Sentences with phrase «swollen rivers rose»
Other times they would be stranded here when swollen rivers rose too high to ford and washed away bridges.
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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.
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This is from the Tetrabiblos of Ptolemy, chapter II «The Moon, being of all the heavenly bodies the nearest to the Earth, also dispenses much influence;... By the changes of her illumination (that is as she waxes and wanes), rivers swell and are reduced; the tides of the sea are ruled by her rising and setting;...» < / blockquote.
This is from the Tetrabiblos of Ptolemy, chapter II «The Moon, being of all the heavenly bodies the nearest to the Earth, also dispenses much influence;... By the changes of her illumination (that is as she waxes and wanes), rivers swell and are reduced; the tides of the sea are ruled by her rising and setting;...»
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.
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...