This underutilization of water is the main reason for the very high flood flows at Polavaram dam site.

At 9 feet 8 inches, it was nearly double the highest flood level anyone could remember.

Inside the enormous enclosure, the light was dim, the wire-meshed floods too high in the ceiling to do much good.

Some prolonged high floods can delay traffic in areas which lack elevated roadways.

It was the third highest flood on record in these areas.

This was originally in prehistoric times a natural offshoot of the Nile which created a lake to the west during high floods.

The highest flood came in 1824; the latest in 1993.

Is that just with a high flood?

All three hurricanes created major precipitation followed by high floods.