Sentences with phrase «through flood water»

A man is pictured walking through flood water in Houston on Aug. 27, 2017.

Commuters heading to Lagos through the Otta axis are reportedly finding it difficult to navigate through the flood waters.

Worse, a former state disaster official says the new trucks are no better suited to wade through flood waters than the suburban vehicles the governor often uses.

Not exact matches

Harris County officials warned residents to evacuate as they released water from overflowing reservoirs to alleviate pressure on two dams, a move that would add to flooding along the Buffalo Bayou waterway that runs through the area.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Those it selects to enter may discover only that they have somehow entered, be it through the back of a coat closet or by way of a flood of water that burst out of a painting on the wall.

He has made the earth and the heavens in 6 days, talked through a burning bush, was able to flood the earth with water till no land was visible for 40 days and 40 nights... I really want to know how he made all that water disappear.

In the context, Noah and his family were «saved through water» (3:20), which does not mean that the ark gave them eternal life, but that they did not drown in the flood and were delivered from the wickedness and rebellious ways of the people who lived at the time of the flood.

2Pe 3:5 For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water, 2Pe 3:6 through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water.

One speaks, for example, of the wheel as a solar symbol, of the cosmogonic egg as the symbol of the non-differentiated totality, or of the serpent as a chthonian, sexual, or funeral symbol, etc. (In like manner it is agreed that the term «symbolism» should be reserved for a structurally coherent ensemble, for example, we speak of aquatic symbolism, the structure of which can not be deciphered except through studying a great number of religious facts which are heterogeneous in appearance, such as baptismal and lustration rites, aquatic cosmogonies, myths relative to floods or to marine catastrophes, myths featuring fecundity through contact with water, etc. [Cf. Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion, pp. 188 ff., and Images et symboles, pp. 164 ff.

«For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water, through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water.

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

But from the distance of my home in Eugene, Ore., it seemed inconceivable that a 26 - mile race could be run through the city just six days after the storm, with fires having leveled blocks in Queens, with neighborhoods in Brooklyn under eight feet of water, with the subways and the airports flooded and 40,000 left homeless.

Icy water flooded through thebroken windows of the battered Volkswage...

Carolina Chirindza was near term in 2000 when flood waters raged through her town in Mozambique.

He's urging New York's congressional delegation to support the state's push for the commission to release water through the dam, which could help address flooding along Lake Ontario.

«Once we repair the dam, we can open up the gate valves and eventually allow the water to flood through, which will then - not this year, but hopefully next year - allow us to dredge the lake.

The International Joint Commission has maintained that rainy spring weather was responsible for the flooding, but Collins has argued the IJC — which regulates water levels on the Great Lakes — made matters far worse through a new regulation effort called Plan 2014.

Extreme floods around the world could have a common cause — mysterious great rivers of water that gush through the atmosphere

Essentially, big floods cause rivers to quickly deepen and widen channels, reducing the force of the water rushing through.

«When that erodes through, the water will flood into the center of these islands.

In 2016, we had another flood, but this flood was not because of ocean storms, it was because of an inland storm that brought water through the St. Jones River and flooded our site.»

Perhaps methane flows through after flash floods, like water in a desert on Earth.

Actions to reduce stormwater runoff in ways that allow water to infiltrate and move more slowly through the ground can also ease flooding and peak flows that otherwise threaten salmon redds.

What's more, aquifers lose no water through evaporation, do not flood ecosystems, and in California they have capacity for between 17 and 26 times as much water as all of the state's reservoirs combined.

Northeastern South Dakota typically goes through cycles of drought and flooding that affect water availability and aquatic production.

«Most of the literature tends to focus on flooding events and increases in infectious diseases spread through water,» Dr Lal said.

«These wetlands still provide flood water storage, improve water flowing through those sites, and provide wildlife habitat to some extent.»

As the same volume of water now has to pass through a narrower channel, high tides rise higher, causing deeper and more widespread floods (Global and Planetary Change, doi.org/s8h).

In 2012, a controversial study challenged previously accepted ideas about the mechanisms through which climate change will affect our weather: Warmer temperatures will result in more heat waves, hotter summers will bring worse droughts, the warmer atmosphere will hold more water, resulting in heavier precipitation and flooding.

But anyone who has lived through four straight days of torrential rain that may surpass 50 inches knows perfectly well that no zoning code, infrastructure improvements or flood control regulations could have done anything to deal with this much water inundating a major metropolitan area this quickly.

The lab ended up flooding with about three inches of rain, but water also seeped through the drywall and fostered mold.

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That is partially due to rice being one of the major crops that is grown in conditions flooded with water, which enables it to more easily absorb the arsenic through its roots and store it inside.

Protect your feet when wading through floods of water with rain boots.

A woman at the door of a flooded cabin is pulled in swiftly by something unseen; three other women dive through the door, pull her out (she is uninjured), and we hear a roar as we see roiling waters and a huge saltwater crocodile (its head is bloody) as a woman shoots a rifle multiple times into its body until it finally grunts and dies with blood streaks covering its head and body.

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.

A flood destroys property and places a child in peril when water pours through a makeshift home.

And there's enough drama to be had from a nail dangerously stuck out of stairs, a plunge into a grain silo, a night - time rat - run through a monster - infested cornfield, a sudden basement flood that draws a creature to the sound of gushing water, and an encounter with a mad old neighbour driven to the point when he just has to screw up his face and scream.

Then, the unthinkable happens, with tornados ripping through Los Angeles, and water flooding through Manhattan, and all the world must take notice.

While Just Add Water intended to release the game on the Xbox 360 (as well as other platforms), reports have flooded the internet that Microsoft has been unwilling to work with the studio to get the game on Xbox Live Arcade, or to release through the Games on Demand program.

And of all the outlandish sex scenes that have flooded Sundance screens so far this year, few are more poignant than a perfectly timed sequence of Alexandra and a regular client going through a car wash, their activity obscured from view by soap, water and automated brushes.

See the power of water as it reshapes landscapes through tsunamis and floods.

During a massive downpour where I could barely see out of my window, I ended up driving onto a flooded street, by the time I realized how deep the water was I was already halfway through it.

We drove through some pretty nasty standing water on some flooded roads near Marrakech, but it wasn't anything that Mercedes diesel taxicabs weren't taking in stride.

The 4x4 and 4x2 Hi - Rider models can wade through up to 800 mm of water — a class - leading feature that will be welcomed by customers who need to ford rivers or floods.

This automobile can get me through flooded rain waters and even sometimes shallow snow.

Then, as the flood waters rise, a corpse is discovered — and Brunetti must wade through the chaotic city to solve his deadliest case yet.

If you live on the first floor and water comes in through your door frame, having moved along the ground, that's considered a flood and is not covered.

A flood is specifically defined in insurance jargon as «water or water - borne material moving along, through, or under the ground.»