Sentences with phrase «year flood by»

The study — which integrates new maps from the Environmental Protection Agency that more precisely estimate where people live now and where future population growth is expected — predicts that under potential population growth and development projections, more than 60 million Americans may be vulnerable to a 100 - year flood by 2050.

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After being astonished by the stunning images of flooding in Texas, Kenan Pala — the 13 - year - old founder of Kids4Community, a San Diego - based non-profit — decided to take action.

Other matching fund offers flooded in from techies, including Patrick Collison, chief executive of online payment company Stripe, and Nat Friedman, co-founder and chief executive of Xamarin, the software development company acquired last year by Microsoft (msft).

Throw into the mix the proximity of so many major cities to the coast and it's no surprise that climate change - related flooding is estimated to cost the world's 136 largest coastal cities US$ 52billion per year by 2050.

In addition to repairs on the factory, it has rebuilt pier bulkheads destroyed by the storm, and will move new residential and commercial construction on the lot above the Federal Emergency Management's redrawn flood plane, which now calculates for 100 - year storms.

Sandy, whose ferocity is described by weather experts as a once every 700 years event, left in its wake a path of destruction that wiped out entire towns, squashed power grids, flooded regional transportation, and hobbled tens of thousands of small businesses, the economic lifeblood of New Jersey and New York.

Last year, for instance, it sent emergency drinking water to communities affected by California's wildfires, floods in Louisiana, and Hurricane Matthew, which made landfall in South Carolina.

Eclipsed in the popular imagination by Apple and battered by the earthquake in Japan and floods in Thailand, Sony looks as defeated as ever, predicting another loss for this fiscal year, this time to the tune of US$ 1.2 billion.

Your first stop should be The National Climate Assessment, an interagency effort by the U.S. federal government, puts out a report every few years, assessing the likelihood of floods, fires, heat waves, hurricanes, and other climate - based events.

Water is also a symbol in company folklore; for many years Optiva's manufacturing plant was separated from the rest of the company's operations by a creek that periodically flooded over, making employees» treks back and forth, well, an adventure.

Heatwaves and drought mean that California's avocado production is expected to fall by 44 %, while disastrous flooding in Peru's avocado - growing south has also led to a downgrade in this year's crop forecast, according to the BBC.

Domestic steel manufacturers have taken a beating in the past few years, especially after the market was flooded by cheaper foreign imports — but now the sector is rallying.

It said that the flood of cheap euro loans offered by the European Central Bank — the long - term refinancing operations — had eased the crisis this year.

Inadequate flood protection infrastructure, which right now might not contain high tides in El Nino years; Lack of action on annual sediment removal from spring freshets, which each year move over 30 million m3 of sediment and leave about 3 million m3 of silt in the navigation and secondary channels of the lower reaches; and, By the end of this century sea levels at the mouth of the river could potentially rise more than one meter due to climate change overtopping the diking system.

«The more investors invest by asset class rather than by picking individual companies, the more the market will tend to move as one, intensifying herd behaviour and the likelihood of panics, making hundred year floods even more likely.»

If the whole thing — the rises in stock prices, in corporate earnings, in the housing market, even in job growth — is driven solely by the flood of money, or whether five years of zero - interest rates and trillions of dollars in bond purchases have succeeded at getting a more resilient economic engine for the United States up and running.

Now it floods 50 times per year, and scientists estimate that by 2030, that number will increase to 150.

Direct program expenses, consisting of other transfers / subsidies, Crown corporation expenses and departmental / agency expenses, increased by $ 3.3 billion on a year - over-year basis, with most of the increase attribtuable to the booking of the $ 2.8 billion liability for the Alberta floods.

God created Adam from a handful of dirt and his spouse from a rib; Talking snakes; trees that bear fruit, that imparts knowledge and eternal life; a global flood, that required a pair of each organism on earth, be stuffed onto a boat; people who lived hundreds of years; a man who was swallowed by a fish, only to be spit up 3 days later, unhurt; a tower god was afraid might reach heaven; a woman who is turned into a pillar of salt; talking donkeys; unicorns; satyrs; a leviathan god creates and then does battle with; a zombie messiah, who was actually god incarnate; zombie Saints who left their graves and wandered about the town; belief in a circular, flat earth.

In the five thousand one hundred and ninety - ninth year of the creation of the world from the time when God in the beginning created the heavens and the earth; the two thousand nine hundred and fifty - seventh year after the flood; the two thousand and fifteenth year from the birth of Abraham; the one thousand five hundred and tenth year from Moses and the going forth of the people of Israel from Egypt; the one thousand and thirty - second year from David's being anointed king; in the sixty - fifth week according to the prophecy of Daniel; in the one hundred and ninety - fourth Olympiad; the seven hundred and fifty - second year from the foundation of the city of Rome; the forty - second year of the reign of Octavian Augustus; the whole world being at peace in the sixth age of the world, Jesus Christ the eternal God and Son of the eternal Father, desiring to sanctify the world by his most merciful coming, being conceived by the Holy Spirit, and nine months having passed since his conception, was born in Bethlehem of Judea of the Virgin Mary, being made flesh.

creationism is far from an adult theory, its a child like story with fantasy elements based on myth and NO science, we always hear about these crazy people trying to outlaw evolution.But has you stated we have billions of years of evidence, thanks for helping us evolutionists out, unfortunately you have none, just a book, no science, no artifacts, no garden of eden, no bones of adam or eve or even the snake for that matter, no ark, no proof of a biblical flood, no proof of a created world by a higher power, no nothing..

When one looks at the various Christian beliefs that were once firmly believed — Adam and Eve, Noah's flood, people living to be 700 or 900 years old, the Red Sea splitting, water turning into wine, a talking snake, a man living in a whale's belly, people rising from the dead, Jesus driving demons out of people and into pigs — but which are now acknowledged by most thinking people to be mere mythology, it is pretty hard to give a lot of credibility to what's left.

Babylonia was rich in its alluvial soil, the age - long deposit of the Euphrates and the Tigris, those two great rivers that year after year unceasingly carried their load of silt to a resting - place, first in the Persian Gulf, then in the swamps that were slowly forming, and at length in the plain which gradually emerged from the waters, though at inundation each year it once again was claimed by the floods that had made it.

The planet's bodies of fresh water were not overtaken by the salt water oceans in a global flood 4,000 years ago.

Anti-Christian sentiment flooded the media around Christmas and New Year's, linked to instances of bigotry and bullying, according to a report released earlier this month by the Turkish Association of Protestant Churches.

The experience of the «death» brought about by these floods will remain with us for years to come.

Theo Lets see you are a creationist, 6000 year old earth guy, the great flood is a fact, the tower of Babel was real, that a supernatural messiah actually existed, that the bible was not written by men but is the inspired word of god, etc., sorry but mockery is clearly in order, Baptist or not.

Most Young Earth Creationists (Creationists who believe the earth is less than 10,000 years old) believe that the Grand Canyon was formed by the waters of the flood as recorded in Genesis 6 - 8.

None of them can be explained by a 6,000 year old Earth and Noah's flood.

After all, it pre-dates the Bible by nearly 1000 years and mentions a global flood, just like Genesis.

Best Storytelling: (nominated by Sarah Styles Bessey): Jamie, The Very Worst Missionary, at POTSC with «You'd Be Surprised» «But that moment in front of the SurfWind motel came back in a flood of understanding a year later, when my friend said he needed to talk and I found him lying on the floor, just a pile of tears and snot, and I heard his confession through his sobs.

This year the Murray Darling Basin has lived up to its reputation as a highly variable natural environment, in which the elements have tested us all but particularly those people impacted by drought and flooding.

The best of the worst came from Duncan Schaper, 10, of Ohio Township, Pa. (outside Pittsburgh), who asked for the money because the mound, fence, parking lot and Port - A-Potty at his field were swept away last year by a flood caused by Hurricane Ivan.

The four - story, 77 - year - old brick building, previously a traditional high school, was vacant when flooded by Katrina and had slouched into a rotting, mold - choked shelter for displaced residents.

The 65 - year - old will be hoping that this new signing is able to stop that flood of goals and make sure that the attacking work of summer transfer Alexis Sanchez isn't undone by the shaky defence at the Emirates.

They may have minor anxiety or low social skills but sometimes the exposure to new technology in which they're flooded with sexual images or sexual text stories, or the opportunity to be sexual in ways that they never could have imagined, sometimes the opportunity by itself can be addictive like we saw with crack cocaine many years ago, so people got addicted to crack cocaine who did not have a typical profile, just the exposure to the drug was enough to flood the brain and get people hooked in a very short period of time.

I haven't sailed since I was about 15 years old (a good 20 years ago) and by the end of the on - land introduction and demonstration I felt pretty confident it would all come flooding back (pun not intended).

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In order to adequately address the rising risk of flooding, current and future UK governments must significantly increase funding to # 1bn per year by 2025 to build new and properly maintain existing flood defences.

The money would be drawn from the state and municipalities funding to boost the previous aid for homeowners whose properties were damaged by flooding last year.

«After the severe flood damage of last year, a commitment was made by the Governor and New York State government to assist the homeowners impacted,» said Sen. Joe Robach.

An artist, Mr Faisal Dauda, has used plastic waste to reconstruct the disaster scene at the Goil Fuel Station, adjacent to the GCB Tower to commemorate the one year anniversary of the disaster that was caused by floods and fire outbreak.

Previously, New York's tunnels were built to protect against a 100 - year flood, but the devastation wrought by Hurricanes Sandy and Irene demonstrated a need to enhance protections to withstand a 500 - year flood.

A new report says Vermont is on target to close the vast majority of Irene - related cases by late summer, two years after flooding from the tropical storm damaged more than 7,000 homes.

The Vermont town of Moretown, hard hit by Tropical Storm Irene's flooding two years ago, has won a $ 700,000 federal grant toward construction of a new town office building.

A growing number of New York lawmakers are saying this year's historic flooding along Lake Ontario was not only caused by Plan 2014, but also by the execution of it.

The Rensselaer County Village of Hoosick Falls is looking toward the future after being dogged by more than a year of negative headlines surrounding a water contamination crisis and most recent devastating flooding.

The source said there was a flood of voter registrations about 10 years ago that forced the board to hire temporary workers recommended by Democratic and Republican county leaders.

About $ 1 million will be used to restore infrastructure damaged by last year's flooding, while the rest will be used to find projects to help prevent further damage in the event of future flooding.

The thing that pushed me along those lines was after that disaster last year, apart from working with TV3 and various partners at that time to actually provide relief for the various communities that were affected by the floods, we raised funds which was basically to help support all of that.