flood-waters

Power is still out to many homes and businesses, and flood waters are just beginning to recede leaving behind massive damage and debris.

The sky was filled with dust like a volcanic eruption, and flood waters, mud and rocks streamed onto the roads, " she said. "

A few days later, there was a gradual recession of flood waters.

Wait until any flood waters are below basement level before trying to drain or pump a basement.

On Sunday afternoon, a number of river dikes were blown up in Anhui Province to release flood waters.

Although most of the flood waters are gone, in most areas it's still not safe to drink tap water and the sewer system has not been fixed.

Last summer, when the prime minister handled a series of minor crises reasonably competently, he seemed able to turn flood waters into wine.

These guidelines win him the favor of the gods, allowing him to rule Mesopotamia once the flood waters recede.

And then came Hurricane Tomas. Misery now overwhelms Haitians just as easily as the flood waters did.

Thousands of Pakistanis displaced by flood waters reside temporarily in a camp set up by the Pakistani Army in Sukkar, Sindh province.

Chinese soldiers used explosives to blast part of a leaking dike so as to release flood waters on a swollen branch of the Yangtze River.

More rain is expected and high tide at the end of the month could slow down draining of flood waters into the sea.

The dam gave away. It was not strong enough to hold the flood waters.

Emergency workers in Britain are around the clock to save people trapped by rising flood waters.

rains cause flooding. In general, farmers welcome the flood waters. They spread over the field, adding the growth of the newly planted rice.

Authorities are hopeful that the flood waters will reach their crest and begin draining into the Arabian Sea within the coming days.

NHK television transmitted aerial images of flood waters engulfing the airport, where survivors clustered on the roof of the main building.

The flood waters carry in them soil (called silt) from the upper parts of the river valley to the lower parts, and so to the sea.

This would have been unthinkable during drier days, but the flood waters have made this bizarre travel route possible.

The aquifer will replenish from the flood waters, and then Moscow will be inundated by the sea as the sea level rises.

But it's also known by another name: China's sorrow. Over the centuries, its flood waters have claimed millions of Chinese lives.

The consequent structural integrity of the mounds and their excellent permeability to water has protected them from erosion by flood waters.

"How ironic, isn't it? " the mother said. "We come here to get away from flood waters, and he nearly drowns in the river. "

Flood waters sweeping across the eastern Australian state of Queensland are now affecting an estimated 200, 000 people.

A Pakistani girl carrying her belongings on her head wades through flood waters in Punjab province's Basira on September 4, 2010.

A woman carries some belongings through flood waters caused by a monsoon in Lahore, Pakistan.

Flood waters inundating Thailand north of Bangkok since July have made the journey south and reached the capital.

"The influence in rainfall increase on cholera outbreaks can best be explained by flood waters in disease transmission, " write the authors.

Access to the worst-affected areas remains difficult, with many villages cut off after roads and bridges were washed away by flood waters.

In the interior of Viet Nam, in an area due to sink 40 feet per the Zeta projections, the flood waters are at roof level.

But they were the lucky ones, the ones who were not drowned immediately or carried off in the raging flood waters.

A lake of south-central Sudan. Formed by the flood waters of the White Nile, it varies in size seasonally.

At least 22 levees in the three flood-stricken states have already been topped by flood waters this week.

On Saturday, Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra was reported to have declared that the flood waters have receded from the area.

Two 19-year-olds tried to use a blow-up doll as a flotation device in the Australian flood waters but failed.

They say the flood waters were four to six feet high and the current so strong it swept away all the things in their homes.

There were more evacuations in Missouri where levees have been topped by rising flood waters.

After several days, the flood waters finally began to recede, but there were still many people in need of help.

Record levels have already led to rising flood waters in Chicago and elsewhere.

We've been told by people on this street that the flood waters were well above my head.

Rescuers are defying treacherous flood waters to try and reach typhoon survivors in Taiwan.

A garden gnome sits just above flood waters from the Oder river near the Polish border.

They place thin wooden sticks with red flags near open manholes, but heavy flood waters often wash the markers away.

The project will be built on a polder, a recessed area below sea level where flood waters settle from heavy rains.

Meanwhile, Pakistan is likewise dropping, the flood waters not draining as expected.

Rogers's mission: to cross the turbulent river using a narrow bridge now hidden beneath flood waters.

The flood waters began to.

Residents of Nowshera, Pakistan flee rising flood waters, while others wait in traffic on Aug.

A Buddhist monk recovers a robe from debris after flood waters receded in Ayutthaya, Thailand.

In Bavaria , an 82 -year- old woman drowned in her basement apartment last weekend when flood waters 1. 5m high hit the region .

Flood waters submerged homes, crops, and roads, causing an estimated $772 million in damage in Zhejiang alone.

an 82-year-old woman drowned in her basement apartment last weekend when flood waters 1.

The town was threatened by rising flood waters, so most families fled to higher ground.

Look, Daniel, on the pagoda's brick wall, marks left by the flood waters can still be seen.

At one point half of the town was under water and flood waters reached the third storey of buildings, China News Service reported.

The men built banks of earth to keep back the rising flood waters.

They built banks of earth to hold back the rising flood waters.

They built dykes and dam to hold back the rising flood waters.

Continuing raining augments the flood waters.

The helicopters brought off the people marooned by flood waters.

People spoke of their fear as the flood waters rose.

Continuing rains augmented the flood waters.

Flood waters erode support from under buildings, so they tilt and fall.

It was a long time before they got the flood waters under control.

Continuing rains augmentedthe flood waters.

Officials say the efforts to lower the flood waters are working.

The flood waters gradually subsided.

Flood waters ran high for many weeks, but then the waters subsided.

a gushing hydrant; pouring flood waters.

Flood waters also increase the likelihood of mosquito-born diseases, such as malaria, dengue fever, and Japanese encephalitis.

The flood waters finally receded.

When the flood waters receded, silt remained.

Flood waters can pose health risks, such as contaminated water and food supplies.

Let's drain away the flood waters.

The dam took the heavy flood waters.

They have got flood waters under control.

the flood waters had receded.

The flood waters came as far as the roof.

We heard the swill of flood waters.

Approximately 2. 34 million people in 10, 130 villages have been hit by flood waters.

Record-breaking flood waters in the US state of North Dakota have breached a dike at a school, swamping the campus.

Flood waters brought by Typhoon Morakot submerge a house in Chiatung, Pingtung county, in southern Taiwan, on August 9, 2009.

Flood waters pour out of newly-built houses in Yingxiu town - the epicentre of the Sichuan earthquake

the gradual recession of flood waters