Translation of "Jahrhundertflut" in English

We have seen raging fires in Russia and epic floods in Pakistan.

The flood water flowed over the high cemetery wall and submerged the graves in the cemetery.

The album was mixed in Austria during the flood of the century.

In any case this flood has awakened us and has shown an unexampled willingness to help.

The flood of the century, which struck the Australian state of Queensland a few weeks ago, was quite extensive.

After the extraordinary floods of 2002 the opera house which has a long tradition had to endure the ordeal of yet another renovation.

Almost 60 million Euro was contributed solely for the flood of the century in eastern Germany and eastern Europe.

In any case this flood has awakened us and has shown an unexampled willingness to help.

In places where dykes, embankments and polders have been built and there are no obstructions to the flow of water, far less damage was suffered during the ‘flood of the century’.

During the so-called Flood of the Century in 2006, these natural polders were not high enough to keep the water back, leading to a great deal of the community being flooded.

Estimated total damages of a 100-year flood are projected to increase with up to 40 % for the Upper Danube and up to 14 % for the Meuse catchment.

During the century flood in Saxony in August 2002, the ball house was damaged and had to close temporarily but was able to open again after six months.

As early as 1897, during the floods in the Eastern Ore Mountains of 1927 as well as in 1954, 1957, 1958 and 1966, serious flood damage occurred along the line, but this was by no means as great as the 2002 floods.

On 12 and 13 August 2002, when a hundred year flood occurred, the museum, which lies on a hill, was damaged by the overflowing waters of the adjacent castle pond, but was able to be restored thanks to a fundraising campaign and has since been reopened.

They had spent several weeks in June helping in the areas of Bavaria and northern Germany that were the worst affected by the flood of the century.

The flood of the century of the rivers Danube, Elbe and Saale in the early summer of 2013 caused terrible damages throughout Germany amounting to a total of about € 6.7 billion.

Water is a thirst quencher, a life saver, but can also have devastating effect when too much water dominates the earth, like during the century flood in Germany.

Dynamiting the river channels continued until the major flood of 1906 which ended up sending the entire White River down the Stuck River.

September 2002 – we collected donations for the victims of the great flood in Eastern Germany from our customers.

After only eleven years we had another "flood of the century" in Central and Eastern Europe, this time with economic costs of twelve billion euros.

And in 2002, the weather station of Zinnwald-Georgenfeld measured more rain in one day than ever before recorded anywhere in Germany – what followed was the worst flooding of the Elbe river for centuries.

The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) warns of dramatic consequences of flooding for the population in the war-torn region of Patani in southern Thailand.

The investigations of the UFZ were concentrated in the river basin of the Vereinigte Mulde, a tributary of the Elbe where a major flood occurred in August 2002.

It has been the worst flooding in the Balkans since weather recording began, taking dozens of lives and leaving entire towns uninhabitable: after the biggest floods of the century hit Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia in mid-May, the situation is still dramatic.