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As a result, the complaint says, instead of snow in the winter, Boulder gets more “high-intensity, short-duration rainfall events” that overwhelm its drainage systems and cause flooding.

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026

"Southern California... just got battered by offshore tropical cyclones, which led to flooding events already and beach erosion, so there's lots of anxiety about extra flood risk coming from El Nino and these waves."

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

The couple have now tiled the ground floor of their house and live with the threat of further flooding.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Internet sleuths also have started using AI to “unmask” suspects in high-profile cases, flooding tip lines with bad information.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The hum had sunk into the center of him and broken open, flooding him with this new perception—a whole new sense attuned to mesarthium, and he was master of it.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

I suddenly realized: You’ve always bought houses on tops of hills because you’re afraid of water-level rise and that’s because you were raised to think the tribulations will bring mass floodings.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2021

The adobe structure survived Rio Grande floodings, fires and a transfer of sovereignty from Mexico to the United States.

From Washington Post ● May 16, 2018

Crystal Bridges disassembled the pavilion-style structure, which had suffered floodings over the years, and rebuilt it on the museum’s campus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2016

It is similarly of service for piles, and for female floodings, because exerting a special local action on the organs within the middle trunk.

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie

And by the same token it was plain that there had also been a hundred and seventy-five floodings of the earth and depositings of limestone strata!

From Sketches New and Old, Part 3. by Mark Twain