Sentences with phrase «in high flood»

If you live in a participating community, as most Americans do, the government can not turn you down for a flood insurance policy, even if you live in a high flood - risk area.

Even if you don't live in a high flood risk area, you're in some danger of loss from a flood, because 20 percent of all flood claims are filed in low to moderate flood risk areas.

If you live in a participating community, as most Americans do, the government can not turn you down for a flood insurance policy, even if you live in a high flood - risk area.

But CSEA warned that residents in high flood risk areas across the state should take little comfort in Stratton's assessment that layoffs won't put them at risk.

Not exact matches

Lauer's ouster is the latest in a long (and growing) list of high - profile men in media, entertainment, and other industries who have lost their jobs over a flood of sexual harassment, assault allegations, and other misconduct, including Charlie Rose, Garrison Keillor, Harvey Weinstein, and Kevin Spacey.

When the company launched its first high - definition video camera, in November 2009, sales hockey - sticked — and the flood of user - generated videos online wasn't far behind.

He was amazed by the high prices Starbucks was charging for a commodity that was once Guatemala's top export but had collapsed in value in the 1980s as cheap beans from countries like Vietnam flooded the market.

House Speaker Paul Ryan is adamant that Congress should be held to «high standards» and set an example for the rest of the country in how women are treated in the workplace amid a flood of recent allegations of sexual harassment both on the Hill and across the country.

A flood of higher - tech ones are expected in three to seven years.

But it is just the highest - profile case in a growing flood of data breaches that have risen in sophistication over the past five years.

American shale drillers using the same technology have flooded their domestic market in recent years, pushing out higher - cost Canadian supply.

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.

For the past two years, OPEC's pump - at - will policies have flooded the market with cheap supply, causing economic pain for producers with higher cash costs, including those involved in fracking, the Canadian oil sands and deepwater drilling.

Judy Kamande explains thatwhen all farmers grow tomatoes at the same time, there is a high spike in supply and the market gets flooded.

Independent environmental advocacy groups have already been warning that benzene levels in some areas of Texas have reached worrying highs, while more than a dozen toxic waste sites were also flooded or destroyed.

Inadequate flood protection infrastructure, which right now might not contain high tides in El Nino years; Lack of action on annual sediment removal from spring freshets, which each year move over 30 million m3 of sediment and leave about 3 million m3 of silt in the navigation and secondary channels of the lower reaches; and, By the end of this century sea levels at the mouth of the river could potentially rise more than one meter due to climate change overtopping the diking system.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

The high - flying balloons were able to help Peru earlier in the year amid significant floods in the country, and so success in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands is largely expected.

While the report does say that higher mortgage rates could cool things off later this year or early next year, it adds that «a flood of foreclosures, and subsequent sharp supply increases, is simply not in the cards.»

The Hippo high head series submersible slurry pump system can remove acid mine drainage (AMD) water from flooded mine shafts in a...

As the flooding started, Ms. Smith was on the ground as a volunteer in High River and, after residents were evacuated from the town, she butted heads with Mayor Emile Blokland about when residents should be allowed back into the town.

They understandably wanted yields higher than the Treasury was paying, as the Fed was flooding the economy with credit to keep asset prices afloat to save the banks from having to take loan write - downs and admit that debt creation was not really the same thing as Alan Greenspan euphemized in calling it «wealth creation.»

Physical gold buying has flooded Europe in the wake of Trump's victory with the yellow metal reaching a six - week high at $ 1,334.40 per ounce.

Having an address near a flood area or in the middle of hurricane territory will drive the average cost up higher compared to other locations.

Floods in Australia, earthquakes in New Zealand and Japan, high food prices and riots in the world over, and of course there is always war breaking out somewhere.

Dan Caplinger (First Solar): First Solar has had its share of challenges in recent years, as the company found itself slipping from a competitive standpoint as cheaper panels with higher efficiency flooded the solar market.

There is a rough - hewn cross, 12 feet high, at the front of the church and we all flood to the altar, covering it with sunshine coloured daffodils and pink hued tulips until the entire cross is covered in a bower of spring flowers and I can't even look at it without wanting to shout out loud words like «Hallelujah!»

The decade we've just come through was the warmest on record in human history: it saw record incidence of floods and drought (both of which you'd expect with higher temperatures).

As the Bible underlines, the Almighty is no species - egalitarian; the creation accounts bring man and woman into view as the summit of the visible creation, with everything else placed at their service, and in general, with lower things being placed at the service of higher ones (plants are given to animals for food, and later, after the flood, animals are given to men for food).

If a flood but goes above one's head, its absolute elevation becomes a matter of small importance; and when we touch our own upper limit and live in our own highest centre of energy, we may call ourselves saved, no matter how much higher some one else's centre may be.

Father Vianney's asceticism taken in its totality was simply the result of a permanent flood of high spiritual enthusiasm, longing to make proof of itself.

Speaking more realistically, the environment into which the biosphere flooded was already a hierarchical assembly of subassemblies, each level of which was endowed with an order and irreversibility that prevented the whole edifice from constantly sinking back into complete chaos.10 In such a hierarchical framework the initial appearance of a new and higher level always has to be a unique event.

On the way down I was shown the lines in the rock where Noah's flood rose to, which explained why there were sea fossils in the rock at these high levels so far from the sea.

In this festive season when everyone seems to be on baking high and when the blogging world seems to be flooded with baking recipes, I simply couldn't resist myself baking one.

Growing scarcity In addition to a growing scarcity of natural resources such as land, water and biodiversity «global agriculture will have to cope with the effects of climate change, notably higher temperatures, greater rainfall variability and more frequent extreme weather events such as floods and droughts,» Diouf warned.

Dragon fruit is high in fibre thus helps to slow digestion, limiting the flood of sugar energy into the cells.

Since rice is grown in flooded fields, however, it is the highest food source of inorganic arsenic.

Global prices are set to stay high after a massive snowstorm in the United States and floods in Australia.

As most of the coaches will agree, a share of the credit belongs to the high schools in the area, which every year produce a flood of fine players who not only star in the Big Ten but are recruited to strengthen rosters from coast to coast.

After all, whatever chemicals the body sends flooding around in moments of high footballing excitement have been released.

Southern schools have started recruiting southern Negro athletes in earnest, and what was really just a trickle this high school graduation time will be a flood next year.

For months, homeowners near the planned Frontier Park sports complex just south of Neuqua Valley High School have accused Park District officials of dragging their feet in answering residents» concerns over lighting, noise, flooding, traffic congestion and safety.

The FSB is urging the Government to do more to protect small firms in areas at high risk of flooding.

FSB National Chairman meets businesses in York devastated by the latest flooding and calls for better insurance cover Small firms need insurance protection against flooding as the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) raises concerns that many businesses in high - risk flood areas can not get adequate insurance cover and will have to pay out themselves to repair damage.

Small firms need insurance protection against flooding as the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) raises concerns that many businesses in high - risk flood areas can not get adequate insurance cover and will have to pay out themselves to repair damage.

Lake Ontario's high water level has damaged their properties and flooded other areas, prompting Niagara County to declare a state of emergency in the lakeshore towns of Porter, Wilson, Newfane and Somerset.

In remarks to that nation's Parliament yesterday, Bob Runciman, a senator from the province of Ontario, called out New York politicians — including the governor — who have blamed Plan 2014 for the historic high lake levels and ongoing flooding as «fear - mongers.»

The 24th District is relatively inexpensive in which to compete compared to other media markets in New York, but given the high profile of the matchup and early indications of investment by the national parties, there is a good chance the district will see a flood of spending during the cycle.

At least Monday's rain didn't worsen flooding along the Lake Ontario shoreline, where high waters have been a problem leading to declarations of a state of emergency in Niagara County's four lakeshore towns.

«We are running out of time to make sure that people in high risk areas are properly protected from the devastation flooding can cause and the ball is now in the government's court.