Posts Tagged ‘Flood’

Late winter storms are packing a punch to the Rockies, piling snowpack on top of already record levels across the West where officials are concerned about historic flooding, avalanches and mudslides. “At this point, everybody is just sitting back chewing fingernails and waiting because the longer it stays cold and wet, the worse it’s going [...]

Record-shattering flooding is occurring along Lake Champlain in Vermont, New York and Quebec. The flooding may continue for weeks and will continue to impact far more than recreational activities and ferry crossings through the spring. The combination of runoff from melting snow early this spring and, more recently, heavy rain has Lake Champlain at record [...]

In what should be one of the hottest, driest times of the year, rainfall totals of more than 50 inches within little more than a week have left swaths of southern Thailand under water. Nearly 1 million people have now been impacted by the recent flooding. At least 25 people have been killed in the [...]

As the blizzard continues to lift northward Monday, the storm’s full fury will focus on New England, eastern Quebec and interior New Brunswick. The snow will wind down Monday from Philadelphia to New York City, but will be raging for the better part of the day in New England.

WANGARATTA, Australia—Tens of thousands of Australians were poised to flee their homes in the country’s southeast Monday as worsening floods inundated at least 300 houses, officials said. Wild storms lashed Victoria state over the weekend, triggering landslides, knocking out power supplies, and forcing hundreds of people out of their houses, with many rivers yet to [...]

Massive flooding continues to batter Pakistan, and is thus far blamed for the death of an estimated 1,600 people, while millions have been left homeless and an estimated 15 million are affected. Pakistani and international aid efforts have been mobilizing, but the tragedy continues to unfold, on the heels of floodwaters driven by monsoon rains. [...]

MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) – About 150 people have been killed by flashfloods and bad weather in Pakistan in the last week, with the country’s northwest and Baluchistan provinces bearing the brunt of the storms, officials said on Thursday. In Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province in the northwest, storms and flash floods caused by heavy monsoon rains killed nearly [...]

A village in southern China is suffering after an enormous landslide — triggered by an overwhelming rainstorm — buried dozens of homes, the Associated Press reports. Photos of the aftermath paint a stark picture of lives and livelihoods destroyed. This is only the most recent flood and landslide to strike China. So far this year, [...]

Chanthu wound into a typhoon shortly before storming ashore in south China near 2 p.m. Thursday, local time, and well before daybreak on Thursday morning, EDT. Landfall was near Wuchuan in southwestern Guangdong, within about 40 miles east of the city of Zhanjiang.

BEIJING (AP) – A senior Chinese official says flooding this year has killed 701 people, left 347 missing and caused tens of billions of dollars in damage, the worst toll across the board in a decade. Liu Ning, general secretary of the flood prevention agency, told a news conference Wednesday that flooding has occurred across [...]