Sentence examples for scale of sandy from inspiring English sources

What if a storm on the scale of Sandy took place in another teeming metropolis surrounded by water – like, say, Mumbai?

The likely effect, Dr. Emanuel said, is that coastal flooding on a scale that once happened only once or twice per century — the scale of Sandy, in other words — will become much more commonplace within the coming decades.

"Buildings such as these collapse during a regular Mumbai monsoon, so if a cyclone of the scale of Sandy were to take place here, the damages would be staggering to say the least".

Will there be more droughts or storms at the scale of Hurricane Sandy to raise awareness?

Some would point to the scale of the Sandy Hook shooting as key in puncturing the resistance to action.

The mean concentration profiles match those of the Monte-Carlo simulations for capillary length scales typical of sandy soils.

Since large-scale topographical sheets of sandy terrain also contain very little information on height, delineation of watersheds from topographical sheets often becomes difficult.

Outcrop-scale diagnostic characteristics of sandy colluvium deposits shows that all grain size fractions from medium sands to clays are present.

After all, only a handful of those violent tragedies generated sustained national attention, and incidents on the scale of Columbine or Sandy Hook are not exactly routine, even if they are far too common.

The purpose of this study was to discuss shape, scale and superimposed types of sandy gravel bodies in sandy-gravel braided distributary channel.

But I believe there is little doubt that the record-breaking scale and potential destructiveness of Sandy is due in large part to the amplifying effects of warmer ocean temperatures, higher atmospheric moisture content, and unusual Arctic weather patterns.