floodwater
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How to use floodwater in a sentence
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.
The lament of covid-19 caregivers in the nation’s safety-net hospitals: ‘What could be next?’ | Akilah Johnson | August 24, 2021 | Washington PostSaving lives from floodwaters means taking steps in the hours, days and weeks before an event.
Tennessee floods show a pressing climate danger across America: ‘Walls of water’ | Sarah Kaplan | August 24, 2021 | Washington PostIn Tennessee, families described waking in the middle of the night to the sound of floodwaters surging into their homes.
Tennessee floods show a pressing climate danger across America: ‘Walls of water’ | Sarah Kaplan | August 24, 2021 | Washington PostNews 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.
Three things to know about the disastrous flood in India | Carolyn Gramling | February 9, 2021 | Science NewsThat the United States is seeing as many or more deaths per day from the coronavirus as it did during the deadliest period last spring is no more surprising than a tsunami’s floodwaters because, like the tsunami, we could see it coming.
The pandemic’s death toll is a tsunami anyone could see coming — if they looked | Philip Bump | December 3, 2020 | Washington Post
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.
Blind Man's Lantern | Allen Kim LangNo death for months, except by accidental drowning in floodwater.
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 | Louise Amelia Knapp Smith ClappeThe Seneca reservoir as proposed in 1963 provided floodwater storage calculated to reduce metropolitan damages by 46 percent.
The Nation's River | United States Department of the Interior
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