Sentences with phrase «mudslides from»

Seasonal forecasters expect California (and the southern portion of the country) to have increased odds for more rain and snow for the rest of the winter, as was the case during the blockbuster El Niño of 1997 - 1998, which saw numerous floods and mudslides from deluges that hit the state.
In China, mudslides from torrential rains have claimed more than a thousand lives.
In 1953, the same year Hillary summited Everest, a mudslide from the lake destroyed a rail bridge.
When you arrive at Rum Point, the first thing you'll want to do is order a Mudslide from the Wreck Bar, which claims to have invented this Kahlua - Bailey's - vodka frozen cocktail, and who are we to deny it?

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Catastrophe losses in the first quarter of 2018 primarily resulted from winter storms in the eastern United States, a wind and hail storm in the southern United States and mudslides in California.
Boomer's owner reached out to the clinic, and said that the dog lives 2 - 3 miles away from the area where the mudslide hit.
[UPDATE: Initially, reports stated that the dog was a survivor of the mudslide, but in fact he made his way to the area recently after wandering away from home.
In contrast to this background of smooth planes in muted colors, giant screens occasionally lower from the ceilings to show scenes of catastrophe in high enough definition that they seem to Jeffrey «immediate and real, a woman sitting life - sized on a lopsided chair in a house collapsed in a mudslide
From whom, one might ask, does the fellow who lost his beach home in Malibu to February's mudslides seek redress for «environmental injustice»?
El Niño's Long - Awaited Grand Performance Is on Its Way to California: After a crushingly dry February, it looks as if early to mid-March is likely to bring California some of the serious moisture it needs from the 2015 - 16 El Niño event, and perhaps some unwanted flooding and mudslides...
A mudslide of allegations re cash from RICO Suave washed over her dog days.
The incident comes after more than 400 people were killed from a massive mudslide in Sierra Leone on Monday.
He knows about the sinkholes and mudslides of Albany from the experience of his father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo.
And countries lying on fault lines, near active volcanoes, or in mudslide - prone areas will all benefit from the best, most up - to - date information on their local geology.
California Flooding: $ 1.5 Billion When: Feb. 8 to 22, 2017 Deaths: 5 The damage: Heavy rainfall — and the subsequent high water, fallen trees, avalanches mudslides and sinkholes — caused severe property damage in Northern and Central California from.
Jindong Zhang, a post-doctoral research associate in CSIS, spent several months over a period of four years in Wolong dodging landslides, mudslides and rubble strewn roads to survey forest recovery at a finer scale than can be observed from satellites and getting a better handle on the nuances of tree species, height and soil conditions.
The researchers say the arthropods were probably buried by a marine mudslide very soon after death, protecting the carcasses from potential scavengers.
With the inevitable comparisons between this El Niño and the 1997 - 1998 event — remembered for the incredible rains and mudslides it brought to California (along with Chris Farley's memorable Saturday Night Live sketch)-- Matt Rehme at the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Visualization Lab, worked up an animation showing the progression of each event from January through August.
We expected our road trip from Culver City to Solvang — before you ask, yes I've seen «Sideways», the 2004 film about wine tasting in the region — to be a three - hour tour up Highway 101 (per Google Maps), slightly longer than the usual with some slight deviation from the freeway to avoid closures caused by the tragic mudslides in Montecito.
The base policy does not cover earthquake or other earth movement (mudslide, landslide) damage, sewer back - up, rising water, and does not cover damage from continuous or repeated seepage or leakage of water ie.
Earlier this month, a mudslide in Santa Barbara killed 15 people and wiped homes away from their foundations.
A new Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge opened in October 2017, reconnecting 62 miles from Carmel in the north, but a chunk of the iconic road is still buried due to a May 2017 mudslide.
Amazingly in less than 2 weeks from the devastating mudslides.
Security from mudslides as the property is located in an area where no mud slides happened as there is no river near by.
Easily the most extensive spa menu on our list, the «Mudslide» treatment is only one of many: choose from a variety of massages and facials, or opt for a couples package.
These paintings from 2005 to ’07 are a catalogue of The Day After Tomorrow — style weather calamities: a truck chugging through a blizzard; a fire throwing a big black cloud up at the horizon; the edges of neighborhoods collapsing into mudslides; rusting ships marooned in a desert that was once the Aral Sea; a car on a muddy road with its brake lights glowing as a great big brown beast of a tornado blenders the landscape.
In some communities stabilizing the soil and safeguarding villages or settlements from mudslides will be a higher post-storm priority.
Also, in agreement with one of the other persons posting here, Are we therefore saying we shouldn't protect or help places like California (from Earthquakes, mudslides, fires), Mid-West (Tornados), etc?
As we develop, we are destroying much of our protective «natural infrastructure,» too — the marshes and swamps that protect New Orleans, the mangroves that protect Myanmar from cyclone surge, the forests that prevent mudslides in the Himalaya.
4) From experience of living in Venezuela in the mid-60s and many visits to Caracas, I will assert that the slopes of the Pico Avila chain between the Valley of Caracas and the Caribbean were on their way to being a mudslide waiting to happen, with settlement moving up the slopes and deforestation.
Postscript: Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory, analyzing seabed currents and mud movement after the passage of Hurricane Ivan in 2004, have concluded that the underwater turbulence from hurricanes could be severe enough to cause mudslides and possibly imperil pipelines on the seafloor in shallow regions of the Gulf of Mexico.
The article, After Deadly Mudslides in Brazil, Concern Turns to Preparedness, compares lost lives and other impacts from flooding there and in Queensland, Australia.
Instead, most of the widespread flooding, mudslides, and other infrastructure disruptions that have occurred stemmed primarily from the cumulative effect of unusually frequent moderate to strong storm events.
First, blame every death from floods and mudslides, droughts and fires, hurricanes and typhoons, tornadoes and lightning — maybe even volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis — on «dangerous manmade climate change.»
California is still reeling from the wildfires and mudslides that have crippled numerous regions and harmed so many in its path.
In this country where illegal logging runs rampant, forest loss from tree felling and conversion to agriculture is cited as the cause of flooding, acute water shortages, rapid soil erosion, river siltation, and mudslides that have taken lives, destroyed properties, and wreaked environmental damage.
The second storm, fueled by a powerful, long - duration atmospheric river funneling warm and moist air from southeast of Hawaii, hit central and northern California beginning late on January 7 and pushed major rivers past flood stage levels and drove extreme gusts, leading to power outages as well as rock and mudslides.
And if the El Niño ends up being as strong as current predictions indicate, there's a chance it may even tip the scales from drought to deluge across the state, spurring damaging mudslides amid bursts of heavy rain.
Still, native indigenous communities are certain that the mudslide contained trunks from cut species and they claim that if the woods had been intact, they would have been able to contain the wave.
Nor do they typically cover losses due to floods, mudslides, water damage from sewer backups, damage resulting from war or nuclear hazard, neglect, earthquakes, power failures, seepage, dry rot, or vermin.Homeowner insurance does not provide general free legal advice under the liability portion of the policy, however low cost legal insurance may be an interesting option to compliment your coverage.
Landlord insurance typically does not cover special weather events like earthquakes, floods and mudslides are usually not covered by landlord insurance, but you can often get additional coverage to protect yourself from these events.
Just as with home insurance policies, renters insurance won't cover damage from «earth movement,» which includes earthquakes, mudslides and landslides.
If past history is any indicator, the 1997 - 98 El Nino caused more than $ 550 million in damages in California from storm - related flooding and mudslides, and the 2015 - 2016 version is expected to pack an even bigger punch.
Some of the disasters commonly excluded from home insurance policies include floods, earthquakes, sinkholes, mudslides, war, nuclear accidents, landslides, mudslides and sinkholes.
The following is a position statement from Travel Guard on the mudslides in Peru.
Covered natural disasters may include flood, fire, hurricane, tornado, earthquake, tsunami, volcanic eruption, blizzard or avalanche, drought, landslide, mudslide, or another event preventing a traveler from taking their trip.
On the song Glowed Up, the potent low end overpowers the mid and high - range information coming from the full range drivers, creating a sort of musical mudslide that is difficult to slog through, especially having heard it on more balanced options from competitors from Sonos.
It provides coverage that most homeowner's insurance doesn't - coverage for damage to structures and contents from flooding, flood - related erosion, and flood - caused mudslides.
We learned from her about the many potential issues we needed to consider when buying a hills home such as the types of foundations and which areas were more prone to mudslides.
The standard property policy EXCLUDES Water: Flood, surface water, waves, tides, tidal water or spray from any of these Mudslide or mudflow Water that backs up or overflows or is otherwise discharged from a sewer, drain, sump, sump pump or related equipment Water under the ground surface pressing on or flowing or seeping through: Foundations Basements Doors or windows Unless through one of these the result is a fire, explosion or sprinkler leakage.
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