Sentences with phrase «out of flooded waters»

But, they did not know what to do once they got these animals out of the flood waters.

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Datagram, an ISP whose Manhattan servers host BuzzFeed, Huffington Post, Gawker — which all briefly went offline yesterday — was completely flooded, and waiting for the Army Corps of Engineers to assist in pumping out the water.

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

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.

At the end of the flood he sends out a dove, then a swallow, and then a raven to learn if the water has receded enough for them to disembark.

Thus it was in the celebrated case of Rylands v. Fletcher (1868) in the law of tort, in which water from the defendant's reservoir had flooded the mines of the plaintiff and put them out of use.

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.

When one looks at the various Christian beliefs that were once firmly believed — Adam and Eve, Noah's flood, people living to be 700 or 900 years old, the Red Sea splitting, water turning into wine, a talking snake, a man living in a whale's belly, people rising from the dead, Jesus driving demons out of people and into pigs — but which are now acknowledged by most thinking people to be mere mythology, it is pretty hard to give a lot of credibility to what's left.

2Pe 3:5 For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water, 2Pe 3:6 through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water.

You have to be able to look at the water levels of the Grand Canyon and chart out where the flood of Gilgamesh happened and all this stuff.

«For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water, through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water.

Sara White had been walking across the road with her son in his stroller when a rogue wave came out of nowhere and crashed into them, dragging them across the road as water continued to flood their way.

Unbeknownst to me, because of the storm the night before the birthing pool was no longer an option - the aqueduct had been flooded and dark brown water was coming out of the tap.

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.

«First of all, there's the problem that when you do get water into a house because of flooding, if the water is there and it has to dry out, that can take a long period of time.

In reiterating he believed the IJC made a mistake not letting water out sooner, he noted the flooding is costing the state tens of millions of dollars.

Cuomo came to the home of Joe and Charlie Burgio, one of the many houses where water has poured over decks, washed out docks and caused basement flooding.

Back here in Rockland County, Clarkstown police say Route 303 and Route 59 near the Palisades Mall have a tendency to flood quickly and rather deep when it rains, so usually once most of that water drains out, they're able to reopen the roads.

In all five cases, the moraine dam was flushed out and lowered by the outburst of water, the team found, and the dam's slope continued to decrease during the flood.

Arkema said the company had no way to prevent fires because the plant is swamped by about 6 feet (1.83 m) of water due to flooding from Harvey, which came ashore in Texas last week as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, knocking out power to its cooling system.

In a long outage, one type of fuel could run out or become contaminated if, say, a quake ruptured a diesel tank, or flood waters got into it.

As Trout Unlimited's Denison points out, flood irrigation is just 35 percent efficient, meaning nearly two - thirds of the water taken out of the river is lost, and never gets used by the grasses it is meant to nourish.

«During a flooding event, water flows out of streams and into the floodplains where it is retained and it doesn't end up in your basement,» said scientist Dianna Hogan, during the symposium.

If all of the dike relocation projects currently under discussion along the German Elbe were to be carried out, the flood waters would have over 23,000 hectares, or in other words one third more, of additional space to spread across.

These reactors could face extraordinary challenges, such as the recent twin blows of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, which knocked out connections to the local power grid, followed by a wall of water that destroyed the fuel tanks for backup diesel generators and flooded critical electrical equipment, crippling the boiling - water reactors at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan.

Like Earth, Mars must have received a lot of water at birth; some researchers think the plains that cover most of its northern hemisphere were once the bed of a vast, shallow ocean, filled by cataclysmic floods of water cascading out of the southern highlands.

Storm drainage systems typically redirect most floodwater out to sea, but given the region's intense water deficit, hydrology scientists at the University of California, Davis, are experimenting with so - called groundwater banking, which involves sending storm water to flood fallow fields where it can percolate into the soil and replenish aquifers.

Already nearby communities like Miami Beach are flooded even when the sun shines, as higher seas push water up and out of the porous limestone underneath the ground in southern Florida.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE) have agreed to pay for pumping water out of the Homestake Mine near Lead so that it does not flood.

However, the most cost - effective idea of all was the «hybrid» approach, using a combination of infrastructure improvements, and smaller flood barriers to keep water out of the city.

And a September 1990 major flood disaster, which nearly wiped out the village and farms of the Havasupai, has testified to the power of flood waters to carry water from mines on the Canyon's rims to the floor below.

Bull Trout are the most cold - water dependent fish in the Pacific Northwest and are extremely sensitive to winter floods that flush incubating eggs and fry out of gravel nests.

A woman at the door of a flooded cabin is pulled in swiftly by something unseen; three other women dive through the door, pull her out (she is uninjured), and we hear a roar as we see roiling waters and a huge saltwater crocodile (its head is bloody) as a woman shoots a rifle multiple times into its body until it finally grunts and dies with blood streaks covering its head and body.

And there's enough drama to be had from a nail dangerously stuck out of stairs, a plunge into a grain silo, a night - time rat - run through a monster - infested cornfield, a sudden basement flood that draws a creature to the sound of gushing water, and an encounter with a mad old neighbour driven to the point when he just has to screw up his face and scream.

Several months on from York's devastating floods, the playground at Huntington Pre-school was still out of use, having been irreparably damaged and contaminated by heavily polluted flood waters.

The use of flood barriers like this will only delay the penetration of water but at least you can buy yourself some time and move all your tools and valuables out or off the floor.

During a massive downpour where I could barely see out of my window, I ended up driving onto a flooded street, by the time I realized how deep the water was I was already halfway through it.

During a massive downpour where I could barely see out of my window, I ended up driving onto a flooded street, by the time I realized how deep the water was I...

The road was flooded, and he needed help to get his vehicle out of the water.

Then before we could take it in the front windows were activated by thunder during a storm and when we came out the next day the car had 1 inch of water inside and the dash, console, doors and seats were soaking wet, basically like flood damage.

No matter how much water comes out of that pipe, it's still not a flood.

While out of town, the hurricane struck and his neighbors were forced to evacuate their home due to rising flood waters.

The Humane Society of Louisiana (HSLA) used funds provided by Alley Cat Allies for vehicles to transport animals out of rising flood waters.

The most recent change came with the 2008 flood, where part of the current veil detached, resulting in the water now flowing out of only one side of the notch.

Guides take tours out of kayaks to glide over the crumbling ruins below, lost to flood waters caused by an earthquake almost 2,000 years ago.

And then the fourth iteration of the game was - we only had one level at the time — but there was a dam that was holding back a giant reservoir of water that was going to collapse and flood a village, and you had to patch up the dam in order to keep the water from spilling out.

On Thursday night, after water flooded the center of the Piazza San Marco, and those climbing out of water taxis in evening - wear slipped on plastic booties to protect thousand - dollar shoes, Damien Hirst walked out alone on the dock at the Gritti Palace.

[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG, water vapor, exists in equilibrium with water / ice, would precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet, water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US corn crop, Russian wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails — or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)

The water cycle already has increased in speed which explains more floods and also heavier snow falls and the Polar vortex moving out of its usual place stretching down very far almost to the Gulf of Mexico.

In the first days of 2005, after writing a long team - reported account about the march of waves after the great earthquake off Sumatra, I wrote an essay, «The Future of Calamity,» laying out the mix of factors leading to outsize losses when flood waters rise or tectonic plates heave.