Sentences with phrase «year flood devastated»

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Florence Abraham had her bakery destroyed in the devastating floods in Nigeria last year, and she had to flee with her husband and five children.

The most powerful Hurricane to hit Texas in more than 50 years has devastated much of the coast, and the historic flooding is now causing havoc in the energy markets.

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.

Jim Finch is Town Supervisor of Conklin, which borders the Southern Tier city of Binghamton, and has suffered from two devastating floods in recent years.

Jim Finch is town supervisor of Conklin, which borders the Southern Tier city of Binghamton, and has suffered from two devastating floods in recent years.

«The Schumer shutdown caused us to have to put in peril needy children who may have lost their diabetes medication, our veterans going without pay, the important reinstatement of our national flood insurance program, which has reforms to FEMA that will help our local business community and our individuals who were devastated by floods not just in 2011, two in 2013 and twice this year with the flooding problems we have had,» Tenney said.

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.

Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans» poor Ninth Ward because it was the lowest neighborhood in the city; the floods last year on the Mississippi River repeated that pattern among the poor.

As last year's dramatic images of waterlogged streets across the UK, US and Russia serve to remind us, extreme weather events can trigger devastating floods.

Devastating hurricanes hit the eastern states of Nuevo León and Veracruz earlier this year, flooding streets and forcing thousands away from the coast.

We got a glimpse of what the future might be like this year, with drought in Russia and floods in Pakistan devastating crops.

Moore cites devastating floods that swelled the upper Mississippi River to a record size in December 2015 — not the time of year when the river is expected to overflow its banks.

Queensland could face devastating floods rivalling those seen in 2010 - 11 in just a year's time, as the effects of climate change and an impending La Niña weather event combine.

Rapid reversals of Earth's magnetic field 550 million years ago destroyed a large part of the ozone layer and let in a flood of ultraviolet radiation, devastating the unusual creatures of the so - called Ediacaran Period and triggering an evolutionary flight from light that led to the Cambrian explosion of animal groups.

Devastating floods occurred with the Mississippi River in 2011, and this marked the start of a record - breaking year of droughts and heat waves in the United States that stretched into the fall of 2012, as well as the lowest level of ice extent in the Arctic.

The film follows the efforts of Ms. Pearl, an altruistic Native - American woman who, with the approval of her husband, David Cross, converted their backyard in to a tent village for locals left homeless in the wake of the flood that devastated the region a couple of years ago.

On the job in Houston for less than two years, Carranza helped the city's schools rebound after the devastating Hurricane Harvey flooded several buildings and caused millions of dollars in damages.

Five years earlier, we traveled to Louisiana less than a year after the devastating hurricanes and massive flooding from failure of the levies.

The destructive flooding that struck Louisiana this year was devastating to both people and animals.

The damage from storms like Sandy — and Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee, which all caused devastating flooding in northeastern states --- was, and continues to be, so severe and complex that two years later recovery efforts are still underway.

Coverage fell despite the fact that extreme weather pummeled many parts of the world last year, from famine in East Africa, devastating drought in the Southern US and Mexico, and historic flooding in Thailand.

The vicious confluence of weather anomalies in recent years — and, even just this year we've seen a rash of devastating floods, tornadoes and droughts — suggest that shifting climate patterns are having adverse and wide - ranging effects on our ecosystem.

Following a year of devastating hurricanes, wildfires, floods, and storms, it's never been more evident that the world needs to make serious and swift strides to curb carbon emissions for the sake of families, communities, and the planet.

China has also experienced devastating flooding this year as well as Brazil.

One thing that is fairly predictable, and sometimes devastating — in Russia this year, tragic — is flooding.

SciDevNet: In recent years, climatic stresses, particularly droughts and floods, have devastated yields and caused crops to fail for many farmers across Pakistan.

What about Serbia?We had devastating floods, like never before, earlier this year.

Before discussing tornadoes, it is important to note that it is scientifically uncontroversial to conclude that climate change is causing more violent weather particularly in the form of: (a) more damaging thunder storms, (b) the kind of devastating flooding we have seen this year in Australia, Pakistan, Brazil, Columbia, Venezuela, along the Mississippi and the Tennessee valleys, and (c) more severe droughts such as those experienced this year in China, Brazil, and Texas.

«This year's massive hurricanes in the Atlantic and Caribbean and devastating floods in South Asia should be a wake - up call to the World Bank and other institutions who claim to care about climate change,» said Alex Doukas, Stop Funding Fossils Program Director at Oil Change International.

A new study suggests that the state should expect more dramatic swings between dry and wet years as the climate warms, with potentially devastating floods becoming more likely.

In the face of serious and escalating climate change risks — devastating wildfires, water shortages, flooding catastrophes, sea level rise, ocean acidification — 2018 is the year for meaningful action that moves Washington forward.

«The past year has been one of the most devastating ever in terms of natural disasters... climate change [is] boosting the destructive power of disasters like hurricanes and flooding,» it proclaimed.

The devastating floods that ravaged Pakistan last year fuelled widespread political unrest due to the perceived inability of the national government to adequately respond to people's needs.

In 1989, Thailand banned the logging of natural forests in direct response to devastating floods and landslides that had taken 400 lives the year before.

The past year has been one of the most devastating ever in terms of natural disasters... climate change [is] boosting the destructive power of disasters like hurricanes and flooding

Severe droughts, floods and landslides devastated parts of the world last year as carbon dioxide concentrations climbed to...

Climate scientists predict that while the drought that has devastated the US state for four years will become more extreme, it will be interspersed with bouts of serious flooding.

ECO believes that with increasing impacts of climate change around the world, such as the devastating floods in Pakistan earlier this year, it is undeniable that all countries are now vulnerable, even developed countries.

Floods Devastate Pakistan For the second straight year, torrential monsoon - driven rains have swamped portions of Pakistan.

We are afraid that four (possibly eight) years of denial and delay might commit the planet to not just feet, but yards, of sea level rise, massive coastal flooding (made worse by more frequent Katrina and Sandy - like storms), historic deluges, and summer after summer of devastating heat and drought across the country.

After years of being stuck, the national conversation on climate change finally started to shift — just a little — last year, the hottest year on record in the U.S., with Hurricane Sandy flooding the New York subway, drought devastating Midwest farms, and California and Colorado on fire.

Devastating floods can occur throughout the United States anytime of the year.

There have been cases of floods, hurricanes, blizzards and even tornadoes in recent years, all of which can cause devastating damage your rental home.

After devastating floods from Hurricane Irene last year August, unemployment had increased to 15.4 percent November 2011.

Thoughts on the Baton Rouge Flood 2016 We have served the people of Baton Rouge and the surrounding area for many years, and know so many people that have been impacted by the devastating flood of the last few days.