Sentence examples similar to highest floodwater mark from inspiring English sources

On Wednesday, this working-class city in North Jersey was fighting back the highest floodwaters in over a century.

A man who was stranded on a bus in chest-high floodwater has described his five-hour ordeal.

The former generally reflect periods of high floodwater runoff into the closed basins, perhaps induced by higher rainfall (so-called pluvial periods).

According to the government, more than 1.2 million residents still live in damaged villages in greater Manila, some of them with waist-high floodwater.

High floodwaters have made aid distribution difficult in Mozambique.

But the waist-high floodwaters that surged through the streets on Monday had largely receded.

Sewage, mixed with four- to five-foot-high floodwaters, infiltrated floors and walls, and many homes must be stripped to their wooden frames to be fully decontaminated.

The deluge led to overflown rivers and streams, and left several roadways temporarily impassable from high floodwaters.

Police were forced to transport residents of Mount Holly to work via boat due to the high floodwaters.

New Jersey's Atlantic City was experiencing dangerously high floodwaters into Tuesday morning, and officials were calling it the worst storm in the city's history.

High floodwaters damaged 22 bridges and closed 2 indefinitely, while the flooding closed several roads, including a portion of U.S. Highway 1 in Chadds Ford.