Sentences with phrase «main break floods»

On an afternoon while Betty is away playing croquet with friends, a water main break floods her apartment.

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Flooding from a water main break added to the misery of travelers after a winter storm canceled or delayed hundreds of flights in recent days.
Looking for root causes or solutions only within the religious sphere is like the man who, faced with a flooded basement, looks for the leak in his own pipes, not realizing that the water main has broken and every house on the block is flooded.
The water main break that flooded the basement at the Gideon Putnam in Saratoga Springs has shuttered the hotel for at least another four weeks and has forced the temporary layoff of 70 employees.
A water main break caused major flooding in the Elmhurst section of Queens, sending water shooting from the ground like a geyser.
Trever Holland, tenant association president at Two Bridges Tower, tells us this is the sixth or seventh water main break / flooding situation at this location in the past few years.
More specifically, it was rather depressing dealing with the downturn in the economy a few years back, and then we were hit with a DWP water main break that flooded our shop and closed the Studio City boutique for 7 months.
Residents of the ironically named Watterson Towers found themselves several feet deep in water after flooding from a broken water main.
He tends to go to Manhattan on weekends for fun, but one weekend he comes back home to find his place has been flooded out due to a water main break.
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.
What if a water main breaks and floods your rental property?
But, if a fire breaks out or a water main breaks and floods your condominium, you'll wish you had considered it.
You go to work one morning, leaving your Albany loft, townhouse, or condominium, as usual, and you get a phone call from your neighbor, Mrs. Waits, telling you there was a water main break and the whole unit is flooded.
Say, for instance, your condominium is flooded after a water main break.
When you come home that night, there has been a water main break and your bedroom is flooded.
In addition to the all - important flood zone map, which your real estate agent can provide, «keep in mind that flooding from storms or water main breaks will hit homes the hardest that are on a ground pitch angled downhill,» says Di Natale.
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