floodwater

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Examples

• She first felt it 16 years ago working to evacuate patients during Hurricane Katrina, when floodwaters swallowed New Orleans and rushed into Tulane Hospital, where she worked at the time.

• Saving lives from floodwaters means taking steps in the hours, days and weeks before an event.

• In Tennessee, families described waking in the middle of the night to the sound of floodwaters surging into their homes.

• News reports in the immediate wake of the disaster suggested that the floodwaters were caused by the sudden overflow of a glacial lake high up in the mountain, an event called a glacial lake outburst flood.

• That as the floodwaters rose in one spot, the water was being drawn out in many more.

• Floodwater in outlying areas may reach six feet, the major general said.

• Everyone we met, wading through filthy floodwater, was thirsty; some were injured; most were homeless.

• The coffee was brown as floodwater silt, heavy with sugar, and very hot; and the cups had no handles.

• No death for months, except by accidental drowning in floodwater.

• The Seneca reservoir as proposed in 1963 provided floodwater storage calculated to reduce metropolitan damages by 46 percent.