the last 60 years.

Can we quantify the expected change in flash flood rainfall per 1 degC of warming based on such observations?

Not exact matches

Is there a history of flash flooding in your area?

The luxury coach, which was carrying the Kentucky Senator and his entourage of family, staffers, and evangelical leaders from Jerusalem to a kibbutz in the Sea of Galilee, had been derailed by flash floods and rock slides in the West Bank.

Not only is there a questionable business model, but the unnecessary bad news keeps rolling along like a flash flood in Central Texas.

The whole island, home to 3.4 million people, is currently under a flash flood warning, and the National Weather Service in San Juan is advising people to move to higher ground.

Some areas in Utah experience a monsoon period during the summer and fall, which means seasonal flash flooding.

Flash flood warnings were in effect, after river levels rose a stunning 20 feet, according to Weather.com.

«Some strengthening is forecast during the next day or two, and Maria could regain major hurricane status by Thursday,» said the NHC in its latest advisory, which also called for «catastrophic flash flooding» in parts of Puerto Rico.

Neither had we until we got stuck here in an attempt to avoid the hail, tornados, and flash floods plaguing Atlanta today.

Prosecco Blamed for Italy Flood Deaths The tragic deaths of four people swept away by flash floods in northern Italy have been blamed by critics on the regions burgeoning Prosecco industry accused of over-planting and damaging the lands ability to deal with rainwater...

However, in 2017, three episodes of severe flash floods have ravaged large agricultural areas of the country, particularly in the northern districts.

Many single and multiple stress - tolerant lines (flash flood, stagnant flood, drought, salinity, etc.) introduced by IRRI in India are now being evaluated or promoted nationally.

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.

In the next couple of days, Upstate New York could set a weather record you've probably never heard of — but it's one that could cause flash flooding.

Flash floods impacted parts of the region Friday night, with some counties calling it the worst storm in years.

Rapidly rising waters of the Susquehanna River and the Owego and Huntington Creeks caused severe flash flooding that resulted in flood damage to 85 percent of the homes, businesses and municipal structures in the Village.

wolf's «magic map» at cnn is no match for snow's «swingometer» on bbc... and frankly i'm getting a bit of a headache from all the flashing images and moving text they have flooding the screen (though in terms of election night broadcasting embarrassment, the holograms are still no match for jeremy vine's antics earlier this year...)

On Friday afternoon, the National Weather Service reported that the Guajataca Dam in the northwest is «failing,» causing flash flooding.

The clean - up continues in the Tompkins County Town of Newfield following flash flooding there Sunday.

A travel advisory is in effect for portions of southern Tompkins County after heavy rains Sunday caused flash flooding and damaged local roads in Newfield and Danby.

In Seneca County, Sheriff W. Timothy Luce issued a «no unnecessary travel advisory» for the village of Interlaken and the town of Covert due to flash flooding.

O'Keefe said the flood in the village shows the limits of flash flood forecasting, which relies on Doppler radar; rainfall measurements from ground stations, like the New York State Mesonet, a network of more than 120 weather stations across the state; and reports from ground observers.

«With heavy rain and possible flash flooding expected in parts of the state, I urge all New Yorkers to take extreme caution, including closely monitoring local radio and television for weather alerts and listening to the advice of local officials,» Governor Cuomo said.

A flash flood watch and high wind warning remain in effect into this morning for most of Central New York, according to the National Weather Service website.

SPECTRUM NEWS VIDEO — Flash floods impacted parts of the region Friday night, with some counties calling it the worst storm in years.

The plan for policing J'Ouvert — a Caribbean festival meaning «day break» that is observed in the very early morning of Labor Day to celebrate the start of carnival — includes officially issuing a permit for the event for the first time ever, flooding the neighborhood with about 200 portable light towers and parking more patrol cars with lights flashing in the area to deter those who may want to do harm, said NYPD Chief of Department James O'Neill.

Several local fire companies made the trek last weekend to Erie County, NY to assist in their recovery from record snowfall and anticipated flash floods.

Dennis Wilson is from the village of Fort Plain, in Montgomery County, which was devastated by flash flooding just last summer.

Flash flooding was reported in several counties, including Cayuga.

The county was hammered in July by flash floods that destroyed several homes.

Kristen Rasmussen, who studies flash flooding at the University of Washington in Seattle, says it would be really useful to combine the drone system with existing models that take account of terrain and how the water moves.

A drone monitoring system that tracks flash floods in real time can buy time to escape before the waters hit

Jerolmack and his co-author, Colin Phillips of the University of Minnesota, placed radio - tracking tags on stones in a river prone to flash floods.

Foundations have vanished in sudden flash floods.

In its wake, the subglacial flash flood left a spectacular maze of channels, some hundreds of meters deep, incised into the stone, an intricate complex of meandering pathways called the Labyrinth.

Swiss reactors, which could face flash floods from Alpine rivers, house their backup cooling systems in waterproof bunkers.

«In addition to cooling urban microclimates, these trees, which are integrated within dense urban street networks, also provide other benefits, such as reducing the risk of flash flooding and cleaning the air,» says Peter Edwards, Principal Investigator at the Future Cities Laboratory and Director of the Singapore - ETH Centre.

Flash flooding led to more deaths in the north than anywhere else.

ADVANCES: Meteorologists can now detect precipitation changes at a smaller scale, making it much easier to forecast flash floods, says Jonathan Gourley, a research hydrologist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Okla..

Martin Crees of the NRA says: «The IoH's local forecasts are much better than Frontiers for the things that we need to know — where the flash floods in London are going to occur.»

Perhaps methane flows through after flash floods, like water in a desert on Earth.

The deluge could cause catastrophic mudslides and flash flooding in the arid, war - torn country.

Last week hundreds of people had to be evacuated from their homes in southern and eastern England and dozens of roads were closed after flash floods swept through towns, and rivers burst their banks.