How To Use Flash flood In A Sentence
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Elsewhere, firefighters battled flash floods caused by the torrential rain.
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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
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Severe flash flood watches remain in effect in and around Las Vegas after heavy rainstorms.
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Quick downpours from summer thunderstorms can cause flash floods anywhere.
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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.
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Easingwold Secondary School remained closed today after flash floods swamped classrooms, causing thousands of pounds-worth of damage to computer equipment.
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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
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In 1997, a student flash flood turned a peaceful canyon into a raging torrent of deadly whitewater.
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Police say it is a miracle no one was killed when a flash flood swamped an English village.
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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.
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Summer flash floods destroyed the crops.
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The campsite was deluged by a flash flood.
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The US Midwest also suffered atrocious rains and flash floods.
Times, Sunday Times
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In eastern Sudan, the rising river Gash, which flows into the country from the Ethiopian plateau, had also created flash floods in the Kassala area, leaving hundreds of families stranded.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Their arrival unleashes a flash flood of 10,000 tourists who watch the spectacle from specially adapted buses dubbed tundra buggies.
Times, Sunday Times
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A big flash flood in 1634 severed the old Nordstrand or the north beach, into Nordstrand and Pellworm Islands, and the islet, in German holm, Nordstrandischmoor.
The Jakarta Post Breaking News
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Flash floods, of the kind which suddenly and without warning inundate a whole town under many feet of swirling water, only occur in mountainous areas or where dams break creating a tidal wave.
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It created a flash flood effect and I was in the middle of rapids containing debris, wood and all matter of building material.
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Some people had to cling to trees as the flash flood bowled them over.
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Flash flooding caused bridges to collapse and landslides are blocking roads to devastated coastal villages.
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Small, unsurfaced roads dipping through gullies and ravines are apt to get wiped out from flash flooding, and help in remote areas usually is slow in coming.
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Hundreds of villages have been swept away by rain, flash floods and landslides.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some supercells produce little rain, others, downpours that can cause flash floods.
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North of Mount Kenya, in the more arid areas, communities must be helped to construct dams and dykes where there are dry river beds, to catch and retain the flash floods when they come.
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The storm lashed the south of the country with torrential rain yesterday, triggering flash floods and landslides.
Times, Sunday Times
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Drivers fled their submerged cars and three members of one family were struck by lightning as storms caused flash floods across the country yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tiled roofs and macadamised roads profoundly altered the patterns of run-off and guaranteed more flash floods; the increasing volumes of water in turn called for strong measures to contain them.
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Four persons lost their lives in flash floods in this district today even as the district administration took the help of the Army authorities to airdrop supplies to around 25 villages which have been submerged.
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Flash floods with thunder and lightning were rampant at the weekend.
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Natural hazards: periodic droughts; frequent earthquakes, flash floods, landslides, volcanic activity; hot, driving windstorm called khamsin occurs in spring; dust storms, sandstorms
The 2001 CIA World Factbook
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The storm lashed the south of the country with torrential rain yesterday, triggering flash floods and landslides.
Times, Sunday Times
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Urgent talks after flash flood causes chaos.
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And that not only makes the country's infrastructure feeble and susceptive to high winds, but it also makes the countryside very susceptible to flash flooding.
CNN Transcript Aug 18, 2007
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For the next ten hours we would be battling through mud and flash floods over 20 miles to find over 100 geocaches on foot.
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And hail, snow and flash floods are predicted for the end of this week after just a couple of days of sunshine.
The Sun
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Under water:Flash floods and blizzards bring winter chaos.
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Some people had to cling to trees as the flash flood bowled them over.
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Because the postal authorities clung to the view that the mail had to get through no matter what, mail coaches made heroic efforts to stick to schedule in hailstorms, gales, flash floods, and sleet.
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Authorities have scrambled to airlift hospital patients from the path of a cyclone roaring toward waterlogged northeastern Australia and urged low-lying communities to evacuate because of potentially deadly flash floods.
Cyclone Yasi roars toward Australia's flooded north
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Where particularly heavy rain falls on mountains with steep and narrow channels, it can cause some of the worst flash floods in the world.
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Which had become more streamlike and less fordlike during previous flash floods this fall.
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A couple of years ago these lanes were far from peaceful when a flash flood swept through the area.
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But those winds were futile as a device for prying away such an inspissated couple for once they were together this man and woman babbled to each other a mutually pleasurable one word jabberwocky despite the fiercely driven rains, hail, and the flash flood at their feet.
An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
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Egypt is susceptible to periodic droughts; frequent earthquakes, flash floods, landslides; hot, driving windstorm called khamsin occurs in spring; dust storms, and sandstorms.
Egypt
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Australia's Bureau of Meteorology warned that heavy rains and thunderstorms would continue over two stretches of land inland from the sugar mill town of Bundaberg and southeast of the Gulf of Carpentaria in Queensland state, leading to localized flash floods and worsening river flooding.
Floods Hit Another Australian Town
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Egyptperiodic droughts; frequent earthquakes, flash floods, landslides; hot, driving windstorm called khamsin occurs in spring; dust storms, sandstorms
Natural hazards
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Together the trio brave flash floods, runaway trains, explosions, and attention by amorous bulls.
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A legend passed down by generations says that there was a little white dragon in the celestial lake who often amused itself by stirring the water and induced a lot of flash flood in the rainy season.
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Some people had to cling to trees as the flash flood bowled them over.
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Hundreds of villages have been swept away by rain, flash floods and landslides.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a result, there are only a handful of paved roads, and those are vulnerable to flash floods.
WALKING THE BIBLE
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So when a flash flood swept down the valley on Sunday night, leaving the road beneath 12 ft of water, the monastic ruin in the care of English Heritage was undamaged.
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Storms are also likely to produce heavy rain and flash flooding in parts of the Capricornia, Wide Bay and Burnett districts, affecting Biloela, Monto, Theodore and Moura.
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Caption :FLASH FLOOD: A rescuer helped pull a vehicle from mud after a flash flood caused by torrential rain hit Rongjiang County, Guizhou province, China, Tuesday.
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Egypt: periodic droughts; frequent earthquakes, flash floods, landslides, volcanic activity; hot, driving windstorm called khamsin occurs in spring; dust storms, sandstorms
The 2001 CIA World Factbook
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Very heavy rainfall may lead to flash floods in small watercourses, causing rapid bank erosion and many small landslides and earthfalls.
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The unusually heavy rain caused flash floods in several mountain villages.
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Floods, especially flash floods, kill more people each year than hurricanes, tornadoes, wind storms or lightning.
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Meanwhile local governments began to count the total losses resulting from the flash flood.
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The storm system is still causing flash floods along the Atlantic coast.
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Chinese authorities have attributed Friday's tragedy to torrential rains that caused the area's worst flash flood and mudslide in 200 years.
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Trees were uprooted by 100mph winds at the height of the storms and drivers had to be rescued from cars caught in flash floods.
Times, Sunday Times
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He believes Ruess probably died in a flash flood or fell off a cliff.
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Canyons fill up very quickly after a heavy downpour, although flash floods are not that common.
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Under water:Flash floods and blizzards bring winter chaos.
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And the crowning glory, the "green" sedum roof – actually more of a russet colour – on the Newton building, which acts as a natural insulator, helps prevents flash flooding and provides a haven for birds, bees and butterflies.
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There was speculation that Yorkshire Water's impounding reservoir in Boltby Forest, a mile from the village and 300 ft higher, had burst its dam and contributed to the flash flood.
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The threat of flash floods loomed large over the people living along the Sutlej river with the formation of a huge lake in Tibet, upstream Lapcha in the Parchu nullah, a tributary of the Spiti rivers.
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The US Midwest also suffered atrocious rains and flash floods.
Times, Sunday Times
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Trees were uprooted by 100mph winds at the height of the storms and drivers had to be rescued from cars caught in flash floods.
Times, Sunday Times
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Natural hazards: periodic droughts; frequent earthquakes, flash floods, landslides; hot, driving windstorm called khamsin occurs in spring; dust storms, sandstorms
Egypt
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Much of this comes in sudden downpours in spring and autumn which sometimes cause devastating flash floods.
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Officials are warning of flash floods and mud slides, and the outer bands of Ivan are lashing Jamaica with torrential rain and huge waves.
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The campsite was deluged by a flash flood.
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After breakfast we looked in at the National Parks Centre in Reeth and got some info on our route and a weather forecast of heavy heat with possible thunderstorms and flash floods.
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A flood survivor sifts through his mud soaked belongings after flash floods hit Nowshera, Pakistan.
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The weather in Yorkshire was restricted to widespread rain which was heavy in places but there were no reports of the flash floods seen on Sunday.
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Sometimes, a flash flood in the upper reaches of a river system can evolve into a more general river flood as it joins with other inflows and spreads out as it travels downstream.
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And hail, snow and flash floods are predicted for the end of this week after just a couple of days of sunshine.
The Sun
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Egypt periodic droughts; frequent earthquakes, flash floods, landslides; hot, driving windstorm called khamsin occurs in spring; dust storms, sandstorms
The 2005 CIA World Factbook
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After basking in hot summer sunshine, the weather broke and torrential rain and flash floods brought chaos across Greater Manchester.
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The US Midwest also suffered atrocious rains and flash floods.
Times, Sunday Times
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This can lead to heavy and prolonged rain or storms in these areas, and possible flash flooding.
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The heavy rains could cause flash floods and mudslides.
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A flash flood watch is in effect for areas along and east of a bonham to terrell to cameron line on Saturday and Sunday.
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You follow a drop of your own sweat and plummet with it becoming a river, a flash flood, a waterspout, a hurricane.
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Wiltshire was hit by flash floods on Tuesday after inches of torrential rain fell on the district.
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It's believed 75% of Petra lies under debris from sandstorms and flash floods.
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A secondary school in Trowbridge was forced to close on Wednesday when flash floods left corridors impassable.
