They are usually stationed in another region that has seen more extensive flooding in the past.
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Further North, Jersey City and Hoboken reported extensive flooding throughout their downtowns.
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Anne McIntosh, Tory MP for the Vale of York which suffered extensive flooding, raised the issue in the Commons on Wednesday.
Tsunamis are a series of long ocean waves that can last five to 15 minutes and cause extensive flooding in coastal areas.
More than two weeks' worth of rainfall fell over two hours on the evening of Wednesday 4 August, causing extensive flooding to properties.
North Wales Conservative AM Antoinette Sandbach said, following extensive flooding in St Asaph and Ruthin in Denbighshire the Welsh government "must reassure the public in north Wales that they have improved their flood management strategies".
Strong winds and heavy seas battered the east coast in December, causing extensive damage and flooding.
Hurricane Sandy made landfall on October 29, 2012, resulting in major flooding, extensive structural damage, and significant loss of life.
The latest 3-D maps, painstakingly pieced together from radar data collected by numerous spacecraft passes, have already changed scientists' notions: The channels are deeper than expected, a sign that flooding was more extensive than generally believed.
The devastation, especially from flooding, is extensive.
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Flooding wasn't extensive in Manhattan during the storm, but it caused some spectacular damage where it did occur, inundating subway stations and tunnels, crippling critical electrical infrastructure and destroying the mechanical equipment in waterfront skyscrapers.
Flooding throughout the city was extensive, especially in Manhattan, with areas from the Lower East Side to the Battery under significant amounts of water, though it was receding from high-tide levels.
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The MTA took extensive measures before the storm to limit the amount of water flooding into tunnels, including by boarding up ventilation grates in low-lying stations, piling sandbags at station entrances, inflating a rubber dam in the Long Island Rail Road's West Side yards in Manhattan and hastily erecting a floodwall across the mouth of the No. 3 train tunnel near East 148th Street in Harlem.
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