Example Sentences

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It is also a flood control channel that is critical to protecting lives and properties when stormwaters surge.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2024

“These people have lost everything. The stormwaters are still out there, swallowing our houses.”

From Slate • Dec. 16, 2023

Pittsburgh is adjusting construction codes so new buildings better handle stormwaters, for example.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 15, 2023

Several of the people who died in recent days were swept up in stormwaters.

From Washington Times • Sep. 17, 2018

Matthew Marchetti was among thousands of Houstonians motoring through the turbulent, murky stormwaters of Hurricane Harvey as the sun set on August 27th, 2017.

From The Verge • Apr. 17, 2018