The word "inundation" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to refer to a sudden flood or an overwhelming outpouring of something. For example, "The area was hit with an inundation of rain."
The storm hit at high tide so "large parts of the northeast Arnhem coast have likely experienced some inundation from the storm surge and also the large waves around those coastal areas," bureau of meteorology regional director, Todd Smith, told media on Sunday afternoon.
The spectacular inundation in Pakistan last August also fits the pattern.In Pakistan things may have been particularly bad because this La Niña, unlike many, turned up straight after an El Niño, which tends to leave temperatures in the Indian Ocean high.
In his "Travels through Syria and Egypt", Count Constantine Volney, a French orientalist, wrote that "the [Nile] inundation of 1783 was not sufficient, great part of the lands therefore could not be sown for want of being watered.
The inundation might be even worse than in 2005, when Poles and other eastern Europeans gained the right to work.
Only through continual pumping of the water-table has the threat of inundation been kept largely at bay.
Moreover, many of the bad consequences of dams can be avoided if the right policies are followed: silting can be slowed by sensible water releases, forestry inundation prevented by clearing trees, salmon accommodated by building fish ladders, people resettled in better places, and so on.And then there is electricity.
And nurses handed out plastic wallets for immunisation cards, so that they will not get wet come the next inundation.
A tenth of all houses are now believed at risk of inundation.
In the long run, despite dire warnings of humanitarian and economic costs, it appears Pakistan did not suffer too greatly from that inundation.
Models developed by Vasily Titov, at NOAA, and Costas Synolakis, at the University of Southern California, can predict the size and shape of the waves that will be generated by a particular tsunami, as well as the resulting coastal inundation.
There will be more droughts and more floods (like the inundation east Africa is now facing), one exacerbating the other: animals overgraze in dry spells, letting more topsoil wash away during heavy rains.Will anything make rich countries focus on these risks?
