Sentences with phrase «year storm»

Several summers back a hundred - year storm came through the area and pulled the roofs off several apartment buildings.

With 100 - year storms now the norm, our on - Island power supply remains reliant on outdated, polluting plants that sit on the shoreline, vulnerable to storm surge.

Because we've already had our hundred year storm for this century, that may be less of an issue.

But in case two of those only - every - hundred - year storms happen in a row, your insurance company can buy insurance for that event.

History teaches us that the hundred - year storm rolls around much more frequently than its name would suggest.

No, you have to account for 100 - year storm frequencies and notice that it might not be anymore.

Because we've already had our hundred year storm for this century, that may be less of an issue.

Several summers back a hundred - year storm came through the area and pulled the roofs off several apartment buildings.

Tomball, Texas, Public Works director David Esquivel told a local paper there this year that the Houston area had «two 500 - year storms back to back»: over Memorial Day weekend of 2015 and early April 2016.

The best - selling, most - awaited game of last year stormed sales, as our beloved Call Of Duty usually does.

In St. Louis, for example, Criss» research shows that the government is underestimating the reach of a 100 - year storm by 5 1/2 feet (Climatewire), July 9, 2015).

The middle school years are often characterized as a stage of life to survive, to get through — jumping from the comfort of childhood into a roughly three - year storm of hormones, insecurity, and nagging, drowning in the frenetic angst of adolescence, frantically rowing to make it to the shore of young adulthood.

Elevation is important because the risk of flood damage is determined by a home's location relative to the 100 - year storm height.

Severe 100 - year storms make their mark, but give people and wildlife time to adapt, repair infrastructure and implement longer - term solutions.

Assumptions: A 10 year storm event is meaningful.

Tomball, Texas, Public Works director David Esquivel told a local paper there this year that the Houston area had «two 500 - year storms back to back»: over Memorial Day weekend of 2015 and early April 2016.

«What we're really being hit with is these very extreme weather events, like the hurricane last year,» said Queens City Councilman James Gennaro, who said so - called 20 - year storms now seem to happen «pretty much happen every year.»

He claimed that 5 operatives of the EFCC had in December last year stormed his Abuja residence without lawful court order and search warrant invaded his house and made away with his properties on the ground that they were investigating a money laundering matter.

Climate Change to Take Bite Out of Big Apple: Sea Level Rise, Temperature Increases, Hundred Year Storms Every 15 Years

«We've seen the damages of having these 100 years storms come more frequently,» said Booker while accepting the Sierra Club's endorsement.

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.

They blamed the problem on natural cycles — what Mr. Blankfein called a «100 - year storm.»

«When investors appreciate the extent to which the current recovery has endured the perfect 1,000 - year storm, further aggravated by bad policy choices,» says Pickhardt, «opportunities will appear.»

Engineers dealing with frequent «100 - year storms» can't talk about «climate - change» when discussing their storm - related infrastructure damage issues because the Rubios of the world shout them down!

Cuomo said he joked to President Obama last night that New York is experiencing these so - called «100 - year storms» now every year.

But Cuomo, in formally announcing his veto, said al - Qaida has threatened to target such facilities and superstorm Sandy was powerful enough to damage infrastructure built to survive 100 - year storms.

«We have once in every 30 - year storms, twice a year.

If you are talking about 100 - year storms, are there then 100 years between them?

This knowledge tells us something about how big we should expect the 1000 - year storm to be in relation to the 100 - year storm and how big the 100 - year storm is expected to be in relation to the 10 - year storm.

The program deems that a certified levee will protect homes behind it from a 100 - year storm.

Kuffner noted that six percent of residential structures within Rhode Island's 21 coastal communities are currently vulnerable to some level of flooding in the event of a 100 - year storm.

All three hurricanes were powerful enough to be labelled «hundred - year storms», says Tundi Agardy, one of the WWF team.

A city flooded Kirshen co-authored a study by the Boston Harbor Association, motivated by Hurricane Sandy and released last month, that analyzed potential flooding in Boston from the current 100 - year storm surge (five feet above average high tide) and the estimated 100 - year storm in 2050 (7.5 feet above average high tide).

For example, experts should eliminate references to «the hundred - year storm» or the «fifty - year storm,» which can be misleading.

Kemp also calls the idea of a 100 - year storm a «mythical measure», pointing out that we only have about 100 years of reliable data to work with, which isn't necessarily enough to reflect long - term hurricane patterns.

He contrasts the new defences with those that protect the Netherlands, which can withstand a 10,000 - year storm.

The Dubai case was particularly astounding to the researchers given that the models suggested even a moderate - intensity storm could generate an extremely high surge, and that under the right circumstances, a strong storm could reach intensities far greater than even the most intense storm on record with a surge up to 23 feet (though these would be 3 to 20 times rarer than a 10,000 - year storm).

Warming fairly drastically increased the odds of each of these events in the models, with Tampa's current 10,000 - year storm becoming anywhere from a 2,500 - year to a 700 - year storm by the end of the century (assuming high greenhouse gas emissions).

First they used the models to see what level of storm surge a 10,000 - year storm (or one with a 1 - in - 10,000 chance of happening in any given year) would have for each location.

It all appears amply dangerous, but it's still no 50 - year storm.

With glaciers melting, sea levels rising, cloud forests drying and «100 year storms» ravaging cities, it's never been more important for institutions to be prepared for the worst.

What it's not immune to is the after effects of a hundred year storm.

The real risk is in the overcrowded roads during an evacuation, the lack of fire and emergency services, and the looting that often follows a hundred year storm and its evacuation.

«As Freddie Mac Chairman and CEO Richard Syron recently put it, the GSEs have been hit by a «100 - year storm» in the housing market, accentuated by some higher - risk mortgages that they were forced to buy to meet government affordable - housing targets.

Using their technology consistently and continually has enabled them to create a system that can weather a 1000 year storm.