But, the washing away of those numbers felt very symbolic.
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The flooding is so bad that it's washing away entire bridges.
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Rave was like a dam bursting, washing away a lot of attitudes.
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In November 1945 a tsunami struck the coast nearby, washing away 4,000 people.
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Week by week, wave by wave, grain by grain, Tangier was washing away.
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"As far as people washing away their guilt, that's fine," Mr. Heath said.
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Waves are washing away barrier islands, destroying park roads, threatening archaeological and historical sites.
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In preparation for storms, a sealant is used keep the surface from washing away.
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The populist wave is washing away the jobs and legacies of the leaders in it.
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Sea levels may rise an extra 10cm, washing away the livelihoods of millions more people.
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The floods follow the region's worst drought in a century, washing away shanty-town dwellers.
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Dripping water turns into a deluge, washing away the paper and enacting her family's erasure.
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Once you've brushed, don't rinse your mouth with water or mouthwash -- you're washing away the fluoride!
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Heavy, sudden monsoon rains pummeled the state of Maharashtra, washing away houses and flooding transport hubs.
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Melting sea ice around Shishmaref is washing away the thawing arctic soils, leading to extreme erosion.
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Sea levels may rise an extra 10 cm, washing away the livelihoods of millions more people.
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The stop-time technique fosters a sensation that each passing moment is a drop washing away.
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The engineers say that they are confident they can prevent the dam's foundation from washing away.
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Two freak tropical storms in the late '3803s flooded the area, washing away investments that never returned.
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Six of the 10 components of the index fell, washing away the rise in expected business conditions.
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In neighboring Laos, downpours triggered a dam collapse, washing away houses in the ensuing torrents of water.
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By the end, the two instruments are in sublime retreat, harmonies humming and washing away, still conjoined.
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The flood of 1993 destroyed Charlotte Gartzke's house, buckling its red brick walls and washing away its insides.
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Inevitably, the Shinnecock will have to bring more sand to replenish what the rising tide keeps washing away.
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The people of Shanxi felt the disciplinary efforts were "like spring rain washing away the smog", he said.
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So, hand sanitizer is a quick way to disinfect your hands in between soap-and-water washes, but soap and water really does have a greater efficacy in washing away droplets, washing away viral particles, and removing any soil or contaminants on your hands where virus could be hidden underneath.
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There is debate as to whether water is effective in washing away the finer and more dangerous PM2.5 particles.
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The hurricane eroded key nesting beaches, washing away nests or flooding them with rainwater or seawater, Dr. Mansfield said.
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Firemen hosed down the narrow cobbled street, washing away cups and saucers, women's clothing, and hundreds of cocktail forks.
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In March 2019, a cyclone ripped across Mozambique, causing flash floods and severe winds, washing away roads and houses.
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In fact, the stark black and white images in his The Washing Away of Wrongs make it seem almost poetic.
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Once the charring is complete, the fire is doused with water, washing away any ashes, and what remains is biochar.
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I feel comfortably only when I take a shower before sleeping — washing away the grime and sweat of the day.
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You can buy "feminist" soap from giant corporations like Dove (owned by Unilever!) and pretend you're washing away the patriarchy.
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Sporadic downpours have continued since, flooding parts of the coastal city and washing away more mud containing unrecovered human remains.
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Aerial images showed muddy brown water covering swaths of lands and, in some areas, rushing water washing away houses and debris.
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They absorb needed water from heavy rains, while allowing the runoff to flow gently downhill, preventing the land from washing away.
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For many children like hers, the rain brings the threat of washing away childhood homes and the memories associated with them.
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The tsunami generated waves almost 653 feet tall that slammed into the city, washing away homes, businesses, roads, bridges and vehicles.
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The water is a symbol of washing away the bad from the previous year as you move into the new year.
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On the flip side, however, Cancers are unusually skilled at washing away other people's pain and at nourishing and fertilizing others spiritually.
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To that end, 20,000 trees have been planted, and bamboo and other vegetation introduced to cover the ground and prevent soil washing away.
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The storm sent powerful waves into the coast as it passed, washing away large sections of the shore in Georgia and South Carolina.
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In "Snapshot," the fearsome thunderstorm unleashed at the climax seems to stand for the washing away of memories from an Alzheimer's-afflicted mind.
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Of course, we know washing away the bacteria that harbors on bristles is the key to maintaining a clear complexion and seamless makeup base.
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You're probably more familiar with erosion as it applies to tides slowly washing away a beach, or causing cliffs along the coast to collapse.
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"We thought we better clean off this bit of blood and then realized it wasn't washing away," Jane Kanizay, Sam's mother, told Seven News.
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With skin-care in particular, I'm literally washing away the dirt and grime of the day — and any negativity and stress — along with it.
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If a heavy rainstorm occurs during a drought, it can lead to soil erosion, washing away the plants that help the soil absorb moisture.
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He struggled this spring with heavy rains washing away seeds and soil and leaving hay too wet to be dried and stored for winter feeding.
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Climate change is threatening to transform all aspects of life, washing away coastal communities and endangering fish and wildlife populations upon which many Natives depend.
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READ: The day I infiltrated the secretive Nyau tribe Seismic activity, Haga believes, could one day create a new ocean, washing away the salt plains.
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"The negative side is…(they) accelerate the erosion by washing away the sand at the foot of the wall," Letitre said in an email interview.
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The Brahmaputra River and its tributaries overflowed their banks in 18 of the state's districts, washing away roads and highways, and toppling power transmission towers.
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In the western town of Butwal, 170 km (110 miles) from Kathmandu, local TV stations showed the Tinau river washing away a huge suspension bridge.
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But without the jetties, much of that sand has eroded over the past four years, washing away tens of millions of dollars' worth of beach.
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I eventually caught on to seared tuna and sushi, washing away some of the childhood suspicion, though I'd still never actually tried the tinned stuff.
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Senior officials in Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration have known for at least a year that the sands of Rockaway Beach were swiftly washing away.
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Seven people were killed after water gushed from a burst dam late Tuesday, washing away houses in Ratnagiri, a coastal district in Maharashtra, according to authorities.
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"When rains come, the areas dug by gravel soil hunters get soaked up, washing away soils downstream and subsequently causing siltation in water bodies," he said.
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Torrential rains on March 31, 2017, triggered a deadly torrent of mud, debris and rocks, and caused rivers to burst their banks, washing away entire neighborhoods.
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Buy Crabtree & Evelyn Gardeners Hand Soap, $18.95, available at WalmartGardening can be harsh on your hands, but washing away dirt can be a tough task too.
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The precipitation could help knock out the flames, but it could also hinder the search by washing away fragmentary remains and turning ash into a thick paste.
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"Again, it's not the soap alone that kills the germs — but the friction of lathering and washing away the organisms that makes handwashing more effective," Reynolds said.
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But wait, you might protest, my friend says that if her partner pees before sex, washing away any lingering sperm in his urethra, she's in the clear.
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The three-day festival, in which dousing each other with water symbolizes the washing away one's misfortune, has come under scrutiny due to a national water shortage.
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For his series The Washing Away of Wrongs, Robert Shults photographed the forensic research of the world's largest center for studying human remains at Texas State University.
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Mark was part of the newspaper's team that produced "Washing Away," a five-part series that predicted what would happen if a major hurricane struck South Louisiana.
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Even way back in 2014, the foreign minister of the Marshall Islands told Motherboard that rising sea levels were destroying homes and washing away coffins and skeletons.
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"With the floods washing away everything... there is not even a trace of our small thatched hut," said Lakshmi Das, a mother of three, living in Kaliabor, Assam.
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That fluid surges in and sloshes around, washing away the day's detritus of proteins and other waste substances that might harm the brain if they aren't cleared out.
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Protesters raised a large poster which depicted the Tunisian president pouring water on the bloodied hands of the Saudi crown prince - suggesting Tunisian complicity in washing away guilt.
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Brush up on your skills This may be a difficult habit to break: Once you've brushed, don't rinse your mouth with water or mouthwash -- you're washing away the fluoride!
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In preparation for storms, a sealant can be used to prevent the track surface from washing away, but when the rain stops, trainers complain the track is too hard.
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She told Complex last year that the track sounded like "Brown grunge" and goddamnit if the chorus on those opening chords don't sound like Kurt Cobain's worries washing away.
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We're locking the doors on a lot of the internet's history in the process of washing away some fundamental ideas that just happened to be built with outdated technology.
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Once out of the molds, the artist licked the chocolate busts in several areas, and spent several hours bathing with each soap version, slowly washing away her own features.
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We wanted to fade into the weirdness of the town, with our identities washing away into the artist Donald Judd's concrete blocks, the dry landscape and the big sky.
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Through Main Street, the water moved in a rust-colored torrent, swallowing pavement and washing away cars and trailers, so that a goulash of hazardous debris roiled below the surface.
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A slow-moving blue wave is on the verge of washing away the House Republicans' California delegation — a once-strong faction of the GOP that rivaled the powerful Texas delegation.
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Flooding across Quebec inundated Montreal and surrounding areas on Sunday and Monday, driving thousands of people out of their homes and washing away at least two people, who remain missing.
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When he sneaks looks at it in his bedroom in Las Vegas, it's like he's reaching for a lifeline, something solid to keep him from washing away with events entirely.
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Though digital music is slowly washing away the connection we make between an album's music and its physical design, an album's cover is still an incredibly important piece of the art.
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So strict, in fact, that they were initially washing away the dinosaur proteins while cleaning the sample, and only made their discovery after switching from water to alcohol as a cleaning agent.
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The pumps in some tunnels, originally used in the construction of the Panama Canal, ran around the clock to keep underground streams and the occasional water main break from washing away the tracks.
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"This new law will confront any president -- not just this one -- who thinks he or she can get away with washing away illegal behavior," said Democratic Assemblyman Joe Lentol, the bill's primary sponsor.
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Pat McCrory told CNN's Michaela Pereira on "New Day" on Friday, saying a combination of rain and sleet are washing away road treatments and increasing the risk for black ice in his state.
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States like Georgia, Florida, Texas, and most recently Wisconsin have implemented a system of "at will" employment for public employees, while also washing away many of the Byzantine procedures that have calcified agency practices.
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The Omaha, Nebraska railroad company said that 20.7,23.2 miles (1.50.82,862 km) of its network were affected by the storm, which flooded the region around Houston, inundating rail track and yards, and washing away bridges.
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New Delhi (CNN)At least 43 people are dead and another 17 are still missing as heavy monsoon rains continue to pummel the western Indian state of Maharashtra, washing away houses and flooding transport hubs.
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A good cleanser is fundamental to a healthy skin-care routine, whether your preference is a heavy-duty oil for washing away tough makeup, a gentle, soothing cream, or a blemish-busting foam with BHA.
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MADRID — Flash floods caused by torrential rains killed at least 10 people on the Spanish island of Majorca and burst the banks of a river, washing away vehicles and engulfing a town in muddy water.
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Conservatives, including powerful clerics employed by the state, thought that allowing women to drive would be a crack in the dam that would allow secularism to flood in, washing away the kingdom's unique Islamic identity.
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Our grasslands, whether called prairie, steppe, savanna or cerrado, are the backbone of our ecosystem, their plunging roots leaching nutrients into the soil and keeping it from washing away in floods, their blades feeding wildlife.
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Extreme weather events have rocked the American Midwest in recent years and hit particularly hard in 2019, drowning agricultural acreage nearly the size of South Carolina and washing away the topsoil that makes land fertile.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - Heavy monsoon rains caused the breach of a small dam in western India, washing away dozens of homes and killing at least 11 people with 13 missing, a government official said on Wednesday.
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Chewing sugarless gum is also beneficial for teeth: It increases the flow of saliva, thereby washing away acids produced by bacteria in plaque, which decreases risk for tooth decay, according to the American Dental Association. 2.
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Asked about the effects of rain on the search for remains, Honea said it would make going through debris more difficult but he was less concerned about remains washing away than the headaches posed by mud.
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"Using hand sanitizer is a quick way to disinfect your hands in between soap-and-water washes, but washing your hands does have greater efficacy in washing away droplets and viral contaminants," Dr. Cioe-Pena said.
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Though Earth was hit by the same flux of objects as the Moon, natural processes such as plate tectonics or the presence of oceans continually reshaped our world, washing away huge chunks of its geological memory.
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If you've got all that water washing [away] debris, tree branches, boulders, and ash, sooner or later, it's not just water — it's now a debris flow, a very fluid landslide that's a mixture of water and debris.
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If you happened to suspect that the content being posted was, say, a bit off and reeked of propaganda, a quick glance might reveal it was posted by "stopropaganda" or "fedupwithlying" — surely washing away those concerns. thetrippytrip.tumblr.
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MUMBAI, July 3 (Reuters) - Heavy monsoon rains caused the breach of a small dam in western India, washing away dozens of homes and killing at least six people with 18 missing, a government official said on Wednesday.
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When her shift ends, she greets the morning by pitching her tent at the beach, changing clothes in her van, getting out her paddle board and hitting the waves, washing away the horrors of the night before.
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Millions of people in shanty towns, who have previously had to cope with the region's worst drought in a century, have been hardest hit, with floods and heavy rain washing away homes built of planks and zinc sheets.
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The Red Cross said hundreds of people had been killed and 600 were missing after torrential rains early Monday caused mudslides and transformed city streets into fast-moving rivers of muddy water, washing away everything in their path.
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Instead of a normal shower, imagine standing up every morning inside of a storm cloud: The shower curtain bucking and bellowing in the wind; the air, hot and humid as a heavy mist envelopes you, washing away soapy suds.
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As an opposition party, the GOP relied heavily on the perceived failures of its counterpart to seize control of the government: swarms of illegal immigrants crossing the border, the rise of ISIS, and the washing away of "traditional" American values.
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They resulted in the CRISPR defensive systems being weakened, a process the researchers were able to track by stopping an attack in midstream, washing away the phages, and testing the ability of the remaining bacteria to chop up alien DNA.
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Millions of people in shanty towns, already having to cope with the the region's worst drought in a century, have historically borne the brunt of bad weather, with floods and heavy rain washing away homes built of planks and zinc sheets.
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CEO Marissa Mayer is trying mightily to put a shiny, happy face on a deal that will effectively be taking away her job and washing away her efforts to turn around Yahoo as what has turned out to be its last CEO.
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In another typical case, FarmLogs users can see if an irrigation system has stopped working properly and part of their field is over- or under-watered, then go out and fix the system before washing away expensive inputs, like fertilizers or organic pesticides.
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THIBODAUX, Louisiana, July 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - L ouise St. Pierre paints pictures of shacks and swamps on the insides of oyster shells - tiny scenes of Cajun culture she sees washing away amid the rising saltwater and periodic floods inundating southern Louisiana.
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For his series The Washing Away of Wrongs, photographer Robert Shults went where few living people have gone: the 26-acre Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State University (FACTS), the world's largest outdoor facility where human decomposition is studied through donated cadavers.
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A long walk along the empty beach and a nude swim in the beautiful green ocean began the process of washing away the ash, dust, and tears — of mending our hearts and helping us to begin the rebuilding of our new family home.
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RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan (Reuters) - Time has done little to help Japanese volunteer fireman Eiki Kumagai with memories of March 211, 2011, when he clung to some steps as a huge black tsunami surged through his town, washing away people he knew as they cried for help.
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By washing away the stain of Obama's shameful handling of the 2013 Ghouta attack, Trump's bold action will make it easier for the U.S. to establish and enforce red lines regarding other adversaries on a range of other issues without having to resort to force.
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Super PAC fund-raising was basically a draw, with the top 10 Democratic super PACs outraising their Republican counterparts $2105 million to $2000 million — washing away concern among Democrats that they could be swamped by a late tidal wave of cash from wealthy Republicans.
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As in Shults's 2014 monograph The Superlative Light, previously covered on Hyperallergic, on the University of Texas's subterranean Petawatt Laser lab, the black-and-white images in The Washing Away of Wrongs, shot in the near-infrared spectrum, give the FACTS researchers a science fiction quality.
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Among those to be featured are the Guerrilla Girls, who will exhibit four monumental billboards; Yoko Ono, whose "Wish Tree" encourages viewers to attach their wishes to the branches; and Nathalie Alfonso, whose live performance is an incessant rhythm of washing away her own work, to highlight invisible labor.
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The failure of the structure, one of the smaller of more than a half-dozen dams being built on three tributaries of the Mekong River in Laos, released about 175 billion cubic feet of water, washing away homes in the southern province of Attapeu, near the border with Vietnam and Cambodia.
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And in 2001's "Spirited Away," the story of a girl's path to independence while being forced to work in a traditional Showa-era bathhouse frequented by gods and demons, and Miyazaki's second masterwork, a river god purifies himself in a steaming tub of water, washing away the detritus of men.
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But as a photographer from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty documented last year, piracy in Siberia appears unchecked in places, causing untold damage to the environment and washing away the possibility of scientific research that might have been done on the sites to learn more about life on earth millenniums ago.
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Those who sold us the "cakewalk" Iraq war and the outrageously unprepared Sarah Palin and torture as "enhanced interrogation," those who left the Middle East shattered with a cascading refugee crisis and a rising ISIS, and those who midwifed the birth of the Tea Party are washing away their sins in a basin of Trump hate.
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For two years, Danny and Max would create Lewis Del Mar while working as barbacks or waiters, using the grind of the city to influence the industrial feel on their EP. In turn, the Atlantic Ocean a block away from their house flooded into their music as well, washing away any harshness and persuading them to stick to their acoustic roots.
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Those who live in conditions relatively sheltered from the current threats cropping up along coastlines worldwide — and lack the basic empathy to understand climate change as an issue affecting everyone, even when it's not flooding our personal doorstep — can perhaps be motivated by an understanding that the rising tide is not just washing away marginalized and distant populations; it threatens the entire global history of human civilization, as well as our future.
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