Sentence examples for major rainstorm from inspiring English sources

Exactly a month later, on New Year's Day 1993, a major rainstorm poured on to the city of New Orleans.

On the morning of the last major rainstorm, she surveyed her collection and chose a practical, yet stylish transparent dome of a brolly.

Every major rainstorm or snowstorm is almost certain to bring down the lines, which, because of the relative scarcity of population, are a low priority for the power company to fix.

In this study, samples were collected from 108 sites the day after a major rainstorm, and three indicator bacteria (total coliforms (TCs), fecal coliforms (FCs) or E. coli, and enterococci (EC)) were each measured using MF, MTF, and CS.

Though the influx of contractors was imperative to speed rebuilding — there are only so many plumbers and electricians in a community — it has also provoked hundreds of complaints of fraud, including a recent spike after the first major rainstorm, when poorly repaired roofs across the city started leaking.

In recent years, major rainstorm events in the North Island's East Coast, Bay of Plenty, Wairarapa and Manawatu regions have caused soil loss over extensive areas of steep erosion-prone pasture land, contributing to sedimentation of river systems and widespread flood damage to public and private assets (Davis et al. [2009]).

New York is hardly alone in its problems: hundreds of older municipalities that constructed combined systems are confronted with the same water-quality issues during major rainstorms.

Bacteria levels rise with regularity after major rainstorms, and storm drains that empty here — there are four near Valley Grove — and at roughly 67 of the county's 195 beaches, are presumed to be the culprit.

Proponents of current development norms will correctly point out that Harvey's torrential rain totals were unusually, ridiculously high compared even to Houston's recent run of major rainstorms.

Los Angeles County Flood Control District officials said they have cleared debris basins and flood-control channels throughout the county — the first line of defense against mudslides — and made some improvements to dams and other infrastructure since the county's last major rainstorms in 2004-05.

Post-earthquake watershed restoration works progressed without disruptions by major typhoon rainstorms until July 29 30 , 2001when typhoon Toraji hit eastern and central Taiwan with heavy rainfall having peak hourly intensity exceeding 70mm/hh.