By RIAZ KHAN and ROSHAN MUGHAL (AP) PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Boats and helicopters struggled to reach hundreds of thousands of villagers cut off by floods in northwest Pakistan on Friday as the government said 430 people had been killed in the deadliest such disaster to hit the region since 1929. View The Guardian’s photo gallery [...]
90 dead as China endures severe flooding, landslides
By Barbara Demick reporting from Beijing for the Los Angeles Times About 1.4 million are evacuated as harsh weather lashes several provinces, including Fujian, where 31 are said to have died. Torrential rains in southern and central China are forecast for the coming week. After months of punishing drought, China’s rainy season has returned with [...]
Cumberland River recedes as Tennessee cleans up
CNN (CNN) — The Cumberland River in Tennessee was receding Tuesday as favorable weather was in the forecast, bringing some relief to the flood-battered state. Severe weather over the weekend was blamed for at least 28 deaths across the Southeast — 19 of those in Tennessee — between Saturday and Monday, emergency officials said. Ten [...]
Interactive Flood Maps
Check out ‘Interactive Flood Maps’ here… http://flood.firetree.net/ Here’s a link to a projection of sea level rise of 14 metres in southern Vietnam and Cambodia, including the Tonlé Sap. It’s a different world.
Thousands evacuate as Vietnam capital battles flood
Reuters | Wednesday, 5 November 2008 and published in The Independent More than 40,000 people were evacuated from inundated areas of Hanoi today and some residents who stayed behind had to cope with floating garbage as they waited for flooding to recede even though rains eased. Authorities in Vietnam’s capital moved more than 10,300 families [...]
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