Sentence examples for around flooded from inspiring English sources

The heavy rain and hail hampered rescue efforts, and highways and streets were clogged late into the night as motorists worked their way around flooded portions of the city.

Felled trees and wooden debris lay everywhere as rescue workers in boats nosed through murky waters and around flooded structures.

I was covering the floods, so drove tortuous routes around flooded valleys, hundreds of miles along wind-battered motorways and down dozens of rain-lashed country lanes, but I'm not complaining.

Recent grazing was associated with an increase in species richness, which may reflect the concentration of herbivores around flooded areas.

There were reports of alligators swimming around flooded buildings on Canal Street.

Still, many chose to ignore city officials' recommendations to stay put, at times driving the wrong way up interstate exists in order to snake around flooded underpasses. .

In their white uniforms, the United States' players jumped in a shower in the athletes' village, stomping around, flooding the floor, in hopes of regaining the form that sustained them through a 112-game winning streak.

This time around, flooding was a result of storm surge, which can come with great force and immediacy.

There are all kinds of schemes based around flooding the store with "templatized" apps.

The biggest wish, of course, is that the national economy will suddenly turn around and flood the city and state with desperately needed revenues.

The hospital went dark after its backup generators failed, and helicopters hired by the corporation did not arrive until two days after the streets around Memorial flooded.