Sentences with phrase «swollen rivers»

Other times they would be stranded here when swollen rivers rose too high to ford and washed away bridges.

Residents of this city east of Houston had been forced to flee suddenly two days earlier when Hurricane Harvey swelled a river and authorities issued a mandatory evacuation order.

Swollen rivers flooded streets and homes throughout the state, making travel impossible for thousands.

Tourists streamed out of Yosemite National Park, baseball fans were denied a game and authorities kept a close eye on swelling rivers and rising water in a damaged dam as a «Pineapple Express» storm drenched Northern California.

A controversial decision in 2011 to blow up Mississippi River levees reduced the risk of flooding in a city upstream, lowering the height of the rain - swollen river just before it reached its peak, according to a newly published computer modeling analysis led by UC Irvine scientists.

Most recently, inland rainfall produced by Hurricane Matthew has caused record flooding in North Carolina, with the levels of some already swollen rivers and streams continuing to rise.

Basically, Orton and his colleagues separated the different factors that can cause ocean water to rise, such as changes in atmospheric pressure, wind direction, tides, swelling rivers pouring into the sea.

After Hurricane Matthew churned across North Carolina earlier this month, swollen rivers deluged poultry and swine farms, killing millions of chickens and thousands of hogs and sending potentially toxic animal waste coursing into waterways.

Bali six volcanic peaks, all exceeding 2,000 meters trap rain clouds that swell the rivers rushing down from the highlands through deep narrow gorges overgrown with lush tropical vegetation to the astonishingly rich coastal plain of south.

If the downpours and swollen rivers came as a surprise, they shouldn't have done.

Natural flooding caused by snowmelt, rainfall and swollen rivers does not qualify as a covered event.

Residents of this city east of Houston had been forced to flee suddenly two days earlier when Hurricane Harvey swelled a river and authorities issued a mandatory evacuation order.

It is a drizzly Sunday afternoon in April, three months after a devastating flood that drenched a landmass the size of France and Germany combined and isolated the town after the rain - swollen river rose to a record 45 feet.

Sgt. Michael Trevino, personal security detail, noncomissioned officer, 172nd Infantry Brigade, utilizes a foot bridge to cross a swollen river outside of the village of Marzak while locals wash clothing on the far bank.

Writers like Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard and Lewis Thomas all speak of the most ordinary things, yet find in a weasel's stare, a swollen river, a snail's strange life something far more than...

From the undulations of swollen rivers to the wrinkles and furrows of the earth's face, life takes its time, scraping, pushing and moving into...

Writers like Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard and Lewis Thomas all speak of the most ordinary things, yet find in a weasel's stare, a swollen river, a snail's strange life something far more than ordinary.

In the light of this error, regulators worldwide are reassessing whether other plants are vulnerable to catastrophic floods, caused by tsunami, swollen rivers or failed dams.

By DAVID CONCARTHE view from the back of the growling Cessna could have come straight from a Boy's Own tropical picture book — a sea of untrammelled bush intercut with escarpments, waterfalls and swollen rivers.

THE view from the back of the growling Cessna could have come straight from a Boy's Own tropical picture book — a sea of untrammelled bush intercut with escarpments, waterfalls and swollen rivers.

Although spring rains and swollen rivers are inevitable along the Mississippi River and its tributaries, the flooding problems are almost entirely man - made, argues Bob Criss, a professor of geology at Washington University in St. Louis.

Thus, though Penn shows us Chris» planned return route from the bus to the trailhead cut off by a seasonally - swollen river, he neglects to show that had Chris bothered to bring a map or simply scout up or down the river he'd have quickly found places he could cross (one only a quarter mile away).

Students also need to be able to assess their own level of competence as well as correctly to assess the hazards and the likelihood of changing levels of hazard in an environment; for example, if a group comes to a swollen river which they need to cross, there is clearly a risk which has to be assessed.

There are pictures of cars floating down swollen rivers or sitting in parking lots half submerged in murky water.

With snow - melt plus more rain, the swollen river is threatening a catastrophic flood.

The river crossings are fraught with danger both from the physical difficulties of traversing the steep muddy terrain and swimming across the rain - swollen rivers but also from the monstrous Nile crocodiles laying in wait.

The wet, muddy sediment of Diebenkorn's Berkeley # 21 (1954) flows through the swollen river of Thiebaud's Brown River (2002).

The six paintings selected for «Neil Jenney: Natural Rationalism» depict that mythic North American landscape of verdant forests, picturesque valleys, swollen rivers, and open skies.

Bury Art Museum, 2015 The piece offers an imagining of lost but cherished sites; the orchard ruined by neglectful pomology, accidental burning, unseasonal rain and swollen rivers, the boatyard needlessly kept hidden (safe) for so long it has been entirely

Now, Houston is flooded and Hays County, west of Austin, is still in search and rescue mode after Memorial Day weekend flash flooding swelled rivers to record heights, inundating fast - growing riverbank towns and sweeping away a home packed with vacationers.

Swollen rivers are causing havoc from Austria to Hungary with Germany and the Czech Republic hit particularly hard.

Oil drums, tanks and other industrial debris mixed into the swollen river flowing northeast.

But it does not cover natural flooding, which occurs due to excess rain, storm surge, or swollen rivers and streams.

Policyholders in over 22,000 communities across the country depend on the NFIP to protect homes and businesses from torrential rain, swollen rivers and lakes, snowmelt, failing infrastructure, as well as storm surges and hurricanes.