Sentences with phrase «occurs from a flood»

For example, most insurers do not include a loss that occurs from a flood or earthquake.

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Learn this money - saving tip and keep your response rates from bombing when floods and natural disasters occur.

«Catastrophic flooding is occurring on the island, especially in areas of mountainous terrain, and everyone in Puerto Rico should continue to follow advice from local officials to avoid these life - threatening flooding conditions.»

The mandate of the Groeneveld committee was limited: it was «to develop a Provincial strategy for mitigating damages to communities where the damage occurs due to flooding from a river or stream.»

Such as God told Noah that that no more flooding would occur following this one, hence global warming is a hoax, and this came from a political leader not a marginal preacher in Florida looking for its 15 minutes of fame on TV with his proposed koran burning protest.

And even if self - correction does occur and theories move strictly along a lifecycle from less to more accurate, what if the unremitting flood of new, mostly false, results pours in faster?

In the end, we do not really know how the flood occurred, but it seems from God's promise in Genesis 8:21 that whatever the causes of the flood, that particular series of events is no longer possible.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

Floods have punctuated the Earth's history, but the «Zanclean megaflood» — so named for the geologic age during which it occurred (from 5.3 million to 3.6 million years ago)-- is thought to be the largest ever, the new research, published in January in Scientific Reports reveals.

The ancient genome predates a mysterious migratory event which occurred roughly 3,000 years ago, known as the «Eurasian backflow», when people from regions of Western Eurasia such as the Near East and Anatolia suddenly flooded back into the Horn of Africa.

The improvements in flood protection are the most prominent when looking at the trends, as through the 1900 - 1960 time period, many huge events occurred, but from 1960 onwards, the normalised losses steadily reduce.

That means 5 million Europeans who are currently under threat of flooding from extreme sea level events that occur every 100 years could face that same risk annually, according to the new study.

A Dutch - Texan team found that most Houston - area drowning deaths from Hurricane Harvey occurred outside the zones designated by government as being at higher risk of flooding: the 100 - and 500 - year floodplains.

When used together, the researchers conclude, the state of these indices can be used as a tool to project when major impacts on coastal communities may occur, impacts that can range from flooding to erosion, and may be experienced (and here is the important part) regardless of mean sea level rise.

Natural Causes of Water Pollution Sometimes water pollution can occur through natural causes like volcanoes, algae blooms, animal waste, and silt from storms and floods.

The psychology term for this is «flooding,» or the physical response that occurs when talking about a problem with a partner, which can involve everything from an accelerated heart rate to sweating to a nervous stomach.

Amazon, among others, opened the flood gates to make money from self - publishers, knowing that flooding would occur; knowing that readers would get inundated.

From an insurance company's perspective, there are four types of flooding that can occur in Canada.

Most homeowner policies cover direct damages that result from volcanic eruptions, but do not cover floods or earthquakes that occur as a separate event, or in the aftermath of a volcanic eruption.

In preparation for flooding expected to occur along the Mississippi River, The Humane Society of the United States will transport more than 100 dogs from Natchez - Adams County Humane Society to make room for the influx of animals the shelter expects in the coming days.

Today, the market is flooded with hardy, domestically produced ball pythons ranging from animals possessing normal, naturally occurring appearance to unique color and pattern morphs worthy of thousands of dollars.

«Temporary reports from the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agencies [BPBDs] to the BNPB post reveal that floods and landslides have occurred in seven regencies, namely Banjarnegara, Banyumas, Karanganyar, Kebumen, Purworejo, Wonogiri and Wonosobo and in Surakarta,» BNPB spokesperson Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said as quoted by kompas.com in a statement on Sunday.

Normally, with a single event there isn't enough information to do any attribution, but Pall et al set up a very large ensemble of runs starting from roughly the same initial conditions to see how often the flooding event occurred.

When such events do occur (such as flooding in Bangladesh, ice shelf breakups in Antarctica) they occur in remote locations that are far from the concerns of average Americans, and making the link between these events and individual day to day concerns is very difficult to make.

In my print column, I review the research from the Northeast showing that far more intense scouring floods than this event have occurred throughout the period since the end of the last ice age.

Most TS losses occur from the storm surge, the water pushed over the land, or inland flooding caused by huge amounts of rainfall often generated by lesser tropical storms hung up over coastlines.

Similar negative effects occur with worsening air pollution — higher levels of ground - level ozone smog and other pollutants that increase with warmer temperatures have been directly linked with increased rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease — food production and safety — warmer temperatures and varying rainfall patterns mess up staple crop yields and aid the migration and breeding of pests that can devastate crops — flooding — as rising sea levels make coastal areas and densely - populated river deltas more susceptible to storm surges and flooding that result from severe weather — and wildfires, which can be ancillary to increased heat waves and are also responsible for poor air quality (not to mention burning people's homes and crops).

At least two municipal governments reassured investors that they were «unable to predict whether sea - level rise or other impacts of climate change or flooding from a major storm will occur, when they may occur, and if any such events occur, whether they will have a material adverse effect...»» (emphasis added)

It also seems to have been a factor from 19 to 25 April 2011 when exceptionally heavy rains, exceeding 300 mm, occurred over southern Missouri, parts of Arkansas, eastern Oklahoma, and southern Illinois, and extended along the Ohio River Valley http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=50243, as a prelude to the flooding in the Mississippi.

A 2017 disclosure by San Francisco reads: «The city is unable to predict whether sea level rise or other impacts of climate change or flooding from a major storm will occur, when they may occur, and if any such events occur, whether they will have a material adverse effect on the business operations or financial condition of the city and the local economy.»

Though unusual, this was similar to the flooding that occurred in Connecticut in 1955 from Diane when 200 dams received partial or total failure and there were 77 lives lost.

Tropical cyclone activity and intensity increasing Record droughts, floods, heat waves, cold spells, high tides occurring Unequivocal warming of the climate system observed with very high confidence that human activities are to blame Temperature rising even more dramatically in Arctic, threatening ice loss and extinction of species Halving human CO2 emissions immediately might save the planet from catastrophe.

Displacement is the movement of people from their place of residence, and can occur when extreme weather events, such as flood and drought, make areas temporarily uninhabitable.

These needs include projects that, for example, would reduce the risk from and vulnerability to flooding and drought, as is occurring in Nicaragua, and mitigation projects that would increase efficiency and exploit solar energy to provide electricity, instead of fossil fuels.

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.

In its latest assessment of the progress of climate change, the body said: «If warming is not kept below two degrees centigrade, which will require the strongest mitigation efforts, and currently looks very unlikely to be achieved, the substantial global impacts will occur, such as species extinctions, and millions of people at risk from drought, hunger, flooding.»

Examples of potential inequities occur where people benefit differently from an adaptation option (such as publicly funded flood protection) or where people are displaced or otherwise adversely impacted in order to implement an adaptation option (e.g., building a new reservoir).

These floods, or «tsunamis from the sky» as the Nepalese call them, are occurring with increasing frequency: once every two or three years now compared to once every 200 to 300 years before the onset of human - driven global warming.

Massive flooding and catastrophic impact from tropical storms and hurricanes occurs when the system moves slowly over a major city.

A larger number of simulations for each of the Industrial and Non-Industrial Autumn 2000 climates were completed.The focus was particularly on the United Kingdom Autumn 2000 floods because, aside from causing widespread damage, they occurred during the wettest autumn since records began in 1766.

It is also possible that ExxonMobil will be sued for failing to take adequate precautions to prevent its storage tank from collapsing, and to prevent other spills and air emissions from occurring in the harsh flood conditions Harvey brought.

The analysis used both a case study on the UK floods that occurred during the winter of 2013/2014 as well as Oct 2015 to account for effects from El Nino.

Abstract — «Traditionally, the chance of climate related emergencies (e.g. floods, bushfires) occurring has been considered the same from one year to the next.

He notes that seasonal analysis revealed that most of the flood peaks in the upper Midwest occur in the spring and stem primarily from snow melt, rain falling on frozen ground and rain - on - snow events.

It questions whether flooding from abrupt pro-glacial lake drainage is at most a * trigger * for full AMOC shutdown which would have occurred anyway.

In Annapolis, Maryland for instance, the number of flooding days occurring from 2005 to 2014 increased 10-fold compared to those occurring from 1955 to 1964.

On June 21, the Pakistan Meteorological Department's monsoon forecast cautioned that urban and flash flooding could occur from July to September in the north parts of the country.

d) Other floods and droughts occur when a series of storms follow similar paths into or away from certain areas, but may not be clearly linked to an unusual static event.

Increased global temperatures caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gases are extremely likely to have played at least some role in more than four out of five flooding days from Key West to Fernandina, Florida, and the study indicates that at the locations analyzed, more than 3,500 flood days since 1950 would not have occurred without human influence.

Several towns in western Hungary were flooded today with a toxic red sludge after the waste product from nearby aluminum processing plant broke through its containment reservoir — killing two, causing dozens of injuries, and creating an environmental disaster on a scale yet to be fully realized.According to the Associated Press, the incident occurred when a reservoir brimming with the toxic sludge, a byproduct from aluminum processing, overtook the levee designed to contain it, flooding two villages 100 miles southwest of Budapest.