What is "floodwater"

Usage examples of "floodwater".

If we flee instead, then it is not only the Alemanni massing along the Rhine who will pour into Gaul, but every middling tribe from the Alps to the northern sea and from the Rhine to the Black Forest will pour out their hidden valleys and caves and rush like floodwaters into our cities.

So Longarm was counting flies on some horse apples by what might have been a kiva, filled in and almost totally erased by the rare floodwaters of many a year, when the famous badman Poison Welles came over to join him, holding a fresh but empty tin can.

Superficially, it would have seemed, their presence could be more than justified, but as the pilot had firmly stated that he had no intention of setting his Chinook down in floodwaters and the experts, portly gentlemen all, had indicated that they had no intention of descending by winch or rope ladder only to be swept away, it was difficult to see how their presence could be justified.

The creek is running high all the Thames tributaries are in spate today and floodwater backs up under the bridge carrying the new A13 road and spills over into Dagenham sewage works.

Twice it had given way, and despite reinforcements and governmental assurances to the contrary, her grandfather 80 had maintained that it would go again unless someone found a way to rechannel some of the spring floodwaters into separate tributaries.

Homes not so very far from the road sat up to their sills in brown water, and hay that had been harvested into cones poked up through the floodwaters, an archipelago of bristling, tiny islands.

As floodwater spills over the glass walls, temperature, salinity, pH and oxygen levels go haywire.

Bottled up in the concourse, with only narrow passages to escape through, the floodwater surges to lethal heights.

There would be another rescue boat along soon, maybe even one of the evacuation helicopters that were brought in when the floodwaters grew too dangerous for small craft.

By then, mercifully, it had stopped raining and the floodwaters did not seem to be rising any longer.

Around him, his army flowed over the rampart and down like floodwaters breaching an embankment.

And like the churning floodwaters of the Dhaalismin, his fury at having been deceived surged back into him, stronger even than before.

Governments, even the governments of powerful advanced countries, had already lost control of their currencies to the roiling floodwaters of currency trading as early as the 1990s.

Even an occasional grindle& those tough ol' bottom-feeders whose air bladders enabled them to live in mud and who were often plowed up in fields, alive, weeks after floodwater had receded.

The pools they make back of their beaver dams help to control floodwaters and keep the water where it's needed, right on the land.