flooding

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• The area deals with both polluted waters due to toxic runoff, and severe flooding risks due to the stormwater system’s condition.

• It is relatively rare to have a collapsed glacier trigger this kind of flooding, with the last such event occurring in 2016 in Tibet.

• Many of them lived through Tropical Storm Isabel in 2003, a 100-year storm that left some residents thinking it would be the worst flooding event of their lives.

• Muhyiddin said flooding in a number of states also contributed to the need for increased powers in addition to the virus.

• City officials said the flooding was exacerbated not just by their aging stormwater system, but by runoff from logging above the town.

• Monsoon rains sparked widespread flooding that submerged the camp in water.

• I stumble through interviews for my job at NY1, memories flooding back.

• In February 2011, during a winter storm, a tree fell into a creek in Franklin Township, New Jersey, and caused flooding.

• Meanwhile her husband William and his brother Harry were busy laying sandbags in towns affected by flooding.

• The game consists of flooding the bathroom with water, hiking up your skirt, and then gliding over the stream.

• A crevasse was made in the levee above New Orleans flooding much of the city.