Sentence examples for suffer floods from inspiring English sources

Ray Porter, 61, a tile setter, said he knew he would have to suffer floods when he moved to Hoffman Grove nearly 20 years ago.

Its most direct impacts are droughts in normally damp places in the western Pacific, such as parts of Indonesia and Australia, while normally drier places like the west coast of South America suffer floods.

Many politicians argue that a financial system in which emerging economies can suffer floods of foreign capital (as now) or sudden droughts (as in 1997-98 and 2008) cannot be the best basis for long-term growth.France, which assumes the chairmanship of the G20 after the Seoul summit, thinks the world can do better.

Whichever prevails determines whether places around the world will suffer flood, drought, famine, hurricanes or any of the other plagues of mankind.

Forecasters are predicting more heavy rain into the weekend, as the southwest of England continues to suffer flooding.

The Met Office have issued scores of flood warnings; the environment agency says that across England and Wales, thousands of people are expected to suffer flooding over the next 24 hours.

Having suffered floods in the past, Maitland has channeled growth toward higher ground to the east and west.

In Lagos, the sprawling slum of Makoko regularly suffers floods, and its stilted houses are shored up with each new inundation.

Almost one in five of the poorest third of neighbourhoods in England suffered floods between 1990 and 2013, compared with just one in 18 of the richest 10% of areas, the research reveals.

Since the completion of these projects, the village has not suffered floods as extreme as those of 1955.

Some parts of Colombo also suffered flooding.