Sentences with phrase «surrounded by floodwaters»

Even when farmers near Darwin were surrounded by floodwaters, they still got their produce to market.

Beaumont and Silsbee were virtually isolated and surrounded by floodwaters so OBR flew thousands of meals in helicopters provided by the National Guard and the US Customs and Border Patrol.

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Floodwaters crept up to the thresholds of homes at one minute; at the next, people were fleeing, knee - deep in muddy pools, surrounded by fire ants and snakes.

But the house — and every other structure along the floodway that was surrounded by water — raised the overall flood height and disrupted the flow of floodwaters, said Lulloff, chief scientist for the flood plain managers association.