Sentence examples for causing severe flooding from inspiring English sources

A 34-foot span of the bridge was washed away early Tuesday after more than 13 inches of rain fell in Burlington County, causing severe flooding.

Six lives were lost, and heavy rains pummeled the state, causing severe flooding and significant damage in some towns as the Raritan River overflowed its banks.

When high water in the Tisza meets similar conditions in the Danube, the Tisza flows back into its own course, causing severe flooding.

See articleThe Mississippi River reached its highest level in some places for 70 years, causing severe flooding in Tennessee and elsewhere.

Heavy rain tapered off in western Washington after causing severe flooding that killed at least one person and stranded others who had to be rescued by the police and the National Guard.

The Met Office was expecting 40mm of rain to fall widely, with up to 70mm in some places – the sort of levels that have been causing severe flooding in Cornwall, Devon, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire.

Through its anomalous precipitation behaviour causing severe floods or droughts, the EASM considerably influences the economic and societal activities of one-third of the world's population11,12.

Harvey has destroyed homes, severed power supplies and caused severe flooding.

After several days of heavy rain that have caused severe flooding in towns west of Austin, the surface at the Texan capital's circuit was slippery under granite, drizzly skies during first practice.

There, the passage of the storm caused severe flooding, which destroyed large quantities of crops and damaged several roads.

(Joaquin did turn out to be lethal and devastating but in South Carolina, where it joined with other storms to cause severe flooding and fifteen deaths, and in the Bahamas, where it slammed several islands and sank a cargo ship, killing all thirty-three of its crewmembers).