Sentence examples for inland damage from inspiring English sources

"We have an urban disaster in New Orleans, at the same time as we have a coastal disaster in Mississippi and Alabama and then all the inland damage," the emergency agency's director, Michael D. Brown, said.

Further inland, damage from Toraji in Vietnam remained generally minimal.

If a hurricane rolled over the spill, the winds and storm surges could disperse the oil over a wider area and push it far inland, damaging the fragile marshlands.

Erosion - The Gulf of Mexico shoreline is home to more than half the coastal wetlands of the lower 48 states, a habitat for fish and other wildlife and a protective barrier against inland storm damage.

As the storm progressed further inland, additional damage was reported.

Resort areas near the coast experienced minor effects, though further inland the damage was more severe.

The storm caused extremely heavy rainfall in inland areas; damage totalled $4.5 million (2002 USD; $5.2 million USD in 2007); no deaths occurred as a result of Fay.

Buildings up to half a mile inland were damaged.

Inland flooding damaged buildings due to fast-rising water and roof collapses.

Winds over inland Pearl River County damaged 350 permanent and mobile homes, and as in Alabama, the hurricane took a large toll on pecan and soybean crops and farms.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A tsunami apparently caused by the eruption of an island volcano killed at least 62 people after the waves hit the coast around Indonesia's Sunda Strait, sending a wall of water some 65 feet (20 meters) inland and damaging hundreds of houses including hotels, the government and witnesses said.