The result was widespread flooding, destruction of property, and loss of life.
That's not even mentioning the global effects of climate change and the effects we are already seeing, including the record flooding destruction our state felt just a month ago.
Bangladesh, referred to as the "ground zero of climate change," is already experiencing severe flooding, destruction of agricultural land, and massive population displacement.
Although only inconsequential residential damage occurred at Woopen Creek and Yungaburra, damage at Tully was more serious, with considerable flooding, destruction to six houses, damage to a police station, and a localized blackout.
This sets the stage for catastrophic flooding, destruction of valuable buildings, costly damage to ports and even some airports, inundation of low-lying towns unless adequate sea walls are built, and erosion of coastal cliffs and beaches.
The exhibit also features photographs of the California fundraiser President Bush was en route to when he made his flyover inspection of the flood damage, destruction and death.
Elsewhere, it was the first day of the rest of Houston's history, where millions of lives had been reshaped and burdened by the flood's destruction.
Purity imaginatively re-creates several monitory narratives of human impurity and its consequences in a spectacular display of poetic skill: the Flood, the destruction of Sodom, and Belshazzar's Feast.
In Missouri, where floodwaters swallowed homes and agricultural fields north of St . Louis the authorities said it was too early to determine the full scope of the flood's destruction.
