Sentences with phrase «send flood waters»

Maryland is no stranger to flooding rivers and torrential downpours that send flood waters into streets, basements, and businesses.

Or am I missing the subtext of, «I love you so much, little innocent child somewhere in the world, that I will send flood waters to drown you and your family, and you get to die in terror and angst, watching your family die right in front of your eyes.»

Not exact matches

As of Monday, Anheuser - Busch — maker of popular beers like Budweiser, Bud Light, Shock Top, and Rolling Rock — had sent three truckloads with more than 155,000 cans of drinking water to areas affected by Harvey, which has brought historic flooding that is wreaking havoc on southeast Texas.

Last year, for instance, it sent emergency drinking water to communities affected by California's wildfires, floods in Louisiana, and Hurricane Matthew, which made landfall in South Carolina.

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.

In the flood of Genesis 6 - 8, did God really send water to kill every living thing on earth?

Then God sent the flood and killed everything except for some seeds which obviously survived, and miraculously salt - water and fresh - water fish survived in the tumult and obviously everything in Noah's boat (affectionately called the «ark») was safe too.

North of this point lies the «potato patch,» at the mouth of San Francisco Bay, where a few years ago a wine tanker foundered after a particularly large dollop of water fell off a wave and found its way down the tanker's stack, flooding her engines and sending her to the bottom.

A water main break caused major flooding in the Elmhurst section of Queens, sending water shooting from the ground like a geyser.

After the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant flooded with nine feet of water, two pipes ruptured under the storm pressure, sending raw sewage flowing into homes in Baldwin and East Rockaway.

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.

A tsunami and its attendant flooding sends murky water pulsing through the floors of submerged high - rises, trapping helpless victims inside like goldfish behind glass.

Because she had spent some time in the shelter prior to the Hurricane and her owners never claimed her, the shelter staff chose her and another couple hundred of her friends to send to shelters in Santa Barbara, California in order to make room for owned pets displaced by the flood waters.

This particular time they had used an air strike that flooded my area with water and sent two of my Worms down to their deaths.

Could be they leave space behind dams for possible flooding — for instance if your watershed is a snowpack, it'll either melt slowly if the weather stays cold, or melt suddenly in warm spring rains and send a lot of water downstream.

Consider the possibility that not just millions, but billions face disastrous consequences from the likes of (including but not limited to): Sandy (and other hybrid and out - of - season storms enhanced by the earth's circulatory eccentricities and warmer oceans); the drought in progress; wildfires; floods (just last week, Argentina had 16 inches of rain in 2 hours *); derechos; increased cold and snow in the north as the Arctic melts and cracks up, breaking up the Arctic circulation and sending cold out of what was previously largely a contained system, and losing its own consistent cold, seriously interfering with the Jet Stream, pollution of multiple kinds such as in China, the increase of algae and the like in our oceans as they heat, and food and water shortages.

In northeastern Europe (1), the timing of flooding has shifted from late March to February over the past five decades as winter snow melts earlier in spring, sending huge amounts of water into rivers.

One especially bad flood in 2003 sent «a wall of water 20 foot deep and 60 foot wide down on me and my kids,» she says.

Flash flooding in the northern, mountainous areas then sends silt downstream, reducing the amount of water the river channel can hold.

Place this puck - like disk in an area where water would flow in a flood condition, perhaps near a water heater, a clothes washer, or the low point of a basement, and — again, so long as the sensor is within Bluetooth range of a HomeKit hub — it will send out an instant notification if it detects water.