Sentence examples for vast flooding from inspiring English sources

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

"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.

Vast flooding during the rainy season, conflict and treacherous terrain make it hard to get humanitarian aid to people in need.

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

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

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

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.

He found her swamped in "the vast flood of d'Annunzian rhetoric," while still demonstrating a technique that was "the quintessence of a pure, lived truth".

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

"Because they're inveterate liars," he added, "you get a vast flood of incorrect information, so you have to winnow it out".