Sentence examples for dramatic flood from inspiring English sources

December 5, 2013 4.04pm GMT Nina Stobart (@NinaStobart) Dramatic flood photo from New Brighton, the Wirral!

One of the most dramatic flood features is Dry Falls, in Grand Coulee, a cataract five times as wide as Niagara that Mr. Bretz had noticed.

Our colleague Andrew Revkin has posted about his experience of dramatic flooding in Garrison, N.Y., on his New York Times blog, Dot Earth.

The year was marked by extreme weather events, from a record-breaking heat wave in Russia in July to the dramatic floods in Pakistan.

Torrential rains on Christmas Eve, with 15in falling in 24 hours, led to dramatic floods and landslides that washed through St Vincent and the Grenadines, St Lucia and Dominica.

Pictures of Venice in flood are alarming and surreal; the inundation of 70% of the city following heavy rain – one of the most dramatic floods of modern times in Venice – is surely a catastrophe, an apocalypse.

A few more hurricanes like Katrina, a few dramatic floods in the coastal cities of the rich world, perhaps even the shutting down of a part of the world's great conveyor belt of ocean currents, especially if it were the one that warms up western Europe: any of these would catch the attention of policymakers.

The result is rapid incision and dramatic flooding downstream of the bedrock high during lake outlet erosion.

HOUSTON ― Thousands of people awaited rescue on Monday as heavy rains poured into the area surrounding the nation's fourth-largest city, worsening one of the most dramatic flooding disasters in recent U.S. history.

It is subject to periodic dramatic spring floods that course down California's rivers and flush the bay with fresh water.

In each core, the benefit of tertiary low-salinity flooding became less dramatic after each flood and restoration.