Sentence examples for destructive flooding from inspiring English sources

Although some rain occurs from March through May, the heaviest precipitation comes with the southwest monsoon, which arrives in June, stays through September, and often causes widespread and destructive flooding.

The powerful earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan on Friday set off tsunami warnings around the Pacific Rim, including in Hawaii and California, but the vast majority of destructive flooding occurred in Japan itself, in the area nearest the quake's epicenter.

Gold and corn, however, maintained their highs on the dollar's continued weakness and destructive flooding in the U.S. corn belt.

Widespread destructive flooding is a common phenomenon along the Lower Mississippi River, and river managers have long sought to understand the temporal variability and relevant climatic factors of the system.

In the event of destructive flooding, they must look for timber or any material to start afresh or do repairs, rice fields swept away, they have to find out how to sustain the family that was dependent on rice growing as a source of livelihood.

The storm caused excessive rainfall on land, leading to deadly and destructive flooding.

In 1882 came the most destructive flood of the nineteenth century.

Periodic flooding of the Ohio necessitated extensive protection work; a destructive flood in 1937 caused widespread damage.

Imperiously, Congress ordered the commission to "prevent destructive floods," and left it to the Corps to say how.

Following destructive floods at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1889 and Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1937, the federal government built a series of flood-control dams.

They form far out over the Indian Ocean, especially from December to March, and approach the eastern coast, bringing torrential rains and destructive floods.