Sentences with phrase «with flooding rains»

THROUGH the Millennium drought of 2001 to 2009, I was optimistic that it would rain again, that the drought would end and probably with flooding rains.

Not exact matches

But existing models of water flows don't provide the full range of possible outcomes: «A 50 - year rain can produce a 100 - year flood if it falls on a watershed that's already soaked or on snowpack or if it coincides with a storm surge.»

The Northeast was hit with heavy rain and flooding on Monday, closing transit stations and major roads.

When Hurricane Irma was advancing toward Florida in early September, weather officials were looking at a very scary scenario: an extremely powerful Category 4 or 5 storm hitting with 150 mph winds, flooding rains, and up to 15 feet of storm surge for coastal cities like Miami and Tampa.

It has rained like crazy in Texas and even Louisiana has made national news with record flooding.

Images of the flooded metropolises of Houston, Jacksonville, and San Juan with overtopped dams, billowing sewage, and flooded homes show that torrential rain can be one of the most devastating consequences of hurricanes, especially in urban areas where concrete makes it harder for water to drain and where people can drown.

Last week, when I heard my colleagues talking about Hurricane Harvey, I did not think much of it beyond the typical flood warnings that come with any bout of heavy rain in Houston.

At least 70 deaths have been reported along with many injuries and tens of thousands driven from their homes as more than 50 inches of rain caused catastrophic flooding, particularly in the Houston area.

Tearfund said a third of all food produced globally is not eaten and waste on this scale is «fueling climate change, causing more droughts, floods and less reliable rain, making life harder for the people in poverty across the world that Tearfund works with».

Keep drilling oil and flooding the atmosphere with CO2 and lack of rain will not be the only «biblical» events in Texas or elsewhere.

Port au Prince typically doesn't get hit directly by the hurricanes, but often gets a lot of the rain from them, so having improved sanitary conditions in camps that could be prone to flooding could be really helpful, digging ditches in the camps, these are all cash - for - work programs that could help with some of the rain that could come in the coming months.

Then the rain started and his house started to flood and a man came by in a boat and offered to take him with him and the guy said «No, God will save me» and he stayed.

We've been cooped up inside with all the rain and flooding in Houston this week.

The nights are filled with rumbling and flashing lights, with rain that floods the sidewalks and streets and leaves a ticker of weather warnings scrolling across the bottom of the television screen.

There were wide areas dotted with mesquite and huisache, open, grassy prairies, knolls covered with groves of gnarled live oak trees, shallow depressions which are flooded in times of rain and dense thickets covering the bottom land along the river.

The sea stays at 45 °, and he tends to linger off rivermouths, like a man hesitating to step into a cold bath, until they warm and flood with rain.

In addition, the skies show no sign of satisfaction with the destruction it's wrought and without warning, release buckets of rain on the still flooded streets.

Although there was little rain this year, Arlington Heights kicked off what may be a long and expensive endeavor to deal with flooding.

Speaking with 3 News, Andy Best, station manager of the Odawna Apawu Station, the venue, where the twin disaster happened said the move is to make the drainage there clean to allow free flow of water, to prevent flooding and another disaster, as the rains set in.

Flooding and rain, topping 47 inches in some areas, pounded 50 counties in southeast and lower central Texas with a combined population of roughly 11 million people.

With flooding continuing in Houston, plus more than a foot of rain likely still to come through Friday, predictions of damage have ranged as high as $ 100 billion, and Wall Street and Washington are braced for the repercussions of the costliest U.S. natural disaster since Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

Rochester, NY — With the possibility of heavy rain and flooding as Tropical Storm Lee bears down on the Northeast, NYSEG encourages customers in flood - prone areas — and even customers who experience persistent basement flooding — to consider how their electricity and natural gas services could be affected by high water.

A perfect storm of high lake levels, ice formation and unprecedented spring rains flooded shoreline communities along Lake Ontario earlier this year, and that would have occurred with or without the new lake - level regulating Plan 2014, International Joint Commission officials said at an environmental conference in Buffalo.

With flash flood warnings blaring from cellphones, social media filled up with photos and videos of rain pouring down station staircases and onto platfoWith flash flood warnings blaring from cellphones, social media filled up with photos and videos of rain pouring down station staircases and onto platfowith photos and videos of rain pouring down station staircases and onto platforms.

The rain and the floods that came with it resulted in states of emergency being declared in several counties including Montgomery and Schoharie.

«With heavy rain and possible flash flooding expected in parts of the state, I urge all New Yorkers to take extreme caution, including closely monitoring local radio and television for weather alerts and listening to the advice of local officials,» Governor Cuomo said.

The Oneida County Health Department is urging residents impacted by recent flooding conditions to take precautions when dealing with flood waters resulting from the heavy rains and overflow conditions.

A nor» easter slammed New York City on the five - year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, bringing heavy rain and some flooding, with winds projected to become stronger last night.

Jefferson County is contending with some severe flooding after this week's rain, including 450 calls to emergency workers over flooded hems.

Record - setting rainfall in Western New York, combined with high rivers and wet soil from rains in the past two weeks, caused flooding in some areas.

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A flood advisory has been extended until 3:30 pm today, with the area expected to get a second band of rain this afternoon which may lead to more flooding.

But officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers say the main culprit in the widespread flooding along the Lake Ontario shoreline was heavy rains that hit many areas along the lake and the St. Lawrence River last year.

As Hurricane Sandy continues to threaten much of New York State with high winds, heavy rains, flooding, coastal surges and

Rain totals of one to three inches with poor drainage flooding are expected.

Snow melt and rain will cause many rivers and streams to rise, potentially breaking ice layers causing ice jams and localized flooding with water covered roads, especially in low lying areas and urban and poor drainage areas.

Residents of the capital, Accra, mostly grapple with floods anytime it rains.

Two days after the torrential rains that hit parts of the Northern Region rendering many communities flooded, the Nanumba North and South districts still remain inaccessible with vehicles and passengers unable to access or exit the Bimbilla township.

Thousands have been evacuated from parts of neighbouring Dominican Republic, and heavy rain and wind has hit Jamaica, with flooding blocking roads in the capital, Kingston.

Weather forecasters use total rainfall figures to predict floods, and climatologists use the estimates to gauge how rain patterns are changing with climate change.

But the raised seas may combine with heavy El Niño rains to cause devastating floods, as happened to the San Francisco area in 1997 - 98.

The report was published more than eight months before Hurricane Harvey dumped torrential rain on Texas, with resulting catastrophic flooding.

Most of those rains fell across the Midwest and Central and Northern Plains, bringing with them serious floods.

One of the negative environmental conditions that will worsen with the effects of global warming is the flooding of farmland due to torrential rain.

Furthermore, we also saw about a ten - time delay in ice accumulation during freezing rain when compared to surfaces flooded with antifreeze.»

The impacts of El Niño take a while to propagate around the globe, and people may continue to see effects of El Niño associated with shifted rain patterns such as droughts, floods and fires.

In 2007 alone, summer flooding in Great Britain cost that nation nearly $ 6 billion, while torrential rains in China displaced more than 500,000 people, with losses to property and crops in excess of $ 1 billion.

The San Francisco Bay Area is getting flooded with relentless rain and strong winds, just like it did a week ago, and fears of rising water are now becoming very serious

Flooding may forever scar us with moist, mildewy memories, but for many the smell of rain is cleansing and refreshing — relief from the relentless summer heat.

Forecasters said as much as a metre of rain could fall on some isolated areas of Haiti, raising fears of deadly mudslides and floods in the heavily deforested country where many families live in flimsy houses with corrugated metal roofs.