More people drown in floods.
The floods gradually receded from the fields.
An excess of rain caused severe floods.
During spring rains the river floods.
The floods caved in that dike.
The cellar floods whenever it rains heavily.
The lake will be dyked to avert floods.
The village was overwhelmed when the floods came.
Reconstruction in the wake of floods indicates that the floods, while causing disasters, have also brought opportunities, including those to expand domestic demand and expedite development.
How serious will the impact of the Thai floods be on Asian tables?
The number of floods from glacial lakes already is rising sharply, Professor Hasnain said.
Mud slides and floods are likely, with streams and rivers carrying off the topsoil.
Many motorists were forced to stop over in that town because of floods.
However, the negative influence created by the floods is still limited.
The glaciers are melting, storms have increased in ferocity, there are landslides and floods, followed by droughts and deforestation.
The floods in Pakistan are the third major humanitarian crisis to afflict the country in recent years.
You can explain to them that plants are necessary not only for food but also for controlling floods.
The one similarity among all of the floods, he notes, is that there was plenty of moisture flowing up from the Gulf of Mexico, which fuels the storms that caused the floods.
The number one reason is user error, although crashes, fires, floods, theft and viruses all play a part as well.
The country has been vulnerable to landslides and flash floods because of lands stripped of trees for firewood.
Consider the massive floods that inundated a fifth of Pakistan last year and submerged eastern Australia and America's heartland this year.
The seldom-seen floods that hit China this past summer were caused mainly by abnormal climate, as well as damages of the ecological environment.
These, in turn, have sparked correspondingly sharp rises in greenhouse gas concentrations, ozone depletion, great floods, depletion of fisheries, loss of forests, species loss.
Natural light floods the museum through its jigsaw-shaped holes and skylights. A walkway and a cube-shaped gallery float above the lobby.
The resulting silt raises the level of the Yangtze riverbed, not only reducing the life of the dam, but also worsening the risk of floods.
In addition to property damage, the floods have affected some of the nation's most fertile cropland, and are expected to have an impact on already rising food prices, especially for crops like corn.
We really had no choice but to pass this provision, because the federal government is obligated to reimburse when people have floods if they have paid in their flood insurance.
Construction of the ecological environment and water conservancy projects will also be carried out gradually after the floods, so as to enhance the flood- storage, discharge and control capacity.
The precipitation rain fall of the rainstorms in Hwanghae Province is as high as 459 centimeters, and the floods have drowned mine pits, power stations and other industrial establishments.
The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change notes that temperatures in China are rising and extreme weather, including cyclones, droughts and floods, is on the increase.
Hubei, which is also called" the province of thousands of lakes", has experienced six major rainstorms since June, which have triggered floods in more than2,000 rivers, mountain torrents and landslides, causing an economic loss of more than3,800 million yuan, said Liu.
