"Excessive runoff from this storm will cause flooding of small creeks and streams" and affect low-lying areas.
The flooding of overflow office districts in low-lying areas like Metairie could raise demand for high-and-dry high-rises downtown.
The collapse of a significant portion of the levee leading to the very fast flooding of the city was not envisioned.
More solutions are needed to prevent future flooding of the north Devon village of Braunton, the council and local businesses say.
Nine were closed due to the flooding of the Mississippi River, said Bill Canter, spokesman for the Tunica Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Meanwhile, the upstream North West Frontier Province, where the Muslim League is also in power, objects to the flooding of its land.
But he says the lawsuits arising from the failure of New Orleans levees and the flooding of an estimated 160, 000 homes may dwarf those settlements.
"Intense rains and flooding of the Limpopo River have affected over 100, 000 people in Gaza Province alone, " the United Nations said in a statement.
But we had nothing like the horrendous fires of Breezy Point, the flooding of Staten Island, the back wash that turned the streets of Hoboken, N.
The Environment Agency said the river would be at its highest level since the mass flooding of 2007, when much of the county was under water.
The melting of the Antarctic and Greenland icecaps and the flooding of Bangladesh could not happen until the end of the next century, if at all.
There are 64 properties in the town, including 28 in Waterside, that have a chance of flooding of 1 in 150 or greater in any given year.
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For customers in other darkened neighborhoods below Midtown, where power was knocked out Monday night by the flooding of the substation, the path toward power got brighter Tuesday.
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Coastal storm surge flooding of 3 to 5 feet above normal tide levels and rainfall of 6 to 12 inches were possible in Cuba, the hurricane center said.
As for shrimps, for all the flooding of their salty lagoons, there are even reports that Honduras's shrimp farmers will do better in the year after Mitch than before.
In the wake of the attack, the fear was that a breach in the wall, and flooding of the bathtub, might flood the Path tunnels that passed into the bathtub.
And, just as some people asked after the flooding of New Orleans, should all the devastated towns be rebuilt or should some be abandoned forever, with surviving residents re-settled elsewhere?
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Equally, last year's flooding of the Mekong river, which devastated large parts of Cambodia, should serve as a warning to the region, says David McCauley, head of the ADB's climate-change programme.
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These judgments validate many locals' beliefs that the flooding of 80 percent of New Orleans and the billions of dollars in damage were caused more by massive engineering failures than a natural disaster.
Consider, for example, the solution that the U.K. adopted to prevent the flooding of London by surge tides that occur under certain meteorological conditions and because tide levels have been rising two feet per century.
When I talk about flooding of land with none Dutch and I tell them we live under sea level and that one day the sea will take the land back were my house is standing on now.
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The Chinese believed that the rising of Arcturus, the fourth-brightest star in the sky, caused spring to burst forth, while the Egyptians thought that the appearance of Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, brought about the annual flooding of the Nile.
Global warming may bring its own set of issues for future supply chains if it results in more flooding of low lying areas (as well as greater exposure to damage from tsunamis) in less developed countries that are prime candidates for future production.
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When Sandy hit, water rushed in from the bay and a network of water channels, flooding hundreds of homes south of the Belt Parkway.
During that visit, an Indian professor's research predicted that global warming would force the migration of 125 million residents of low-lying areas in India and Bangladesh because of flooding, salinization of soils and shrinking fresh water supplies.
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Mid and West Wales Fire Service said it had received more than 270 calls on Friday evening, with "quite a large number of flooding incidents" across Pembrokeshire, Carmarthen and Swansea, including incidents of properties flooding and people becoming trapped in their cars.
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There are also "be prepared" alerts of possible flooding over much of the rest of Scotland.
After days of flooding that brought parts of the UK to a standstill, river and groundwater levels are still high in many areas.
You can tell the health care debate is reaching a critical point just by the number of ads flooding the airwaves of local and cable television.
He said up to 5.5m homes and businesses in the UK were at risk of flooding but with the right amount of investment, the country could become a "market leader" in technologies to combat flooding and its effects.
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