Sentence examples for a big flood from inspiring English sources

"Two glaciers could collapse into the lake, that would cause a big flood wave which would destroy the house of my family and many other houses in Huaraz.

Until people interfered with its flow, the Mississippi's path to the gulf silted up naturally over time; water flow slowed and the river bed lost its capacity to carry a big flood.

Richenda Connell, one of the scientists in the Oxford team, says a rise of half that amount would up the risk of a big flood striking an area by 10 to 20 times.

It's a big problem because now, if there's a big flood, the younger generation cannot swim.

'See them coming from India, China everywhere – they are a big flood' (interview, manager of a large regional distributor based in Kaduna, 23 April 2014).

The Mokolo-Crocodile Water Augmentation Project (MCWAP) has been delayed further by a big flood in March 2014, and later a dam failure.

There's still a big flooding problem in the southwest part of Elmhurst, and she says the alderman has asked her group for their help in pushing a solution forward.

This was a bigger flood than 1953 when 24,000 homes flooded - this time only 1,400 homes were flooded.

In the late Middle Ages, a flood of Flemish composers and teachers washed over the Continent, to be followed by a bigger flood of Italians.

What we need instead of a bigger flood insurance program is a viable private insurance market for floods.

In a sense, it is simply a very big flood.