Sentence examples for deep flooding from inspiring English sources

All around Stephen Askew was raw sewage, eight feet deep, flooding a crippled waste-treatment plant in Harlem.

Once the water is above your waist, you lose all leverage; even a short distance in deep flooding can lead to total exhaustion.

Flood-prone rice is found mainly in river delta areas where deep flooding to 50 400 m is common during the growing season.

Officials closed 1.5 mile of a road in Southampton due to 3.5 feet deep flooding.

Near Medford, the rainfall lead to 2 feet (0.6 m) deep flooding on U.S. Highway 81, forcing its closure.

Gealy (1998) reported that deep flooding may reduce Ipomoea spp. infestation.

While deep floods claimed lives even in the centre of Beijing, the rural Fangshan district bore the brunt of the disaster, with 18.4in (46.7cm) of rain falling overnight.

"Impacts were seen in these areas are likely to include widespread flooding affecting significant numbers of properties and whole communities, danger to life from fast flowing, deep flood water and severe disruption to travel with the risk of motorists becoming stranded.

As police urged drivers to follow warnings, a 47-year-old woman was charged with careless driving after emergency services were called to free her from her half-submerged vehicle when she allegedly attempted to drive through 4ft deep flood water in Stobo, near Peebles.

Passed down from generation to generation and family to family, there would have been a local variety for every soil and taste – rice that would grow well in droughts or deep floods, which had the aroma of mangoes or peanuts, tolerance for saltwater or medicinal value.

Elsewhere, roads were swamped with deep flood waters.