A desperate tackle from Quintin Geldenhuys denied Chris Ashton after an initial Flood break but, for all England's dominance of possession and territory, there was little cutting edge for the first half-hour.
The invasion of restoration teams that clean you out after a flood break up and tear up your home inch by inch, bit by bit, until it is stripped bare and your "stuff" that can be salvaged is in heaping piles.
In 1962, a flood broke the dikes, killing hundreds and causing extensive damage.
By our local stretch of creek is a wetland recently developed from a man-made flood-break and now nurturing native flora and fauna – part of a campaign to restore the nature corridor formed by Merri Creek after the damage done by more than a century of industrial development along its course.
After trees and other debris dislodged by flooding broke a sour gas pipeline on Thursday, residents of Turner Valley, Alberta, were evacuated or told to stay indoors.
While many studies describe that flooding breaks the dormancy in seeds of many várzea tree species and is necessary for germination, other studies mention that seed buoyancy and/or submergence have negative effects on germination.
Working with computer simulations of the disaster and metallurgic analysis of retrieved fragments of Titanic steel, the team also addressed how the ship flooded, broke in two and plunged to the bottom.
In the 19th century a series of disastrous floods broke the dikes of the Huang He (which began to shift to its present northern course), caused great problems in the section of the canal between Xuzhou and Huaiyin, and cut across the canal between Linqing and Jining.
But in my first autumn here, I experienced an épisode cévenol: when cold air from the Atlantic meets warm air from the Mediterranean, leading to dark cloud for days on end, apocalyptic rain, flash floods, broken bridges, dead sheep, restive children, fretful fathers and unhinged mothers.
The flooding broke a levee at Michael Field, and in Mineral County one school and 14 basements were flooded.
After one too many late-night noise issues, a million block laps to find parking and repeat calls to landlords regarding floods, broken air conditioners and bug infestations, our little family finally decided that perhaps the suburbs would be a better fit for us than the city.
