Sentences with phrase «year floods become»

Scientists and the engineers who monitor the flow of the Mississippi are asking similar questions, as 100 - and 500 - year floods become more frequent along the Mississippi.

The 1000 year flood becomes the 100 year flood or maybe the 50 year flood.

Not exact matches

The trickle became a flood, and in February it was announced that Heenan Blaikie would close, despite a $ 75 - million profit last year.

And since March, when it became obvious Andy Charles would be setting up shop here later this year, a flood of new products and price cuts has appeared.

Hurricane Harvey became the nation's first Category 4 landfall in almost 12 years, hammering the Texas Gulf Coast with an extremely dangerous combination of torrential rainfall, storm - surge flooding and destructive winds.

-- Dishwashers become outdated almost as fast as POS systems, with new cleaning methods, chemicals, and water / energy - efficient models flooding the market every year.

what is necessary and a very important change for us today and the future is our conscience, and this requires global consciousness necessary for our long term needs and survival, we need a faith that will compel us to unite to address the problems of survival, in the future, a few thousand years from now the glacial period cycle is due, earth will no longer be hospitable and we either have to immigrate to other planets or, develope a system that will protect us, the natural calamities like floods, typhoons, sub zero temperatures, will become our big problem in the future, so we need a religion that will guide our conscience from simplistic self survival towards a more holistic view of reality.Our oneness with ourselves and Him is the primary tenets or doctrines of this religion.

Most of what you asked is the same stuff I asked of myself and continue to ask the flood of people I've seen becoming «free - range» Christians over the last 5 or so years.

The hope is, however, that the 2018 season becomes the first berm against that flood of losses, and that the young core put together after a years - long teardown will finally start to score more runs than their opponents.

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.

According to ancient Chinese texts that mix historical events with legend, about 4,000 years ago a hero named Yu tamed a flood and went on to become China's first emperor.

«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.

Without the floods, the soil became parched, boosting the risk of crop failure the following year.

Previous studies have used a variety of computer models and data from fossils and flood events to argue that ENSO has become more exaggerated over the past 11,000 years, known as the Holocene period.

New data show that extreme weather events have become more frequent over the past 36 years, with a significant uptick in floods and other hydrological events compared even with five years ago, according to a new publication, «Extreme weather events in Europe: Preparing for climate change adaptation: an update on EASAC's 2013 study» by the European Academies» Science Advisory Council (EASAC), a body made up of 27 national science academies in the European Union, Norway, and Switzerland.

Over the past 65 million years — as the earth froze, thawed, flooded, and dried — mammals spread to every continent and became big names on the stage of life.

The researchers compiled urban development, flood hazard and census data and overlaid it on a map of the U.S.. Although their analysis shows that Americans in general have become more aware of the risk of floods over the 10 - year study period, the researchers identified several U.S. hot spots where urban development has grown in coastal flood zones including New York City and Miami.

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

Picture this, Garner says: the prospects that the 500 - year - floods from past centuries could, with the boost from sea - level rise, become the projected five - year floods over just the next three decades.

For example a 1 in 100 year flood — what if that becomes 1 in 30 years, or even 1 every decade?

«The shock for us was that tidal flooding could become the new normal in the next 15 years; we didn't think it would be so soon,» said Melanie Fitzpatrick, one of three researchers at the nonprofit who analyzed tide gauge data and sea level projections, producing soused prognoses for scores of coastal Americans.

Writing is an art, but writing is also a business, one that becomes increasingly competitive as the self - publishing industry floods the market with millions (yes, millions) of new book titles each year.

One of the larger natural disasters in the past years become flooding that strongly impacted Alberta in 2013.

One of the larger topics in the past years become flooding that strongly impacted Alberta in 2013.

One of the larger topics in the past years become flooding and storms that strongly impacted Ontario particularly in 2013.

There's a lot of pent - up strategizing that we have not been able to tap into for 30 years that is going to come out in a flood once it becomes clear that there is no longer any danger in talking realistically and honestly and accurately about stock investing questions.

After reviewing the state's efforts during last year's flooding, it became apparent that more preparation was needed to take care of animals in these situations

The ancestral home of the Wulgurukaba people, once part of the mainland Magnetic Island became isolated from the coast when the sea level rose about 10,000 years ago flooding the low lying woodland between Townsville and the island, as a result a unique and diverse suite of plants and animals have evolved with some species though to be endemic.

Aboriginal Botanist Warren Whitfield will take you on an adventure experience.The ancestral home of the Wulgurukaba people, became isolated from the coast when the sea level rose about 10,000 years ago flooding the low lying Woodland between Townsville and the island, as a result a unique and diverse suite of plants and animals have evolved with some species though to be endemic.

Originally a limestone cave, the Great Blue Hole flooded and collapsed thousands of year ago in the Ice Age, becoming the watery abyss it is today.

In recent years, however, app stores have become flooded with games.

Among the highlights of its first eight years are: Bernd Alois Zimmermann's harrowing Die Soldaten, in which the audience moved «through the music;» the unprecedented six - week residency of the Royal Shakespeare Company in their own theater rebuilt in the drill hall; a massive digital sound and video environment by Ryoji Ikeda; a sprawling gauzy, multi-sensory labyrinth created by Ernesto Neto; the event of a thread, a site - specific installation by Ann Hamilton; the final performances of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company across three separate stages; the New York Philharmonic performing Karlheinz Stockhausen's sonic masterpiece Gruppen with three orchestras surrounding the audience; WS by Paul McCarthy, a monumental installation of fantasy, excess, and dystopia; a sonic environment that blurred the boundaries between artist and audience created by the xx; an immersive Macbeth set in a Scottish heath and henge by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh; tears become... streams become..., a genre - defying collaboration between artist Douglas Gordon and pianist Hélène Grimaud, which flooded the Armory's drill hall with an installation of water, light, and music; and HABEAS CORPUS, a performance and installation by Laurie Anderson based on the story of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee that examines lost identity, memory, and the resiliency of the human body and spirit.

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.

Anticipating that severe flooding may become more frequent due to global warming, a WHO report said that independent studies in cyclone - affected Orissa and a flooded town in England has shown that post-traumatic stress disorder syndromes of different severity in affected people even after a year.»

The so - called 100 - year flood is likely to become more frequent.4 Because transportation planners use such events to determine infrastructure needs, future plans based on the past are likely to become less reliable — and planners will need to develop models that reflect the effects of climate change.7

The physical evidence becomes more dramatic every year: forests retreating, animals moving north, glaciers melting, wildfire seasons getting longer, higher rates of droughts, floods, and storms — five times as many in the 2000s as in the 1970s.

«When I joined the American Physical Society sixty - seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood... the choice of physics as a profession was then a guarantor of a life of poverty and abstinence... How different it is now... the money flood has become the raison d'etre of much physics research, the vital sustenance of much more, and it provides the support for untold numbers of professional jobs... It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave.

The lawns of homes purchased this year in vast swaths of coastal America could regularly be underwater before the mortgage has even been paid off, with new research showing high tide flooding could become nearly incessant in places within 30 years.

That's because we become better at building and engineering but continue to do stupid things like inappropriate building on 100 year flood plains.

Flooding that was once exceedingly rare could become an every - few - years occurrence, new research shows.

3 April: ABC Rural: Flint Duxfield: Floods set to increase as climate changes «for good» The latest report by the Climate Commission warns extreme flood events like those experienced in Queensland this year could become an annual occurrence later this century.

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.

A few years ago, when I was first launched into becoming the amateur investigator of what's up with whatsupwiththat, and the flood of really well crafted (certainly not done by ignorant people) anonymous emails conveying little known proof of Obama's secret Islamitude, and other lies that would damage Rush Limbaugh's reputation if he were to personally deliver them... Ah Say, Ah Say (Foghorn Leghorn accent) when I was first launched into all that, from reading prodigious comment - storms in many places, including judithcurry.com, but also invading more liberal venues, I concluded what we have here is less a movement for anything, than a massively stroked and stoked «Great Liberal Hating and Baiting Cult», with a very big self - organizing component, but definitely nourished in all sorts of ways by the folks you can read about in Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Meyer (best book yet of its class and I've read many).

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.

Here is an excerpt of the research paper, «When It Rains It Pours», from Environment America, showing a statistically significant spike in flash flooding and other extreme precipitation events since 1948: «Weather records show that storms with extreme precipitation have become more frequent over the last 60 years.

Coastal Flooding to Increase in Less Obvious Areas In case you need a closer to home example (and one note as obvious as the Mississippi Delta...): An assessment of the impact of sea level rise on New York City showed that by 2080 coastal flooding which historically had been experienced every 10 years, would now occur every 3, and the statistical «once in a century» storm would more likely become the «once every 10 - 35 years»Flooding to Increase in Less Obvious Areas In case you need a closer to home example (and one note as obvious as the Mississippi Delta...): An assessment of the impact of sea level rise on New York City showed that by 2080 coastal flooding which historically had been experienced every 10 years, would now occur every 3, and the statistical «once in a century» storm would more likely become the «once every 10 - 35 years»flooding which historically had been experienced every 10 years, would now occur every 3, and the statistical «once in a century» storm would more likely become the «once every 10 - 35 years» storm.

When you experience one in one year, the chances are still one out of one - hundred that you will get another one of the same intensity the next year, even if the climate has become slightly more likely to produce an extreme flood.

While last year's wet spring doesn't mean Minnesotans should expect flooded basements every year, Snyder said, his work indicates that intense weather events are becoming increasingly frequent in the Upper Midwest.

So the question is this: if the government thought that free movement of workers was causing such terrible problems, why didn't it impose restrictions years ago when the post-Enlargement flood was at its high point and the issue first became prominent?

6 years from when you first became aware or should have reasonably become aware of your loss (e.g within 6 years from the date of the motor vehicle accident, theft or flood)