Sentence examples for remove flood from inspiring English sources

But it's been high up on mine ever since my wife and I had to battle our mortgage provider to remove flood insurance it had bought for us — and we didn't need — for a condominium we owned in Florida.

The landowners' association, the CLA, welcomed the suggestion that a post-Brexit farm subsidy regime could include payments for flood prevention, but said it would be a "backward step" to remove flood responsibilities from the Environment Agency.

But they'd better not remove Flood-It! from the iPhone.

Residents, businesses and council staff faced the task of removing flood water and inch-thick mud from homes, shops and streets after floods hit the county yesterday.

The coalition government cut flood spending as an austerity measure; it scrapped a cabinet flooding committee; and Environment Secretary Owen Paterson removed flood protection from his department's key priorities.

Sprengel explosives were quite popular in Europe, but consumption in the United States was relatively small except for the spectacular Hell Gate blast in New York harbour in 1885, in which a combination of 34,000 kilograms (75,000 pounds) of No. 1 dynamite and 110,000 kilograms (240,000 pounds) of potassium chlorate nitrobenzene were used to remove "Flood Rock," a menace to navigation.

Environment Agency officials inspected Bewdley Bridge on Wednesday morning and decided to remove the flood barriers.

"Politically, it's more acceptable if politicians come to people and say 'I'm going to remove the flood threat from you by supporting building a levee so you can live in that floodplain as if the floodplain no longer existed even though flood risk remains,'" Buss says.

(to remove any flood water from house or yard) several cases of canned goods.

After about a decade, concerns about the less predictable Big Sioux prompted the construction of a levee, which led the government to reduce the flood risk for another 160 lots — removing the flood insurance requirement and making them easier to sell.

The restoration of the historic wharf in front of the palace opens up vistas of the Thames by removing concrete flood walls.