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Their spending loads, loads, to channel that rainwater out into the ocean when it rains and floods as well.
Some of the words go like this: "The foolish man built his house upon the sand / And the floods came up / And the house on the sand went crash."
My body floods with the chemical that they put inside of EpiPens to revive the dead, and I am weightless, raceless.
The second thing I'd like to talk about: If you were living in a remote village somewhere, your child was limp, and you were in a drought, or you were in floods, or you were in a situation where there wasn't adequate diversity of diet, what would you do?
Because dopamine, which floods into your system when you're positive, has two functions.
And increasing intensity of droughts and floods will severely impact breadbaskets of the world, causing massive famines and economic decline.
We fight floods, tropical rains at this time of the year.
A lot of you, a lot of people have been watching the floods, the droughts, the storms, the fires.
When it rains in the summer, it floods in the desert.
I'd like to share three sets of examples, starting with adapting to violent storms and floods.
Now on the surface, this makes a lot of sense, and in 2010, we responded to the tsunami in Chile, the floods in Pakistan, we sent training teams to the Thai-Burma border.
And then it gets horrible when he bursts open and an army of viruses floods out from his insides.
The rain in Burkina comes very fast, and after that, you have floods everywhere in the country.
These signals start a chemical cascade that floods the body with several different stress hormones, causing physiological changes that prepare the body to defend itself.
If you took the difference between today's image and yesterday's image, you'd see much of the world news — you'd see floods and fires and earthquakes.
We know that we're headed for climate change, which is going to change rainfall patterns, making some areas drier, as you can see in orange, and others wetter, in blue, causing droughts in our breadbaskets, in places like the Midwest and Central Europe, and floods in others.
Governments are using it for border security or helping with disaster response after floods and fires and earthquakes.
The playground is constructed using recycled tires and also is coupled with a constructed wetland that not only cleans the water of the river but also retains it when floods occur.
In 1900, there was about half a million people who died every year from natural disasters: floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruption, whatever, droughts.
So I was thinking, if I succeed in working with all my colleagues to actually help to stop deforestation, maybe we will lose the battle later on for climate change by floods, heat, fires and so on.
(Breathing in) Air floods into my lungs.
These record downpours are creating historic floods and mudslides.
Our glaciers are melting, causing flash floods and landslides, which in turn are causing disaster and widespread destruction in our country.
Very often, countries in Africa suffer drought and floods, and it's getting more frequent because of climate change effects.
And beyond fish, the oceans affect all of us daily as they drive global weather systems, which affect things like global agricultural output or can lead to devastating destruction of lives and property through hurricanes, extreme heat and floods.
The floods of adrenaline, light-headedness, and motion sickness aren’t going anywhere soon.
The space needed a new design to better handle the creek's inevitable flash floods, restore a sense of safety to the area and support an expanded farmers' market.
And then in a long and complicated process, the tribes coalesced together to form the Chinese nation, which controlled the entire Yellow River and had the ability to bring hundreds of thousands of people together to build dams and canals and regulate the river and prevent the worst floods and droughts and raise the level of prosperity for everybody.
So, you always find dinosaurs in deserts or badlands, areas that have very little plant growth and have flash floods in the spring.
It's filled simultaneously with heartbreaking sweetness and beauty, desperate poverty, floods and babies and acne and Mozart, all swirled together.
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