Sentences with phrase «into floodwaters»

According to Placidia's inquest testimony, the baby wasn't thriving to begin with, and then both she and the baby fell into the floodwaters, and she doesn't remember after that.

We fellow dairy farmers can stop pushing each other under in trade deals that throw farmers and workers, American or otherwise, into the floodwaters.

After Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, millions of Americans have found out the hard way how close they are to toxic waste and how easily they can be exposed as harmful chemicals that leech into floodwaters and wash through homes.

Not exact matches

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.»

The blast was caused when floodwater washed stored fuel into a nearby fire while victims were sheltering from torrential rain.

• In general, foods that have come into contact with floodwaters are not safe to eat, and areas that have been subjected to flooding should be decontaminated prior to reoccupation.

The uninflated plug integrates seamlessly into a subway tunnel without impeding the flow of normal train traffic, but can be quickly inflated to stop water from rushing through the tunnel and remain inflated to withstand the incredible pressure of restrained floodwaters.

«During high water periods, the channel would temporarily redirect excess Mississippi River floodwaters and allow the water to exit back into the river at mile marker 15,» Olson says.

Immediately downstream is a huge basin that floodwater from Imja would naturally spill into.

He and colleagues thought that the answer to the floodwater question might also lie in the lakes» moraines — piles of sediments bulldozed by glaciers into high ridges that act as dams.

Near here, a section of concrete levee gave way one August morning in 2005, sending the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina crashing into the neighborhood.

«The earthworks could have extended the period of inundation by capturing the first rains and holding floodwaters into the dry season,» he writes.

Storm drainage systems typically redirect most floodwater out to sea, but given the region's intense water deficit, hydrology scientists at the University of California, Davis, are experimenting with so - called groundwater banking, which involves sending storm water to flood fallow fields where it can percolate into the soil and replenish aquifers.

Following the devastating storm, an estimated 13 trillion gallons of floodwater flowed into the Gulf of Mexico.

But on Sept. 11, Hurricane Irma sent floodwaters rushing into 500 homes and forced more than 200 people to evacuate.

The rains from October to March mean that streams pour into swamps and pans, creating wide lakes into which floodwaters of rivers spill.

They force floodwaters into narrower paths, creating jet - like torrents, said Alan Lulloff, chief scientist for the flood plain managers association.

Floodwaters rushed down the Hudson River Valley; past modern Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Staten Island; through an earthen dam where the Verrazanno - Narrows Bridge now stands; and across another hundred miles into the North Atlantic.

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An elderly woman in Houston, Texas, died of flesh - eating bacteria after she fell into contaminated floodwaters.

Don't touch any items in the home without wearing gloves, and throw out any food that has come into contact with floodwater.