Liverpool City Council, which is funding the scheme, said it had been "deluged" with applications.
Many power and telephone lines are knocked out, while burst water mains have deluged whole districts.
And then there is Twitter fatigue, in which users may feel deluged by information.
Residents on the Kingfisher estate in Loughborough face an uncertain future after their homes were deluged with sewage.
Since the attack, Executive Jet, a company that offers part-ownership of private jets, has been deluged with calls.
Thanks to the explosion of genomics (the study of genes and their role in diseases), Jackson Laboratory is deluged with orders.
Many UK customers of Sky are being deluged with thousands of old and deleted messages as the company switches email providers.
Beilenson admits that if the program had been deluged with thousands of applicants from Day 1, it would have been overwhelmed.
People are deluged with so much email nowadays, if they get an email through LinkedIn, they will take notice, he says.
Women deluged her with requests for advice on how to move, how to stand and what to do with their hands.
Many Samoan settlements are coastal and both Apia and Pago Pago, the capitals respectively of Samoa and American Samoa, were deluged.
After selling the video to Reuters, Van Poppel was deluged by social media fans in other countries eager to lend a hand tweeting news.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has been deluged in recent times by criticism that the spirit of cricket is being ruined by gamesmanship and sledging.
Soon after Good Housekeeping published an article suggesting Pirate's Booty had 147 calories per serving instead of the labeled 120, Robert's was deluged with lawsuits.
When shopping for one, you're going to get deluged with stats.
Deluged with calls the EMI switchboard nearly keeled over and the company were forced to set up an answering service to deal with the fans.
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Merck finally withdrew the arthritis drug from the market and then was deluged with lawsuits claiming the label didn't warn doctors of the higher heart risk.
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"The emergency services have been deluged with phone calls, which was to be expected, " said Patrick Pelloux, president of the association of French emergency hospital doctors.
"Too often, the reality seems to be Work Programme advisers swamped by caseloads of 120-180 jobseekers and employers deluged with poorly-matched CVs and under-prepared candidates, " she said.
They are being deluged by data and higher expectations in terms of using advanced analytics and tools to better optimize their marketing efforts and deliver stronger ROI.
" Asked if he would open his doors to a reporter and photographer, Mr. Cueto initially declined, saying he feared being deluged by "requests from all over.
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Last month, the EPA unveiled a scaled-back version of regulations it proposed last year targeting emissions of pollutants from industrial boilers after being deluged with letters and comments.
Imagine also the plight of unwary investors who are deluged with phone calls from high-pressure salesmen pushing supposedly "regulated" futures contracts in gold and silver that promise unbelievable returns.
The chances are that the FBI will now be deluged with information especially because the photos are not entirely clear and so many people may think they spot someone.
Earlier this year, banks and building societies and even the FOS itself complained they were being deluged with spurious complaints submitted on behalf of customers by claims management companies (CMCs).
Once the banks lost their legal case in April 2011 the floodgates opened, and they have been deluged with several million claims for compensation for the past mis-selling of PPI.
And then when I was deluged with phone calls from pretty major museums in the country, I thought well hmm this is going to sell for way more than I expected.
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When the NYSE gets deluged, Hunsader says, their quote feed to the Consolidated Quote System (CQS), which is used as part of the National Best Bid and Offer (NBBO) system, gets delayed.
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It stepped in several times as lender of last resort during the banking crisis in 1997, and it has since deluged weak banks that were unable to get funds in the call market with money.
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