Sentence examples for damaging floods from inspiring English sources
The September storm caused damaging floods in the Carolinas.
Here we utilize a gridded reconstruction of flood exposure in 37 European countries and a new database of damaging floods since 1870.
And with little more than a foot of sea-level rise, many coastal cities could see a 25-fold increase in the frequency of damaging floods.
"These have been floods on a large scale and have been damaging floods, but they haven't been on a catastrophic scale," said Jim Hall, a professor of climate and environmental risk at the University of Oxford.
In the first case, insurers that had paid for property damage from flooding around Chicago sought compensation from municipal authorities on the grounds that those authorities had been aware that climate change had heightened the risk of damaging floods in the region, yet had not upgraded the capacity of the municipal storm water control system.
Rescue workers in Pakistan are still searching for people trapped after a week of damaging floods.
The rest will be used to rebuild damaged flood defences and research flooding patterns, using computer software modelling programs.
Habitats for fish reproduction may thus be damaged, flood risks may increase, and hydroelectric dams can fill with sediment.
In addition, the effects of climate change on soil moisture levels may create stress on yields, to say nothing of as projections for the increased severity of droughts and more numerous incidents of crop-damaging floods.
Often these changes result in ecological damage, flooding, water pollution, and reduced water supply.
