Seawall used in a sentence

Seawall in a sentence as a noun

The Onagawa plant had a seawall more than 9m high.

When it's on a seawall before the runway, that's where you're going to crash unless you fix things.

> behind a seawall that was overcome by the tsunami.

If they hadn't done anything, I'd expect more of the plane would have hit the seawall instead of just the tail gear.

Not to mention that tsunamis can easily reach 100 feet in wave height; I'm not sure you could build a seawall that could keep one out.

We put all the failsafes in place, we put up seawalls, we presume to know that the walls will never be breached at the same time too many other failsafes have indeed failed.

It was GEWas GE responsible for the siting of the backup diesel generators and switchgear behind a seawall that was overcome by the tsunami?

> "the fact that the backup diesel generators and the switchgear for them were sited behind a seawall that was overcome by the tsunami"Sure, but who's responsible for that?

As I understand it, the issue was that not just the generators but the switchgear connecting them to the plant's power grid was behind the seawall that was overcome by the tsunami.

The debacle at Fukushima had nothing to do with the reactor design; it was due to the braindead siting of the backup diesel generators and their switchgear behind a seawall that got overrun by the tsunami.

Galveston underwent a similar transition of two stories after the catastrophic damage of a hurricane in the year 1900, in order that it would never be vulnerable againUnless the city expanded outside the elevated seawall, which it did... for a time.

When one valve doesn't function and no one knows because that monitoring system was down for maintenance and the automatic switch for the backup generator got a little too rusty and that maintenance guy hadn't reached that item on his checklist and then the hurricane sweeps too much water inside the infallible seawall...We seem to hit the "too much **** failed at once" lottery too often.

Engineers killing themselves when a plant fails does little if the failure is because they couldn't get budget approved for replacement parts, or if the decision is to continue operating the plant when the tech is beyond its original operating life, or deciding to fund the seawall height at a safety factor of 50% above a 50 year tsunami records, or 300% over 2000 year tsunami records...