Sentence examples for severe inundation from inspiring English sources

It did not include some small island nations like the Maldives and Tuvalu that are also threatened with severe inundation.

A particularly severe inundation struck in 1966, prompting a series of national and even international efforts to study the problem and propose solutions.

This rainstorm caused severe inundation along 63 roads, serious collapse of 31 roads, and temporary closure of 12 subway entrances.

The medicane generated major flooding in Sicily; meanwhile, in Calabria, wind gusts of up to were reported in addition to severe inundation.

Their future resilience and survival may in many cases depend on it, as many are perched dangerously on the frontline of fast rising sea levels, increasing and more severe inundations, extreme droughts, hurricanes and heat waves disrupting their citizens and economy.

The National Hurricane Center predicted "life-threatening inundation".

The river is prone to flooding, its most serious inundation occurring in 1903.

During the cholera outbreak, already fragile health care systems were further stretched by the inundation of severe, life-threatening illnesses to understaffed and poorly equipped clinics throughout the country.

The new position had some severe drawbacks: the inundations were mostly not yet ready and the earthworks and berms needed because trenches would be flooded in the peat soil had not yet been constructed, so defences had to be improvised to accommodate the much larger number of troops.

But in reality we are already feeling the impacts of climate change resulting in the displacement of some of our communities with others to follow soon as serious coastal inundation and contamination of the fresh water lens becomes more frequent and more severe.

Plants survived, grew, and avoided damage to and abscission of leaves during seven treatments that ranged from complete root-zone inundation to severe drought.