How To Use flash flood In A Sentence
- Elsewhere, firefighters battled flash floods caused by the torrential rain.
- This development has resulted in extensive denudation of these catchment areas and an attendant loss of vegetative cover on the steep slopes, an increase in the incidence of landslides, soil erosion, and siltation of drainage systems in the valley bottoms and ultimately, increased incidence of flash flooding. Water profile of St. Lucia
- Severe flash flood watches remain in effect in and around Las Vegas after heavy rainstorms.
- Quick downpours from summer thunderstorms can cause flash floods anywhere.
- The second half is loaded with these 3 A.M. smoking cigarettes-on-your-balcony brooders, and you'd think it'd get bogged down worse than a fat-farm delivery bus in a flash flood on a dirt road, but it just gets… y'know, moody.
- Easingwold Secondary School remained closed today after flash floods swamped classrooms, causing thousands of pounds-worth of damage to computer equipment.
- In Houston and across the country, a flash flood of federal stimulus money is shaking up the once-obscure world of "weatherization," programs to help poor families cut their utility bills. A Flood for Weather-Proofing Programs
- In 1997, a student flash flood turned a peaceful canyon into a raging torrent of deadly whitewater.
- Police say it is a miracle no one was killed when a flash flood swamped an English village.
- Short-lived saline lakes or playas are particularly common at the margins of many deserts, where waters from flash floods become ponded up, but evaporate away in time.
