Sentence examples for flooding struck from inspiring English sources

Dilley previously said that when flooding struck he would visit affected communities and would work six or seven days a week.

ON FRIDAY, March 18th, just as the situation at the tsunami-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan was being brought under control, another incident involving flames and flooding struck across the globe, in Minnesota.

When severe flooding struck the city earlier this month – leaving one man dead and hundreds of homes and businesses damaged – Antonini and his wife Benedetta Balleggi responded by grabbing shovels and running down to the worst-affected areas to muck in.

Flooding struck in the eastern part of the state and in the state capitol of Frankfort.

Around Karo Gongro, 100 people were stranded along a major roadway after flash flooding struck the area.

Extreme flooding struck eastern and central Vietnam on October 12 and caused 33 casualties and moderate crop damage.

Last summer's floods struck as farmers were preparing to harvest the autumn crop.

In 2011, flooding wreaked havoc on low-lying homes and businesses, and this past January, floods struck again.

Cumbria's floods struck at the halfway point of the crucial two-week UN climate summit in Paris.

The country had barely recovered from the 2005 earthquake which killed 73,000 people when the 2010 floods struck.

Sixteen people were travelling in a 4x4 and a van when the flood struck close to the town of Hildale late on Monday afternoon.