Sentences with phrase «year floods in»

Calgary (100 miles N. of here) has had two 100 - year floods in just 8 years.

The probability does not change if there are two 500 year floods in 10 years.

So how do we explain that in the span of just five months, the United States logged no fewer than four deadly 1,000 - year floods in states as widespread as Texas, West Virginia, Maryland and Louisiana — following a 1,000 - year - flood that ravaged South Carolina last October.

Lower Mississippi had near record spring then that was topped by 500 year flooding in mid-west.

«Flood control is typically tied to thresholds such as the 100 - year event (a flood expected to occur, on average, once a century) in rural areas, or to the 200 - year flood in heavily developed basins.

The U.S. Geologic Survey warns that the next 200 - year flood in California would likely cause more than $ 700 billion in damage.

Not exact matches

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

But another good year in 2003 flooded the reserves, and the industry then decided to impose quotas to limit excess production.

Hurricane Maria was the most powerful storm to hit Puerto Rico in more than 80 years, swallowing houses, flooding neighborhoods and leaving millions without power.

The Swiss created, then shunned, digital watches and let the Japanese flood the market and put 50,000 Swiss watchmakers out of work in two years (1979 - 1981).

The industry received backlash in 2013, when many Albertans were only partially covered for the damages of the year's disastrous flooding.

In his six years as Mayor of Calgary, Naheed Nenshi has dealt with his fair share of damage control, from catastrophic flooding in 2013, wildfires this spring in the neighbouring communities, and the ongoing fallout from the province's recessioIn his six years as Mayor of Calgary, Naheed Nenshi has dealt with his fair share of damage control, from catastrophic flooding in 2013, wildfires this spring in the neighbouring communities, and the ongoing fallout from the province's recessioin 2013, wildfires this spring in the neighbouring communities, and the ongoing fallout from the province's recessioin the neighbouring communities, and the ongoing fallout from the province's recession.

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).

In 2016, for the first time since the Great Recession, restaurant chains once again began emphasizing value after years of doubling down on quality with a flood of bundled bargain deals.

They are behind last year's pace, while imports from China and elsewhere are flooding in.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

This year Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin have been wetter than ever before; Australia, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh have severely flooded; in New Zealand the rainfall is four times the usual.

The number of genuine companies joining the TSX (you know, businesses that actually make things or sell their services — not the sprawling detritus of exchange - traded funds and other investment vehicles that regularly flood the exchange) is, so far this year, down from what it was in previous years.

With the bulk of quotas ending this year, industry watchers expected western countries to be flooded with foreign imports in 2005.

Until just a few years ago, a good disaster recovery plan included insuring your company against flood and disruption, backing up your data and storing it in a different location once a week, as well as developing a contingency plan for your employees to work from home, or some other location.

«We're hopeful this extension moves us toward the most productive path for our domestic steel industry — the tariffs President Trump announced earlier this year and a quota system to limit the amount of imports flooding our country,» Lebow said in a statement.

Bank - to - bank lending rates have been in virtual freefall since November last year when news broke that the ECB was going to flood the banking system with ultra-cheap, three - year cash.

Bank - to - bank lending rates have been in virtual free - fall since November last year when news broke that the ECB was going to flood the banking system with ultra-cheap, three - year cash.

Or will this be more like 1986 — an eerily familiar scenario in which an OPEC decision to keep pumping oil after a flood of new supply ended up tanking prices for years?

A 100 - year flood has a 1 in 4 chance of occurring in the 30 - year span of a typical home mortgage, he said, adding that's the kind of time scale that gets people's attention.

«We can longer commit to evaluating the impacts and risks of a single project in isolation against a retrospective, stationary understanding of risk (e.g., the 100 - year flood we've been hearing so much about.)»

A flood of higher - tech ones are expected in three to seven years.

Building homes in 100 - year flood zones creates vulnerability, no matter how well - engineered these structures may be.

Last year, a string of strong hurricanes that hit airlines» hubs cost airlines hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue, but clearing runways from a snowstorm is a much faster process than recovering from the floods, power outages, structural damage to airports and other infrastructure damage that 2017's storms caused.

But it is just the highest - profile case in a growing flood of data breaches that have risen in sophistication over the past five years.

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.

The central bank has cut interest rates for more than a year and flooded the state - owned sector with almost $ 1 trillion of credit in the first quarter.

«We're hopeful this extension moves us toward the most productive path for our domestic steel industry - the tariffs President Trump announced earlier this year and a quota system to limit the amount of imports flooding our country,» Leebow said in a statement.

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.

Hurricane Maria was the most powerful storm to hit Puerto Rico in more than 80 years — swallowing houses, flooding neighborhoods and leaving millions without power.

In its first two years, as demand soared, the company hired dozens of hourly workers to handle the flood of incoming complaints and problems.

American shale drillers using the same technology have flooded their domestic market in recent years, pushing out higher - cost Canadian supply.

Likewise, flooding in Annapolis, Maryland, home to the U.S. Naval Academy, is not expected to reach the 10 percent threshold, although key parts of the city, including the academy campus and downtown, now flood 40 times a year.

For the past two years, OPEC's pump - at - will policies have flooded the market with cheap supply, causing economic pain for producers with higher cash costs, including those involved in fracking, the Canadian oil sands and deepwater drilling.

In recent years, money has flooded into low - cost index funds and out of more expensive actively managed funds, thanks in part to a greater focus on the large bite fees take out of already lackluster retirement balances over the long terIn recent years, money has flooded into low - cost index funds and out of more expensive actively managed funds, thanks in part to a greater focus on the large bite fees take out of already lackluster retirement balances over the long terin part to a greater focus on the large bite fees take out of already lackluster retirement balances over the long term.

Last year's explosive rise in the value of digital coins and the flood of new retail investors drawn to the market have rattled global regulators nervous about a sector used largely for speculation.

So if there's a flood in Houston one year, the places where it didn't flood can cover it and vice versa.

Health officials in Texas have already announced the death of a 77 - year - old Harris county resident from Vibrio: She came into contact with flood waters when they ripped into her home, and later died as a result of flesh - eating disease.