The current high school is located on top of a floodplain which has narrowly escaped flooding in recent years, and current resources at Alleghany are strained.

Seeking better lives, several million Bangladeshis have fled to India to escape poverty, overpopulation and flooding.

Little is left at that location as the settlement was relocated to escape flooding.

Of the state's eastern rivers, only the Lumber River escaped catastrophic flooding.

The living quarters were raised from the ground to escape dampness and flooding.

Bad Kissingen rarely escapes several flooding each year.

The city mandated solar heating when downtown businesses were moved to escape flooding.

Des Moines, the hardest-hit city, managed to escape further flooding and continued its battle to restore essential services to 250,000 residents.

It had already required new buildings near the shore to be built far enough off the ground to escape flooding, which they did in the hurricane.

The PUP immediately began calling for the moving of the capital to higher ground, to escape flooding.