Sentence examples for block surges from inspiring English sources

The hope is that such a system could someday block surges from Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean into the East River and New York Harbor.

We could seal off power equipment in times of flood; build sluices near the coast that can shut to block surges; and even plant coastal forests as barriers to rising waters.

They have been installed in Europe and some American cities and are designed to close during a storm to block surging waters from reaching shore.

Permanent pumping stations at the mouths of the city's drainage canals would block surging water from Lake Pontchartrain and effectively pump water out of the city during storms as well.

Nor are city officials knocking down the doors of the San Francisco architectural firm that has proposed lining New Orleans' shores with huge "sponge combs" -- caterpillar-like things filled with baby-diaper lining that would expand when wet to block surging floodwaters.

I'm not a particularly claustrophobic person, but the thought of walls closing in on me as strobic blocks surge towards my head is enough to force me into the fetal position.

There are new dikes by the harbor, and a proposal to build a new island in the northeast to block storm surges.

Taking questions from the news media after his speech, he said that sea gates to block storm surges should not be "off the table" but that such a solution would be up to local governments.

Nearly seven years after flood waters from Hurricane Katrina gushed over New Orleans, $14.5 billion worth of civil works designed to block such surges is now in place — a 133-mile chain of levees, flood walls, gates and pumps too vast to take in at once, except perhaps from space.

Using metal cages and spring traps baited with carrots, Flevoland's rodent hunters provide a low-tech but vital service in an elaborate and highly effective Dutch defensive system that includes flood-control techniques first developed in the Middle Ages and futuristic steel structures that, operated by computers, move to block storm surges when water levels rise too high.

Its ability to block a surge is rated in terms of joules; the higher the rating, the more it can handle.