Sentences with phrase «year flood areas»

Lots within city should keep me away from 100 year flood areas, but will study the topography to make sure.

I mentioned creeks, consider other wetlands, and or 100 year flood areas, low - lying run - off areas.

Not exact matches

In some rural areas, farmers have been waking up to flooded fields — and a possible dent in this year's profits.

Dozens of exploration companies flooded to the area about five or six years ago, staking claims, setting up camps, even building airstrips without informing First Nations who consider the vast land theirs.

The flood might have been the coda to the area's industrial story but, five years later, the waterfront is awash once more — this time with capital.

Nevertheless, the commentator in the film showing scenes of this disaster remarked that, although the area had been flooded again and again, within a year or two of each catastrophe people would quickly forget and resettle in the same area.

As most of the coaches will agree, a share of the credit belongs to the high schools in the area, which every year produce a flood of fine players who not only star in the Big Ten but are recruited to strengthen rosters from coast to coast.

The park district is closing off a key section of the area for 30 to 60 days while it repairs damage caused in the last year from erosion and flooding.

For families living in disaster - prone areas, where the threat of a hurricane, tornado, flood, earthquake, or wildfire is constant, especially during some times of the year, the realization is that it could happen to them next.

Each year, 20,000 new properties are built on flood risk areas, including 4,000 in areas of significant flood risk.

The County of Oneida is funding projects this year that will help mitigate flood damage in two key areas of the Sauquoit Creek Basin.»

According to documents and interviews, state, local and federal officials had been aware for years that the crucial maps of flood risks were inaccurate; some feared they understated the dangers in New York City's low - lying areas.

This comes as FEMA is trying to determine whether a federal disaster declaration is warranted in the area impacted by this year's Lake Ontario - related flooding.

«We had some significant damage, obviously, down in the Gowanda area last year during the big flood,» said ECIDA Vice President John Cappelino.

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.

The federal government is now offering funding and resources to upstate counties devastated by the flooding along Lake Ontario this year, after President Trump declared parts of the region a federal disaster area earlier this week.

Long - term changes in temperature and precipitation are making some rivers flood days, weeks or even months earlier than they did 50 years ago, and pushing flooding in other areas much later, researchers report August 11 in Science.

«Today, not only are more people in harm's way than there were 50 years ago, but building in flood plains, earthquake zones and other high - risk areas has increased the likelihood that a routine natural hazard will become a major catastrophe,» warns a 2015 report from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), which maintains an international disaster database.

As the floods spread across southern England, Collier described to the conference a two - year study in the Thames area that compared the effectiveness of the two systems in day - to - day operation.

Both tsunamis had waves between 50 and 120 meters tall, and flooded up to 1 million square kilometers — roughly the same area affected by the tsunami caused by the dinosaur - killing asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago.

NOAA is also making its previously experimental storm surge watches and warnings operational this year, in an effort to better prepare coastal areas under threat of flooding.

The revised maps are the first update in the coastal areas of Maryland in 25 years and confirm both increases and decreases in the 100 - year flood elevations over this period of time.

With hundreds of businesses and homes destroyed by flooding for the second time in 2 years, the state government is considering enabling property owners to abandon some flood - prone areas, and is also calling for the construction of new levees and other protective infrastructure.

The flood ratio map for Hurricane Ike (2008) shows areas in yellow and orange that approach or exceed 10 - year flood peaks at their respective stream gauge stations.

«Not only was there a lag in reef growth of up to two thousand years following the flooding of the previous reef platforms but the reef communities that grew there were much less complex than those inhabiting those areas of the reef today.

This area became flooded about 7 million years ago and remained underwater for a few million years.

A Dutch - Texan team found that most Houston - area drowning deaths from Hurricane Harvey occurred outside the zones designated by government as being at higher risk of flooding: the 100 - and 500 - year floodplains.

El Niño can lead to wetter weather in southern India, which also happened this year, with torrential rains that caused major flooding in the area around Chennai.

Every year around this time, Texas Orange and crimson floods the State Fair Ground - which means that I steer clear of that area!

With potential buyers now wary of the next flood, the area fell into decay, which was further exasperated by several dry years in which the sea's saline content rose the point where the fish no longer had enough oxygen to survive - cut to the next scene with literally millions of fish lying dead on the shores, stinking to high heaven.

It is the third largest Muslim - majority nation, and one of the most densely populated countries in the world; about 147 million people live in an area about the size of Iowa, with about a third of the land prone to flooding each year.

The bookshop is located in an area that is notorious for flooding, and has been unable to obtain flood insurance — the town flooded badly three years... [Read more...]

Julie Walker, director of ALA's American Association of School Librarians, visited the area a few years after the flooding and witnessed 50 rebuilt school libraries in the Gulf Region.

The areas all have 1 - percent - annual - chance (1 % chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year) for a flood event or shallow flooding and marked on a Flood Insurance Rate Map and designated as:

Nevertheless the recent years demonstrated that nature can be also unfriendly in Ontario including flooding and ice storm that strongly impacted among others the whole Greater Toronto Area and nearby cites and towns.

The average flood insurance policy in the U.S. costs $ 700 per year, but renters who live in moderate and low - risk areas get a preferred rate.

High Risk Areas: Within these, which are also known as Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHAs), there's deemed to be a 25 percent chance of a residence being flooded within 30 years — which is the length of term for many mortgages.

The selection is meant to appeal to both the store's year - round customers, as well as the many tourists that flood the area during the summer, which he describes as his «money - making months.»

Most of these soon - to - be pets were already up for adoption before flooding ravaged the Houston area; new owners won't need to worry about getting a call in a few years from their pets» original parents.

Our first priority is providing access to affordable options to help Iowans get their companion animals spayed and neutered, preventing litters of unwanted kittens and puppies that flood area animal shelters each year.

For five months every year the river would freeze, then thaw and flood the surrounding area.

The Gaylord Opryland Resort, the Grand Ole Opry and other Nashville - area facilities owned by the company were hit by flooding in May this year.

Why it was chosen: Even after all these years there are still fewer things that make you feel worse in gaming than accidentally leading your squad of Pikmin into a dangerous area and seeing a flood of Pikmin ghosts float away into the sky.

Frisia is the low - lying coastal area that extends across the Netherlands and Germany to the Danish border which, until the construction of canals during the 1920s and 1930s, was flooded for most of the year.

As Hurricane Sandy approached New York City in late October last year, the residents in Zone A — the low - lying areas with the most potential for flooding — were ordered to evacuate by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

In nearly 50 years of capturing nude subjects, Close has used the camera lens completely open, resulting in a flood of light which immediately allows the viewer to connect with the person on canvas, as it creates the depth of field and makes some areas appear out of focus, which Close is so widely known for and respected.

Susan Anderson's NYT link: «The flooding in Louisiana is the eighth event since May of last year in which the amount of rainfall in an area in a specified window of time matches or exceeds the NOAA predictions for an amount of precipitation that will occur once every five hundred years, or has a 0.2 percent chance of occurring in any given year.»

What we are speaking of is years of drought over large areas occasionally interrupted by periods of severe flooding.

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,

With the next posting of updated several year long series of forecast maps I will be including the areas of Alaska, Canada, and Australia (with enough hind cast [+6 months] to show how well it did with the flooding there).