Sentences with phrase «of floodwater»

According to estimates reported by FEMA, as little as 2 inches of floodwater in a 1,000 square foot home can result in as much as $ 10,000 in damage.

According to FEMA estimates, as little as 2 inches of floodwater in a 1,000 square foot home can cause as much as $ 10,000 in damage.

Following the devastating storm, an estimated 13 trillion gallons of floodwater flowed into the Gulf of Mexico.

To prevent that, the US Army Corps of Engineers opened a levee west of the city to divert much of the floodwater.

For the most part, people should be safe if they keep out of the floodwaters, but three rural communities are being warned to boil drinking water.

The more than 13 trillion gallons of floodwater from Hurricane Harvey have created a massive plume of freshwater in the Gulf of Mexico that is threatening the coral reefs of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary about 100 miles offshore of Galveston.

Sandy hit at night, making it hard to see the entry points of floodwaters into neighborhoods.

Because of an editing error, an earlier version of a caption on a photograph of floodwaters in East New Orleans with this article misstated the date it was taken.

They had been trapped in their house in New Orleans for two weeks by 10 feet of floodwater.

Pastor Charles Stoker from Hi - Way Tabernacle told ABC News that his church was «nearly destroyed» by more than 30 inches of floodwater after Hurricane Harvey.

It's quite a rigamarole you have to go through to get power restored after a flood — assuming you are a direct recipient of the floodwaters.

Sodus Point, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)- Four months after an international body approved a new plan for regulating Lake Ontario's water level, property owners who had claimed the rules favored muskrat lodges over lakeside homes are piling sandbags against just the kind of floodwaters they had feared...

ABFEs are the recommended elevation of the lowest floor of a building calculated to reduce the risk of floodwaters in the event of catastrophic events.

The drones relay the sensors» changing positions back to a central database, which builds up a model of floodwater flow.

The 2011 activation of the Birds Point - New Madrid (BPNM) Floodway resulted in the diversion of floodwater for 35 miles before it was directed back to the Mississippi at New Madrid, Mo..

The key would be to inundate several hundred thousand hectares of the agricultural lands periodically during times of flood to provide as much as 15 billion cubic meters of floodwater storage — three - quarters of the 20 billion cubic meters of flood control offered by the Three Gorges reservoir itself.

At the moment, this is limited by the scarce availability of high resolution Digital Elevation Models (DEM) over large areas, where small scale features can considerably influence the distribution of floodwaters.

The work also gave clues as to what types of measurements, such as the height of floodwaters, should be made in the future — say, during storms like Harvey and Irma — to speed recovery efforts afterward.

Says Wang, «Our results compared very favorably with the USGS» Hurricane Sandy Mapper database in terms of timing, area of inundation, and depth of floodwaters.

Another gallery in the path of the floodwaters was Sikkema Jenkins at 530 W. 22nd St., which opened a major show of Mark Bradford paintings on Oct. 27, the Saturday before Sandy hit.

Left: Demese Black, left, helps Michael Arceneaux empty his boots of floodwaters in the living room of his home Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017, which was hit by a tornado during Hurricane Harvey in Sienna Plantation.

Talk to many of our Climate Reality Leaders and you'll hear a story about the moment climate science went from a dry subject in textbooks to the feeling of floodwaters soaking through jeans or the sight of wildfires leaping from house to house.

He made the statement on Sunday 16 January, well after the majority of floodwaters in Queensland had subsided but before the communities of Toowoomba and Grantham had begun to bury their dead.

Coastal marshes absorb and store large amounts of carbon dioxide from Earth's atmosphere; they help filter out pollution in coastal waters; provide habitat for wildlife; help protect coastlines from erosion and storm surge; and can store huge amounts of floodwater, reducing the threat of flooding in low - lying coastal areas.

I'd imagine this is because La Nina has purged the extra water off the atmosphere, and now AGW is loading it to dump the next batch of floodwater once La Nina returns.

If the water that entered your house and caused the damage was a combination of both floodwater and rainwater then the doctrine of «proximate cause» applies.

Another area of relief for business owners may be from an inability to physically access operations because of floodwater, which will affect primarily industrial, retail and hospitality properties, he says.

Depending on the source of the floodwater, water - borne bacteria, toxic mold, and other contaminants on your business» property can be a major liability — not to mention the dangers of electrocution, gas leaks, and weakened structures.

To prevent that, the US Army Corps of Engineers opened the Bonnet Carré Spillway to the west of the city, diverting much of the floodwater.

The army has been called to help pull stranded cars out of floodwaters.

FEMA estimates that as little as two inches of floodwater in a 1,000 square foot home can cause about $ 10,000 in damage.

In fact, according to FEMA, as little as 2 inches of floodwater in a 1,000 square foot home can cause up to $ 10,000 and the average paid flood insurance claim is approximately $ 35,000.

But the house — and every other structure along the floodway that was surrounded by water — raised the overall flood height and disrupted the flow of floodwaters, said Lulloff, chief scientist for the flood plain managers association.

According to estimates reported by FEMA, as little as 2 inches of floodwater in a 1,000 square foot home can result in as much as $ 10,000 in damage.