Sentences with phrase «normally dry area»

Floods are defined in insurance terminology as when water escapes its normal confines and covers a normally dry area.

One big reason the sea level dropped for so long: Only 6 % of the rainfall in Australia runs directly back to the sea, and the rest runs inland to lowlands (image depicts a normally dry area in eastern Australia flooded by rains in late November 2011) where it either soaks into the ground or evaporates back into the atmosphere — a process that returns moisture to the sea far more slowly than the rivers draining other continents do.

Normally dry areas in North and South America suffer the affects of heavy rain and widespread flooding.

You should secure flood insurance if your home is in a flood zone because monsoon season can flood normally dry areas.

Not exact matches

For example, areas that are normally wetter than normal during one phase of the ENSO could be even wetter, and drier areas could be even drier.

This isn't to hard to apply but it does dry quicker compared to the GLAMGLOW masks so you have to be extra quick but it's not a big deal if it does dry, normally I will apply more over problem areas, such as my chin xx

For the matte areas, I just let the paint dry as it normally does.

Mudslides which are proximately caused by the overflow of inland or tidal waters and are akin to a river or liquid and flowing mud on the surfaces of normally dry land areas including your residence, as when earth is carried by a current of water and deposited along the path of the current.

This area must normally be considered dry land and the flooding must be caused by accumulation or runoff of surface waters.