Sentences with phrase «protected by a flood»

Approximately 280,000 structures are recognized as flood plain areas located in Ohio and only 10 % of those flood occurring areas are protected by flood insurance.

If your home is located in a designated flood - zone, your mortgage lender will be required by law to ensure that your property is protected by a flood insurance policy.

Full finished basement provides plenty of space for your large gathering with a full bath protected by flood control system.

Not exact matches

People with very weak egos and rigid defenses that cut them off from perceiving major areas of reality but do not protect them from feeling flooded by raw impulses from the id, need a different type of help.

«We do not protect the Bible or render it more believable to modern people by trying to demonstrate that it is consistent with modern science... It is a fundamental misunderstanding of Genesis to expect it to answer questions generated by a modern worldview, such as whether the days were literal or figurative, or whether the days of creation can be lined up with modern science, or whether the flood was local or universal.

When you were pregnant, you probably imagined the moment you'd hold your beautiful new baby for the first time — how your body would be flooded by love, how you'd feel an instant desire to protect them, how you'd both be surrounded by heavenly choirs of angels blowing trumpets.

Molinaro said City Hall had also looked to preserve wetlands and protect the Mid-Island from flooding by expanding the Bluebelt.

Previously, New York's tunnels were built to protect against a 100 - year flood, but the devastation wrought by Hurricanes Sandy and Irene demonstrated a need to enhance protections to withstand a 500 - year flood.

QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz's Broad Channel Street Raising Task Force this morning reviewed the progress of the $ 28 million Broad Channel Street Raising Project that will elevate West 11th through 19th Roads to help protect the Broad Channel community from flooding caused by high tides from Jamaica Bay.

What Stevenson saw was the partial collapse of an underground concrete flume built in the early 1950s by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as part of a 3,300 - foot system of enclosed flumes and culverts to protect the village from being flooded by Woods Creek.

A new study published this week and led by a Bard College biology professor shows catastrophic flooding can be mitigated by protecting biodiversity.

By Sean Ryan The federal government is offering only a trickle as Milwaukee seeks a flood of money to overhaul a damaged central breakwater protecting downtown and the Lake Michigan port.

By absorbing the force of strong winds and tides, wetlands protect terrestrial areas adjoining them from storms, floods, and tidal damage.

The researcher team agreed that including extreme sea levels into coastal impact studies is imperative in helping vulnerable parts of the world effectively protect themselves by adapting through new or upgraded infrastructure such as dikes, pumping systems, barriers, or other tools like new building codes or flood zoning that prevents new infrastructure from being built in high - risk areas.

By the end of this century, Italy's City of Water could be facing dangerously high tides almost every day, and costly flood barriers now being built might not be able to protect it.

The calculations used by government officials compare the cost of flood defences with the value of what is being protected.

NCAR, which is financed in part by the National Science Foundation, has spent several years searching for ways to extend the predicability of floods, droughts, heat waves and other extreme weather events from weeks to months as a way to give weather - sensitive sectors such as agriculture more time to protect themselves against costly losses.

They protect against floods by soaking up water and holding it like a sponge.

And in at least one of the levees that caused flooding, there were actually areas where the levee was intentionally built lower to the ground in order to protect the pump stations by relieving some of the water pressure.

The new rules would have protected 90 percent of the Houston homes that flooded last August, excluding those affected by water released from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoirs.

Iodide supplementation is usually recommended in case of some nuclear disaster and radioactive activity as it protects thyroid by flooding it with iodine to prevent it from absorbing the radioactive form.

In this case, if you're iodine deficient, taking a potassium iodide (a stable form of iodine) supplement can protect your thyroid by «flooding» your system with iodine so your thyroid has no need to take in the radioactive form.

The first thing to understand about ebook spam, pirated content, and PLR content (PLR books are titles that were written by one author with the intention of selling that title to other would - be authors who wish to put their names on it and sell it as their own original work, resulting in multiple copies of the same worthless book flooding the catalog) is that the various retailers and distributors who make ebooks available to the general public are all doing their utmost to protect the integrity of their catalogs.

The law can't stop floods — floods happen anytime, anywhere — but the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 and the National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994 help ensure you will be protected from financial losses caused by flooding.

They think that the master insurance policy that protects an entire condominium building, and is taken out by the condo association governing that building, is all that they need, and that this policy will cover their individual unit should their dishwasher flood their kitchen.

Flood insurance protects a structure and its contents from water damage caused by a flood, which is technically defined as a temporary condition where two or more acres of normally dry land are inundated by water or mudflow.

Then if your home is damaged by fire or flood those items will be protected.

But the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 and the National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994 help to ensure that you will be protected from financial losses caused by flooding.

When the land was threatened again, this time by a water company planning to dam Redwood Creek and flood the area, the Kents donated it to the federal government, and on January 9th, 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt declared it a National Monument, protecting the land permanently.

* Existing fertile agricultural production zones, like California - Florida and Southern Europe, turning arid permanently * Coastal zones around the world, where most of our cities and expensive infrastructure are located, being flooded (or expensively protected or relocated) by a metre or more of sea level rise.

The best way to protect communities from floods is by restoring natural floodplains, which act as buffers between floodwaters and homes, and protecting wetlands, which act like sponges, soaking up and filtering floodwaters.

The main objective of the Building Resilience to Climate Related Hazards Project for Nepal is to diminish the impacts of extreme climate - related events, protect lives and assets, and support agricultural livelihoods by establishing multi-hazard information and early warning systems, upgrading the existing hydromet and agricultural information management systems, and improving the accuracy and timeliness of weather and flood forecasts and warning.

Tuvalu has just received the Green Climate Fund's first major outlay, the first US $ 2 million in a planned $ 50 million U.S. project to dredge and protect the coasts of several of Tuvalu's atolls against flooding caused by sea - level rise.

(Thomson Reuters Foundation)-- Since India's Jammu and Kashmir state was hit in September by its worst - ever floods, which also affected people on Pakistan's side of the disputed border, the two rival nations are under growing pressure to put aside their differences to protect Kashmiris from rising disaster threats.

Some of his suggestions for local planning initiatives include: Preserve wetlands by passing local wetlands protection laws; maintain biodiversity in the Hudson Valley by protecting sensitive lands through land acquisition; refrain from building in flood plains; require all new building to be «green» and sustainable and, ideally, change local building codes to require LEED certification; switch all public and government buildings to energy suppliers that provide wind and solar options as alternatives; implement smart growth communities by keeping construction in areas that are already developed thus preserving green corridors; and support cap - and - trade laws to decrease CO2 levels.

Like other coral reefs, the Great Barrier Reef buffers waves whipped up by tropical storms, acting as an aesthetically stunning breakwater that reduces shoreline erosion and protects waterfront neighborhoods and ecosystems from floods.

By the end of the century, Venice — Italy's City of Water — could face daily floods, and according to a new study, the costly and controversial flood barriers now being built might not be able to protect it.

According to that report, although a sea level rise of 1.6 feet or more would negatively affect large portions of the City, the «worst - case scenario» for sea level rise projects a 1.6 foot increase to be reached in 2047 assuming no mitigation or adaptation efforts... Furthermore, even assuming a 2 - foot sea level rise, only 0.1 square miles of land in the City that isn't potentially protected by levees or other flood control structures is below two feet of elevation.»

«Poorly constructed, badly maintained, and aging infrastructure and housing — a legacy of both the Soviet era and the transition years — are ill - suited to cope with storms, heat waves, or floods, let alone protect people from such extreme events,» said the study headed by Zeljko Bogetic, the World Bank's lead economist for Russia... Floods or other «extreme events» can cause far greater damage in Russia than would be the case in other parts of the world, the World Bank reportfloods, let alone protect people from such extreme events,» said the study headed by Zeljko Bogetic, the World Bank's lead economist for Russia... Floods or other «extreme events» can cause far greater damage in Russia than would be the case in other parts of the world, the World Bank reportFloods or other «extreme events» can cause far greater damage in Russia than would be the case in other parts of the world, the World Bank report said.

You can protect your home and possessions by purchasing a flood insurance policy.

Flood insurance is a policy that is provided by the federal government for people who wish to protect their investments from a flood.

Flood insurance protects a structure and its contents from water damage caused by a flood, which is technically defined as a temporary condition where two or more acres of normally dry land are inundated by water or mudflow.

Comprehensive coverage is the part of car insurance that protects your car in case it's damaged by something other than a collision, such as a falling tree, a flood or — you guessed it — a hurricane.

Most policies do not protect from damage caused by floods or earthquakes.

Although your home might be outside the one - in - 100 year flood zone, or its floor height may be above the one - in - 100 year flood level or protected by a levee, there may still be a chance your home could be flooded.

Renters insurance can protect against damage caused by other natural disasters, and it will protect against water damage caused by a busted pipe, but homeowners need separate flood insurance to make sure they're not subject to expensive damage caused by floods.

Protects your car if its damaged by something other than a collision, such as fire, vandalism, hail or flood.

Also, state minimum car insurance does not include collision coverage, which pays for damage to your car in an accident, or comprehensive coverage, which protects your car from theft, flooding and other damage not caused by an accident.

Make sure you protect your assets; you can start by comparing flood insurance quotes in California.

Comprehensive coverage protects you if your car is damaged by something other than a collision, such as fire, vandalism, hail or flood; we pay for repairs (after you pay the deductible).