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Refrain from entering water that may have electricity in it and avoid walking through floodwaters.
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Star-Telegram Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 May 2024
In the basements of turbine and reactor buildings, 6 of the 12 diesel generators shuddered to a halt as the floodwaters inundated them.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2011
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Star-Telegram Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 May 2024
In the basements of turbine and reactor buildings, 6 of the 12 diesel generators shuddered to a halt as the floodwaters inundated them.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2011
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“Floodwater.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/floodwater. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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floodwater
noun
flood·wa·ter
ˈfləd-ˌwȯt-ər 
-ˌwät-
: the water of a flood
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