Sentence examples for biggest flood from inspiring English sources

Engineers design for the biggest flood or highest winds that seem plausible at a given time.

They build the walls high enough to withstand the biggest flood expected every 200 years (or 100 years for walls along flood-prone rivers) but no higher.

Last July, with the dam facing its biggest flood crest since completion in 2006, officials hinted that they might have overstated its ability to control flooding.

Primitive fishing villages perched on shallow banks, some of them flooded and abandoned because our visit coincided with the biggest flood for 20 years.

Even as this city was nearly shuttered on Friday, its sandbagged downtown submerged in the biggest flood ever recorded here, people in Des Moines began evacuating and other Iowa towns thought about it.

Apart from the five biggest flood events, the base load represented 53%.

Indeed, The Times has reported that three of the 10 biggest floods in Lower Manhattan since 1900 have occurred in the last three years.

IN YUNNAN in south-west China the biggest floods in a dozen years have ended a long, brutal drought.

John Hsu, deputy commissioner of the county Public Works Department, says the Saw Mill -- a state road -- is Westchester's biggest flooder.

I AM in Yunnan in south-west China, where the biggest floods in a dozen years have ended a brutal long drought.

In the past year he has confronted calamities like the biggest floods in Britain in 400 years, breakdowns in the railroads and the National Health Service and repeated cases of misconduct by government ministers.