Sentence examples for devastated by flooding from inspiring English sources

Willie Mae had moved from the projects to the Lower Ninth Ward, which was devastated by flooding.

The electrical systems of many buildings, already in marginal shape because of delayed maintenance, were also devastated by flooding.

It failed to work in 1966, when this treasure house of a city was devastated by flooding.

New York and parts of New England were devastated by flooding after Hurricane Irene made landfall in 2011.

In Grand Forks, which was devastated by flooding in 1997, two of the three bridges leading in and out of town were already closed.

The Jacobses visited New Orleans two years ago and stayed with friends in the Ninth Ward, a neighborhood devastated by flooding.

The people of Pakistan, devastated by floods?

The town was devastated by flood when the nearby Malpasset Dam collapsed in 1959.

It was almost entirely destroyed by the earthquake of 1692 and devastated by flood in 1902.

It was a similar story in Cockermouth, Cumbria, which was devastated by floods in November 2009.

On Monday he toured areas of southern France devastated by floods.