Sentence examples for floods struck from inspiring English sources

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.

In June, thousands drowned when flash floods struck the northern state of Uttarakhand, and the Indian authorities evacuated more than 100,000 people.

Compared with their neighbours, many of which are still closed, they have able to reopen their bar, The Fossgate Social, just three days after the floods struck.

A3 Floods Strike Asia Governments across Asia were racing to cope with homelessness and outbreaks of disease after heavy rains across the Himalayan foothills caused rivers from southwestern China to northeastern India to flood vast parts of the continent.

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Eight months later, massive flooding struck Pakistan.

Facebook and other social media platforms helped organize rescues when intense flooding struck Houston.

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