Sentence examples for ocean floods from inspiring English sources

But darkness had spared me the most terrible sight for any sailor – a ship's final lurch below the waves when the ocean floods inside and gets her down forever.

But before the debate can be resolved, the seawall breaks and the ocean floods down the street, removing Buckle and his raft out of its path and trapping the Smiths in their home nevertheless.

"The influx of people into the city was remarkable, like an ocean flooding in,'' she says when asked for her recollections of the day.

In what felt like moments, the wave ripped open a wall and the ocean flooded in.

The ocean flooded under the boardwalk onto adjacent streets, and to the west of the city, flooding closed portions of the White Horse Pike.

Part of the goal was to exchange information around particular areas of interest, sometimes accomplished by conferences such as the Rotterdam event on ocean flooding, held in the fall of 2010, and the Hong Kong conference on low carbon cities for high quality living, both of which had over 1000 attendees including mayors, scientists, civil servants, businesses and the public.

After the torrents, the next threat is standing water NEW YORK, 29 December 2004 – UNICEF warned today that without immediate, wide-scale action to provide safe water in the communities hit by Sunday's massive ocean flooding, millions of people will be at grave risk of water-borne disease.

UNICEF calls for aid to tsunami-struck countries NEW YORK, 27 December 2004 – UNICEF is rushing relief assistance to the countries hardest hit by massive ocean flooding following Sunday's earthquake, working to meet the urgent needs of hundreds of thousands of people who survived the tsunamis but now need shelter, water, medical supplies and other urgent assistance.

It has been reported that Salinger wrote obsessively during his last 50 years, and it is possible that floods of Salinger works may wash upon literary islands as oceans flood the shorelines.

Time was, events like the tsunami in the Indian Ocean, the floods from Katrina, the Japanese earthquake, were distant tragedies I responded to by writing checks.

In a follow-up report released last week, the panel identified short-term consequences like shrinking glaciers, vanishing coral reefs and changing seasons, and it warned of much bigger problems down the road -- rising oceans, violent floods and the spread of diseases like cholera and malaria, especially in poorer countries that are least able to defend themselves.