Sentence examples for flooding emergency from inspiring English sources

Outside, on that morning of Nov. 14, 2001, five people were dead or dying, a dozen more were sick and fearful thousands were flooding emergency rooms.

There is an ongoing flooding emergency in Hoboken, New Jersey, where the National Guard is rescuing thousands of people trapped by flood waters that have not subsided.

"He certainly did a good job on supporting the EA through the flooding emergency, even to the extent that he was sending me texts from his hospital bed [after a detached retina].

Reliable analysis of stability and safety level in a flooding emergency onboard a damaged passenger ship is extremely important for making correct decisions on evacuation and abandonment.

GENEVA, 21 September 2010 - UNICEF today issued a report on the flooding emergency in Pakistan saying that, "with over 10 million children hit by the flooding, the humanitarian crisis in Pakistan is so massive that the actual scale continues to elude the imagination of the public across the world".

But other aspects of the tutorial were less familiar: how to efficiently flush out water tanks, the wisdom of having a spare water pump on hand for flooding emergencies.

The last three large flooding emergencies — in 1996 and 2005, and the disaster of recent days — were all considered 100-year floods, meaning that they had breached a level that had only a 1 percent chance of being exceeded in any given year.

The police marine unit patrols the 89-mile (143km) length of the Dorset coast as well as responding to inland flooding emergencies.

The former Labour cabinet minister said the agency would protect its response to flooding emergencies from cuts - around 1,700 of the agency's 11,400 workers are set to lose their jobs.

As in most flooding emergencies, it's the shortage of safe water that's the most pressing problem.

During the 2012 flood emergency, TSS were often the only un-flooded schools in the affected areas.