Sentence examples for created floods from inspiring English sources

Huge rainfall in the last three months, augmented by runoffs from overflowing dams in the north, have created floods that have inundated cities, obliterated rice fields and forced the closing of at least 1,000 factories.

Irrigation with dam and canal systems was favored because severe flow fluctuations in Central Valley rivers created floods in some years and droughts in others.

"It's all still in the lap of the gods," said Bryony Sadler, a hairdresser and member of the newly created Flooding on the Levels Action Group (Flag).

PHOENIX (AP) — Days of heavy rains around the Grand Canyon caused an earthen dam to fail Sunday and created flooding that forced helicopters to pluck hundreds of residents and campers and deliver them to safety.

The winter freeze in northern and eastern Europe is another aspect of climate, and the spring thaw, by creating floods, impedes transport and harasses farmers.

The two attempts at Islamic government in modern times, in Iran and under the Taliban in Afghanistan, have both failed - to a different extent - to provide material prosperity and continue to create floods of emigrants.

The idea of creating floods upstream to prevent floods downstream was a key message from the Pitt Review into the 2007 floods.

They say the government is failing to promote back-to-nature schemes which protect lowland homes by deliberately creating floods in the hills.

And because they wouldn't have had Uncle Sam's moral-hazard safety net, they would have been infinitely more cautious, even with the Fed creating floods of liquidity and the credit rating agencies forgetting their raison d'être.

Flows that were fully contained within the Missouri channel in the early 20th century now create floods, and extreme high flows today are associated with stages as much as 3.7 m higher than at the start of the record.

An eruption creating floods could demolish sections of the highway.