Sentences with phrase «year flood if»

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.»

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If warmer weather follows the floods, there might still be a respectable harvest this year, he added.
So if there's a flood in Houston one year, the places where it didn't flood can cover it and vice versa.
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.
- There is no evidence of a global flood within Human experience, especially within the last 4000 years, and such evidence should be obvious if it happened.
If they lived for hundreds of years did they breed like rabbits after the great flood for hundreds of years?
If I've learned anything over the past few years it's been that when the rains come down and the floods come up, when doubt and frustration whip like wind against my faith, all the apologetics in the world can't ground me like the simple, yet profoundly challenging teachings of Jesus Christ.
Now the flood is supposed to have happened about 4361 years ago (2013)[1] so that means that if we go down that number of layers we should find on or about that layer evidence of the flood in the form of dead plankton, salt, and other ocean detritus.
So - called American Catholics use birth control; mis - quote the bible to the point that Protestants laugh at them; dismiss most of the creation, garden, flood and babel stories as myth; and attend mass 8 weeks out of the year, if that.
Standing at the threshold, Justice O'Connor suddenly seemed to see how her life would be taken up in the years ahead if she and her colleagues opened up a whole new branch of jurisprudence, which could run beyond their wit and flood their docket with all manner of new cases stretching the imagination.
IF there was a global flood, THEN there would've been no fresh water 4,000 years ago.
Gozer, if you truly believe that a one degree change in the the earth's surface over a 50 year period can account for domestic flooding, your understanding of science (or lack thereof) is on public display.
If jungle tribes who have had no contact with civilization for thousands of years have stories about a flood, doesn't this indicate that some sort of flood event did actually happen?
If one believes what the Bible says, from what I have read, people from the time of Adam (some say about 6,000 years ago) to the flood did not eat meat and lived hundreds of years.
So in this season of reminiscence, if we grind a sprig of Barcelona's laurels in the palm, we find the sharp aromas of bay leaf and sage suddenly evoking the heal and vapors of Olympic Stadium atop Montju «Äö √ † √ ∂ «àö √ ≤ c. And memory being so hopelessly bound up with emotion, the flooding images resolve into those of a single day, the most compelling day of the Summer Olympics — and of the year.
If February 15, 2002 brought a flood of emotions for me, I can only imagine what the day must have felt like for Klug, who was competing less than two years after a life - saving liver transplant, and, fittingly, just one day after the celebration of National Organ Donor Day.
When I was a kid in the 1970s in Dunkirk, a factory town west of Buffalo, I'd occasionally join a flood of children trying to sneak into the nearby Chautauqua County Fair: If my memory is correct after more than 40 years, it may have been the first time I ever climbed a barbed wire fence.
A year ago, the invitation would have sounded enticing, especially if the panel was being tasked with exploring the state's ethical bog, which last April burst its banks and flooded the second half of the legislative session.
About 30 percent say they think there will be many more «deaths and injuries» from floods and hurricanes over the next 20 years if nothing is done to address climate change.
If global temperatures increase by 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, as many scientists expect, so - called «hundred - year - floods» could occur every 20 years or so, putting untold numbers of people at risk.
We need to figure out if we are the cause of the recent inundation of Bangkok in Thailand and the unseasonal US snowstorms, or last year's floods in Pakistan and heatwave in Russia.
In hydrological data, there are series of 20 or 30 years, when we would need 100 years or more to see if there is a cycle of flooding and drought.»
As for whether the world's recent extreme weather was made worse by human influence, that answer likely won't be available for years — and only if a research effort similar to the one that analyzed the 2000 U.K. floods is undertaken.
Massive coastal flooding in northern Europe that now occurs once every century could happen every year if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, according to a new study.
«But if a real» 200 - year» flood occurred on today's river, the structures protecting St. Louis would be overtopped.
That is, if you can make enough money in the years when you are not flooded to compensate for the inevitable flood, then build in the flood plain.
For example a 1 in 100 year flood — what if that becomes 1 in 30 years, or even 1 every decade?
As for lava flows that have occurred since the flood, the potassium - argon dating technique is seldom used if the rock is thought to be younger than 100,000 years.
It's that time of the year again — everything pumpkin - flavored has flooded grocery store shelves, and we're diving straight in as if a Pumpkin Spice Latte were the swimming pool of fall.
It's that time of the year again when all of those springtime wedding invites start flooding in and if you're not Pippa Middleton with what seems like a Masters in putting together the perfect wedding guest outfit, then you're probably a little stuck for ideas at the moment.
If you are a person that always likes to be up to date when it comes to fashion trends, I'm pretty sure you already know that this year, catwalks were flooded with shiny and glittery stuff.
The years of history flooded my head and my mind wondered if I should open my heart, or keep this book slammed shut.
Three and a half thousand years later: disastrous storms and floods, epidemics, epizootic diseases and plagues of locusts, poisoned lakes and dying rivers it might appear as if the Biblical plagues were returning in the twenty - first century.
The finished grade elevation beneath the manufactured home or, if a basement is used, the grade beneath the basement shall be at or above the 100 - year return frequency flood elevation
With your current 170k, if you made 6 % this year you'd pull in over 10k, blistering your goals and with much less headache, for a mere $ 25 fee (Much less than the cost of brokerage fees unless you are flooded with free trades)..
The NFIP adds an annual $ 25 surcharge to each flood insurance policy, but that fee jumps to $ 250 per year if the house is not your primary residence.
Flood insurance is very cheap, costing just a couple of hundred dollars per year, if you do not live in a federally designated flood zone.
[If you have a payment like flood insurance, which is paid every 3 years, you must project a trial balance over that 3 - year period.]
If you need a flood insurance, the first year's premium must be paid at closing.
These will take months if not years to get through as more and more keep flooding into the department each day.
If you're looking for reviews, we published a flood of DVD revs and a look at one of the best games of the year - The Wolf Among Us...
If it seems to display raw data, like the algorithmic flood of numbers from Charles Atlas last year in Bushwick, more is to come.
«Homer Was Swept Away» shows a classical Greek painting with heavy water damage in a bent frame, as if it had been swept away in a flood, while «George Washington Eroded» is a portrait of the first president, flaked, peeling and crumbling; it looks like the sort of thing archeologists from the year 3500 would extract from the ruins of what was the United States of America.»
On the River Model The modeling from almost 10 years ago predicts that this level flood becomes a 10 - percent - likelihood event if the basin becomes widely urbanized.
For example, a study for New York showed that what is a once - in - a-century flooding event (submerging subway stations etc.) now, whould occur every 3 years if sea level were just 1 meter higher.
If the China domestic solar market had truly collapsed this year, as some feared, this would have not only flooded the market with cheap panels, but reduced capital for upgrading production lines.
And if an AGW hurricane, or flood, or whatever does comes along in the developing world in 20,30,40 years, infrastructure, wealth will protect the populations whether it is of natural attribution, or a supposed 5 % (or whatever) future AGW hurricane...
If there are 100 years of data this automatically gives the 1 in 100 year flood.
Since I bought some waterfront 13 years ago there have been 3 «100 year floods» if we go by the original 691 ′ flood plain.
IF the case for global warming is so open and shut, why the need for a report as disingenuous as Mr Kofi Annan's... warning that climate change - induced disasters, such as droughts and floods, kill 315,000 each year and cost $ 125 billion, numbers it says will rise to 500,000 dead and $ 340 billion by 2030.
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