low-lying

When the balloon pierced the fog of the low-lying clouds, the air grew cold and damp.

Saturday, when about a half-inch of rain fell over roughly 15 minutes on ground that already was saturated, flooding low-lying areas and prompting at least 12 calls for service, Turner said.

Sunday, with the National Weather Service predicting excessive rain to cause urban and other small streams to flood, and water to pool in low-lying and poor drainage areas across L.A.

The storm downed trees in the San Francisco Bay Area Thursday and flooded low-lying streets.

As decades pass without a major disaster, people begin to move back into the low-lying areas by the water.