Sentence examples for normal flood from inspiring English sources

The CCC said "residual" flood risk – the flooding resulting from extreme weather events that cannot be prevented by normal flood defences – was increasing.

I thought it would be a normal flood," said one returnee who had been in another part of Indonesia when the tsunami hit.

A value of flood (drought) risk greater than 1.0 indicates a higher than normal flood (drought) risk; a value less than − 1.0 indicates a higher than normal drought (flood) risk.

The natural levees are high land compared to surrounding floodplain and are generally unaffected during normal flood and are preferred by the people to build their settlements, mainly to avoid flooding.

"You can understand normal flooding and seepage if you have rain for a couple of days, but you shouldn't flood for four weeks," she said.

"Arctic temperatures soar 45 degrees above normal, flooded by extremely mild air on all sides," the Washington Post declared, in a headline.

Equation (12) shows that λ j n j ∑ k = 1 N n k is an additive overhead factor as compared to overhead in normal flooding.

The modest increase of the estimated PMF (to just 6311 m3/s) in spite of these changes is due to the factoring of the hydraulic effects of trees and buildings on the floodplain as the flood situation changes from normal floods to extreme floods, when over-bank flows may be the dominant flooding process, leading to a substantial reduction in the PMF estimates.

The inclined channels located below the vertical section enhance the segregation of the bubbles from the tailings flow, permitting separations to be conducted at bubble surface fluxes well beyond the normal flooding condition, while also permitting extreme wash water fluxes.

Sea levels reached a peak of five feet above normal, flooding 70percentt of the city, before beginning to fall to their normal level, where it looks like most of the city is flooded anyway.

Sixty per cent of the country is vulnerable to flood in which 25-30 per cent area becomes inundated during normal floods.