Sentences with phrase «last big flood»

After the last big flood, homes along the river became the most expensive properties.

If I recall rightly, the flood level was within a metre of the last big flood before the flood - containment Wivenhoe Dam was completed in the 1980s.

Not exact matches

On the latest episode of Recode Decode, Tavel, who is a partner at Benchmark, told Recode's Kara Swisher and Teddy Schleifer that there's a big difference between some cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin and ethereum, and the tidal wave of Initial Coin Offerings that began flooding the ecosystem late last year.

And a big WELCOME to Amanda's very loyal readers who've been flooding me with visits the last few days.

A party pursuing an agenda of increased tax and redistribution, regulation and nationalisation is never going to have a cosy relationship with media barons and big business in general (though it's worth noting that the corporate lobbyists who stayed away from last year's conference came flooding back this time) but it can reach people in other ways.

BY BILL EGBERT The Inauguration of President Trump last week flooded Downtown's streets with protesters as part of a nationwide demonstration that may well have been the biggest in the country's history.

«We had some significant damage, obviously, down in the Gowanda area last year during the big flood,» said ECIDA Vice President John Cappelino.

While they are causing short - term destruction, volcanoes also release carbon dioxide that yields long - term greenhouse - effect warming.The last big pulse of flood - basalt volcanism built the Columbia River plateau about 17 million years ago.

As the last ice age waned, floods from a melting ice sheet wafted big bergs as far as the Florida Keys

I'm always amused that the performances seem designed to garner votes right at the moment (i.e., flooding into the audience for some interaction or a big choir coming out to help with the sing - a-long), as if the envelope might be stuffed with a winner at the last minute.

A flood of new money cracked open by retirement savings would pressure private equity firms to invest bigger volumes of capital, potentially damping returns, Blackstone President Tony James said at an event last month discussing the U.S. retirement system.

Said this myself, i think it's a gimmick that will wear off plus playing multiplayer with friends Won't be that big and you need to helmets, costs too much I think it may last 2 years top before it gets phased out, even PC gammers are not all flooding to VR

The last couple of weeks have been flooded with big releases, stretching your time thin as the holidays approach.

It's hard to imagine Ubisoft would flood the market this much with new big - budget Assassin's Creed titles, so perhaps this is another Vita game à la last year's Assassin's Creed III: Liberation.

For instance, after flooding from Hurricane Irene washed out many culverts in Vermont last year, many towns built bigger culverts to handle future floods.

Two of Texas» largest insurers reported big upticks in flood insurance policies since Hurricane Harvey ravaged the Gulf Coast last year.

There was some street flooding in and around Boston during the big Nor» easter that hit last week.

The Siberian flood basalt eruption, the biggest volcanic effect on Earth, lasted for millions of years.

Fast - forward to last year when much the opposite prediction was being trumpeted by the London Daily Mail Online, which headlined «Britain faces coldest winter for 100 years as Big Freeze follows floods with wind so strong it blows water upwards.»

It looks like Obama is attempting to hammer down his clean energy strategies — while the big news last year was the flood of investment in cleantech unleashing in the stimulus bill, this year appears to be about making

Hundreds have been destroyed by tornadoes and floods since they were last constructed in 1950, but their biggest threats are bulldozers.

Also flood insurance premiums are a big topic, the cost may rise because of storms like sandy over the last few.