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| Topic Started: Jun 22 2010, 04:13 PM (1,769 Views) | |
| Earendel | Jun 22 2010, 04:13 PM Post #1 |
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There sure has been a lot of flooding lately...a true sign of the pending judgement of God. RECORD FLOODS IN NASHVILLE ~~~~~ Flash Floods Kill at Least 16 at Arkansas Campground  This image made from television courtesy of KATV shows a folding chair at The Albert Pike Recreation Area Floodwaters that rose as swiftly as 8 feet an hour tore through a campground packed with vacationing families early Friday, carrying away tents and overturning RVs as campers slept. At least 16 people were killed, and dozens more missing and feared dead. read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=10886911 Floods in China and Burma kill over 250 The deadliest and most destructive weather-related disaster on the planet so far this year is occurring in southern China and northern Burma, where a week of heavy rains has caused flooding that has claimed over 250 lives. The heavy rains and floods ravaging 10 southern Chinese provinces had killed 199 and left 123 missing as of 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, a Ministry of Civil Affairs statement said. Damage is estimated at $6.2 billion. Floods and landslides in neighboring areas of Myanmar (Burma) have claimed at least 63 lives in the past week.  Figure 2. Paramilitary policemen help evacuate residents from Wanjia village of Fuzhou City, East China's Jiangxi province, June 22, 2010. Days of heavy rain burst the Changkai Dike of Fu River on June 21, threatening the lives of 145,000 local people. Local authorities have ordered immediate evacuation, and the army and paramilitary police have begun conducting rescue operations. Image credit: Xinhua. http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1514 Heavy rain floods southern Alberta Unprecedented weather Hundreds evacuated from rural towns, city centres, state of emergency declared - Heavy rain and thunderstorms hit southern Alberta yesterday, prompting fears of further damage to roads, bridges and homes. The river and tributaries that run through Medicine Hat, Alta., had begun to recede on the weekend, officials said. But with another 20 to 40 millimetres of rain expected to fall through yesterday, city officials said they would not lift the state of emergency. "This is an unprecedented event in this area," said Jack Hayden, the minister of agriculture. "No one's ever seen it." Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Heavy+rain+floods+southern+Alberta/3184932/story.html#ixzz0rce93VVt Brazil floods kill 41, leave 120,000 homeless, destroy villages in states of Alagoas, Pernambuco BY MEENA HARTENSTEIN DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Tuesday, June 22nd 2010, 5:45 PM  A flooded area in Jacuipe, Brazil, where severe rains have decimated homes in the northeastern state of Alagoas. Severe flooding in Brazil has decimated towns in the Northeast, killing at least 41 people and leaving more than 120,000 homeless, The Associated Press reported Tuesday. The torrential rains, which started last week, dumped a month's worth of water on the states of Alagoas and neighboring Pernambuco, destroying small villages. "I lost everything from one hour to the next," Nelito Sousa, a 32-year-old bricklayer, told the O Jornal newspaper. "The water came quickly and knocked down house after house." Local officials estimate that 600 people are still missing from the storms, though that number may change as the chaos subsides, the AP reported. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/06/22/2010-06-22_brazil_floods_kill_41_leave_120000_homeless_destroy_villages_in_states_of_alagoa.html#ixzz0rcfD69YD More than a million evacuated in China over flood threat  BEIJING (AFP) – More than a million people living along rivers in China's south have been evacuated with water rising to dangerous levels, state media said Saturday, as torrential rains left at least 88 dead. The government said more than 1.4 million residents living on river banks and in low-lying areas had had to move, according to the official China Daily. Zhang Zhitong, deputy director of the Office of State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters, said China's second-largest waterway, the Pearl River, which crosses the south, had breached warning marks on Thursday. Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100619/wl_afp/chinaweatherdisaster Rescuers search for missing from floods in southern France (AFP) DRAGUIGNAN, France — Rescuers in southern France on Friday cleared animal carcasses and searched for 13 people still missing, three days after flash floods killed 25 people. Emergency teams cleared hundreds of carcasses of sheep and horses that drowned in the floodwaters, working quickly to avoid water contamination, a state official said. "There is an intense mobilisation in these operations. We are tackling the carcasses lying in water as a priority," said Simon Babre, a deputy to the state prefect. President Nicolas Sarkozy announced he will travel to the devastated Var region, off the Mediterranean coast, on Monday for a first-hand look at the disaster. Authorities in the Var, a popular holiday region, put the death toll at 25 on Thursday after the floodwaters engulfed streets in torrents of mud and drove people onto the roofs of their homes. Read more: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h6SrLIbyo_UmmpcUqx3WHA3b8ghg Storms pelt Midwest, cause flooding in Indiana (AP) – 6 hours ago AVON, Ind. — Another round of potentially severe weather is firing up in Illinois and Indiana, as officials deal with the aftermath of storms that crashed through the Midwest overnight. Flash flood warnings are posted in central Indiana following two days of heavy thunderstorms. Water from a retention lake has overflowed an earthen dam west of Indianapolis. Firefighters have rescued at least three people trapped by rising water. In southern Wisconsin, an apparent tornado damaged or destroyed dozens of homes in Eagle, where the fire chief is warning people to stay away because of live wires on the ground. Officials say all residents are accounted for after a warning siren failed before the storm hit. In central Illinois, heavy rains created flash floods while witnesses reported tornadoes near the Indiana border. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hP4Ms7EkAI5UtMVI3-49mTCPaKmQD9GGDC1G0 Romania issues flood alert Bucharest - Romanian authorities on Monday issued a flooding red alert for several towns along the Danube, which has risen to a record level, threatening to cause further damage in the hard-hit country. "This week we will be facing dangerous meteorological and hydrological events," Prime Minister Emil Boc said after an emergency meeting of the government. The Danube has topped its record level in three eastern Romanian cities - Fetesti, Braila and Galati - which run major flooding risks in the coming days, the national water authority said... http://www.news24.com/World/News/Romania-issues-flood-alert-20100705 Maple Creek flood 2010 Trans Canada Highway disappears |
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| Earendel | Jul 11 2010, 05:45 PM Post #2 |
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| Earendel | Jul 20 2010, 11:31 PM Post #3 |
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| Earendel | Jul 25 2010, 11:29 AM Post #4 |
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Dam fails in eastern Iowa, causing massive flooding (CNN) -- A dam on an eastern Iowa lake suffered a "catastrophic" failure Saturday, sending a massive amount of water into nearby communities and forcing residents to flee, officials said. The Lake Delhi dam, about 45 miles north of Cedar Rapids, failed as a result of "massive rain -- a very unusually high amount this season," according to Jim Flansburg, communications director for Gov. Chet Culver. Culver told CNN that nearly 10 inches of rain had recently fallen in a 12-hour period in the area and was "too much water for the dam to hold." Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/07/24/iowa.dam.breach/index.html Dam fails in Iowa floods  Water from the Maquoketa River surges through the Delhi Dam as it collapses under the strain of heavy rains on Saturday, July 24. People downstream were being evacuated as boats, propane tanks and buildings were pushed along by the rushing water. (Julie Koehn / EPA) 'Catastrophic' The 200-foot breach in the dam began with a section of two-lane road collapsing, realizing the worst fears of “a catastrophic release of water,” David Fink, Lake Delhi dam operation manager, told the Register. “It’s going to have a hell of a lot of velocity.” Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38395404/ns/weather/ Chicago areas declare disaster after flooding By the CNN Wire Staff July 25, 2010 12:10 p.m. EDT (CNN) -- Floodwaters covering the Chicago area were receding Sunday, as damages surfaced and communities began the clean-up process.  Two men push a stalled car through a flooded street Saturday in the Chicago, Illinois, area. Ten towns in Cook County have declared their communities as disaster areas, said Dave Ramos, executive director for Cook County Emergency Management. Friday night's heavy rains hit Westchester and Melrose Park the hardest, filling some Cook County basements with up to four feet of water, Ramos said. He said he will recommend to the county's president that all of Cook be declared a disaster area Monday. Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/07/25/chicago.area.floods/?hpt=T2 Heavy Rain and Floods continue in China ... |
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| LoisFaith2000 | Jul 26 2010, 12:05 PM Post #5 |
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http://www.accuweather.com/video/248171505001/actual-video-of-the-dam-break-in-iowa.asp Actual video of Iowa dam break! - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - Severe storms cause flooding, outages in Chicago July 24, 2010 CNN Chicago, Illinois Severe overnight storms in the Chicago area caused power outages, flight cancellations and flooded homes and roadways. About 50,000 ComEd customers were without electricity Saturday morning after lightning and heavy downpours pummeled the city overnight, said Laura Micheli, a spokeswoman for the utility. It was unclear when power would be restored to those households because storms were still rolling through the area, she said. The outages started at about 6 p.m. (7 p.m. ET) Friday night. CNN iReporter Nancy Holst of Lombard said her husband, who is a firefighter, responded to several calls overnight where he was working in waist-deep floodwaters. She said he took one look at her once-blooming garden now sitting under 6 inches of water and said, "That's nothing." The storms caused damage through Chicago suburbs before moving into downtown in the morning, she said. The bad weather also forced the cancellation of 200 flights at the Chicago O'Hare International Airport Saturday morning, according to Karen Pride of the Chicago Department of Aviation. There were delays of up to one hour at the airport at midday, she said, but no delays were reported at Midway International Airport. Pride said there was some airfield flooding at O'Hare Friday night, but flight operations were not affected. The National Weather Service in Illinois reported that at least 6.3 inches of rain fell at O'Hare and 6.2 inches at Midway. http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/07/24/illinois.chicago.flooding/index.html?hpt=Sbin |
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| Earendel | Jul 30 2010, 09:47 AM Post #6 |
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Floods, Landslides Kill at Least 430 in Pakistan, Officials Say Published July 30, 2010 | Associated Press  AP July 30: Pakistani villagers try to catch trees float in the flooded Nelum river in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani Kashmir. PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- The death toll from three days of flooding in Pakistan reached at least 430 on Friday, as rains bloated rivers, submerged villages, and triggered landslides. Pakistani TV showed striking images of people clinging to fences and other stationary items as water gushed over their heads. Helicopters were also shown winching people to safety. Read more: Fox News Pakistan flood death toll hits 430  Villagers move to safety from a flooded village near Nowshera, in Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa province, on Thursday. (Mohammad Sajjad/Associated Press) Massive flooding in Pakistan has killed at least 430 people as monsoon rains continue to bloat rivers, submerge villages and trigger landslides, according to rescue and government officials.  Residents and shopkeepers wade through a flooded street with their belongings after heavy rains in Peshawar, in northwest Pakistan, on Thursday. (Fayaz Aziz/Reuters) At least 291 people have died in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, in the country's northwest, since Wednesday, said Mujahid Khan of the Edhi Foundation, a privately run rescue service that operates morgues and ambulances across the South Asian country. Provincial officials called the flooding the worst in 90 years. Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/07/30/pakistan-flooding-death-toll.html#ixzz0vBFSh500 |
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| Earendel | Jul 30 2010, 09:59 AM Post #7 |
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| Earendel | Jul 31 2010, 09:22 PM Post #8 |
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Floods in Pakistan Kill at Least 800 Soldiers evacuated a family by boat in Nowshera, Pakistan. By SALMAN MASOOD Published: July 31, 2010 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Floods driven by record-breaking rainfall have killed least 800 people and destroyed thousands of homes over the past week, officials said Saturday, in the latest disaster to test Pakistan’s already strained government... ...“Nineteen-thousand people have been rescued from the marooned areas,” General Abbas said. “The level of destruction is so widespread, so it is possible that in some areas deaths and damages haven’t been fully reported.” Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/world/asia/01pstan.html?src=mv |
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| Earendel | Aug 6 2010, 08:54 AM Post #9 |
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Thousands Flee as Pakistan Floods Sweep South  Photo: AP Volunteers rescue an elderly woman from a flood-hit area in Mehmud Kot, near Multan, in central Pakistan on 6 Aug 2010  Photo: AP Houses are left amid flooded waters in Kot Addu in Pakistan's Punjab province, 4 Aug 2010 The worst floods to hit Pakistan in 80 years are flowing south, forcing more than a half million people to flee their homes. The nearly two-week disaster has affected at least four million people in the country and killed more than 1,500. Floodwaters that have already devastated Pakistan's northwest are now moving into southern Sindh province, as heavy monsoon rains continue. Authorities say 11 districts are at risk of flooding in Sindh, where more than 500,000 people have been evacuated. Rising water levels have washed away homes, roads, and bridges, cutting off entire communities... Read more: VOA |
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| Earendel | Aug 11 2010, 11:20 AM Post #10 |
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Germany - Poland Floods Death toll rises in Germany, Poland floods as hail hits Serbia RussiaToday | August 08, 2010| August 08, 2010 While Russia's baking in the heat, Central Europe is swimming in floods. Heavy rains have caused rivers to burst their banks, and left at least 10 people dead in the last few days. The flooding's struck an area near the borders of Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic. Thousands have had to be evacuated from the worst affected areas. Helicopters are plucking people to safety from the roofs of their homes. Meanwhile, a state of emergency has been declared in some parts of Serbia after hailstorms, strong winds and heavy rain hit the country. Eyewitnesses reported seeing hailstones as big as eggs which destroyed some 1,000 hectares of orchards and crops. Flash floods inundate central Europe An aerial view shows the swollen Neisse river near the old town centre of Goerlitz at the Polish border, August 8, 2010. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch An aerial view shows flooded streets in the town of Ostritz at the Polish border, August 8, 2010. Parts of Goerlitz and other towns along the Neisse river were flooded after heavy rainfalls and a dam breakage in the Polish town of Radomierzyce, local media reported. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch People look at a flooded street in the town of Chrastava August 7, 2010. REUTERS/David W Cerny (Reuters) - Rescue workers sought to clear flood-borne debris including damaged cars and evacuate victims after heavy rains and stormy winds across central Europe killed at least 15 people over the weekend. Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67617F20100808 Pakistan issues fresh flood warning ISLAMABAD: Pakistan issued fresh flood warnings on Wednesday and put parts of Punjab and Sindh on high alert as another spell of floods would engulf the low-lying areas of the two provinces in the next 24 to 48 hours. The water level in River Indus is rising again and Pakistan’s met office has warned of floods in Sindh’s Hyderabad district, which could spread devastation in the already inundated villages and towns further south in the Sindh province. Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Pakistan-issues-fresh-flood-warning/articleshow/6294114.cms#ixzz0wJorFk5A |
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