Sentence examples for off floods from inspiring English sources

Some of the purposes of the rituals were naturalistic to ensure good crops or plentiful game or to ward off floods and other natural disasters such as disease.

An eruption of the Pacaya volcano, the most visited of Guatemala's eight active craters for its spectacular lava flows, blanketed parts of the capital in ash the day before the storm began setting off floods and landslides.

Puerto Rico's governor has declared a state of emergency after days of rain that set off floods that swept away bridges, damaged hundreds of homes and forced more than 250 people into shelters.

Erika's heavy rains set off floods and mudslides in Dominica, where at least 31 people were reported missing, according to officials with the Barbados-based Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency.

Severe rains over the weekend set off floods and mudslides that killed as many as 10 people in the area, washing away homes and destroying parts of a critical railroad that transports tourists to Aguas Calientes, the closest access point to Machu Picchu, the famed pre-Columbian "Lost City of the Incas".

A16 Flooding in the South A second day of heavy rain in the Kentucky and Tennessee hills set off floods and mudslides that destroyed dozens of houses and forced some residents to flee by boat as water lapped at the roofs.

Days of relentless rain this week set off flooding and landslides across much of Indonesia.

But some were built solely to attract more development, while others closed off flood plains that could have acted as a natural safety valve.

When the law took effect, the generic industry took off, flooding the F.D.A. with approval requests: 800 applications in the first seven months.

This led to a series of huge dam projects to seal off flood-prone river estuaries and inlets from the sea, which shortened the coastline and sharply reduced the land area exposed to storm surges.

As the weekend approached, Mr. Jackson's crews were trying to clear 1,000 storm drains to ward off flooding that could result if forecasts of higher temperatures and rain made the snow melt rapidly.