Sentence examples for more floodwater from inspiring English sources

Blood, smoke, rubble, floodwater, guns, bodies, riot shields, flame, skyscrapers, more rubble and more floodwater and more blood – is that what the decade was about?

"Blood, smoke, rubble, floodwater, guns, bodies, riot shields, flame, skyscrapers, more rubble and more floodwater and more blood – is that what the decade was about?" asks Philip Pullman in his contribution to our Review cover story this week.

In the case of Harvey, overfull rivers in the Houston surged toward the coast at the same time, resulting in more floodwater that piled up where two surges met.

The glaciers in the Himalayas will melt faster, sending more floodwaters to batter the Bay of Bengal.

And some roads had to contend with a lot more than floodwater or a few potholes.

"We'll learn more as floodwaters recede, and we're prepared to take steps needed to address it".

It is hoped this work will help carry off floodwater more effectively in the future.

Haitians Scramble to Escape Deadly Floodwaters More than 550 people died in Haiti over the weekend from flooding and mudslides set off by Tropical Storm Jeanne, according to aid workers, who said half of the northern city of Gonaïves was still under water yesterday.

Katrina was the final wake-up call, making the Dutch face up to both the unreliability of forecasts of once-in-a-century events and the impossibility of their repeating the American feat of evacuating a million people.The country's philosophy of flood control has as a result pivoted from building ever higher dykes to instead making its cities and countryside more resilient to floodwaters.

Turbid floodwater was more damaging to rice as plant mortality increased as the percentage of silt increased, and the effects of water turbidity cannot be explained by the reduction in light penetration alone.

Receding floodwaters revealed more bodies, bringing fears that the death toll of 163 will rise even higher.