The rising flood waters overwhelmed pumping stations that would normally keep the city dry.

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The rapid-rising flood ripped houses in the neighborhood from their moorings just after 4 a.m.

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But his firm's business depends on an ever-rising flood of electronic data passing over the connections which it makes for electronic networks.

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There will undoubtedly be wrangling between insurance adjusters, homeowners and the feds over what water damage was due to the storm, and what is attributable to the rising flood.

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His hand slips only toward the end, where the sense of melodrama, rising like a flood, brims over into the ludicrous.

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Johns River is still at maximum flood stage and rising, because all the water that' fell in Melbourne flows downstream which for the St.

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Flood-tide: rising tide, part of the tidal cycle between low water and the next high water.

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The flood of institutional money into rising tech shares has increased the upward momentum, in turn pulling in yet more individual and institutional money.

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THen I woke up one morning to a flood coming in my front door and rising rapidly.

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The Environment Agency says rain and melting snow are expected to lead to rising water levels in rivers in south-west England and has three flood warnings in place.

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