Sentence examples for disastrous flooding from inspiring English sources
In 1976 the Teton Dam collapsed, causing disastrous flooding of the upper Snake River valley.
The site was chosen to be far enough inland to avoid a recurrence of disastrous flooding.
Disastrous flooding claimed 17 lives in October – 15 in South Carolina and two in North Carolina.
Disastrous flooding prompted its conversion – desecration, some critics would say – into a glorified drainage ditch.
The verdict came as Russia was coping with disastrous flooding again, this time in the country's Far East.
In many places, without continuous attention to such maintenance, the coincidence of high tides with heavy rainfall would lead to frequent disastrous flooding of inhabited areas.
Disastrous floods sweep through Prague.
In human terms, a generation passed with no disastrous floods.
Johnstown flood, disastrous flood that occurred in 1889 in the town of Johnstown, Pa.
During the disastrous flood of November 1966, the doors were semi-submerged in swirling water and debris.
The city was the victim of a disastrous flood in 1889.
