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Sentence Examples The cellar at The Walnut Tree in the centre of the village was flooded but the pub was able to remain open. Rescuers abandoned attempts to find survivors after they found all 118 crew had died in the flooded vessel. Children wagged school and chased each other through the flooded streets, while their parents headed to the centre of town to see the damage. By comparison, on a sunny day the human eye is flooded by about 10 quadrillion photons per second. Record shop shelves all over the land are suddenly flooded with an abundance of Best Of Compilations and Singles Collections. As high tide approached early Monday afternoon, surface winds pushed water against the sea wall and flooded a short stretch of Sunrise Drive. Three bridges along the main coast road have been washed away and helicopters were flying over flooded areas to help with rescue efforts. The farm was flooded, the farmers markets were washed out week after week, and Greg and Andy's cash flow went down the drain. People were of course prepared to some degree, those whose homes flooded annually were well into the process of packing and moving. He managed to make Marin actually laugh when he described the incident with the paper clip and the water cooler that had flooded half the floor. When water from a nearby active stream flooded into the dry watercourse, the nests and eggs, like those on the flats, were inundated with mud. Measures were taken immediately to bring down the water level in the reservoir, near which 17 houses were flooded, the Civil Defence office said. Much of the water meadow has now become a lake, flooded after the extraction of gravel. But as the shark moves casually past my terror is finally quietened, my body flooded instead by a feeling I can only describe as wonder. The flooded jheels ensure sheltered feeding and refuge for countless thousands of geese, ducks, storks, herons and waders. Crowds flooded into Tiananmen Square, shouting slogans and carrying banners. These may well be the same birds at times congregating on flooded pits at Tottenhill on the fen borders. You should test for bacteria if your well head becomes flooded or submerged. Fields around Horwich are flooded in places, and all along the railway line to Bolton acres of land are seen under water. In July 1870 very heavy rains fell flooding many of the creeks and nearly twenty Aborigines drowned when the Kopperamanna Creek flooded. Show More Sentences Heavy rainfalls flooded central Bulgaria on September 19-20, leaving two dead, inundating hundreds of private homes and damaging infrastructure. Our streets are flooded even after short rainfalls due to acute lack of rainwater outlets and clogged storm water drains. The plaintiff was the owner of adjoining land which was flooded when the pipe became blocked by debris after a heavy rainstorm. Parts of the centre of York flooded as rainwater raised the level of the River Ouse flowing through the city. Families in a south Essex village today called for urgent action after rainwater and sewage flooded their homes. A doctor came into the room and adrenalin flooded her system, and her heart rate went up. Taipei's mass rapid transit system was shut down after the typhoon flooded sections of the system. From Whit Monday onwards Ash Street had been flooded five times, said the Herald. The flat roof in the girls toilet has fallen in so when it rains, it is flooded. All her aft compartments flooded, swiftly sending the boat to the muddy floor of the loch, 55 ft down. She clenched her teeth against the pain that flooded through her and tried to calm down. But then I woke up at 7am and whoosh, the tidal wave that is my to-do list flooded my thoughts and blind panic swept over me once again. We're flooded with facts about what to do for the environment but we fail to change until a penny drops or we experience an aha moment. Upon entering the room the sweetest smell of fresh fruits and warm pastries flooded their senses, followed by the smell of cooked bacon. A woman, her neighbor, and her dog go through the flooded streets in an airboat. As we travelled to Tavistock, we crossed over flooded streams and rivers that all had plenty of colour. Even in areas that flooded, properly built concrete buildings should have survived and been reclaimable. He was not prepared to get his feet wet and didn't like the dark, so he told us to sort it out and dump it down a flooded winze. Last year, a record-breaking 100,000-plus visitors flooded into the showground. And there are hundreds if not thousands more corpses still to be recovered from the city's flooded streets and homes. Show More Sentences In Sri Lanka, which lost some 30,000 citizens, nature twisted the knife as torrential rains flooded refugee camps. Look again for flooded areas, especially where long grasses and reeds lie over the water's surface. When I woke up yesterday morning, my Inbox was flooded with news alerts from Karbala, Iskandariyah and Babil. When the front garden is flooded, the water reaches the brickwork of the walls of the house both below and above the level of the damp course. The rise of sea levels with the release of glacial waters at the end of the last ice age flooded the plain between what is now the UK and Europe. There is a department store on the beach road, Ocean Plaza, which is still flooded at the lower level. Military materiel is landed via a bow ramp and also via assault boats through the doors of the flooded well. But that barrier need not be elevation, or a land bridge that has been flooded. Three pensioners' lives are being made a complete misery by a continually flooded laneway. Their photographs confirm it was frequent to find nests in deeply flooded reedbeds with water lapping the nest edges. Wild creepers burst through laterite banks and spills across the flooded roads. This landslide material was then embayed by lava when the central caldera was flooded. It was initially leaked to a US radio station earlier this year, and listeners immediately flooded Djs with requests to hear it. Instantly they were flooded with offers from firms selling disposable nappies, baby food, layettes and cots. This is why methane bubbles out of waterlogged bogs, seasonally flooded forests, reservoirs and lakes and landfills. The time before that, they left the water cooler spigot turned on and flooded the waiting room. Fields have been flooded throughout Tayside at a time when, by rights, they should have been full of combines. The local baseball field had been flooded to make an outdoor ice rink and every night people flocked to it to skate. I took over from him but aquaplaned off the flooded track so I'm hoping for much better luck on this occasion. A girl rows a raft made from banana-tree shoots in the flooded Samata, 35 km east of Guwahati, on Thursday. Show More Sentences The morning's first rays of sunlight flooded the tiny tower room, rousing Callista from her sleep. During the Cretaceous and the Tertiary periods large parts of the present subcontinent of India were flooded by multiple lava flows. It will cause misery for long-suffering drivers who faced gridlock when the main burst, forcing police to shut the flooded road for hours. The basement was nearly ripped in two as the rush of cold air from outside flooded the entire room. Organic markets weren't moving much quantity and she had to compete with low-priced vegetables from California or flooded markets. Four months later, in March, Bert Marlow, an engineer at the club, told how Fred's act of sabotage in the bar almost led to it being flooded. The aft section is a freely flooded articulated robot tail which is terminated with a lunate caudal fin. Anguished reminders of how his professional football career ended flooded back at the double for Chris Short this week. Water flooded the entire hay field and backed up into the horse paddocks right up to the elevation of his machine shop. The Louisiana salt marsh is tidally flooded, and salinity ranges from 0 to 28 ppt. He didn't fight, didn't even scream as the icy water flooded in and he was sucked down into the maelstrom. The toxic waste flooded footpaths, flowed through a forest and onto playing fields after the storage tank on the road overflowed. That night the cabinet rounded up the strike leaders and flooded Glasgow with tanks and trainloads of troops to break the strike. Even now he is flooded with offers, still he has resolved to keep off since he is averse to writing songs for set tunes. Whenever I open my Outlook Express to check my e-mails, my mailbox is flooded with advertisements. Food was scarce and money flooded off the presses. 476 million rubles were printed in April, one billion in July. They flooded the cabin over and over, and bailed water constantly for 24 hours. He has been driving through the flooded River Derwent with passengers sitting on straw bailers in the trailer. The plants grow wild in or on the banks of mountain streams and are cultivated in flooded mountain terraces. One day a golf course I built in Arkansas flooded, and there was a terrific amount of damage. Show More Sentences Until late October the birds may be found on estuaries, flooded coastal marshes and farm reservoirs. One Thai made the dangerous descent down into the flooded beach village and returned with rice and other nourishment for frightened tourists. The station was flooded with complaints reporting of loud bangs from Sunset Beach to Tarcoola Beach. Her hair was tangled at the moment and her eyes were flooded by mascara and eyeliner. Skaters were also having a splendid time in Victoria Park, which had been flooded, and was covered with a sheet of ice in grand condition. The train may be flooded out tomorrow, though I expect it will just be late and slow. There was a full moon tonight and a moderate amount of moonlight flooded through the window. To frustrate airborne landings, obstacles were set up, areas flooded and a nightmare of antiaircraft batteries were ready. It said many buildings were destroyed and 17 coastal villages were flooded by tidal waves, leaving over 200 families homeless. If your scope becomes flooded with red light, that means she's got a bead on you. Little grebes breed on ponds, small lakes and meres, flooded gravel pits and beet factory settling ponds. They were then flooded with white light and felt a tingling sensation go through their bodies. We are nowhere near the river, let alone becks, and are very high up compared to the village which is flooded at present. Hotels and bed and breakfasts in the resort were flooded with people heading to the coast for a short break. Fires continue to belch smoke over the city and sporadic gunfire echoes through the flooded streets. His mother gave birth to him and his brother in a garage in Cumbria because all the badger setts had been flooded. A smelly torrent of water flooded over him, and he let go, spluttering bad temperedly. Homeowners whose gardens were flooded with raw sewage are still waiting for the waste to be cleared up. A milkman carrying two cans of milk on a motor cycle lost balance and fell on his side on a flooded road. A mill was built on a bend in the Waitotoroa River, with half an hectare nearby flooded for a millpond. Show More Sentences A fishing trawler off the Outer Hebrides broadcast a Mayday after their engine room and fish hold flooded. What if a hijacked plane hit a nuclear power plant, what if bioterrorists infected burger bars, what if we were flooded with smallpox? There is a Foxford story of Fr. Foy and another priest out on a sick call when they came to a flooded river they couldn't cross. Four friends decided to go to a field with a turlough which had flooded and was frozen over to go ice skating. Vans carrying anti-riot squad officers and dog handlers flooded the street to defuse what could have been an explosive situation. He complained that the community flooded every time a typhoon or tropical storm swept through Taoyuan. As campaigners flooded through London, countries around the globe held simultaneous protests. An initial examination revealed that a water pipe used to cool the engine had broken and flooded the engine room, nearly sinking the ship. Rescue teams plan to evacuate about 600 Mozambican families who are stranded on islands in the flooded Zambezi River. Willow Court is a sunken flooded area with willow trees and wetland vegetation, traversed and enclosed by a boardwalk. We slept out on the floor of the desert with the vast sky overreaching, flooded with stars. They also migrate through the interior in small numbers, spending time on lakeshores, alkaline ponds, and shores of sloughs and flooded fields. Marl prairie occurs within the zone intermediate between the permanently flooded sloughs and the drier pine-dominated high ground. Then there were endless chunks of timber washed from the forest floor into the slough when the river flooded once a decade. As commodities such as coffee or soya flooded into the world market, prices slumped, causing more economic chaos. Rio was immediately flooded with British manufactured goods that had been excluded from European markets by the Napoleonic blockade. He smelled like strawberries, an innocent summery scent that flooded over and through me, evoking memories and images of a time not so long gone. The gorge slowly widens northward to reveal river benches, flood plains, and broadening bottomland, most of which are now artificially flooded. Ghana has been flooded with cheap tomatoes, grown in European Union countries and subsidised by EU taxpayers, making his own efforts unsellable. Maxi taxi drivers had to slow down to a snail's pace, as they passed through the flooded Priority Bus Route, near the entrance to City Gate. Show More Sentences Haven't we all, at some time, had to face the near trauma of parking aside for hours waiting for flooded roads to become navigable? Gotta love a February snipe hunt, in the rice fields that were only a short time ago flooded for waterfowl. Every July the Egyptian New Year began when the Nile flooded with snowmelt from the mountains. Meanwhile, heavy rain, recorded at 59.2 mm by the Met Department, flooded several areas and uprooted trees in various parts of the City. With mid-Atlantic states left sodden by an unusually wet summer, the winds toppled trees and rains flooded creeks and low-lying areas. Indeed, my friend Susan lives on an upslope that has never, ever come close to being flooded. Last year's floods in Gowdall led to over 100 properties being flooded after a barrier bank was breached by the River Aire. It is all right to be flooded up to your eyeballs, it is happening in Spain and France. The holds and engine room flooded, she was abandoned and later caught fire, at some stage breaking in two. The armored soldiers, bearing their large broadswords, axes and spears, flooded into the cave, making the only exit closed from escape. I passed plunging gorges, streams in spate, riverbanks ripped open, fields flooded, a brown soup drowning the track. Target teams flooded the Bradford South district to focus on those involved in drugs, vice, vehicle and street crime. The engine room, its bulkheads and ballast tanks were flooded and its starboard decks were awash. Kirkby Stephen town centre was also flooded along with other parts of the region as culverts and streams burst under pressure. We have been flooded with volunteers offering to help do whatever it takes to keep bus services running. Many houses were flooded, and the villagers were busily employed in devising means to keep the water out. The zone where white mangrove and buttonwood trees grow is almost never flooded by tidal waters. The heat, humidity and squalor of the flooded city is causing panic and desperation. With a machete, he hacked low branches and vines to clear the boat's path through the flooded forest. Although soybean is injured in flooded fields, it can thrive in stagnant, oxygen-deficient water in the glasshouse. Show More Sentences Because torrential rain had flooded the road, the driver and passengers stayed on-board after the engine had stalled. So, at that point, it appears the crew flooded the starboard side of the ship. A couple of days ago some high school sophomore flooded my comments boxes with obscenities. At Waltons, a office furnishings and stationery company in Beach Road, Woodstock, a parking lot was flooded. We were overwhelmed and forced a couple of steps backwards as the hordes flooded past us. At Lowther Drive it was a similar story at 10am as front gardens were flooded and water inched towards peoples' front steps. The docking bay, with doors at the stern of the ship, can be flooded for amphibious operations using small landing craft. When the caretaker arrived early last Friday morning he found the building flooded, a TV smashed, a microwave and fridge broken. Co-op stores around Swindon have been running low on stock after a regional distribution warehouse in Oxford was flooded. The audience liked it and I was flooded with questions which I was only too happy to answer. Crowds of onlookers then flooded the park in celebration for the festival's family fun day. If ever you see a flooded road, or another traffic hazard, be sure to phone into the studio. As cartel pricing crumbled, imports flooded in in large quantities for the first time. The furnaces that fed them fizzled out long ago, the coal that stoked the fires lies unexcavated in flooded mines. Soon her pale blue eyes began to well up with tears as the memories flooded into her head. Once the strike began, television was already flooded with a backlog of commercials, virtually hamstringing the cause by making its effect invisible. They were back just in time to be saved from the deluge which came down on 6 March causing the creeks to be flooded and the Cooper to run a banker. Today the shoals are flooded by back water from the Joe Wheeler Dam. This CNN clip taken on a flooded street on Long Island serves up a buffet of buffoonery. Most of the 225,000 refugees that flooded into the country of 1.5 million people, however, didn't stay in refugee camps but were billeted with local families. Show More Sentences The salvage team took emergency action to block splits below the waterline as an estimated 1,000 tonnes of water flooded the vessel's lower car deck. In the flooded fields there were some cattle egrets and small shorebirds. However, in trying to cut across a flooded rice field, he and his friends are bogged down. A rush of chilly air flooded in and engulfed him in a swirl of wind. But the terrain is difficult, threaded with bayous and creeks, frequently flooded, and overridden with dense foliage and impenetrable undergrowth. He blinked, unable to stop the sudden rush of tears that flooded his eyes. Waiters looked after kids and pinched babies' cheeks, laughter flooded from the open kitchen and plates of food shuttled back and forth with incredible regularity. Those subsidies cause the global market to be flooded with farm products, driving down prices and making it harder for Third World farmers to make a living. However, around midday, the sun broke through and the visitors flooded in. If you went to a grocery store in suburban Boston, you would think that reaching it required crossing flooded rivers and climbing untracked canyons. He told the court his house had been flooded and builders who made repairs while he was working away had left the keys at the King's Head for him to collect. The streets were filled with the hustle and bustle of late afternoon as the office workers and salarymen flooded from their buildings onto the streets. All the Moon's multi-ringed impact basins are older than the Moon's second kind of crust, consisting of basalts that have flooded low-lying areas to form the lunar maria. Local health authorities have also been flooded with calls about dentists. The memories flooded into his brain as though they had always been there. The Soho streets, their sombreness heightened by the glorious evening sunshine that flooded the near empty pavements on Thursday night, were alive again. Landowners along the Colorado River, he said, complained that, when the river flooded, people would use airboats to travel and sometimes hunt over their swamped property. An expectant sense of wonder flooded the car like air-freshener. Unfortunately, it also flooded the market with lots of copies of every title at incredibly low prices, effectively killing the margins in the sell-through market. Barramundi caught in the wild and from saltwater farms have flooded the market, pushing down the price for freshwater barramundi by more than 20 per cent. Show More Sentences Hard drives are assembled in the same kind of ultraclean factories used to make microchips, so flooded production lines must be thoroughly sanitized. The centre of Kirkby Stephen also flooded for the first time in many residents' memory leaving homes without electricity or running water over the weekend. The doors were unbarred, opened and sunlight flooded into the gloom. Add a Christmas wreath, holly, and bright red rope, and you'll have a project that will stand out and can be seen from blocks away when flooded with bright, white spot lights. Meanwhile, in Florida, bush was flooded with questions about whether gay marriage could possibly come to the Sunshine State. When Sisley released a photo of the addendum, taken by a friend in the legislature, reporters flooded Biggs with questions. The weather was typical for mid-December with a series of chilly fronts and rain squalls moving across the flooded rice fields on almost a daily basis. Splashing through a puddle, cold wetness flooded over her feet. In Mosul, foreign fighters have left, the city is flooded with refugees and supply routes are cut off. His phone was suddenly flooded with calls, as a news flash blared on the television. Those were the good old days, the glory days of butchery and brutality, before those millions of sesterces from the east flooded Rome with luxury and indolence. Money flooded out of the country and the value of the currency sank. Originally formed by a subterranean stream, then flooded by the sea, it is a rare opportunity to dive in salt water among stalactites and stalagmites. As the region is flooded with goods, Garry and his team are stripping the virus testing process bare. And what happens when the industry is flooded with cheap fly by night Cloning Clinics producing substandard clones, like Xeroxes without any toner? A circumtropical family of eight species, including two in the New World, jacanas inhabit freshwater swamps, lakes, lagoons and seasonally flooded pastures. Remember the doctored photo of a shark swimming in a flooded New Jersey neighborhood after Hurricane Sandy? In an instant, it was clear that the ward was an intolerably noisy place, flooded with a near-continuous din of screams, laughter, and loud vocalizations. Generally flooded by cold lighting, Boyd's and Piper's stage provided a ferociously unromantic setting for this most famous of romantic tragedies. Early morning on September 18, the combination of heavy rains and, according to Pattaya City sources, a broken water main quickly flooded many areas of North Pattaya. Show More Sentences Living quarters are on the piano nobile under the deep coved ceiling and skylight and are flooded with luminance from the frameless glazed openings on either side. Marl prairie is a relatively diverse floristic association dominated by grasses, sedges, and rushes growing on thin limestone soils that are seasonally flooded. New Jersey Transit has also been affected, with major stations and termini along the coast flooded and unusable. In the frigid dark silence he sat, the familiar rumble of the transport flooded his ears as they traversed the wastelands, almost lulling him to sleep. The market is flooded with eco-friendly designs, but it isn't always easy being green. In recent months, thousands of people from all walks of life have flooded the streets of our cities. With such high rates of reported sexual harassment, the EEOC should be flooded with complaints. The social media streams were flooded with reports and reposts. Nitrate ion has been shown to act as a terminal electron acceptor in the denitrification process in flooded soils and has been suggested to play a similar role in plants. In the years 1914-18, women flooded into the workplace to take on the toil of men conscripted to fight. The home front Command's hotlines have been flooded with tens of thousands of worried callers, causing the phone lines to crash. First, the river that would be dammed was an important source of fish and crayfish, and the lands that would be flooded were used as a hunting reserve for deer. Mass amounts of this innocuous beverage flooded the market and, backed by slick advertising campaigns and the lure of good cheap wine, few could resist the bait. As the students repair leaks from damaged bulkheads the hull can be progressively flooded with water and rolled through 20 degrees, just like a ship at sea. A sudden rush of animalistic instincts flooded my very state of being. Two of America's most famous stores briefly banned products with the iconic slogan, and the advertising watchdog in the UK was flooded with complaints. Megan Platz, Repola's daughter, works at a restaurant in Estes that flooded. For business owners in downtown Estes, however, where nearly every building is flooded, there were even bigger problems. Major flooding occurred on the Thomson and Avon Rivers, and the Mitchell River flooded many hectares of vegetable crops on the river flats and cut the highway. Since then, Mexican cartels have flooded New Mexico with cheap, high-quality product. Show More Sentences The basin that had flooded became a thin, turbulent river at the bottom of a chasm, and their path was surrounded on either side by sheer cliffs of slate. It had a festive air last Sunday as residents flooded into the spotlessly clean park to soak up the first rays of spring. Over the weekend, a team of navy divers, engineers and foreign consultants injected nitrogen into flooded compartments, partly righting it, Petrobras said. Against a soundtrack of depressing spinster ballads from Natalie Merchant and tori Amos, the images flooded the room. Householders faced an anxious wait to see if their homes would be flooded. Suddenly, light flooded the room, and I found myself lying on a filthy orange sofa across the room from where my rape occurred. Accusations of transphobia flooded in, GLAAD complained, and a petition circulated imploring TLC not to rerun the episode. Reports flooded in from 1999 onwards from the East and West Coast. Whispers flooded Maryland politics that the Baltimore mayor was fooling around. You heard the panicky tones of operatives flooded with calls from the field about technical snafus and mass confusion. Texas and other southwestern states had cracked down and the highbinders flooded into Arkansas. In the firefight a Liberator was shot down, but a depth charge from the Liberator G for George cracked and flooded the hull. A four-man team of specialists has travelled to the flood-hit town after the Mythe plant was flooded, leaving thousands without running water. Bundaberg resident Sandy Kiddle hugged Gillard as she told of seeing her house flooded. She has been flooded recently and I had to redecorate the ceiling and wall in the kitchen and bathroom. The town of Bily Kostel nad Nisou, on the Neisse river in the north of the country, was flooded for a second time in a week. They block a rear entrance providing access for fire crews to a dry riser which is flooded with water in an emergency. Nothing was stolen but a leather sofa was slashed and the house flooded after plugholes were blocked and the taps turned on. Suddenly the steering went out, and water flooded into the lazaret, an area below deck where steering mechanisms are located. For several years, complaints from leaseholders have flooded into the Examiner. Show More Sentences Just behind them, a tarp was pulled across a now flooded ditch. When flooded with ultraviolet rays from the sun, the lettuce leaf creates UV-absorbing polyphenolic compounds in its outer layer of cells. Every December, the Internet is flooded with year-end best of lists. They can be blocked, devoid of loo roll, flooded, and generally over wrought with over use. I observed dozens feeding on the flooded saltpan of the Ballona Wetlands after heavy rains in Jan. In addition, previous studies documented that the water-soluble Mn in the flooded soil solutions is largely manganous manganese. The Category 3 storm whipped up water levels, generating storm surges that swept over seawalls and flooded seaside and inland communities. Private detectives and bounty hunters flooded the region, ironically provoking more violence, which in turn led to more negative publicity. Unpure water from a flooded area is piped into a tank that processes 360 gallons per hour into drinkable water. The slurry is pumped up from the reservoir and flooded through the shallow dip tank. But since getting the bum's rush Faye, from Hednesford, Staffordshire, has landed a new agent and the offers have flooded in. Culex mosquitoes, the principal vectors, are prolific in rural areas where their larvae breed in ground pools, especially in flooded rice fields. So much so that stores have been flooded with requests for the cardboard cut-outs of him which are scattered around the shop floor. Investors are attempting to dog paddle through the deluge of economic information that has flooded the market this morning. Calypsonians and local entertainers flooded the airways with songs about the forest and parrot. In the beginning, the overflow of river Tawing flooded only a number of villages in Kampak subdistrict. Many of the rivers in Northumberland have overspilled and flooded low-lying areas, including several roads. Parts of Rotherham and Doncaster were flooded for the second time in 10 days. As sea levels rose, the river valley became flooded, and the chalk ridge line west of the Needles breached to form the island. Stella squeezed her lips together, trying to tame the ridiculous joy that flooded through her at the news that Adam was not bespoused. Show More Sentences A foul taste. Vomit. 'Struth! Embarrassing memory flooded back. He'd cast up his accounts in front of a woman. Since the sea flooded it, the valley seems to have been kept open by tidal action. Some areas of the Fens were once permanently flooded, creating small lakes or meres, while others were only flooded during periods of high water. The modern approach is to allow a little farmland to be flooded again and turned into nature reserves. However, about a century passed before most of the area flooded by these connections was regained for pasture and arable land. Queen Juliana and Princess Beatrix visited the flooded area only a few days after. In individual incidents, 38 died at Felixstowe in Suffolk when wooden prefabricated homes in the West End area of the town were flooded. Another 37 died when the seafront village of Jaywick near Clacton was flooded. Much of the art in Paris is kept in underground storage rooms that would have been flooded. The high sea level in the Mesozoic era flooded most of these continental domains, forming shallow seas. Between 12,000 and 9000 years ago much of the Gulf floor would have remained exposed, only being flooded by the sea after 8,000 years ago. The data suggests the area was inhabited before being flooded by rising water at the end of the last ice age. For example, on 18 November 1421, a seawall at the Zuiderzee dike broke, which flooded 72 villages and killed about 10,000 people. Next day sluice gates on the coast at Nieuport were opened and flooded the area between the Yser and the railway embankment. They managed to cross the flooded Douve River using a few causeways passing through the flooded fields. However, dry areas do become important when their normal habitats become flooded. This flooded the subsiding basin created by rifting and crustal thinning to create the Gulf of Mexico. When one of the rifts opens into the existing ocean, the rift system is flooded with seawater and becomes a new sea. Marshes provide a habitat for many species of plants, animals, and insects that have adapted to living in flooded conditions. On 27 October 1960, following very heavy rain, the Exe overflowed and flooded large areas of Exeter including Exwick, St Thomas and Alphington. Show More Sentences The Don was also one of the rivers that flooded during the 2007 United Kingdom floods. As sea levels rose, the Solent eventually flooded and the settlement area was swamped. When a strong gust of wind hit the sails at a critical moment, the open gunports proved fatal, the ship flooded and quickly foundered. As the Solent valley flooded and the island eroded, the river received less water flow and more sediment, causing it to become more tidal. A former river valley flooded by rising sea levels 6,000 years ago, Poole Harbour is one of the largest natural harbours in the world. Every time we replace the main page, we get flooded with pingers making sure our web site is still there. Guinea is crossed by a multitude of water streams, many of them navigable rivers, and a large part of its territory is marshy and flooded. The Amazon River and its tributaries are characterised by extensive forested areas that become flooded every rainy season. The Amazon's flooded forests are the most extensive example of this habitat type in the world. This declines to seasonally flooded forests, at lower elevations, that are dominated by Schinopsis spp. Due to the 1973 spike in oil prices, the economy of Iran was flooded with foreign currency, which caused inflation. The two landmasses became separated when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded after the end of the last glacial period. Australia and New Guinea remained connected in this way until the shallow Torres Strait was last flooded around 8,000 years ago. In many old houses, the former staircases used to unload goods are now flooded, rendering the former ground floor uninhabitable. In November 1966, the Arno flooded parts of the centre, damaging many art treasures. The Spanish mined American gold and silver at minimal cost and flooded the European market with an abundance of specie. Temporary workers built levees along the Mississippi River on top of the natural levees that formed from dirt deposited after the river flooded. The tunnel flooded again the following year, on 12 January 1828, when six men died. Such sanitary sewer overflow can mean streets becoming flooded with a mixture of water and sewage, causing a health risk. In 1855, the Yellow River flooded and changed its course, severing the course of the canal in Shandong. Find more words! 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