Sentences with phrase «inundated by floodwater»
Volunteers evacuate people and pets from a neighborhood inundated by floodwater from Tropical Storm Harvey on Aug. 28, 2017, in Houston.
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The key would be to inundate several hundred thousand hectares of the agricultural lands periodically during times of flood to provide as much as 15 billion cubic meters of floodwater storage — three - quarters of the 20 billion cubic meters of flood control offered by the Three Gorges reservoir itself.
Tokyo, Amsterdam, and the entire Mediterranean island of Ibiza were inundated with floodwaters today due to rising sea levels brought on by global warming.
I'm no fan of insurers, but this furphy crops up every wet season — if your property is located on a flood plain and is inundated by rising floodwaters, a predictable (actually, inevitable) event, why on Earth would you expect insurance cover?