“Firefighters, police, and council workers joined forces to fight back the flood and limit the damage.”

“He flushed with embarrassment at the flood of fragments of the memories of that time.”

“He discovered that the sudden flood of inspiration that had produced those words so quickly had dried up.”

“The flooding in the coastal town caused extensive damage to homes and infrastructure.”

“Each year, the river brought its deposit of rich, red silt at floodtime. When the flood receded, the Mohave planted his corn, his squash and beans.”

“But one big exception is Davenport, Iowa, which has the dubious distinction of being the largest town on the upper Mississippi without a proper floodwall.”

“The failure of the canal wall decimated a historic primarily African-American neighborhood of homeowners yet there is nothing to show for that beyond a repaired floodwall and empty lots.”

“Mr. Prendergast suggested that aboveground floodwall panels, to be placed over station stairwells or sidewalk vents, were seen as a leading option to protect the system.”

“The central floodplain is watered by the Chao Phraya River and its tributaries.”

“Crevasse splay deposits are floodplain deposits formed by the breaching of a levee, typically during flood events.”

“New Government planning guidance advises local authorities to use areas outside a floodplain first.”

“An enlarged floodway will eventually protect the city against a flood likely to occur once in about 700 years.”

“The proposed alternate project must not be located in the regulatory floodway and will have to be insured if located in the 100-year floodplain.”

“In order to build the course, a floodway needed to be moved, which required permits from the Department of Natural Resources.”

“On the Hursley Estate, near Winchester, one man was pumping floodwater out of the field next to his garden to stop it reaching his home.”

“He'd come to regard the rising floodwater as a metaphor for his own life struggles, and now he looked depressed.”

“Every time it rains we get some floodwater in the back garden as there is no proper drainage.”

“Riley's lappet moth is found in southern Michigan along floodplains where its larval host plant, honey locust, grows.”

“In Bangladesh, settlement of populations in high risk areas such as floodplains and river deltas increases vulnerability.”

“Its diversified landscape has a rugged relief and is made up of rivers, ponds, meadows and floodplains, gallery forests and savannah.”

“We suffer constant banging, frequent floodings, barking dogs and washing machines early and late in the day.”

“Storm surge floodings are generally taken to occur when the water level is more than one metre above normal.”

“The largest amount of fund requests in the EU is being directed to forest fires, followed by floodings and earthquakes.”

“The Salicornioideae are among the most salt-tolerant land plants and frequently occur in saline areas associated with coastlines, tidal floodways and salt lakes.”

“A terrified Essex family waded waist-deep through a raging torrent to escape flash floods which devastated a Cornish village.”

“The event was washed out by flash floods in the pre-dawn hours on the day of the race.”

“More than three weeks after the floods began, water still lies waist-deep or higher in some areas.”