Sentence examples for devastating tidal from inspiring English sources

The problem was that what they were seeing was not supposed to be happening now — not for perhaps another 20 years when, they'd been told, rising sea levels due to climate change would turn the storm surges of ordinary nor'easters or low-category hurricanes into devastating tidal torrents.

3. Work in groups to research and develop pages for a guide that provide country-specific information about relief needs in the South Asian countries most affected by the devastating tidal waves that struck on Dec. 26, 2004, and how to meet them.

The assignment takes the form of a summer camp hosted by the Survivors organisation, during which Dooley will subject herself to a potentially devastating tidal wave of virulently anti-science and anti-commonsense rhetoric and assess the effect is has, both on her and the unfortunate American youngsters who are involved in this stuff for real.

She found the diagnosis days later devastating, feeling a "tidal wave of shame" hit her in the student health centre.

"These waves [of sand] can be every bit as devastating as a tidal wave … they've even caused deaths," he wrote in a pitch to his agent.

"These waves can be every bit as devastating as a tidal wave..

Both developed and developing countries are facing the adverse effects of climate change, such as prolonged floods and severe drought in South Asia and Africa, heat waves in Europe, devastating cyclones and tidal surges (e.g. Hurricane Katrina and Rita) along the Atlantic coasts [ 4].

Instead came a tidal wave of austerity, devastating attacks on the remaining social gains of social democracy, and the poison of rightwing xenophobia.

Climate change and global weather chaos -- droughts and fires, tsunamis and tidal waves, crop failure, undrinkable water, devastating cold, rising oceans, new levels of social turmoil -- are the future we are unable to hold off.

This huge coastal region is very much prone to tidal surge and cyclones; and approximately in every 5 years devastating cyclonic storm hits these coastal areas.

Its low shores were devastated during the disastrous tidal surge floods of February 1953.