Sentence examples for subsequent floods from inspiring English sources

Up to seven people died in the subsequent floods; 27,000 homes and 5,000 businesses had to be evacuated.

There was Hurricane Katrina, of course, in 2005, when at least 1,836 people lost their lives in the subsequent floods — 1,464 of them in New Orleans alone.

Elevation changes indicate that such features show evidence for infilling during subsequent floods.

The increased number of large wildfires in proximity to expanding population centers in the western United States poses a greater risk both from the direct effect of the fire and subsequent floods and debris flows.

In the northern outskirts of Pokhara, at least half a dozen houses have been swept away in subsequent floods because of the changes in the river's course after the sudden flooding, which occurred one year ago on Sunday.

Our results revealed that extreme floods play an important role in adjusting a river channel to become more efficient for subsequent propagation of floods, and that in-channel scour and sediment re-distribution can greatly improve the conveyance capacity of a channel for subsequent floods.

According to Martin Wainwright, 1947 is the "benchmark year in living memory for every subsequent flood".

The fire and subsequent flooding by the fire department destroyed the building.

This is partly because of last year's monsoon and subsequent flooding, which reduced mango productivity by 30 percent.

David Vitter, one of the two Louisiana senators, said the death toll in his state from the hurricane and the subsequent flood could top 10,000.

In few places is the health care crisis more immediate than in the areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flooding.