Sentences with phrase «of flood waters on»

Most drivers have been forced to make a detour, while others have parked their vehicles due to the pool of flood waters on major highways.

Drivers were forced to make detours while others parked their vehicles due to the pool of flood waters on major highways.

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FOND PARISIEN, Haiti — Two Haitian brothers came back to their homeland to build a livelihood on Lake Azuei, a turbulent expanse of water that has often been cruel to those living along its shore, flooding homes in the border town of Fond Parisien and blocking a key highway into the Dominican Republic.

As of Monday, Anheuser - Busch — maker of popular beers like Budweiser, Bud Light, Shock Top, and Rolling Rock — had sent three truckloads with more than 155,000 cans of drinking water to areas affected by Harvey, which has brought historic flooding that is wreaking havoc on southeast Texas.

At the peak of the flood only the tip of the roof on my two - storey house was out of the water.

But existing models of water flows don't provide the full range of possible outcomes: «A 50 - year rain can produce a 100 - year flood if it falls on a watershed that's already soaked or on snowpack or if it coincides with a storm surge.»

The company made its first water donation in 2013, when severe flooding caused Alberta to declare Canada's first - ever provincial state of emergency, also flying out a team of Labatt employees to help with the flood clean - up effort on the ground.

Water management expert Kevin Mercer of RainGrid says the efficiency of municipalities to manage the mounting impacts on flood management infrastructure will be revealed in public and private property damage, insurability and economic recovery.

That did not happen: there is no geological record of a world - wide flood, there is not enough diversity to regenerate the population we currently, there is not enough water to cover the earth to the height of Everest, the logistics of retrieving and returning animals to the then - unknown Americas, Australia, etc. were staggeringly difficult, managing the animals on the Ark was impossible — a few humans keeping predators from their prey, cleaning the waste, etc., pretty much all life on earth would have been killed, etc. etc..

And he has yet to address the fact that a world wide flood once receded would leave all lakes filled with salt water, not fresh, that mammals could not survive on and would have also killed off most of the plant life.

My takes on the flood is a type and shadow of water baptism.

In the flood of Genesis 6 - 8, did God really send water to kill every living thing on earth?

Also, that does not address the fact that you would need 5 times the water on the planet to flood thae earth to the level the myth says, Noah could not have built a watyer tight craft using the stone tools he would have had at that time, the salinity of the oceans would change enough to kill all life in the oceans, so that would end the food chains, ending all life for a very long time.

There's no evidence of a global flood in the geological record, the logistics of getting animals from and returning them to the then - unknown Americas and Australia, there is not enough water to cover all land (i.e. Everest) and if there were where did it go, the flood would have killed all life on earth that was not in the Ark, the issue of food for all animals, the issue of predation.

No one in the intervening years has parted the (any) sea, created a pillar of fire, turn to salt; flooded the planet (maybe a basement or two) come back from the dead, or killed an entire generation of first born and walk on water BAR NONE.

The volume of water it would take to flood the earth to that level is greater than the volume of water on earth.»

at the time of the great flood there was no water on the earth a mist came up from the ground and watered the earth and I would rather believe in GOD if he does not exist and lose nothing than to not believe in GOD and him exist and lose everything so please think about that and I will be praying for you

Here's a list of things we should test... 1) Worldwide floods 2) Seas parting at the command of a person 3) talking snakes, donkeys, and bushes 4) People spontaneously turning into pillars of salt 5) a few loaves of bread and some wine feeding thousands 6) instantaneous healing of disease 7) worlds forming in 6 days 8) words forming on stone tablets without the assistance of a living creature 9) people walking on water 10) resurrection on command

Those it selects to enter may discover only that they have somehow entered, be it through the back of a coat closet or by way of a flood of water that burst out of a painting on the wall.

It was just by «random chance» that the sun is the perfect distance from the earth so we don't get baked or frozen, that the moon is the right distance and size so the tides don't flood us, that the earth rotates so we are evenly heated, that water - which is absent on other planets and vital to our life - is present here, that there is a balance of living things to keep each other in check.

You see, the Bible tells stories of a God who speaks the world into existence, floods an entire earth, makes the sun stand still and walks on water.

Though the traditional reading is what the text seems to say on the surface, the revelation we have received in Jesus Christ challenges us to look beneath the surface of these deep and troubled waters to discern something else going on in the flood event than a violent God foolishly seeking the near - extermination of everything that breathes on earth.

Why don't you do a calculation on the amount of water needed to flood the Earth to the top of your assumed mountain height, 1.5 km.

On September 2, volunteer church members with Hungarian Reformed Church Aid started distributing emergency food, water, and hygiene supplies as the flood of new arrivals grew larger every day.

The Church has always taught the importance of water in the Old Covenant — at Creation, at the flood, at the crossing of the Red Sea — and has also always seen a symbolising of baptism in the water that poured from Christ's side on Calvary: «O God whose son, baptised by John in the waters of the Jordan, was anointed with the Holy Spirit, and, as he hung upon the Cross, gave forth water from his side along with blood...» 8

At Halle on his way to Eisleben, he was held up by floods which he personified in a letter to Katie of 25 January as a «huge she - Anabaptist» which «met us with waves of water and great floating pieces of ice; she threatened to baptise us again and has covered the countryside.»

Aside from the grim image of every living thing on earth gasping for breath and choking on water as they sink beneath the waves, the flood story also paints a troubling portrait of a God who seems incompetent because He regrets that He made mankind (Didn't He know this would happen?)

Russian River Rising, More Rain on the Way: A driver in a Hummer became trapped in flood waters on a rural road west of Santa Rosa early Monday afternoon, generating a large emergency response including the Sonoma County sheriff's helicopter, a swift - water rescue team and a boat of firefighters...

The groups also called for hard data on whether it was economically feasible to get around so - called «constraints» such as the risk of flooding private land or overwhelming bridges, which Mr Burke says limits how much extra water can be pumped into the system.

People living in the Basin know very well that nature delivers big in this part of the country, with widespread and occasionally persistent flooding across the landscape — this is something that environmental water can not do because there's simply not enough of it and even if there was, it would involve unacceptable impacts on farms, towns and infrastructure.

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

Gordon wrote on many topics: angling techniques («The fly must be placed to an inch as the fish will rarely take it unless it floats over them just right»), the books he read, the effects of drought and floods on fish, the seasons of the year («The silence of the snows is over all the land, and the bright waters of our trout streams run almost black between icy banks») and his belief in the natural fly as a model for the artificial («The insect must be studied and many patterns dressed before one can hope to satisfy the critical eyes of the trout»).

Commenting on the Met Office warnings of heavy rain in the north of England over Christmas Day and Boxing Day and the prospect of more flooding, Mark Shepherd, General Insurance Policy Manager at the Association of British Insurers (ABI), said: «Everyone hopes the flood waters stay away over the Christmas break, particularly for residents of Cumbria who have already seen their properties inundated more than once in the past few weeks.

Cuomo is calling on the U.S. - Canadian panel that controls water output for Lake Ontario to maintain or increase its current outflow level to decrease the chance of flooding along the lake's shoreline.

While awaiting a decision by the commission, Cuomo said he's focused on the response to flooding and the long - term impact of rising water levels.

IRONDEQUOIT, N.Y. — Sandbags are doing their best but much of Mayer's Marina on Irondequoit Bay is under water, and Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo said flooding is not just because of recent rain.

Rochester, NY — With the possibility of heavy rain and flooding as Tropical Storm Lee bears down on the Northeast, NYSEG encourages customers in flood - prone areas — and even customers who experience persistent basement flooding — to consider how their electricity and natural gas services could be affected by high water.

A resident dumps buckets of water out of a flooded home in the Miramar neighborhood after Hurricane Maria made landfall on September 20, 2017 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Susan has 7 grants in the works; - Looping water on cherry hill & south putt - sewer 6 - crasgswood & Canaan rd to help the people affected by flooding -4 grants for solar backup for town hall, community center, highway garage, & back up for sewer 6 Susan has the pavilion being built @ feild of dreams plus getting sewer there & concession with bathrooms Finally the town & village will be doing a joint master plan.

Ulster County residents want New York City to spend more money locally on dealing with flooding and muddy water, and New York State has promised to involve the public in defining the scope of environmental impact studies of the city's turbid water releases into the lower Esopus.

During the summer of 2013 and the flooding that persisted throughout the season tributaries to the Sauquoit Creed unleashed large amounts of water in turn flooding multiple locations on Oneida Street in the Town of Pairs.

At 11 a.m., amid a growing flood of reports of lead in school drinking water around the state and the country, a coalition of New York public health, environment, and healthy schools advocacy groups will call on state government leaders to take action, LCA Press Room (130), Legislative Office Building, Albany.

Sandbags are doing their best but much of Mayer's Marina on Irondequoit Bay is under water, and Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo said flooding is not just because of recent rain.

Also in a paper presented by Nurudeen Bello on «Effects of Climate Change in Nigeria,» he stated that the adverse effect of climate change such as temperature rise, erratic ranfall, sandstorm, desertification, low agriculture yields, drying of water body lake Chad basin, gully erosion and constant flooding were daily realities in Nigeria.

In the long term, they hope to persuade the International Joint Commission to abandon Plan 2014, its new way of regulating water levels on the lake, which local residents blame in part for the flooding.

Since Gov. Andrew Cuomo took office in 2011, there's been a succession of severe storms, including hurricanes Irene and Lee that brought massive flooding to upstate and Superstorm Sandy in 2012 that flooded beach front communities on Long Island and submerged portions of the New York City subway system in corrosive salt water.

The International Lake Ontario — St. Lawrence River Board meets on Monday to talk about the release of water throughout the system and the recent flooding along the river and the south shore of the lake.

The Westchester County Department of Health on Wednesday urged people with private wells that were flooded to either boil their water before consumption or to use bottled water as a precautionary measure since sewage and other harmful contaminants can be washed into private wells by storm waters.

ALBANY — Sustained flooding and expectations of continued high water levels on the shoreline of Lake Ontario have renewed a debate about a controversial water management plan approved in December.

Flooding from Olcott in Niagara County along the shoreline of Lake Ontario to Ogdensburg on the St. Lawrence River has closed some public beaches, flooded homes and closed businesses that rely on the water.