flooding

The weather is set to turn more unsettled this week as rain returns with a chance of thunderstorms and localised flooding.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

His grand goal was to reduce flooding, ease navigation and expand commercial shipping capacity by straightening the river’s course and shortening the distance between Basel and Bonn by 50 miles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

His alterations produced mixed results, in some places accelerating the flow too sharply and in others increasing the risk of flooding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

The heavy downpours of the last few days brought some localised flash flooding but have not been enough to alleviate the ongoing drought situation.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

And the city water, because of recent flooding, wasn’t safe to drink when we got there.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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

Even in Egypt, however, the recollection of the deluge seems to have survived, though it lay entangled amid what seem to be symbolized memories of unusual floodings of the river Nile.

From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller