Sentence examples for catastrophic overflow from inspiring English sources
The last catastrophic overflow is described in the Roman literature as a consequence of the anger of Poseidon against the Romans in 398 B.C. for their war against the Etruscans.
This winter, faced with an energy shortfall, Kirgizstan and Tajikistan opened their reservoirs, generating more hydropower but more pressure downstream.To avoid a catastrophic overflow over, or a collapse of, the dams around Kazakhstan's Chardara reservoir, water had to be released from it.
Severe fluctuations of the groundwater table and catastrophic overflows of the Lake Albano from the maar rim had occurred prior to and after the early prehistoric settlements dated in the maar area at the Eneolithic times (ca. III millennium B.C .. Repeated lahars occurred along the northwestern slope of the maar filling in the paleodrainage network and forming a vast plain.
The Seine has not overflowed this much since December 1982, when it rose to about 20 feet, but the river's level is still short of the 26.2 feet reached in the catastrophic flood of January 1910.
Within walking distance, bayous and creeks have overflowed to catastrophic proportions.
A collapse of the spillway could cause catastrophic flooding if the lake overflows again.
In the end, the trauma we anticipated that morning when the hospital was full and the emergency room overflowing was not nearly as catastrophic as it could have been.
Buffer overflows and dangling pointers lead to catastrophic security holes, again and again and again, just like yesteryear, just like all the years of yore.
Its effects on the surrounding region could be catastrophic as well, with glacial meltwater collecting in the caldera until it overflows, causing a vast flood.
And the winds are only just beginning to blow--in mass species extinction, in catastrophic global warming, in regional war in the Middle East, in millions of refugees desperately overflowing national borders--and now in the rise of fascism.
