Suddenly, a wall of water appeared a hundred yards ahead.
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The wall of water measured 19.4 meters (approximately 63.6 feet).
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A wall of water rushed into the city, trapping thousands.
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You see that wave, that wall of water, and that tube.
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A wall of water tens of feet tall If the structure were to give way, it would unleash a wall of water tens of feet tall that would race down the Tigris River toward Mosul and its inhabitants.
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This resulting wall of water can flood coastal cities, as Sandy did in 2012.
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There was a huge wall of water slowly approaching me on some tsunami shit.
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Store owners in #Miami watch as their store is surrounded by a wall of water.
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If it collapsed, a wall of water would flood the heavily populated Tigris River valley.
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The massive wall of water was triggered by a magnitude 214 coastal earthquake in Sulawesi.
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Within minutes a wall of water crashes onto the shore, carrying away buildings and cars.
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Within hours, the cracks spread, the dam disintegrated, and a wall of water poured forth.
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But with a rushing wall of water behind it, Mother Nature decides its top cruising speed.
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Looking out over the waves, I watched somebody soar across a blue sparkling wall of water.
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Then, a wall of water, with an unimaginable force that can flatten an entire building in seconds.
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In 2005, Hurricane Katrina caused a New Orleans coastal levee to break, releasing a wall of water.
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Fortunately, Stovall says, Hawaii residents probably aren't at risk of being hit by a wall of water.
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The wall of water killed some 21,2400 people in a dozen countries, more than half in Indonesia's Aceh province.
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In that case, a 250-ft wall of water would go racing down the hillside, inundating the cities downstream.
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As residents slept in their beds, a wall of water ripped up homes and trees and washed away cars.
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We surf one cold, heavy wall of water with him, and then in a road accident, he is gone.
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One day, crossing the vast Nullarbor Plain, "the train suddenly ran into a wall of water," a drenching rainstorm.
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This prompted fears that the spillway could collapse, sending a 30-foot wall of water into the valley below.
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Hurricane Dorian pushed a 20-plus-foot wall of water onto the island, in the form of storm surge.
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Entire cities were within the tsunami hazard zone, and were swept away by a wall of water sixty feet high.
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Sri Lanka was one of the worst affected nations -- the wall of water devastated the island's southern and eastern coasts.
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Cygnss can penetrate a hurricane's thick wall of water and peer into the eye of the storm, according to NASA.
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Instead, experts think that a nearby volcanic eruption triggered an underwater landslide, which pushed the wall of water towards the shore.
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In 1900, a fierce hurricane struck Galveston, Texas, where its wall of water pushed ashore, killing between 24,21900 and 25,21 people.
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As the wave struck, people on top of the building shouted and scrambled to get away from the wall of water.
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Officials warned that a 30-foot "wall of water" could be sent rushing downstream if the eroding spillway were to collapse.
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Officials worried the spillway would fail, and one warned a "30-foot wall of water" could flood the communities below the dam.
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He jumped into the water after the pair were engulfed by an enormous wall of water that'd swept up onto a road.
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Some residents said they were given 30 minutes to flee, fearing that a 30-foot "wall of water" could come crashing down.
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At the same time, the storm drives a wall of water up the Rhine — enough to flood Rotterdam, even without the rainfall.
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In the worst case scenario, one official said, an uncontrolled release from the dam could send a 24.5-foot wall of water downstream.
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Storm surge is a literal wall of water a cyclone pushes onshore, and it tends to be the deadliest feature of a cyclone.
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Officials said they feared the damaged spillway could unleash a 30-foot wall of water on Oroville, north of the state capital Sacramento.
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Eyewitnesses described fleeing for their lives as beachfront hotels and homes were swept away by a towering wall of water on Saturday evening.
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"Our sand dunes are healthy but they're not going to be able to keep back a wall of water like that," he said.
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Chaotic escape Officials warned Sunday that a 30-foot "wall of water" could be sent rushing downstream if the eroding spillway were to collapse.
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It hovered over the country's northwestern islands for nearly two days, leveling towns and bringing a wall of water up to 23 feet high.
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Should he try to hold back the surging Missouri River but risk destroying a major dam, potentially releasing a 26-foot wall of water?
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When a hurricane comes through Tampa Bay, its winds can push a wall of water, known as storm surge, into this ever-tightening container.
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In 2100, that 2000-foot wall of water I mentioned above might be more than half a foot higher than it would be today.
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Authorities said they had averted the immediate danger of a catastrophic failure that could unleash a wall of water three stories tall on towns below.
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Sandy was 1,100 miles across when it delivered its blow, for example, pushing forward a long wall of water that devastated the entire New Jersey coastline.
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They did not hear the flash flood warning and were suddenly overcome by a massive wall of water that was moving about 30 mph, official said.
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But that would probably only heighten my fear that I'm going to be in a tunnel someday when a wall of water comes screaming down it.
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After hours of gradual flooding, something suddenly gave way — no one is sure what — and sent a wall of water hurtling down the town's main street.
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At around 7:45 A.M. , the levees on the Industrial Canal failed, sending a twenty-foot-high wall of water crashing through the Lower Ninth Ward.
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Without warning, a wall of water tore through the coastline of west Java and Sumatra, flattening whole communities and leaving despair and destruction in its wake.
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Authorities said they had averted the immediate danger of a catastrophic failure - one capable of unleashing a wall of water three stories tall on towns below.
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The wall of water triggered by a 203-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island had killed more than 230,000 people across the region.
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"We see a wall of water coming at the end of September," Krimbill said, though the company has not provided guidance on water volumes for coming months.
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The scenes of the vessel climbing one wall of water after another at a nearly 90-degree angle may not be believable, but they stir your adrenaline.
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BANGKOK — The wall of water, unleashed by a dam failure, roared through a half-dozen rural villages in Laos, sweeping away hundreds of people in its torrents.
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Some 227 miles upriver, the 213-foot-high earth-and-concrete dam gave way, letting loose an eleven-foot wall of water carrying car-size chunks of ice.
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The multiple tornadoes and huge wall of water from the ocean are impossible, given my understanding of climate physics, and clearly were invented to make the movie exciting.
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A surging wall of water might announce the climate apocalypse in your town, but rising seas also can cause insurance premiums to skyrocket or property values to collapse.
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If that happened, they said, it could unleash a 30-foot wall of water into the Feather River that would tear through several cities in the valley below.
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A U.S. general said last week there was chance of catastrophic collapse of the dam, which would unleash a wall of water down the heavily populated Tigris River valley.
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But because the water levels are so high, the emergency spillway — which appears to be eroding — could unleash a wall of water onto the communities below if it collapses.
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People in areas that could be affected should take no chances against such a powerful surge, Scott said, adding, "No one's going to survive," such a wall of water.
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Mosul dam has suffered from structural flaws since its construction in the 1980s and a collapse would unleash a wall of water down the heavily populated Tigris River valley.
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"If the emergency spillway were to fail, it would send a 30-foot wall of water downstream, resulting in catastrophic flooding," Brown said in his Monday letter to the president.
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Residents might have as little as two hours' notice that the dam to the north had given way, and the wall of water could be as high as 80 feet.
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There was no earth-shaking warning before a wall of water rushed ashore under the cover of darkness in Indonesia on Saturday, killing more than 220 people, and injuring hundreds more.
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Surge is similar in effect to a tsunami—a wall of water created when atmospheric pressure changes cause the ocean to rapidly rise and high winds push all that water onshore.
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Hours after the quake, officials said a slip dam caused by the quakes that had blocked the Clarence River north of the town had breached, sending a wall of water downstream.
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Heavy rains had caused a river to overflow, creating a giant wall of water carrying tons of mud and debris that crashed through the town in the middle of the night.
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Islamic State seized Mosul dam in August 2014, raising fears they might blow it up and unleash a wall of water on Mosul and Baghdad that could kill hundreds of thousands.
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation's Ferry Division had reported a 22018-foot high storm surge — a story-high wall of water — at one ferry terminal in the county, the paper reported.
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation's Ferry Division had reported a 10-foot high storm surge — a story-high wall of water — at one ferry terminal in the county, the paper reported.
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"If you're throwing a wall of water, say 30 or 40 meters high over a large area, the volume of water is enormous and the crushing force is tremendous," Dr. Dewey says.
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It feels right that Bob Crowley's minimalist set should be backed by a filmed wall of water, representing the Irish Sea that looms, tantalizingly and cruelly, as a conduit to another world.
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If erosion undercuts the 251,20063-foot-long concrete lip running along the top of the emergency spillway, a 22006-foot wall of water could come crashing down on the residents of nearby towns.
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Watching the flooding arrive in surging waves, Richey knew right away: Every wall of water was a levee breaking upriver—and soon the ice and current would take out Fremont's outdated levee, too.
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A tsunami could send a wall of water 50 feet (15 meters) high crashing onto the coast, or a wave 16 feet (0003 meters) high into Seattle, the state's largest city, she said.
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The trip wire for this tsunami was a 9.1 earthquake 45 miles off the coast; the wall of water induced meltdowns at three nuclear reactors in the now-infamous Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant.
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This disruptive movement may have created the large wall of water that raced across the open ocean until being squeezed into the long, narrow bay that surrounds Palu, forcing the wave to grow higher.
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The 3.6-km-long (2.2-mile) dam has suffered from structural flaws since its construction in the 1980s, and any collapse would unleash a wall of water down the heavily populated Tigris River valley.
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The water eroded the barren hillside beneath the concrete, leading to fears the weir would collapse and release a 280-foot wall of water that would swamp communities and destroy levies for miles downstream.
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Islamic State insurgents seized the dam for two weeks in mid-2014, sparking fears they might blow it up and unleash a wall of water on Mosul and Baghdad that could kill thousands of civilians.
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The evacuation Sunday occurred after state and local officials grew concerned the hole near the top of the emergency spillway could cause a 30-foot wall of water down to the Feather River and tributaries.
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Not having the precise instruments that recorded 40-metre-high waves in 2011, villagers in centuries past have placed stone markers along the hillsides roundabout to show how far the wall of water swept inland.
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Though the U.S. Pacific Tsunami Warning Center warned that a wall of water could come crashing onto the shoreline, fortunately no such tsunami actually occurred and the center later advised that the threat had passed.
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The breach let loose a wall of water that barreled through the towns of Piru, Fillmore, and Santa Paula on a 54-mile trip to the Pacific, leveling homes and killing more than 400 people.
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The best thing about Brilliant (apart from the wall of water at the entrance that brings to mind a glass-plated plumbing emergency) is the fresh carrot pickle served up from a small stainless steel tray.
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Known to use water as the canvas for their projections, ECA2 incorporates what they call "wave water screens": jets shoot columns of water into the air creating a wall of water to project the animations onto.
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Silhouettes of dragons and the Night King are projected onto the wall of water, as well as the show's logo, before the jets move to create other iconic symbols, like the Iron Throne and a crown.
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With enough sea-level rise, the threat of the next hurricane raises the alarming possibility of a towering wall of water sweeping inland from the Atlantic Ocean, down the Long Island Sound, and toward the city.
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It ground to a halt on Monday, flooding islands with a wall of water up to 23 feet high, ripping buildings apart with wind gusts as strong as 220 mph, and killing at least 23 people.
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The local hospital has registered 13 deaths since Hurricane Matthew flung 145-mile-per-hour winds and a wall of water at Port-Salut, but many more have died without so much as an official word.
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One of the worst hit areas of Palu, a neighborhood called Balaroa, saw almost no damage from the wall of water brought on by the tsunami, but suffered severe damage from the earthquake and subsequent liquefaction.
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The twin disasters — a 7.5-magnitude earthquake, and the swirling wall of water it unleashed — killed hundreds of people and destroyed thousands of buildings there, including a shopping mall, a hotel, seaside restaurants and several mosques.
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"I was driving out to get one more load of corn from the bins when the levee broke, and there was a wall of water coming at me," said Howard Geib, 54, whose farm is near Craig.
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Per the National Hurricane Center's latest flood predictions for the North Carolina coastline, more than 9 feet of storm surge — imagine a wall of water nearly the height of a basketball hoop — may accumulate in some areas.
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Here, survivors had similar tales of how the sea had turned against them and swelled into a giant wall of water that engulfed them and swept away everything they had: their homes, their harvest, their loved ones.
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There can be a wall of water (potential collapse of California's Oroville Dam) or a wall of wind (Florida University's hurricane simulator) even a wall of words (see innumerable computer games where players overwhelm each other with words).
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After a wall of water roared down a narrow canyon in southern Italy, killing at least 10 hikers and sweeping some as far as two miles downstream, rescue workers continued searching on Tuesday for survivors and more victims.
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The big picture: Florence is a nightmare of a storm: It's unusually large, contains waves towering to at least 83 feet, and is preparing to push a virtual wall of water onto the coastlines of North and South Carolina.
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"I was driving out to get one more load of corn from the bins when the levee broke, and there was a wall of water coming at me," said Geib, 54, whose farm is near a town called Craig.
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"I was driving out to get one more load of corn from the bins when the levee broke, and there was a wall of water coming at me," said Geib, 54, whose farm is near the town of Craig.
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Not only have they been circulating the TMZ video, which portrays an inaccurate picture of what happened, but they have included a clip from our trailer where you see the dog jumping into a treacherous rushing wall of water.
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The pounding rains led to some dramatic rescues, including one in San Antonio of a man described as a Polish immigrant with limited knowledge of English who found himself and his car washed away by a wall of water.
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This wall of water can flood coastal communities — if a storm's winds are blowing directly toward the shore and the tide is high, storm surges can force water levels to rise as rapidly as a few feet per minute.
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Five years later, the waves that almost took Ms. Gabeira's life helped her set a world record: On Monday, she won two awards for riding a 68-foot wall of water, the largest wave officially surfed by a woman.
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As he spoke, Simcoe stared past me, gazing at the water fountain, which, when it's in action, pumps 6,000 gallons of water per minute into a 55-foot-tall wall of water, a vision that still stuns from another century.
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But traffic would be coming at them, Hebert said, and although concrete barricades were holding back the floodwaters for now, they could break at any moment, releasing a 3-foot-high wall of water into the line of relief vehicles.
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He has also been using buildings as projection screens for his artwork: next year he will project a giant 3D illusion of a wall of water onto the facade of the castle in the German city of Karlsruhe (pictured below).
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AIR FORCE BASE FLOODED "I was driving out to get one more load of corn from the bins when the levee broke, and there was a wall of water coming at me," said Howard Geib, 54, whose farm is near Craig.
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Dozens of people were exploring the gorge when a storm dumped heavy rain upstream, and the narrow canyon funneled the runoff into a raging wall of water and debris that engulfed some hikers and sent others scrambling to higher ground.
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The death toll in Xingtai, an industrial city in Hebei Province, rose sharply on Saturday, days after a wall of water descended on one village in the middle of the night with little or no warning, according to the Beijing News.
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Powerful Hurricane Michael was hours away from smashing into Florida's northwestern shore on Wednesday with a wall of water and roof-shredding winds, and the state's governor said it would be the worst hurricane to hit the region in a century.
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LOS ANGELES — The St. Francis Dam was a proud symbol of California's engineering might and elaborate water system — until just before midnight on March 22005, 2100, when it collapsed, killing more than 400 people in a devastating wall of water.
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NAIROBI, May 11 (Reuters) - Kenya's chief prosecutor on Friday ordered police to investigate a dam-burst on a commercial farm in the Rift Valley that killed dozens of people as a wall of water tore down a hillside, obliterating everything in its path.
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But last October a series of rainstorms, including one that dumped more than three inches at once, sent a wall of water into Scotty's Castle, an extravagant fortresslike home — now included on the National Register Historic Places — built by Chicago millionaire Albert Johnson.
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Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas as a Category 5 storm on Sunday, with sustained wind speeds of 185 mph and brought with it a wall of water with it that might have reached as high as 23 feet in some parts of the island.
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A slip dam caused by a series of earthquakes that have hit New Zealand, blocking the Clarence River on the South Island, has breached and sent a wall of water heading downstream, Radio New Zealand quoted local authorities as saying on Monday.
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More than 230 people were killed, many of them asleep in their beds, when a giant wall of water carrying tons of mud and debris surged through a city in southwest Colombia on Saturday after heavy rains caused a nearby river to overflow, officials said.
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Residents of Tacloban in the Philippines, where Super Typhoon Haiyan roared ashore in 210, described the devastating storm surge as "like a tsunami" -- an apt comparison for the 21949-22016 meter (220-230 foot) wall of water that crashed into the city during the storm.
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Islamic State militants controlling swathes of territory in northern and western Iraq seized Mosul dam in August 2014, raising fears they might blow it up and unleash a wall of water on Mosul and Baghdad that could kill hundreds of thousands along the heavily populated Tigris River valley.
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The remains were recovered on the fifth day of an intense search launched on Saturday, when a group of family members were swept away by what authorities described as a wall of water that crashed down the canyon at a popular swimming spot in the Tonto National Forest.
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The perturbations that cause a moist early spring like the one Dallas had in 223, favoring mosquito reproduction, can equally cause devastating floods — like the wall of water that swept through central Texas in May 23 and killed 21867 people — that will scour mosquito eggs from wherever they have been laid.
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Everywhere huge plugs of earth had been restyled into swirling modern sculptures, collecting in their furrows piles of dead leaves and, I feared, live rattlesnakes; trellised twigs, flung up in the high reaches of trees by torrents long gone, filtered down coppery light; and the braided system of channels and sandbars left me stumbling, lost, picturing an imminent wall of water ahead.
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"I really felt like we were in danger of death," said Jonathan Bryant, who scrambled out of his car — helping his wife, Diane, their two children and a cat — after they were hit by a wall of water and had to wade a quarter-mile back to their house, through rushing torrents, pelting rain and 60-mile-per-hour wind in the pitch black.
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And then we're straight duped into thinking that Randall and company are going to foster a new young boy, but it turns out that the social worker was actually Tess in the future and then we see future Randall and the family is fostering Deja again and I can't see anything anymore because there's just a wall of water between my eyes and the TV and oh my god are we going to get a new time period in the future where Randall is old and Tess is a social worker?
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Read more of Business Insider's hurricane coverage: Photos and videos show the flooding and devastation as Hurricane Florence hits North Carolina Hurricane Florence has 150 trapped, stranded as flood waters swallow small North Carolina town Weather Channel video illustrates the horrifying reality of towering floodwater in North Carolina Hurricane Florence could dump up to 40 inches of rain on parts of the Carolinas — here's why the deluge may be so intense Hurricane Florence could bring a wall of water up to 11 feet high — here's what a storm surge is and why it forms The 14 most important things you should do to prepare for a hurricane 'Watch out, America!
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