Sentence examples for river surges from inspiring English sources

The dangerous floodwaters that have spread across roughly half the state of Queensland, on the continent's northeastern coast, showed no sign of retreating on Saturday as river surges continued to make their way toward the sea.

Shortly after it passes within 30 mile of the Idaho state capital of Boise, the river surges past the state border into Oregon, close to where it meets the Owyhee River, Boise River and Payette River.

The river surged into Westminster Hall.

East of this image, in Barra Longa — a village about 80km from the dams — the river surged as much as 15m and flooded homes.

But where the river surged past General Electric's shuttered Hudson Falls capacitor factory, the banks were laced with pipes and the river bed was pierced by well-drilling rigs, all intended to drain PCB's from underground fissures.

It was hard to imagine that in March a storm had brought the river surging over the boardwalk, tearing up its boards and pilings, ripping raised beds out of the ground as it moved toward the house, burying the long narrow garden — 36 by 100 feet — under two feet of water.

And there's Termite, carried by Lark to the attic to wait out the raging flood that has overtaken their small town, hearing the river surge with the rain, the water now inside the house and rising, as he and Lark wait for a neighbor to rescue them by boat.

In sparsely populated Wyoming, emergency officials are worried about tiny communities that in many cases are far from help if rivers surge; almost every county is in a potential snow-melt flood zone, and relatively few residents have flood insurance.

West Virginia received one-quarter of its annual rainfall in a single day and multiple rivers surged to dangerous levels, including the Elk River, which broke a record at one stage that had stood since 1888.

The rust-red river that surges past their 400-year-old home in the north Somerset village of Bossington was rising rapidly, and automated alarm calls by phone had awoken them in the early hours.

Police said some residents of the city had been trapped in the top floors of their homes since heavy rains caused the Jhelum river to surge last week.