Sentence examples for flood burst from inspiring English sources

In that first, and so far biggest, measured flood burst, an estimated 10 billion gallons gushed out in three days, threatening homes and property along the Mendenhall River that winds through part of the city.

Meanwhile, clean-up efforts are continuing in the wake of the recent storms with a major operation under way after a flash flood burst through homes and swept away roads in a Pennines community.

Stymied through the day after a drill snapped off in the rescue shaft, emergency crews labored tonight to resume their way down toward nine trapped coal miners, with no new signal that the men were still alive in the air pocket where they fled on Wednesday as a flood burst in on them.

Both rivers that run through Cockermouth – the town worst affected by the flooding – burst their banks, blocking roads and forcing more than 200 people from their homes.

In 1905 the Colorado flooded, bursting the banks of an irrigation canal and gushing into the Salton sink, hundreds of feet below sea level.

The flood waters burst embankments and reached areas that rarely experience flood.

Sewage had been backing up in the bathroom for years; flooding from burst and backed-up pipes was common.

The company said the increases were because of rising claims resulting from storm damage, flooding and burst pipes.

Days of heavy rain in the states of Alagoas and Pernambuco flooded towns, burst a dam and left more than 40,000 people without shelter, state officials said.

The world economy was showing great resilience until the credit crisis swept into the real economy in fall 2008 like flood waters bursting a levee.

For thousands of years, the Big Muddy has flowed down to the Gulf of Mexico, where great floods periodically burst over the riverbanks, allowing huge quantities of silt to settle and nourish wetlands.