When it was time for the Apple Day celebration, a sudden torrent of rain flooded the road.
Prolonged and/or intense rainfall can trigger landslides, floods and secondary floods (stagnancy of rain on low permeability surfaces) that could result in damage and fatalities (Petrucci and Polemio 2009).
A deluge of rain caused flooding in Southend and other areas, with damage estimated at thousands of pounds.
After by a flood of rejuvenating rains, thousands of green tree frogs emerged upon the moonlit landscape of Australia's Macquarie marshes to breed.
Yes, we know your lawn is gorgeous now, lush, glistening in the peekaboo sun and greener than it's ever been, thanks to our flood of winter rains.
On May 1 and 2 Nashville received more than a foot of rain, causing floods that devastated vast stretches of this city, as well as surrounding counties.
Spatial analysis detected a statistically significant spatial cluster for the following socioeconomic and environmental variables: type of house floor; susceptibility of house flooding during rain; type of toilet; access to mineral water and water from the public system; possession of household; maternal education; and ethnicity.
The advance of the projects has opened Brazil to criticism from environmental groups, which say that the displacement of indigenous peoples and the flooding of swathes of rain forest — potentially releasing large amounts of methane gas — outweigh the dams' benefits.
The Environment Agency said a storm cloud passing over the Shepton Mallet area caused the flooding, when 30mm of rain fell in the space of 30 minutes.
Waterlogging, caused by flooding, long periods of rain, and poor drainage, is a serious abiotic stress determining crop productivity worldwide [ 1].
Early this year, Rousseff severely disappointed environmentalists by approving construction of the Belo Monte dam, a hydroelectric power facility that will flood a large swath of rain forest.
