Sentence examples for calamitous flooding from inspiring English sources

Wretched, also, to have fallen victim to calamitous flooding in 2002, 2003 (twice), 2006 and 2007.

Thailand, meanwhile, has recovered rapidly from calamitous flooding in 2011.However, developing Asia faces a challenge more fundamental than riding out another cyclical downturn in the West.

It is backed by the Berejiklian government in the name of reducing the risk of calamitous flooding in the western Sydney regions of Penrith and Richmond-Windsor.

But the verbal and visual centerpiece of his speech was the Khabarovsk region, where residents survived calamitous flooding in August and September that destroyed 12,000 houses and drove 32,000 people from their homes.

Even though there had been calamitous flooding along the lower Mississippi a decade earlier, only a handful of states and cities along the rivers had flood-control systems, while the federal government, adhering to a narrow interpretation of its constitutional powers, had built few flood-control levees or walls, and then mostly along the lower Mississippi.

Rebanks knows change is needed, not least in order to counteract the calamitous flooding from which the Lake District has suffered in recent years (the Trust hopes to "explore" ways in which its newest farmland might be used to slow the flow of the upper river Derwent, thereby contributing to the prevention of flooding downstream in Cockermouth and Keswick).

The waters from the calamitous floods in Europe last month have receded.

First, the calamitous floods in eastern Germany allowed Mr. Schröder to respond like an energetic leader.

Despite calamitous floods (1630, 1668), pestilences, famines, and earthquakes (chiefly 1824, 1853), much of the city has survived.

Here, in this refuge for the survivors of this country's calamitous floods, there are thousands of homeless families, but only six tents and two latrines.

The calamitous floods that struck England in 1947, by contrast, were over much more quickly.Fingers have been pointed at the government, for squeezing the Environment Agency's budget.