Sentence examples for during a flood from inspiring English sources

The floodplain, therefore, increases in elevation during a flood event.

You might as well be handing out puddles during a flood.

By creating non-essential spaces on the ground floors, less expensive damage would occur during a flood.

In it, Ziggy is stranded on a rooftop during a flood as a rescue boat picks up people alphabetically.

Reporter at Large about a few days spent on the Mississippi River and two of its tributaries, during a flood.

This work investigates the spatiotemporal properties required to trigger building contents evacuations in the floodplain during a flood event.

It makes as much sense to cut social service programs in an economic downturn as to drill holes in a boat during a flood.

What that means is that the river, when it goes awry during a flood, spills every which way across the countryside.

Accused was a good medical orderly: he received commendations twice for raising health standards and once for preventing the explosion of some carbide during a flood.

Moreover, the world's deadliest energy accident was not Chernobyl; it was the collapse of a cascade of Chinese dams during a flood in 1975.

Meanwhile, the 22 deaths that resulted from the deluge offer some insight as to what not to do during a flood situation.