The word "floods" is correct in written English
It is typically used to describe an overflow of water onto normally dry land or to indicate a large number of things arriving at once.
Example: "The heavy rains caused floods that affected many homes in the area."
Alternatives: "inundation" or "deluge."
Some, like the Solomon's seal whose snake-like shoots we found forcing their way through the silt left by winter floods, may well be relicts from gardens of water mills that disappeared long ago.
So far, the floods have claimed at least 16 lives, and wrecked the livelihoods of thousands more.
A city has plans for earthquakes or floods in some areas, but I don't think many cities have any plans for cyber attacks Cesar Cerrudo Cesar Cerrudo, chief technology officer at security research firm IOActive Labs, warned that city authorities and governments that are the customers of technology firms aren't testing the security of the systems they buy.
Heatwaves, droughts, floods, wildfires, and other types of extreme weather are becoming more intense due to human-caused global warming.
Many developed countries are wary of profit-taking by multinationals with limited interest in helping them to adapt to droughts, floods or extreme weather events.
Armstrong said climate change had the potential to affect health directly through heatwaves and extreme weather, and indirectly through increases in the prevalence of certain diseases if, for example, public sanitation was compromised due to floods.
The company said 2012 revenues were expected to be flat on the 2011 figures, with no impact in the second half from a serious disruption in the supply of hard disk drives after floods in Thailand.
The floods could wash toxins into other areas and the water supply.
Though Parker said parts of the city were unscathed, more than 1,000 vehicles were submerged in the Houston floods and people took instead to bicycles, kayaks and surfboards to navigate water-covered streets.
Related: Texas flash floods cause death and destruction - in pictures "It's devastating to see what I saw on the Blanco river when this tidal wave of water just swept away neighborhoods," Abbott said, referring to a disaster area in central Texas.
It floods my Twitter feed, my Facebook page, my email, so fast that I can't even keep up (not that I want to).
