Last year, a joint in a water pipe in an apartment above broke, flooding and damaging the floor in our apartment.
The house was flooded, many things broke.
He told journalists he had been delayed because his washing machine broke and flooded his apartment.
Meanwhile, his partner, Shannon Tweed, rushes to replace Mr. Simmons's coveted Kiss collectibles, which were ruined in a flood after a pipe broke.
In 1977, a levee broke and flooded a portion of the developed land, turning it into protected wetlands that is home to endangered species.
The 2005 downpour, which unleashed 6 inches of rain in about 3 hours, not only ruined basements but also damaged cars, broke water mains, washed away sections of road, flooded a wastewater treatment plant, and destroyed a sanitary sewer line, sending raw sewage into a creek.
Some of the streets' basements were also flooded but had already been cleaned up two hours after the main broke.
Back in the 80s, Al Davis, the then-principle owner and manager of the Oakland Raiders, had a standing offer to players going broke to buy up their Super Bowl rings so they wouldn't flood the market).
High rainfall and a storm surge flooded coastal portions of Maine, and Portland lost freshwater access for 24 hours after a water main broke.
Early examples include two films directed by Pare Lorentz: The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936), set in America's dust bowl, and The River (1937), a discussion of flood control.
