Sentence examples for flooding of property from inspiring English sources
In a statement, it said: "River levels are above normal but flooding of property is not expected at the moment.
Gert's broad wind circulation produced widespread and heavy rainfall across Central America, which, combined with saturated soil from Tropical Storm Bret's passage a month earlier, caused significant flooding of property and crops.
Because Gert had a broad wind circulation, it produced widespread and heavy rainfall across Central America, which, combined with saturated soil from Tropical Storm Bret a month earlier, caused significant flooding of property and crops.
Typical impacts may include flooding of properties and parts of communities, significant travel disruption, coastal erosion, local overtopping of flood defences.
Flooding of properties has threatened Pickering in North Yorkshire, where 90-year-old Topsy Clinch famously defied the major swamping in 2007, and at Selby, downstream on the Ouse.
A run of poor weather since 2011 has led to extensive flooding of properties but has also severely dented the production of many foods, with the UK now being a net importer of wheat.
Denis McCann, of Avon Fire and Rescue Service, said there had been widespread flooding of properties and roads throughout the area.
The River Neet burst its banks in Bude over the weekend, but sandbags helped prevent serious flooding of properties.
The Environment Agency said: "Significant disruption, including disruption to travel and flooding of properties and communities, is possible.
"Groundwater levels in Winterbourne Abbas, Dorset, also continue to rise and could result in flooding of properties and the A35 trunk road," it added.
