What is "floodwaters"

Usage examples of "floodwaters".

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.

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.