Sentence examples for surge waters from inspiring English sources

Surge waters during the storm reached knee level on the PATH passenger platforms, said Steven Plate, the director of World Trade Center construction at the Port Authority.

The dispatches continued as high winds and surge waters ripped down power lines and clogged rail lines with wayward boats and other debris.

At times the system is overwhelmed, such as in 2005 when low-lying New Orleans was flooded after the levees holding back Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River were unable to contain the storm surge waters accompanying Hurricane Katrina.

While it could possibly hit New Orleans directly — unlike Katrina, which landed in Mississippi but sent surge waters against the city's faulty levees and flood walls — Isaac will have to contend with a $14.5 billion flood protection system that has been all but completed by the Army Corps of Engineers.

Scientists often estimate the risk of coastal flooding due to storm surge (waters blown on shore by strong winds) separately than that caused by heavy precipitation (runoff from nearby higher elevations that piles up in low areas before it can flow into the sea).

Base surge, water mound, uprush, aftercloud.

This could lead to a destructive pressure surge (water hammer) in the supply pipeline, or penstock.

During the storm surge, water had risen to the top of the bungalow's front door, filling the structure.

The National Weather Service will provide graphics indicating which areas are at risk of flooding from storm surge – water pushed inland by hurricane or tropical storm winds.

The refuge's high ground, at 18 feet above sea level, was in far better shape than his own home just up the bay which took in 6 feet of surge water.

These increases in storm surge water levels are caused by nonlinear changes in the tidal constituents which are spatially not coherent.