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How to use the word Flood in a Sentence? Page #4

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After years of being wrong, I now realize the possibility of the Christian belief or Genesis actually being true. Perhaps there was a worldwide flood.

Robert Cargill

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4 years ago

It's not OK to transform a forest into agriculture without understanding the impact that has on climate, carbon storage, disease emergence and flood risk, you can't do those things in isolation without thinking about what that does to humans.

Kate Jones

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This isn't a situation where we need to flood the economy. What we need to do is help anyone who's adversely impacted navigate and get to the other side of this.

Neil Bradley

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Shoemaker said.Lastly, after Columbia Gas is sold, an independent monitor chosen by the U.S. Department of Transportation will monitor a new companys activities to ensure compliance with state and federal safety regulations and report it to the government on a monthly basis. NiSource also has subsidiaries in Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Kentucky and Virginia. As per a separate agreement, it will implement the recommendations made by the national transportation safety board in the wake of the gas explosions in Massachusetts two years ago. SUPREME COURT HEARS ATLANTIC COAST PIPELINE CASE, ROBERTS WARNS OF IMPERMEABLE BARRIER ALONG APPALACHIAN TRAIL Columbia Gas, through a pattern of flagrant indifference, in the face of extreme risk to life and property, knowingly violated minimum safety standards for starting up and shutting down gas pipelines, Shoemaker said. Federal investigators blamed the explosions on over-pressurized gas lines, saying the company failed to account for critical pressure sensors as workers replaced century-old cast-iron pipes in Lawrence. That omission caused high-pressure gas to flood the neighborhoods distribution system at excessive levels. Todays resolution with the U.S. Attorneys Office is an important part of addressing the impact.

Columbia Gas

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Its been 40 years since we had a flood. So we never anticipated this, weve been here for 15 years, a family-owned business, and this is just one of the bumps in the road weve got to deal with.

Ricky Irby

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

At about 5:30 this morning, we heard a big boom on the side of our house, then all of a sudden it came in like a tidal wave, they told us about the big flood coming and everybody was kind of skeptical cause Ive been out here for 11 years and Ive never seen this.

Willie Euper

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

There aren't a lot of people who realize the impact of climate change, when the flood recedes and people get back to their homes and resume normal activities, flood management or concrete actions to combat climate change will be forgotten too.

Nirwono Joga

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

They're living in literally a pieced-together shack that during the rainy season, it will rain and it will flood their shack. Some of the women even said that the water will go up to their knees when it rains, sometimes for months.

Brett Hagler

Found on CNN
4 years ago

These families are the most vulnerable, and in the lowest income... and they're living on about an average of $ 3 a day, they're living in literally a pieced-together shack that during the rainy season, it will rain and it will flood their shack. Some of the women even said that the water will go up to their knees when it rains, sometimes for months.

Brett Hagler

Found on CNN
4 years ago

As Juul, an e-cigarette giant, was entering India and would flood the Indian markets ... (the ban order) became all the more imminent and necessary.

Health Ministry

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I checked the flood hazard map but it didn't have my area as being at risk, i heard there was a flood once before the war, but we just weren't expecting the water to come over the levee despite all the warnings.

Yoshinagi Higuchi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Childhood Obesity's Childhood Obesity. Childhood Obesity will flood health systems, particularly in developing countries.

Tim Lobstein

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We have been dealing with the impact of a significant flood and drought in the domestic context and, all things considered, the fact that we continue to grow is an indication of the resilience of the Australian economy.

Mathias Cormann

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's going to get very messy down here, i honestly don't know why anyone would buy a house down here. It's pretty much guaranteed to flood.

Mark Huske

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I've lived in Whaley( Whaley Bridge on Thursday) for the best part of 45 years, and I've never seen water flood over the dam like that, ever, nor thought that we could possibly be at risk in this way.

Carolyn Whittle

Found on CNN
4 years ago

With the receding flood waters across the country, there is a possibility of outbreaks of water-borne diseases, that's why we are setting up water treatment plants in the flood-affected areas on a priority basis.

Shah Kamal

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

That's why we are setting up water treatment plants in the flood-affected areas on a priority basis.

Shah Kamal

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's really the river that has us worried, they say that the river won't flood in New Orleans, but we have a 5-year-old and a 10-month-old, and we don't want to take any chances.

Betsey Hazard

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Now is absolutely the time to pay attention. Heed every single warning that comes from the City of New Orleans, and as John Bel Edwards listen to media outlets, pay attention to all tornado, as well as flash flood warnings. Be prepared for the impacts.

New Orleans

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The government paid no attention to the sites and didn't build canals to divert flood water, we have warned the government about the dire condition of the citadel but no one visited.

Ghulam Sakhi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Apprehensive, a little bit scared, it continues to rise and I’m plugging holes in my levee and hoping that my fields don't flood…it’s a scary situation. I’m hoping for the best but it could be worse than I ever imagined.

Ken George

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The heavy rain will impact areas that have received significant amounts of rain within the past several weeks, the ground remains very saturated and may elevate the flood threat.

Van Dam

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We can't win a war against water by building away climate change with infinitely high flood defenses.

Emma Howard Boyd

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Back in 2007, it was the mouse in the room ; then, it became the elephant in the room. By 2016, those concerns and fears began to flood over.

Petersen Boring

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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