Sentence examples for flood of mud from inspiring English sources

Three days after the rupturing of two dams unleashed a massive flood of mud on nearby villages, authorities were still struggling to determine the cause of the disaster or even recover the bodies of as many as 28 people lost in the torrent.

Given the toll in lives and money, scientists like Dr. Staley and Dr. Kean are studying how and when slides happen — what characteristics of soil and underlying rock, what degree of slope and intensity of rainfall will cause a hillside to fail or a flood of mud to roar down a canyon, demolishing houses or whatever else is in its path.

Expecting floods of mud and rock, people had piled sandbags and built heavy wooden walls.

With a highly alkaline pH of 13, the same as lye, the flood of red mud killed 7 people, sent more than 100 to the hospital with chemical burns and rendered dozens, if not hundreds, of homes uninhabitable.

The United States embassy was flooded with about one foot of mud.

In response, Atwater's team observed that there is substantial evidence for multiple large floods, including evidence of mud cracks and animal burrows in lower layers of the Touchet beds, which were filled by sediment from later floods.

At last, as night fell, the waters began to ebb almost as fast as they had risen, leaving behind a noxious mess of sewage, debris, oil and silt – a ton of "flood mud" for every man, woman, and child in the city.

When that creates a flood and a lot of mud, Pete concretes everything over.

It is the size of your hand, and was obviously about to hatch, when it was buried in a thin layer of flood mud".

And in a roughly animated video by Nathalie Djurberg called "My Name Is Mud," a greedy, evil blob of mud floods a town and swallows up a cow.

Fear of disease In many areas of Jakarta, the floods left behind layers of mud and garbage.