That is one of the world's most flood-prone areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 15, 2007] Reference

Today will be the wettest day for that flood-prone area.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2003] Reference

And if you live in a flood-prone area, have a backup plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 15, 2007] Reference

An airy new house on the edge of the flood-prone River Maas.    From Wordnik.com.  [AT HOME WITH THE DUCKS] Reference

And off they go on to a truck and away to flood-prone areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 20, 2008] Reference

No way better to test them than in the flood-prone Buzi basin.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 25, 2006] Reference

On one flood-prone stretch of Interstate 10, cars bobbed in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2005] Reference

And people are preparing by sandbagging flood-prone areas in several towns.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2008] Reference

Mr. HARVEY: I live in an area where FEMA had designated it was not flood-prone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Defining "Flood," with Billions at Stake] Reference

Some 29000km² are considered as flood-prone areas, affecting about 2. 7millionpeople.    From Wordnik.com.  [Malaysia- FAO's Information System on Water and Agriculture] Reference

Some 29,000 km2 are considered as flood-prone areas, affecting about 2.7 million people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Water profile of Malaysia] Reference

This is a flood-prone area, a low-lying area, but it is a big problem here this morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 16, 2007] Reference

He's telling his residents, especially the low-lying, flood-prone areas, get out; leave now.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2005] Reference

It seems like every year lately, in this flood-prone town, the storms come and the water rises.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 13, 2006] Reference

Similar to 63n, the flood-prone region includes brownwater floodplains and blackwater floodplains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of North Carolina and South Carolina (EPA)] Reference

HOLMES: Officials watching those flood-prone rivers closely, and sandbagging low-lying communities.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2008] Reference

This has an obvious advantage in flood-prone areas where even houses are sometimes built on stilts.    From Wordnik.com.  [17: Above-ground (urban) gardens] Reference

The paper even sent reporters to Japan and the Netherlands to see how other flood-prone cities cope.    From Wordnik.com.  [A City Floods and its Paper Sails] Reference

Schwarzenegger is hoping his announcement will speed up repairs to 24 of the state's flood-prone sites.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 25, 2006] Reference

Residents are reoccupying and rebuilding willy-nilly, including in the most vulnerable, flood-prone areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Mooney: Katrina Musings: What About All of Our Other Vulnerable Coastal Cities?] Reference

Get out of mobile homes, get out of trailer parks, get out of low-lying flood-prone areas and move inland.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 13, 2004] Reference

About 5.6 million U.S. households in 20,000 flood-prone communities have federally required flood insurance.    From Wordnik.com.  [D.C. area congressional votes] Reference

Pakistan's poorest residents are often the ones living in flood-prone areas because they can't afford safer land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Floods Kill At Least 267 In Pakistan] Reference

With the rainy season fast approaching, the rush is on to get the most vulnerable people out of flood-prone camps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poor Planning Mars Haiti's Efforts To Move Survivors] Reference

VOICE OF MIKE CAPPS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The back breaking work of sandbagging flood-prone areas was begun in Iowa.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2008] Reference

But I also hear that the maps used to determine the risk areas, the high flood-prone areas, that those maps are outdated.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 21, 2008] Reference

The move allows officials to forcibly evacuate residents out of flood-prone areas before the storm makes landfall Saturday.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2009] Reference

People in these low-lying flood-prone areas are being urged to be careful, stay inside or seek higher ground if they need to.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 15, 2007] Reference

In areas which are highly flood-prone, it would be desirable to protect traditional sub-surface water sources from the floods.    From Wordnik.com.  [7. Typical Scenarios] Reference

The Federal Emergency Management Agency helps local governments purchase flood-prone properties to save on future cleanup costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Years After Floods, Homeowners Still Wait For FEMA] Reference

The recent flood disasters of the last several weeks are a reminder that even areas not considered flood-prone can be vulnerable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tax deadline reprieve for flood victims--and advice for the rest of us] Reference

Now flood-prone Iowa, which recently sent 3,000 guardsmen to Afghanistan for a one-year deployment, is trying to limit its exposure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guard’s New Recruits in Iowa] Reference

It picked up and moved entire towns, permanently, getting people off flood-prone riverbanks and relocating them to higher, safer, ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kelly Caldwell: Giving FEMA the Green Light] Reference

The Dutch are leaders in water management, and its engineers, dredging companies and consultants work in flood-prone areas around the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Before the Deluge] Reference

The government is also spending billions of dollars on a controversial system of canals to divert water from the flood-prone south to the dry north.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Cities Raise Water Price in Bid to Conserve] Reference

Critics cite that debt forgiveness as an example of how states with little or no hurricane risk can end up footing the bill for damage in flood-prone areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taxpayers May Face Hurricane Tab] Reference

In many cities, major rezoning of former industrial waterfront areas is being undertaken in flood-prone locations to accommodate the tremendous requirement for housing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 7] Reference

The storm could also force water up the seven bayous that thread through Houston, swamping neighborhoods so flood-prone that they get inundated during ordinary rainstorms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colossal Hurricane Ike lashes Texas coast] Reference