After half an hour or so, the Tahoe drives up to a gated complex with a barbed wire fence and from there to a small low-lying building surrounded by a handful of Iraqis in jumpsuits.
The flood region is a low-lying prairie, and water about thigh-deep spread over a broad region, inundating homes and cars.
Oakwood Beach, a low-lying oceanfront neighborhood, is one of those areas, the governor said.
Doggerland was a low-lying region of forests and wetlands that paleontologists believe connected Britain to the European mainland.
Melissa Yeager, 27 years old, evacuated her home on the second floor of a building in a low-lying area in Lewes, Del.
Some 113 people are in shelters in Escambia County due to the storm, and residents of a low-lying apartment complex were ordered to evacuate, the spokesman added.
Among those worse off was Louisiana resident Erica Campbell, whose rented home in a low-lying area of town was flooded for the second time in three years.
Emergency generators at the plant became inoperable after a tsunami topped a seawall at the coastal facility and flooded the emergency equipment that was located in a low-lying area.
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Having fallen on hard times, he was living down the hill in Kentish Town, then a low-lying, poor village between London and Hampstead which the rich preferred to gallop through as fast as possible.
Caleta was drying up and emptying out until a coalition of Chilean environmental groups, Canadian researchers and international funding agencies decided to make use of the town's most valuable asset: Chamanchaca, a low-lying cloud that passes over the place almost every night.
Looking west from our bedroom's rear window we could sometimes see inland as far as the dark treeline of the Watchungs, a low-lying mountain range fringed by great estates and affluent, sparsely populated suburbs, the extreme edge of the known world and about eight miles from our house.
This single work, made up of 53 low-lying pieces, was fashioned by a computer-directed machine extruding coils of cement.
But if you travel there a lot, it's a very low-lying island.
The river flows into the broad, flat Miramichi Bay, which is sheltered from the wider Gulf of Saint Lawrence by a string of low-lying islands.
The posts hit by NATO on Saturday are built on the Salala mountain, part of a chain of low-lying rugged mountains that divide Pakistan from Afghanistan.
They talked about some of the tough things we have to deal with, particularly extremely low-lying areas and areas where we have a low-income black population who we have to be very sensitive about.
Josh Brolin, a slab of hair lying low across his forehead, gives White a brick-headed, baffled manner, a tormented neediness.
Patrick Foye, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, said workers were inspecting flood damage at La Guardia, including the possibility that a barge may have hit a dike protecting the low-lying runways from the bay.
European countries are among the few developed supporters of renewing Kyoto, along with a chorus of developing nations and low-lying Pacific islands, which are on the front lines of climate change due to rising sea levels.
The thrust of the narrative, aided with illustrations including Mr Thompson's pleasant photographs, hangs on a series of introductory and diverting potted histories of the Lake poets, writers, artists, climbers and charlatans who gave a remarkable profile to this relatively low-lying group of mountains in England's north-west.
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.
They are a hard-working couple: Willem-Alexander regularly gives speeches at water conferences, sharing his low-lying nation's centuries of experience battling to stay dry, while soon-to-be Queen Maxima, a former investment banker, has carved out a career as a microfinance expert.
No, in the post-Madoff era they were lying low, but they were launching a virtual film center, and I could write for the new site when it took wing.
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Even in low-lying Iraq, British forces found that their Lynx helicopters, designed to carry a dozen soldiers, could manage one passenger at best during the summer heat.
The origin of the project stems from a dream Huibers said he had in 1992, in which the low-lying Netherlands was flooded by the North Sea.
Late Wednesday, Delta Air Lines said it expected to resume limited flights on Wednesday from JFK, and that it would begin flying from LaGuardia on Thursday, a forecast that seems optimistic given the flooding and other problems at the low-lying airport.
Many low-lying nations have used the UN conference, which is currently under way in Doha, to call for a threshold temperature rise less than 2C, arguing that even a 2C rise will jeopardise their future.
This was a challenge since seventy percent of the inland waterway system is in rural areas, in low-lying valleys like Pittsburgh, or in low-income neighborhoods not well served by the Internet.
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