床ゆか上うえ浸しん水すい

noun

inundation above floor level; flooding above floorboards

Technical term used in disaster reporting and insurance to describe flooding that rises above the floor surface of a building, as opposed to underfloor flooding.

• 床ゆか上うえ浸しん水すいの被ひ害がいを受うけた家か屋おくが多た数すう報ほう告こくされた。

  Many houses were reported to have suffered inundation above floor level.

• 床ゆか上うえ浸しん水すいと床ゆか下した浸しん水すいでは保ほ険けんの適てき用ようが異ことなる。

  Insurance coverage differs between above-floor flooding and underfloor flooding.