Sentences with phrase «rain water on»

Items that collect rain water on your property, such as house gutters, cans, garden pots, used tires, rain barrels, and children's pools, are ideal receptacles for breeding,» said Peter Tripi, Senior Public Health Sanitarian.

Not exact matches

«I was going to bed every night and praying to the good Lord that we would get just one rain on the crop,» said Smith, who hopes to earn several thousand dollars for each acre - foot of water he can sell.

The Water Corporation knew precisely that what they were saying and publishing was wrong, that makes it misleading and deceptive conduct and this is not an isolated incident, their \ \ \ «why we can no longer rely on the rain graphs \ \ \», published around the same time, are equally deceptive.

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.»

«Also, those who don't live in Puerto Rico might not know that in certain places, the water was contaminated, and that due to the amount of rain, mosquito - based disease [s] were on the rise,» he added.

Comments from Federal Reserve officials not only rained on gold's parade this week but also threw cold water on the red - hot rally in gold - and silver - mining stocks so far in 2016.

He will be like rain falling on a mown field, like showers watering the earth.

Yet in Genesis 2 we have this: ----------- — 5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, 6 but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

Thus anticipating when it will rain, snow, be hot, cold, windy and so on, in some human cultures even talking, praying, and perform rituals to ask the earth for food, water, protection, shelter and so on.

This book is not just a few drops of water on the parched earth» which itself would have been welcome» but a drenching, reviving rain.

I put on my rain coat, got a water hose ready (just in case), and lit the pile of wood.

While exhorting us to contemplate nature, the Qur» an says, «In the creation of skies and the earth, the difference between night and day, the ships which run at sea carrying that which is useful for mankind, the rain water which Allah sends down from the sky to revive the earth after its death, and to spread animals on it, and the arrangement of winds and clouds between sky and earth, in all those things there are evidences (for the existence of God) for those who make use of their brains» (Surah II, 164).

I can create an environment for it, I can rain fire or water on it, smite any and all flies I wanted... but on my level am I god?

He entered on the 17th day of the 2nd month (Gen 7:11) and left on the 27th day of the 2nd month of the following year (Gen 8:14) There were 40 days of rain, 150 days of drifting, 150 days of receding water, 4 weeks for the recon birds to find land, 10 days between coming ashore and getting God's OK to disembark.

I don't know if you have any actual experience with heavy rain but it doesn't take an meteorologist to know that 25 ft an hour is effectively solid water in a sheet drowning all life on the planet within hours including any who tried to escape in a boat.

It's raining now and I can just imagine the water being sprinkled on my face like a blessing.

If you noticed, we also need water to live and you'll find that most places are built near or on water sources for that reason, yet when it rains really hard or for other natural occuring events, floods happen.

I remember pounding rain on a copper roof outside my window; sheets of water splattering as a city darkened and pealing thunder brought with it the full force of a summer rainstorm; then fierce pain.

And you see the earth barren, but when We send down water (rain) on it, it is stirred (to life), it swells and puts forth every lovely kind (of growth).

May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth.

If they could only have cast their minds further back, perhaps they might have recalled a lost paradise: green and yellow meadows stirred by tender winds, umbrageous forests and emerald groves, glass - blue mountain peaks melting into azure skies, glittering bays whose diamond waters break in jade and turquoise surges on sands like powdered alabaster — where the rain falls gently, and is transformed by the setting sun into shimmering curtains of gold — where, beyond verdant valleys and limestone caves, lies a palace filled with every delight the senses can endure, enclosing garden courtyards where crystal fountains splash in porphyry basins, intoxicating perfumes hang upon the breezes, undying flowers of every hue shine out amid the greenery's blue shadows...

My husband used to go up on the roof and slowly pour that sealer stuff all around - he theorized that it would drip and seep into the exact places that the rain water would go!

Your ruling class, sensing discontent, blames it on air and water pollution or burning the rain forest.

Subsistence farmers depend on the soil to produce food for their families; they know the seasons and when rains will come to water their crops and allow seeds to send out roots.

If it had been raining the entire box would have been destroyed as there would have been no way of unloading it without getting water on the packets.

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...

We baked these pizzas in celebration of snow that finally came to Helsinki on Tuesday — it had been raining water since before Christmas.

Add water to a small pot and sprinkle / rain gelatin on top, about 1/2 Tbsp at a time in a single layer.

Here on the east side of the peninsula where there is little rain along with extreme heat, the view to the west is of many hued mountains and desert cactus and to the east is the warm, clear waters of the Sea of Cortez, with cactus «marching» down to shores.

The rain is pouring outside and I'm listening to the delicate, almost meditative sound of water hitting the ground while sipping on a hot tea and biting into a warm scone.

I see how even on a cloudy dreary day threatening to rain at any moment, light caresses my sister and her now husband as they share a quiet moment together in front of the trees talking to their reflections on the water:

He is born with an instinct for hiding himself — no matter how restless he is, he will not start for the ocean except in the dark of the moon, or on cloudy nights or when the water is murky from rains.

Occasionally Chichester is obliged to turn to the classics to piece out the narrative with passages from Conrad and Richard Henry Dana, but for the most part he draws on the solitary venturers in small craft — Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail alone around the world; Ann Davison, the first woman to sail alone across the Atlantic; Alain Bombard, the French physician who sailed a 15 - foot rubber dinghy 2,750 miles in 65 days to see if it was possible for a man to survive on the ocean without food or water except that provided by fish and rain.

I worked the U.S. Open at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, N.Y., in 1989, when three inches of rain turned into six feet of water on low - lying fairways.

At the 15th he put on the top of his rain suit, rolled up his right trouser leg and gouged out a ball from the water onto the green and then rolled in a 15 - foot putt for a par.

yesterday about 4 wee calf dragged out the business end of it's mother head held in a birthing do - dad arse walloped on the yard quick bucket of water round it's chops 15 mins later it traipsed across the field with it's mammy admittedly with all the grace of peter crouch ice - skating but traipsed it did rained all night the wee fecker just sauntered past me not a bother

Dzeko dominated the Barca defense in the air, on the ground and I am sure that if it would have rained he would have dominated Umtiti and Piqué in the water, too.

For the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground; but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.

Tonight's gymnastics classes at the Rolling Meadows Park District Nelson Sports Complex have been cancelled due to the building taking on water as a result of the heavy rain.

Most of the time, our precipitation falls as rain -LCB- liquid water landing on the ground -RCB-.

The residents said heavy rains on May 22 increased water levels in nearby drainage culverts much more than usual.

With special amenities: Fernwood Park has a bubble feature which rains water down on little heads as well as a zero - depth entrance, while those looking to pike, twist and flip can head to McGuane Park, the only city pool with an operable diving board.

The kids then use pipettes to drip liquid water color onto the clouds until it eventually works it's way through and begins to «rain» on the underside in fabulous rainbow - y swirls.

Hat, sunscreen, bug repellent, warms clothes / pj's for chilly nights, smores makins» (yes this is a must have), sleeping bags & blankets to make one big family bed in your tent, life jacket that fits really well, diapers (we still cloth diaper if we are camping near laundry facilites), swim diapers (or we just use a pocket diaper without an insert and find that it works really well to contain what it needs to and doesn't bring on lots of water), first aid kit, flashlight, rain gear, a way to get clean water (filtering it yourself or access to water at the campground), snacks, and a good campsite.

The breathable yet protective fabric on the extra-large, multi-position canopy offers UV SPF 50 + and a water repellant coating to shade your little one from the sun and rain.

Some of our favorite sensory bins that inspire imagination and creativity are our indoor sand where my son sat inside the bin, with «snow» raining down on him, belting out «Let It Go», our indoor cranberry bog where my kids pretended to harvest the cranberries in some cool fall weather using a variety of kitchen tools as real harvesting tools, and our «Inside Out» edible water bead bin where we used our imagination to act out and discuss a variety of emotions.

A water toy like this has endless potential: As your child becomes more skillful, he can help a doll or rubber ducky take a «shower,» he can take a shower himself like you, or he can make it «rain» over the water — and you can point out how the droplets make ripples on the surface.

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.

Most of all, you don't presume to pee on the legs of the people of CD1 and tell us it's raining... we know the difference between rain water and urine.

The rains from Tropical Storm Harvey kept pounding the Houston region today, stranding thousands of residents — many on their rooftops — who frantically waited to be rescued from waters that are expected to keep rising for days.