Sentence examples for years flood from inspiring English sources

Flood defences that were upgraded in 2010 to withstand a "one in 100 years" flood were breached just before 11pm on Saturday night, Electricity North West said.

In recent years, flood disasters resulting from extreme rainfall have been on the increase in many regions of the world.

In recent years, flood inundation models have been remarkably improved and widely used for flood hazard simulation, flood exposure and loss analyses.

In Shropshire alone, nearly 5,000 homes are at risk of a one in 100 years flood, according to the Environment Agency.

This work confirms that extreme peak discharges estimated at ungauged sites may be of great value for the evaluation of large return period (typically over 100 years) flood quantiles.

In recent years, flood insurance premium rates have skyrocketed.

For thousands of years, floods, droughts, tornadoes, heat waves, and early frosts have been agriculture's unyielding enemies.

Sewage had been backing up in the bathroom for years; flooding from burst and backed-up pipes was common.

Cameron went to Carlisle, which now has a once-in-a-hundred-years flood as regularly as the Olympics.

The two-mile long stretch focuses on building a "bridging berm", a snaking green mound that will rise to 15 feet (4.57m), the once-in-a-hundred-years flood level which Sandy almost reached, and provide a landing point for footbridges across the FDR Drive, the roaring six-lane highway that effectively severs residents of the Lower East Side from the waterfront.

It was not a hundred-year flood.