Sentences with phrase «rivers hit land»

When atmospheric rivers hit land, they bring more than a third of the rainfall that the western states typically receive in the course of an entire year.

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A U.S. Airways plane hit a flock of geese shortly after taking off from New York in 2009 knocking out its engines but Sullenberger managed to glide the Airbus A320 to a safe landing on the Hudson River, saving all 150 passengers on board.

So accomplished was he that he planned to hit the river where he thought there would be no boats, telling passengers to, «Prepare for a hard landing.»

For many schools, their fields are on flat land next to rivers, just the areas that were hit the hardest by the flooding in August.

An ace US Airways pilot made an astonishing controlled crash landing into the frigid Hudson River after his jet hit geese and lost power minutes after takeoff...

The crash landing of a US Airways flight on the Hudson River in New York City in 2009 minutes after takeoff was thanks to a flock of geese hitting the plane.

But when he landed in Bossier City, Shreveport's black - sheep sister across the Red River, he reckoned that he had finally hit bottom.

The lion's share of New York's contemporary art galleries — 200 of them — call this tiny strip of land on the West Side home, and as is well known by now, they were hard - hit by the storm surge of the Hudson River.

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Prior to these papers» publication in the journal Monthly Weather Review, Schneider says, meteorologists knew that the moisture hitting land came from storms in the Pacific, but they did not understand the role atmospheric rivers played in delivering huge amounts of precipitation.

In 2004, Cincinnati Reds» outfielder Adam Dunn hit a home run so mighty it sailed clean out of the park, down the street, bounced off the bank of the Ohio River and landed smack on a piece of driftwood along the bank (which according to local geographers technically placed it over the state line); this made Dunn's home run hit the only homer in MLB to be hit in one state (Ohio) and land in another (Kentucky).