Sentence examples similar to destructive inundation from inspiring English sources

The Egyptian Nile had a much more predictable water flow than the Mesopotamian rivers because it flowed through hundreds of miles of swamp, where unusually high annual floods spread out, interfering with navigation but averting the danger of the occasional destructive inundations of Mesopotamia.

Extremely dangerous Hurricane Maria plowed across Puerto Rico Wednesday morning, inflicting a disastrous combination of destructive winds, tremendous rainfall and coastal inundation from surging ocean waters.

Citing a combination of dangerous storm surges and large, destructive waves, the National Hurricane Center warned of "a danger of life-threatening inundation" on Thursday and Friday along parts of Florida's east coast from North Palm Beach to Fernandina Beach.

The firm link between rising seas and the rising risk of destructive coastal flooding was also reflected in an analysis of the changed odds of Sandy-style inundations.

Liquefaction and inundation.

(a) Passive inundation modeling.

Destructive: constructive.

An area susceptible to inundation.

And the inundation this year is much heavier.

The most destructive storms the U.S. has experienced in the past decade (Florence, Harvey, Sandy, Katrina) have all wreaked havoc by generating a significant storm surge along with massive waves and/or by dumping huge amounts of inland rain, resulting in the inundation of places we didn't even know were in the floodplain.

They hint at a slow, gloomy inundation.