A devastating flood 10 years ago left this soup bowl — a "beel" in Bengali — inundated with water that reached above Abdul Lateef's head.
Following the devastating flood of 1953, Dutch engineers also began to develop a new generation of tough, synthetic textiles that could be used to anchor earthen levees from below, preventing movement of the soil and even the penetration of water.
Long and heavy rainfall during the last days of October and the first week of November 2008 resulted in a devastating flood unseen for over three decades in the capital city of Hanoi.
Though he devotes a paragraph or two to the "devastating flood" of 1966, climate change and the threat of rising sea levels are relegated to a single sentence.
"Pakistan was left rather alone in the most devastating flood in its history," he said.
Szeged was replanned after the devastating flood of 1879, with concentric boulevards and radial avenues.
Last autumn, a devastating flood hit the disputed region of Kashmir.
They referred to a pump the town installed after a devastating flood in 1979.
Qureshi's success with Bopanna has been a welcome distraction for his country, which has been beset by a devastating flood.
AFTER a ten-year drought, farmers along the Murrumbidgee River now face ruin from a devastating flood.
Damage to artworks is not expected to approach that suffered by Florence in the devastating flood of 1966.
