Sentence examples for vast flood from inspiring English sources

Almost half of the vast flood plain is covered by what is termed "flooded forest" - a mosaic of forest and brush lands.

The camps are on a vast flood plain, leaving tents flooded and refugees vulnerable to disease.

Second, the vast flood of papers that make the present system impossible should be stemmed.

"The Passaic River basin is a vast flood plain, 6,000 to 7,000 acres," he said.

In India, polio trackers realized that the most persistent strain of the virus was hiding in a vast flood plain fed by the Kosi River in Bihar.

In China, Mr. Hutton focuses on the Three Gorges area, which will soon be rendered a vast flood plain by massive dams.

At the sprawling Two Kings monastery, built to honor an engineer who created a vast flood-control system in 256 B.C. and now a Unesco World Heritage site, the annihilation was nearly complete.

Voluminous spring and early summer rainfall saturated the upper Midwest and the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, along with several tributaries, causing vast flooding.

Yet vast floods have also been documented, both through tree-ring data and more modern historical records.

"We are moving ahead," the ambassador said during a helicopter tour of the coastal zone most heavily damaged by vast flooding and landslides last month that killed as many as 30,000 people.

This estimate was based on the assumption that, adding to the vast flooding in an area west of Yazoo City, one of the backwater levees would be topped and flood thousands more acres, as it is designed to do in a major flood.