Sentence examples for flooding rapidly from inspiring English sources

Bruneau's police radio carried reports from the Lower Ninth Ward, three miles away: it was flooding rapidly, from a breach in the so-called Industrial Canal.

Numerous streams descend from the central mountain chain to the lagoon; the streams often flood rapidly after rainfall and dry out in dry weather, especially on the west coast.

The flood rapidly filled the pool behind the Auburn cofferdam to capacity, as the diversion tunnel could not handle the extra water pouring into the reservoir.

Three large drains were also located in the floor, possibly to enable the nearby amphitheatre to be flooded rapidly to enable naumachia (mock naval battles) to be held.

Some rice varieties, however, can survive flooding by rapidly growing their stems upward, in some cases reaching 4 m (about 13 ft) in height.

Experimental results show that producing pressure drop during continuous CO2 flooding decreases rapidly with an increase in permeability ratio.

Chemical flooding, a rapidly developed tertiary oil recovery technique, is applied successfully and widely both in the Daqing Oilfield and the Shengli Oilfield (Zhang et al. 2010; Hou et al. 2011, 2013; Shaker Shiran and Skauge 2013; Dag and Ingun 2014).

New Orleans would have flooded more rapidly and to deeper levels.

The last three seconds of my submersion were flooded with rapidly increasing despair.

They are generally produced by floods and rapidly migrate and vanish.

It is thought that the animals were killed during a flood and rapidly buried in the mud.