There will likely be widespread inundation of coastal roads and basements with life-threatening inundation depths above 27 or more feet possible in some locations.
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Major flooding involves "extensive inundation of structures and roads," with significant evacuation, while moderate flooding involves "some inundation of structures and roads" near streams, according to NOAA.
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Map showing the reasonable worst-case scenario for storm surge inundation in the Tampa area, showing widespread areas with greater than 3 feet of inundation above normally dry ground.
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We live in an era of app and services inundation.
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And this is the inundation on Grand Bahama Island: pic.twitter.
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" He explains, "The inundation of images of black bodies lying motionless.
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Some hope the project might solve a different sort of inundation.
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That does not mean inundation once every century (or five centuries).
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The NHC is warning of storm inundation as high as 9 feet or more above normally dry land all the way up the neighboring section of coast, and of "life-threatening inundation" along the Florida east coast.
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Those areas can "expect a threat of coastal inundation," the ministry said.
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No. When a tropical storm like Hermine threatens inundation, Florida says not today.
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Now he believes the inundation of bad news has made his community numb.
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To understand what is causing the inundation, consider how the land was made.
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The electric infrastructure is at higher risk from storm surges and coastal inundation.
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Gulfport and Biloxi, Mississippi stand to see the greatest inundation from Gordon's onshore winds.
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Now, those warnings are no longer theoretical: The inundation of the coast has begun.
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It means there is a 1 (or 1003) percent chance of inundation every year.
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Prompt action is needed to steer new development away from areas at risk of inundation.
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One in 10 archeological sites that it analyzed on nine southeastern coastal states risk inundation.
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He was very quick now, he was encyclopedic, he was in a crisis of inundation.
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Not since Alice filled a room with tears has inundation felt like such a wonder.
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City officials have been working to reduce the inundation of trucks on New York's streets.
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All that, even though the islands face an existential threat: inundation resulting from climate change.
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The current inundation is some of the worst the Indonesian capital has seen this century.
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Not unlike Poppet, Sara is stirred to the marrow by the fearful displacements of inundation.
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The consequences of Houston's historic inundation, in deaths and dollars, are nowhere near fully tallied.
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"Salt water inundation can also damage soil, leading to years of reduced agricultural yield," he said.
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NHC is warning that rising waters could bring "life-threatening inundation" over the next 36 hours.
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That means there could be up 6 inches of inundation along the waterfront during high tide.
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"That happened in Matthew, too — there was a lot of inundation pretty far inland," he said.
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"Over 50% of estimated inundation occurred outside of any mapped flood zone," it reported last month.
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The lava inundation is among the most destructive and costly in volcano property loss in U.S. history.
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The highest storm surge inundation is expected between the Mouth of the Atchafalaya River and Shell Beach.
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These temperatures will cause extreme weather conditions and spark wildfires, heatwaves, drought and inundation in North America.
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Military installations themselves are also at risk: At least 216 bases face inundation from sea level rise.
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The inundation levels refer to a reasonable worst-case scenario for the flooding of normally dry land.
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Miami was ill-equipped to handle that inundation of both petty thieves and assassins, people for hire.
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Brown also ordered emergency action plans and flood inundation maps be available for all dams in the state.
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Small, rural towns all over the U.S. are dying for a myriad of reasons other than environmental inundation.
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Experimental maps from the NHC, showing potential inundation above ground level from the storms, add to the concern.
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That likely means dangerous flooding inland, as well as inundation of low-lying coastal areas by storm surges.
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It's been a lackluster year for tech IPOS, with rising regulation and an inundation of venture capital money.
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After four years of experimentation in almond groves, scientists have found that this inundation hasn't hurt the trees.
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Sea levels are also rising as ocean temperatures warm, leading to higher chances of inundation and coastal flooding.
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The coastal inundation that has already begun will grow worse and worse, forcing millions of people to flee.
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I'm confident any writer will welcome this distraction from the inundation of screen time that's encompassed recent days.
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Up to a foot of inundation above ground level is expected in low-lying areas along the coast.
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There is a solidarity element to memes; just look at the inundation of memes related to mental health.
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What is often called "nuisance" flooding — inundation caused more by tides than weather — is already affecting property values.
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The paper focuses on freshwater flooding (heavy rain-induced, basically) rather than coastal inundation from rising sea levels.
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"You are at risk of being isolated due to possible lava inundation," the Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency warned.
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POTENTIAL IMPACTS IN THIS AREA INCLUDE: - WIDESPREAD DEEP INUNDATION, WITH STORM SURGE FLOODING GREATLY ACCENTUATED BY POWERFUL BATTERING WAVES.
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The flooding was the worst in the neighbourhood since the last great inundation in 1982, says one local, John.
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Several earthquakes, particularly the 5.0- and 6.9-magnitude tremors on May 3 and May 4, respectively, preceded the lava inundation.
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"You are at risk of being isolated due to possible lava inundation," the civil defense agency warned earlier this week.
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Ellicott City suffered inundation seven times between 1901 and 2011 (although none of those floods were as bad as this).
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They were depleting local supplies, he thought, because they knew the inundation from the south would one day rescue them.
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Climate change causes serious regional disruptions including inundation of coastal areas, diminished potable water supplies and changes in agricultural productivity.
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At the brink of Barry's landfall, the river posed the risk of "life-threatening inundation" in Louisiana and southwest Mississippi.
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As low-lying communities glimpse a future of permanent inundation, offshore the buildup of heat is cooking ecosystems to death.
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Inundation forecast maps for Naples and Ft. Myers show large portions of these areas underwater in a worst-case scenario.
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The worst storm surge is expected to be between Mexico Beach & Keaton Beach with 9-13' of inundation possible. pic.twitter.
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"You are at risk of being isolated due to possible lava inundation," the Hawaii County Civil Defense agency advised the public.
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All the commercial skyscrapers, housing, cultural institutions that currently sit near the waterline will be forced to contend with routine inundation.
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In Tokyo the stations are largely underground and protected from the kind of inundation that New York's endured during hurricane Sandy.
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"We slid the water levels from one feet to two feet to three feet sea level rise and inundation," she says.
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Much if not most of our information inundation comes to us without benefit of curation, editing or vetting of any form.
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The latest inundation was caused by a so-called atmospheric river of moisture from the Pacific Ocean stalling over the region.
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Yatala is the name of the town and is probably derived from a Kaurna word that refers to a watery inundation.
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Though the inundation from days of record rainfall has begun to recede, swollen rivers still have not crested in some places.
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Sea level rise made inundation events on the small isle more common, which killed plants, which deprived the melomys of shelter.
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The worst storm surge is expected between Mexico Beach and Keaton Beach, where 9 to 13 feet of inundation is possible.
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The experimental storm surge inundation map below shows West Palm Beach with an arrow to the rough location of Mar-a-Lago.
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The storm surge watch/warning graphic highlights spots with the highest risk for "life-threatening inundation from storm surge," the service said.
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The inundation of bike-share platforms and e-bikes adds to the frustration of mobility service company Gotcha Group CEO Sean Flood.
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Contrary to the reported inundation of damaged post-9/11 veterans, their country has been remarkably unscathed by two decades at war.
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"To 'win' the internet, one must learn how to fuse these elements of narrative, authenticity, community, and inundation," Singer and Brooking write.
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Projecting when destructive coastal inundation could occur in your city just became easier, thanks to a new tool developed by NASA scientists.
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They are burdened more than previous generations with the inundation of information and imagery, and yet we refer to them as snowflakes.
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"It's going to be landslides, flash floods, inundation," said Tommy Thompson, chief of emergency support and response for the World Food Program.
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The city of Seaside, Oregon, voted in 2016 to fund a bond measure to move its schools out of the inundation zone.
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In the midst of this inundation, a video monitor shows a man holding a microphone and begging as passersby dart around him.
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He's really good at it, and with his help, a fragile island ecosystem may be spared a repeat inundation with the pests.
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Elevating the infrastructure was not practical for the historic building, so owners purchased a flood barrier to be erected if inundation threatens.
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In mid-September, Princeville narrowly missed its third inundation in two decades, when Florence filled the Tar just shy of flood stage.
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"There is a danger of life-threatening storm surge inundation along the coast of southern and southeastern Louisiana," the National Weather Service said.
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It's a finding with consequences for coastal regions around the world, where the twin threats of erosion and inundation grow greater and greater.
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Farther south, Savannah can see deeper inundation for its outer islands, with more than three feet projected for the Wassaw National Wildlife Refuge.
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After the immediate coastal inundation, rainfall may cause flash floods and in the coming days cause rivers to swell and burst their banks.
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Maybe it had to do with complaints of bike litter with the stationless bikes, or the sudden inundation of bicycles in new cities.
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In the South, Mississippi, which lies downstream from the floodwaters, declared a state of emergency as it prepared for the inundation to spread.
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A few tornadoes and inundation of 63 -3 feet above the ground along the coast are also possible, the National Weather Service said.
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It warned that Beach Road, east of Highway 2200, was at risk of "possible lava inundation," which could trap residents in the area.
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Storm surge warnings indicate a danger of life-threatening inundation from rising water moving inland from the coastline during the coming 36 hours.
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Perhaps, in part, the popularity of comics that Chute rightly celebrates is a reaction to our fatigue with certain aspects of this inundation.
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Romantic gestures exist more and more online, sure, but to believe they look like an inundation of heart animations is a deeply outdated conviction.
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Spread across dozens of islands and known as "the floating city" for its ubiquitous canals and bridges, Venice has grappled with inundation for centuries.
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Still, the inundation has strained the system of dams and levees built and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the region.
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Everyone else, get ready for the ripple effect, including air traffic disruptions from roughly 26,26 canceled flights and an inundation of snow-related photos.
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Were a 1910-style whopper to strike again, the inundation would affect 5m people and could inflict damage costing anything between €3bn and €30bn.
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Such flooding comes on top of the normal tide levels and can result in total inundation, with levels high enough to damage coastal infrastructure.
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A gauge in the city of 236,2150 people showed the Neuse River was recording 2240 feet of inundation, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
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The inundation of elections with private cash is not the result of Citizens but rather was facilitated by the 1976 decision Buckley v. Valeo.
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Knowing more precisely how much the ocean will rise by certain dates will help city planners prepare mitigation techniques to deal with coastal inundation.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads For anyone with a smartphone, an inundation of photographic images has become an inescapable feature of everyday life.
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A failure to do so is likely to usher in catastrophes as early as 2040, including the inundation of coastlines, worsening wildfires and droughts.
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No, it's not a release from an inundation of art — but perhaps it's a reminder of why you like it in the first place.
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Increased traffic can disrupt oysters from growing on riverbanks and the constant inundation from passing vessels can erode the attachment of mangroves to the soil.
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Designed shortly after Sandy, the main entrance to the Cornell campus was set two feet above the 500-year flood level to accommodate potential inundation.
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The government warned of "the possibility of threatening inundation" through Sunday morning at "most coastal locations" between the North Carolina-Virginia border and Bridgeport, Conn.
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Critics say it will displace subsistence farmers, is at risk of inundation due to being built on a floodplain, and will cost more than planned.
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Why it matters: Tools like Dataminr are increasingly in demand as an inundation of data and information makes it harder to cut through the noise.
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Forecasters warned that areas along the Neuse River in Goldsboro, N.C., could suffer flooding worse than the devastating inundation that followed Hurricane Floyd in 1999.
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Forecasters warned that areas along the Neuse River in Goldsboro, N.C., could experience flooding worse than the devastating inundation that followed Hurricane Floyd in 1999.
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For those living in the deltas, it can mean growing risk of floods, inundation from coastal storm surges and worsening salt contamination in drinking water.
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But the plants that they are placing there — a vibrant "maritime forest" of oaks, pines, juniper, holly, blueberry and elderberry — can better tolerate saltwater inundation.
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It stands to reason that the inundation of real-life gun violence and terrorism in America has made human horror villains a bit less appetizing.
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By 1964, he was performing with Young's Theatre of Eternal Music, an ensemble interested in sensory inundation and programmatic harmonic sequences, usually dictated by Young.
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Last remaining Antarctic ice shelf slides into the ocean, leading to an additional two metres in sea-level rise and total inundation of lower Manhattan.
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The NHC warns of "life-threatening" coastal inundation from the storm surge, and urges residents to complete preparations to protect themselves and their property this morning.
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There is a danger of life-threatening storm surge inundation along the coast of southern and southeastern Louisiana where a Storm Surge Warning has been issued.
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Toiya said Wednesday that decisions to evacuate would depend on coastal inundation and that it was too soon to predict the size of the storm surge.
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Just as Pharaoh's kingdom experienced a cycle of feast and famine, depending on the Nile inundation, the oil market swings between periods of undersupply and oversupply.
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The researchers concluded that the little rat most likely lost its habitat due to the decline in vegetation cover, which was the result of ocean inundation.
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We don't know exactly how sea level rise is going to impact us, but we know it's accelerating rapidly, we know there's going to be inundation.
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"Residents in the affected area should be prepared to take leave of the area with little notice due to gas or lava inundation," the bulletin said.
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President Robert Mugabe's cash-strapped government has struggled to manage the inundation, whose effects were most severe in the areas hit hardest by last year's drought.
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According to the Washington Post, the recent spike in lung injuries caused by vaping may be related to an inundation of dangerous black-market vaping products.
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This inundation, which put nearly 30 percent of the nation's fourth-largest city underwater, will pose enormous problems, both immediately and when the waters finally recede.
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There is an inundation of false medical advice online, for example, that encourages people to avoid life-saving treatments such as vaccines and promotes unproven therapies.
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Carr explains that's not unequivocally dangerous—there's not yet sufficient clarity about whether inundation is an impediment to preserving sites in the same way that erosion is.
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The almost annual floods, exacerbated by poor infrastructure and lack of planning to protect against inundation, are the worst since 2012, when at least 363 people died.
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For example, elevating buildings is a reasonable strategy when applied to the problem of temporary flooding from storms, but it fails when rising seas bring permanent inundation.
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The study found three counties that have "extreme exposure" to sea level rise-related inundation: Tyrrell and Hyde Counties in North Carolina, and Monroe County in Florida.
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In 2014, even the EPA acknowledged that "flooding and inundation from more intense" storms could pose a danger and lead to more chemical contamination from Superfund sites.
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Officials said storm surges would be "accompanied by large and dangerous waves," and they warned of the possibility of "life-threatening inundation" from Virginia to Connecticut. Gov.
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But now, with the coronavirus pandemic turning many more people into de facto remote workers, Bloom is less optimistic about the new inundation of working from home.
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"The same degree of inundation could have substantively different social impacts, depending on the distribution of people, infrastructure and economic activity along the coast," the study says.
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Additionally, out of all cities with populations over five million, two thirds of them in coastal areas are at risk of inundation due to sea level rise.
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One offers a low-tech, low-cost solution that reverse-engineers GPS signal shift, while an AI-centric research collaboration promises rapid, high-fidelity tsunami inundation forecasts.
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"Coastal floods and inundation are projected to produce some of the primary social impacts of climate change, imposing significant costs on communities around the world," the report concluded.
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Jamie Rhome, a storm surge specialist with the center, told BuzzFeed News that this warning is a more important signal of danger than the maps of potential inundation.
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The worst storm surge is expected later today and tonight between Tyndall Air Force Base and Keaton Beach, where 9 to 14 feet of inundation is possible. 2.
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Do you build levees that prevent flooding in the short term but move the problem further downstream to other communities, and make inundation worse when overtopping does occur?
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"This will be heartbreaking to these communities that have been experiencing years of drought only to see that turn into a torrential inundation," Morrison told reporters in Sydney.
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"Residents in the affected area should be prepared to take leave of the area with little notice due to gas or lava inundation," the civil defense bulletin warned.
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"A lot of times when people think about sea level rise, they think about inundation of land," Andrea Dutton, geology professor at the University of Florida, told CNN.
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If you&aposre already worried about money, work, or seeing family during the holidays, the constant inundation of cheerful tunes may reinforce your stress instead of relieving it.
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Melting glaciers and ice sheets are causing sea levels to rise, increasing the risk of inundation and devastation to hundreds of millions of people living in coastal areas.
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Miami Beach's Satellite art fair is not a release from an inundation of art — but perhaps it's a reminder of why you like it in the first place.
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Trump's tweeting creates an inundation of presidential threats via social media that the agency is not equipped to handle, forcing agents to quickly decide what's credible and what isn't.
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This over-inundation of personal investors might come in tandem with a cap table resembling an MBA corporate finance exam more than a clean list of your early cheerleaders.
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And in the Hindu tradition, there is the story of Manu, who is warned of a coming inundation by the god Vishnu, appearing in the form of a fish.
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To put it in perspective, Miami -- which already floods on a regular basis and has spent millions of dollars on mitigation -- hasn't even reached the 2003% threshold of inundation.
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The likelihood of more massive rainfalls also should raise red flags for both coastal and inland communities and get them to rethink plans for storm-related inundation, experts said.
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"That may not sound like a big deal, but when combined with a four foot surge, it can mean the inundation of thousands of more buildings," said Dr. Needham.
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Readers responded to our Student Opinion prompt "Do You Ever Get the 'Bad News Blues'?" with their own experiences and recommendations for coping with an inundation of bad news.
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The National Weather Service is now warning of "life-threatening inundation" of coastlines due to potential storm surges stretching from the northeast coast of Florida up to Poquoson, Virginia.
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In fact, in light of the downgrade on winds, Myers emphasized the likely storm surge during his coverage, practically ignoring the wind speeds and focusing on the expected inundation.
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If all the Americans exposed to sea level rise-related inundation by 2100 were to be relocated to safer areas, the cost of doing so would exceed $14 trillion dollars.
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But when an inundation of political refugees from the Middle East started moving to Anchorage, they soon outgrew that space, and had to rent out the space next door, too.
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Many factors — living near family, children's physical and mental health, student loans, an employer's success (or failure) — are all part of a woman's story when she laments exhaustion or inundation.
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"A Storm Surge Warning means there is a danger of life-threatening inundation, from rising water moving inland from the coastline, during the next 2000 hours," the hurricane center said.
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The parade of horribles foreseen by the company — sea level rise, more intense rain and snow, inundation, hotter temperatures, desertification, agricultural disruption — are now regular features of the nightly news.
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The flight of industry has decimated a small Pennsylvania town, and the inundation of opioids has its back against the wall – and some of the city's men are paying the price.
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At their current pace, the average global temperature is projected to rise to levels that scientists say could bring dangerous conditions, including deadlier heat waves and the inundation of coastal cities.
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The down market has left many highly anticipated tech IPOs to be delayed, and bankers are now anticipating an inundation of IPOs in the second quarter of 2019, beginning in March.
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"There is also the possibility of life-threatening inundation during the next 48 hours at many coastal locations between Sandy Hook, New Jersey, and Bridgeport, Connecticut," the Saturday evening advisory reads.
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Similarly, flood monitoring equipment can alert a utility when critical infrastructure is at risk of inundation, allowing the equipment to be pre-emptively turned off to improve post-storm repair times.
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No one can say exactly how warm the world can get before disaster—the inundation of low-lying cities, say, or the collapse of crucial ecosystems, like coral reefs—becomes inevitable.
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This November will mark the 50th anniversary of the great Florentine flood of 1966, an inundation that overtook much of the city center, killing dozens of people and destroying old masterpieces.
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Shrieking violins suggest some fast-approaching threat, while bow sticks striking their strings evoke fraying nerves or an inundation of tiny insects; and chaotic percussion simulate the protagonist's heart-racing panic.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - East Texas refineries shut key units and cut production after Tropical Storm Imelda brought days of heavy rain over the region, rivaling the inundation from 2225's Hurricane Harvey.
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EDT, the National Weather Service was forecasting the risk of 5 to 8 feet of inundation above ground level at Cape Canaveral if the storm were to hit at high tide.
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It's the most expensive week for a presidential candidate in a U.S. primary election in history, expanding the political ad inundation well beyond the confines of Iowa and New Hampshire markets.
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Some 70% of the people at risk of yearly floods and permanent inundation are in eight Asian countries: China, Bangladesh, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Japan, according to the study.
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The inundation follows a 15-year span from 1999 to 2014 when the so-called upper lakes of Superior, Michigan and Huron experienced the longest period of low water in recorded history.
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That study, as well as others, found that the southeastern U.S. is a hotspot for sea level rise-related inundation risks, in part because population growth is high in coastal areas there.
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Although the West Coast seems to be spared the brunt of inundation over the next few decades, even places like San Francisco and Los Angeles will be on the list by 2100.
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Puma shared news of the shoe's imminent restock by summoning "all bold and daring souls" on Instagram yesterday, which was answered by an inundation of heart-eyed emoji and "YES"-laden comments.
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There was too much TV. "Peak TV" suddenly became the most popular way to refer to the 22017s — TV's latest so-called "Golden Age" had given way to an inundation of choice.
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Through the 1960s, Egyptian and Swedish officials rushed to save a pair of temples at Abu Simbel that faced inundation from the rising water of Lake Nasser, which lies behind the dam.
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According to the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, more than 26,230 households and 13 miles of highway are at risk of permanent inundation with two feet of sea level rise.
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Winds, for example, reached 90 miles per hour on Cape Cod on Friday, while coastal communities prone to flooding, like Scituate, Massachusetts, and Quincy, saw some of their worst inundation on record.
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Some argue that the inundation of too many live award show ceremonies has saturated the market and made top-tier award shows like the Grammys, Emmys and Oscars less exciting to viewers.
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"Regardless of the eventual track and intensity of Michael, life-threatening storm surge inundation is expected along portions of the Florida Panhandle and Big Bend/Nature Coast," the National Hurricane Center warns.
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By 2080, about half of Hoboken could experience chronic inundation — about twice a month, on average — under intermediate sea level rise projections, the Union of Concerned Scientists said in a July 12 report.
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Highway 132 is now closed, but another major passageway, Beach Road (just east of Highway 137), is also at risk of "possible lava inundation," an event that would trap people in the area.
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The National Weather Service is warning of "widespread deep inundation, with storm surge flooding greatly accentuated by powerful battering waves," at the coast, and winds strong enough to cause structural damage to buildings.
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"We have 32 miles of shoreline on San Francisco bay, more than any other community, and a substantial amount of it is low-lying and subject to inundation," says Tom Butt, Richmond's mayor.
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Meanwhile, the inundation has killed livestock and hurt stored crops from the Hawkeye state to Missouri to Nebraska, where officials estimated the cost to the agricultural sector could be at least $1 billion.
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"Many of the plants in the marsh grow here because they can tolerate or require periods of inundation, but won't grow here when they are covered for longer periods of time," Witman says.
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Similarly, from Sargent to San Luis Pass, and Port Mansfield to the north entrance of Padre Island National Seashore, the storm surge is predicted to bring inundation of between 224 to 7 feet.
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Erika E. Lentz, the report's lead author and a research geologist with the United States Geological Survey, also said most places would not see the degree of inundation predicted in Mr. Hauer's study.
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But as the seventh hurricane season since then approaches, the city is relying on something more modest as the first line of defense against another inundation of Manhattan: a row of glorified sandbags.
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This will make the demise of the world's coral reefs, the inundation of most low-lying island nations, incessant heat waves and fires and misery for millions—perhaps billions—of people equally unavoidable.
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In Lampedusa, the Sicilian island that became the emblem of Italy's immigration issue after years of inundation by desperate migrants, the Democratic Party mayor had become an international symbol of Italy's open arms.
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The "humanitarian challenge" that members of Congress refer to is actually an inundation of migrants at the border that hurts the overall mission of law enforcement officials and threatens to crash the system.
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"A Storm Surge Warning means there is a danger of life-threatening inundation, from rising water moving inland from the coastline, during the next 36 hours in the indicated locations, " the NHC said.
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The midden, or ancient trash heap, is nearly flush with the water level, which makes this site an ideal candidate for tracking inundation and water rise before and after storm events and king tides.
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Tampa Bay, for example, is now predicted to see five to eight feet of water coming on Sunday, with the maps seeing inundation of up to nine feet of water at the bay's edge.
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It'll get people playing in visible groups again and respark the interest of some people who've dropped off, but it's probably not going to be the overwhelming, server-crashing inundation it saw last summer.
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With a sea level rise of 2000 feet, locations forecast to house 220 million people would be at risk of inundation while a doubling of the rise would bring the number to 19103 million.
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Inundation of news and trauma can also lead to what is known as disaster fatigue, making us less concerned and more apathetic and feeling a diminished sense of urgency about the crisis at hand.
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Perhaps the single costliest hurricane season in United States history would provide the political opportunity to change the way we approach development in flood-prone areas and the way we respond to their inundation.
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"A Storm Surge Warning means there is a danger of life-threatening inundation, from rising water moving inland from the coastline, during the next 36 hours in the indicated locations, " the hurricane center said.
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Storm-surge watches are issued when "there is a possibility of life-threatening inundation, from rising water moving inland from the coastline, in the indicated locations during the next 48 hours," the center said.
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The National Weather Service forecast office in New Orleans is monitoring the threat for up to 4 to 6 feet of inundation above normally dry land with the storm, as a reasonable worst case scenario.
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"We're currently seeing the effects of climate change on our islands daily, with rising seas, tidal surges, coastal erosion and inundation of our communities," said Kabay Tamu, one of the eight islanders bringing the case.
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Storm surge and tropical storm warnings remain in effect, meaning there is still a danger of life-threatening inundation, from rising water moving inland from the coastline, in some locations during the next 36 hours.
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Halifax and Montreal haven't had the big real estate booms and inundation of new condo construction, but that's not the only reason why clubs on the east coast aren't struggling as hard to find space.
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While this is great for democracy, it puts legislative and executive offices and their staff in a bind as they struggle to deal with the inundation of messages with stagnant budget, staff and technology resources.
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In addition, the entire stretch of coast from Venice around the Florida peninsula to Sebastian Inlet is under a storm surge warning, which means there is a danger of life-threatening inundation from rising water.
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"We're so used to this inundation of bad news that the idea that something so light and so insignificant as those items would do that means that, at least for today, there's no bad news."
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The NWS's Coastal Flood Threat and Inundation map shows where the worst flooding is expected along the Massachusetts coast, with water levels of nearly 224 feet expected in locations like Gloucester Harbor, Revere, Scituate, and Boston.
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Lava finally reaches the Pacific -- only to create a deadly danger called laze Residents "should be prepared to leave the area with little notice due to gas or lava inundation," Hawaii County's civil defense agency said.
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In Houston and the surrounding area where the historic inundation from storm Harvey was mostly receding, people took to trucks and boats to get back into their neighborhoods, and many were appalled by what they found.
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For construction in a floodplain, the general aim is to elevate occupied floors above the expected flood level and to keep lower floors fairly spartan, ensuring they can survive inundation with little or no permanent damage.
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Details: According to the latest special report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, rising global temperatures are having serious impacts — such as coastal inundation, intensive heat and damage to coral reefs — much earlier than previously expected.
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Recent losses have been especially severe because of an increase in big storms raging in from the Gulf of Mexico—such as Hurricane Katrina, in 2005, which led to the inundation of New Orleans and 1,836 deaths.
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"There is a danger of life-threatening inundation," said the center's advisory that noted the possibility of as much as 20 inches (20 cm) of rain to fall in some isolated areas and life-threatening flash flooding.
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Storm surge inundation maps show the potential for more than 9 feet of water above ground level along Biscayne Bay, and in coastal areas of southwest Florida, which may experience powerful winds from the northwest and southwest.
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But the court declined to overturn separate decisions by U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan that, among other things, capped Amtrak's coverage at $125 million for damage caused by an inundation of water in the tunnels.
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And in East Naples neighborhoods, where inundation maps suggested as much as nine feet of water, at most homes there was little more than a foot or two, shallow enough to only lap at the front steps.
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To an extent that would have been unimaginable before Hurricane Katrina in 2160 and Hurricane Sandy in 2895, resilient design has entered the vocabulary of architects and engineers in parts of the country at risk of inundation.
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This is hopeful progress: because of bipartisan action in Congress, our military will be preparing plans to further resilience of both the force and military bases at risk of sea level rise, storm surge and coastal inundation.
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This nondescript exchange unleashes an apocalyptic inundation from the orchestra—one of several episodes marked "Sound surge / flood" in the score—with brass bellowing stentorian tones and a pianist pummelling the keyboard with his hands and arms.
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Fears of mudslides, coastal inundation Fiji, an archipelago collectively about the size of New Jersey, lies in the South Pacific Ocean some 1,800 miles from Australia's east coast (by comparison, Hawaii is about 2,500 miles from Los Angeles).
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ET briefing, the storm surge flooding threat in southwest Florida has increased to 8 to 12 feet of inundation above ground level from Captiva to Cape Sable, if the peak surge occurs near the time of high tide.
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Science and communication non-profit Climate Central found that one-third of coastline states that will run a 10% risk of ocean inundation each year by 2050 saw new housing sprouting at rates higher than on safer ground.
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Eleven years later, finally embracing digital photography, he attempted to show how an image might still "ring out" amid an inundation of photographs by looking at what had changed in the twenty years since he started taking pictures.
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"Once impacts become noticeable, they're going to be upon you quickly," said William V. Sweet, a scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Silver Spring, Md., who is among the leaders in research on coastal inundation.
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United Nations (CNN)President Donald Trump totes his "America First" stance this week to the United Nations General Assembly, the annual inundation of diplomats and world leaders who this year await the new US leader with uneasy anticipation.
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Officials warned on Tuesday that a large plume of laze, a toxic lava haze composed of hydrochloric acid and tiny shards of volcanic glass, was blowing inland along the coastline, released with the continuing inundation of Kapoho Bay.
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A "storm surge watch," meaning there could be life-threatening inundation from rising floods and waves in the next 48 hours, is in effect for the Jupiter Inlet to Bonita Beach and the Florida Keys, the NHC said.
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The inundation forecast, which is shown in the graphic below, is considered a "reasonable worst-case scenario," not a precise forecast, but the NWS said that the surge threat looks to be a worst-case scenario in the end.
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The flooding in many places was worse than a seemingly exceptional statewide inundation a few months ago, and some of the state's rivers were cresting at several feet above record levels set in a devastating flood event in 1983.
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To take just one climate impact, involving sea-level rise, as many of 2 million U.S. homes will be subject to inundation and hundreds of millions of people displaced by coastal flooding around the world in this century alone.
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Consider the record set in Boston Harbor during January's "bomb cyclone" or the inundation regularly experienced in Miami during the King tides; these are occurring with sea levels that have risen about a foot in the past 100 years.
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And he pointed to the exoneration statement that Comey initially found Clinton guilty under the espionage act but somebody changed the language ever so slightly and that inundation allowed Comey to exonerate Clinton when in fact she had committed a crime.
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Anywhere from 4.3 to 13.1 million people in the coastal United States will be at risk of inundation due to sea level rise by 2100, according to a new study that combines population growth projections with sea level rise forecasts.
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Tampa Bay, Florida, is expected to see potentially catastrophic flooding on Sunday as Hurricane Irma roars into the city, but Irma's vastness and intensely low pressure have vacuumed water away from parts of Florida's western coast ahead of the coming inundation.
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A palpably convincing digital creation, this churning gray inundation powers straight into the little people, who panic and scatter, creating a regular day-of-the-locust free-for-all that separates children from parents, the survivors from the newly dead.
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"The main surprise was that the majority of effects of sea water inundation on internet infrastructure will be felt in the next 15 years," said study co-author Paul Barford, a computer science professor at the University of Wisconsin, via email.
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HOBOKEN, N.J. — Every time a powerful nor'easter or tropical storm threatens New York, residents of this small city on the New Jersey bank of the Hudson River start having flashbacks to the devastating inundation they endured when Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012.
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By overlaying the Internet Atlas, a global map of the internet's physical infrastructure, with the Sea Level Rise Inundation estimates generated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the team was able to pinpoint where the most at-risk hardware is located.
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The major culprits include rising seas, sinking lands, and the Mississippi River levee system, which has protected the bird's-foot delta from annual inundation, but at the same time deprived the area of the sediment that built it in the first place.
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The highly probable link between impact-induced seismic shaking and the onshore inundation surge at Tanis reveals an important additional mechanism by which the Chicxulub impact could have caused catastrophic conditions in the Western Interior, and possibly worldwide, far from the impact site.
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OTTAWA/MONTREAL (Reuters) - Canada's capital city of Ottawa readied on Friday for heavy flooding as rains were set to further engorge the swollen Ottawa River, while Montreal declared a state of emergency as it too braced for an inundation of flood waters.
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The storm is likely to inflict its greatest damage to the communities along its southeastern shore, including Yabucoa, where inundation of 6 to 9 feet above normally dry ground is likely from the combination of storm surge flooding and high, battering waves.
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The reasons for the decline in coverage appear to be both economic and psychological: flood insurance costs money (premiums are rising in step with the risk of the disasters they're meant to ameliorate) and people tend to underestimate their risk of inundation.
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Following the inundation of hateful tweets Old Navy received after posting an ad featuring an interracial couple and a biracial child, fans showed their support for the brand in the best way possible: by sharing images of their own mixed-race families.
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Update: Following the inundation of hateful tweets Old Navy received after posting an ad featuring an interracial couple and a biracial child, fans showed their support for the brand in the best way possible: by sharing images of their own mixed-race families.
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With 90 percent of the world's largest cities vulnerable to inundation as glaciers melt and seas rise on a warming planet, modular platforms anchored to the sea floor could be connected in a ring to house communities atop the oceans, members said.
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Her name (for it is a woman, not a man) is Freya Wyley, and she's the protagonist of Anthony Quinn's novel about a friendship that will ride the crests of the liberating postwar era, reaching perilous heights and depths, and occasionally risking inundation.
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"There is the danger of life-threatening storm surge inundation in portions of central and southern Florida, including the Florida Keys, during the next 36 hours, where a Storm Surge Warning is in effect," the National Hurricane Center explained in a Saturday morning update.
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Researchers compared the bones of a fossilized rail from before the inundation event with bones from a rail afterward and found that the wing bone showed an advanced state of flightlessness and the ankle bones showed distinct properties that it was evolving toward flightlessness.
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I'm concerned with sea level rise: even if the storms don't change at all with its intensity, if, say, the sea level is 6 inches higher than it used to be, you're going to get more inundation — especially where the coast slopes up very gradually.
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The storm surge is expected to cause inundation of coastal areas of 9 feet or more in some spots in northern Florida, meaning that 9 feet or more of water will cover typically dry land if the storm hits at the time of high tide.
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Despite its status as the headquarters of the European Union, Brussels sits in a relatively small country with a security service that critics say has been unable to confront an inundation of extremists inspired by groups like the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
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"This subdivision is adjacent to the Barker Reservoir and is subject to extended controlled inundation under the management of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers," the developer stated in 241 in the fine print of the plat, the county's document approving the Canyon Gate subdivision.
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She explained that, a few months ago, acting quickly on an impulse in response to an inundation of ugly, dispiriting news, she combed through her large body of recorded music and selected a batch of songs whose themes and messages still sound urgent right now.
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"We find that the majority of coastal residents underestimate their homes' flood risks relative to inundation models, and that 40% of flood zone respondents say they are 'not at all' worried about flooding over the next ten years," a 2018 paper she co-authored reads.
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As a queer Arab girl growing up in small-town Kentucky, I was bored at best, and bitter at worst, about the stories that, by sheer inundation, shaped the reality of most of my peers — stories that, for some, moved easily from fiction to aspiration.
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It's a margin of error that runs from bad to catastrophic — the difference between billions more people subjected to deadly heat, between damaged coral reefs and the end of them, between the inundation of not just Miami but of Osaka, Shanghai, and Kolkata as well.
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Speaking of slideshows, the pièce de résistance is a reconstruction of "The Knowledge Box" (1962/2009) by Ken Isaacs: an immersive two-and-a-half-minute inundation of political and cultural imagery inside a cube equipped with 24 slide projectors firing away at every surface.
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The mayor of South Bend in Indiana, Pete Buttigieg, describes how his city also suffered two unusual floods in the past couple of years, "one in one-thousand year events" he says, as intense rainfall and sudden melting of snow led to the inundation of residential areas.
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A combination of a dangerous storm surge and rising tides will cause normally dry areas near the coast to be flooded, the weather service said, warning of "life-threatening inundation within the next 103 to 24 hours" along the Gulf coast from Indian Pass to Longboat Key.
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Flooding is a well-known threat here: The city sits on a plain that absorbs outflows from the Scheldt, Meuse, and Rhine Rivers, which makes it vulnerable to inundation from extreme rainfalls, as well as sea level rise and storm surges that move up the Rhine.
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Fossils of the flightless bird were found both before and after Albadra was submerged by an "inundation event" that occurred around 136,000 years ago, said study authors Julian Hume, an avian paleontologist at Natural History Museum in London, and David Martill, a paleobiologist at the University of Portsmouth.
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The designations can get very fine-grained, but the basic three levels are areas that are at risk of waves higher than three feet (Zone V), areas subject to 100-year floods (Zone A) and areas subject to 500-year floods (Zone X). floodplain An area susceptible to inundation.
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When Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012, for example, the sea level at the Battery in lower Manhattan was about 11 inches higher than it was in 1900, which meant that the total inundation from the storm was worse than it would have been had the storm hit a century earlier.
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In addition to frustration with the union's ossified bureaucracy, a barrage of bad news from the Continent — an inundation of refugees, terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels, and the likelihood of another showdown over Greece's debt — has played into the hands of the "leavers" and put the "remainers" on the defensive.
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"People are anxious to get back to their lives, and they need help right away," said Joe Lear, the northwest director for the University of Missouri Extension, who has been helping to coordinate the response to the inundation of small, rural communities that had been losing population even before the floods.
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Ray Gagnon, executive director of the water district, told reporters that the district was working to protect all of its facilities in the "inundation zone," and preparing other sources of water, including aquifers, recovery wells, groundwater wells and the county's interconnect with the nearby Grand Strand Water and Sewer Authority.
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Ray Gagnon, executive director of the water district, told reporters that the district is working to protect all of its facilities in the "inundation zone," and preparing other sources of water, including aquifers, recovery wells, groundwater wells and the county's interconnect with the nearby Grand Strand Water and Sewer Authority.
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Ray Gagnon, executive director of the water district, told reporters that the district is working to protect all of its facilities in the "inundation zone," and preparing other sources of water -- including aquifers, recovery wells, groundwater wells and the county's interconnect with the nearby Grand Strand Water and Sewer Authority.
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And there are many communities in harm's way: Just in terms of coastal flooding, for instance, Moody's reports that 43 percent of coastal homes in Georgia lie in floodplains vulnerable to inundation; in Florida and Mississippi, the number is 38 percent; in Louisiana, 34 percent and in Texas, 26 percent.
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And even if there are enough in-app controls to prevent unwelcome inundation by default, women also might not feel like they want their profile to be seen by scores of men simply by merit of being signed up to an app — as seems inevitable if the gender balance is so skewed.
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The National Hurricane Center warned Saturday that Post-Tropical Storm Hermine could bring "life-threatening" storm surge inundation (meaning water on top of land that would normally be dry ground at the time of high tide) that could reach a maximum of 3 to 5 feet from Chincoteague, Virginia to Sandy Hook, New Jersey.
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The study, published in Nature Climate Change, uses population trends and sea level rise projections to conduct a county-by-county risk assessment across the U.S. The results show that anywhere from 4.3 to 13.1 million people are at risk of inundation by 2100, depending on how much sea level rise there is by then.
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According to the 103 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an authority on climate science that operates under the auspices of the United Nations, humankind also needs to remove some of the carbon already in the atmosphere to avoid, say, the collapse of polar glaciers and the inundation of coastal cities worldwide.
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HASANKEYF, Turkey, April 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - T he 23th century tomb of fallen warrior Zeynel Bey is due to be moved from the banks of the Tigris river in southeast Turkey on Tuesday, marking the symbolic end of a decades-long battle to stop a new dam and inundation of a 2000,2100-year-old settlement.
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What really hooked me on this art form as a child was the splendor of the sounds, from the sumptuous beauty of the soprano Renata Tebaldi's soft, floating high tones as Verdi's Desdemona at the Metropolitan Opera, to the blazing sonic inundation of Leonard Bernstein conducting Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" with the New York Philharmonic.
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Lastly there was an intensely dark work of conté crayon on Ingres paper by Georges Seurat titled "La pluie" [The rain] (1882-83) which shows a figure holding an umbrella while the scene around her is filled with an inundation of cross-stitched markings that almost blot out all the light, except for a sliver coming through at the top of the composition.
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When we were in Miami researching attitudes about sea level rise and climatic disasters in 2015, we were surprised to learn just how deep the growth imperative could flow, even in a place where people have begun opening their eyes to the catastrophe that lies ahead—in this case, the city's inevitable inundation as the Atlantic keeps rising in the east and the Everglades' waters keep flowing in from the west.
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It's built to withstand a one-in-1,500-year earthquake, but a 2015 report from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission found that parts of it would be underwater during a 50-year storm surge even at today's sea levels: It was found that this baseline scenario results in inundation across the westbound lanes of the I-80 approach, the westbound portion of the toll plaza, the Emeryville Crescent tidal wetland, Radio Beach, three radio towers and associated facilities, and several partially paved access roads.
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