Sentence examples for record flood from inspiring English sources

In Louisiana, there was concern about whether levees could survive a record flood.

Last year, after another record flood, the city of Sunset Hills ordered the house demolished.

The Sabine River, which runs along part of the Texas-Louisiana border, reached a record flood level of 10.7m (35ft).

A record flood stage was also observed at Walnut Creek in Des Moines (63rd street) which crested at 19.08 feet.

Fargo suffered a major flood with similar causes in 1997 and narrowly escaped disaster last year, when the river hit a record flood level of 41 feet.

In Pacific, the Meramec crested at 28.84 feet, below earlier estimates and well shy of the record flood of 1982 when the river topped out at 33.6 feet.

(Elsewhere in Europe, cities were inundated by record floods).

The record floods began on Memorial Day weekend destroying hundreds of homes.

Contributing to sluggish sales were two record floods over the last six years and a tight labor market.

He said there had been record flooding in some areas and called it a "major event".

The explanation for the record flooding here last weekend is fairly simple.