The mammoth lake held back by the dam, Glacial Lake Missoula, was drained like a giant bathtub, in perhaps as little as 48 hours.
I was waiting for my eyes to drain like a raging waterfall, but instead, they closed.
At that moment, a nearby lagoon, known as Laguna de Chakanbacán and totaling roughly one square mile, was draining like a bathtub.
In 2010, the winter after the worst fire in L.A. County history, a debris flow — which one resident described like a "Niagara Falls" — flowed down La Cañada Flintridge's northernmost neighborhood when a 10-ton boulder clogged a critical basin, plugging up the drain like a giant stopper.
Make sure people still like you because when the whole plan goes down the drain like a train you'll have your back up.
Instead his relentlessness has become strangely draining, like watching a man condemned to death by left-arm spin nobly seeing out his sentence.
Today's team, at Old Trafford, play on an artificially drained surface like a lawn, with lightweight balls that soar.
"Brain drain" sounds like a terrible medical condition.
Do not put anything heavy on the ground over your tank or drain field like a shed, parked car or RV, cement, asphalt, or above ground pool.
When I flush, they'll scream, "Wheeeee!" and slide down the drain like kids at a water park.
