Sentence examples for strong floods from inspiring English sources

It featured prodigious snowstorms that broke seasonal records in the United States and Europe; a record-shattering summer heat wave that scorched Russia; strong floods that drove people from their homes in places like Pakistan, Australia, California and Tennessee; a severe die-off of coral reefs; and a continuation in the global trend of a warming climate.

His opinion was borne out last year when strong flood waves in July and September damaged hundreds of thousands of hectares of paddy throughout Assam.

Evapotranspiration (ET) rates are high in P. australis which also helps protect plants under inundation (Borin et al. 2011) during flood-like conditions (Ostendorp et al. 2001); however, strong flooding can cause damage by separating leaves from the air supply.

Furthermore, the more frequent and strong flooding events in the different world regions facilitate the flushing of plastic to waters in developing countries but also in industrial countries since plastic waste just get flushed away.

In Trinidad and Tobago, strong flooding of up to four feet caused 27 landslides, destroying four bridges.

With the winds and a strong flood tide pushing her, she was pushed back into the harbour and narrowly missed the training ship for Osborne College,.

We evaluated data for both long-term survival in mildly fluctuating conditions as well as survival in extreme flooding conditions in the backcross mapping populations using data from a transplanted field plot that experienced standard environmental fluctuations after 3 years and another plot that experienced abnormally strong flooding.

Here, we asked whether an exceptionally strong flood led to homogenization of gene pools among locally adapted populations of the Atlantic molly (Poecilia mexicana, Poeciliidae) in the Cueva del Azufre system in southern Mexico, where two strong environmental selection factors (darkness within caves and/or presence of toxic H2S in sulfidic springs) drive the diversification of P. mexicana.

If the city could create a stronger flood defence by itself once a flood occurs, the city would be more safe than in the situation where the flood defence was built beforehand, but turns out not to meet the strength required.

Residents were urged to prepare for strong winds and substantial flooding.

Strong winds, floods and fallen trees have been causing chaos for travellers trying to get away for Christmas.