Sentence examples for high flooding from inspiring English sources

"It wasn't that long ago that you had pretty high flooding, and now we are heading towards record lows".

Maya van Rossum, of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, an environmental group, says the island might also pose a hazard to people because it lies in the river's floodway and is at risk for high flooding.

One spectacular example of such a change occurred in 1787, when the Tista River underwent exceptionally high flooding; its waters were suddenly diverted eastward, where they reinforced the Brahmaputra.

They also recommend communicating risk in ways that fight the optimism bias like letting people know there is a 1 in 5 risk of high flooding in their community rather than saying there's a 1 in 100 chance of their house being damaged in a flood.

The proposed routing algorithm aims to gain reliable and low-delay communications without high flooding.

The plots of Barmer lignites on this model (Fig. 10) suggest that these lignites originated in wet moors with moderate to high flooding.

"We have high floods during the flood times," he said.

They also evolved to tolerate high flood flows along with extremely dry periods.

"Planning guidance allows building to take place too readily in areas at high flood risk".

Typical of the Lena basin are high floods (especially flash floods) in summer and very little flow in winter.

Infrequent, high intensity rainfall or snowmelt causes a particularly high flood risk to these karst areas.