"community" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But this storm, which formed last week in the Caribbean, had packed a punch before today, causing eight deaths and property damage in scores of low-lying communities.
- In low-lying communities, wastewater may be conveyed by vacuum.
- They also protect low-lying coastal communities - and New Orleans, too - from hurricanes by acting as buffers against storm surges and by absorbing high water.
- In Louisiana, the storm surge from Rita inundated low-lying communities near the coast, worsening effects caused by Hurricane Katrina less than a month prior.
- Most of the damage resulted from the hurricane's storm surge which topped levees and inundated low-lying communities.
- Also, he said, the department received about 250 complaints about street and basement flooding "mostly from homeowners in low-lying communities in Brooklyn and Queens."
- It pounded the island for three days ending on October 18, flooding several low-lying communities and triggering mudslides that blocked roads and damaged several homes.
- About 18,000 people in 20 low-lying communities in the state of Tamaulipas, just south of the U.S.-Mexican border, were evacuated.
- European nations with low-lying coastal communities have grappled with this problem for years, but they have usually taken concrete steps only after serious, prolonged floods that caused catastrophic loss of life and property.
- People in each low-lying community should have a predetermined route to a nearby high-ground safe-haven hurricane evacuation destination in a public building prestocked with food, water, beds, clothing and generators.
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