Sentences with phrase «main break collapses»

A water main break collapses the ceiling in the apartment one day while the boys are at school and Charlie is at work.

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Assemblyman Felix Ortiz is touring the state, talking with cities about aging infrastructures, hoping the state can come up with some help for communities plagued by collapsing streets and broken water mains.

Meanwhile, the main spokesperson for the Medellin cocaine cartel (Benjamin Bratt) has monologues about the law of supply and demand — it's the addicts» fault laws get broken — and insists our economy would collapse if the Federal Reserve Bank turned away illegally obtained Colombian money.

The 700 immigrants from those three ships were the first to pass through Ellis Island and into AmericaBut this turned out to be only the first Ellis Island station, because on June 15, 1897 a fire broke out in one of the towers in the main building, and the roof collapsed.

In Kobe in 1995, most people died in their homes: the old wood houses on infill land along the railroad tracks collapsed, but deaths were caused not by roofs but by fire: gas lines burst, igniting whole neighborhoods, and water mains also broke, preventing firefighting.

Hurricanes or tropical storms, an overflow of inland or tidal waters, a rapid accumulation of rain or runoff of surface waters from any source, mudflow or collapse of land or erosion can cause flooding as well as a broken water main.

In California, the most common causes are water main breaks and sewer pipe collapses, but a sudden collapse in the earth's crust due erosion or subterranean caves that form near the ocean can also be the cause.