Richard Davies Floodlist Mon, 15 Nov 2021 11:59 UTC
Heavy rain of over 100 mm in 4 hours caused flooding in Sardinia, the Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea. At least 1 person has died and several injured.
As of 15 November, 2021, the worst of the flooding occurred in the south of the island, including the capital, Cagliari, and the communes of Villa San Pietro and Sant'Anna Arresi. Some roads have also been closed in northern areas of the island.
Italy's fire service Vigili del Fuoco teams carried out 85 interventions in Cagliari, mostly for draining flood water, removal of debris from roads and the rescue of people in difficulty. Mayor of the city, Paolo Truzzu, said 104 mm of rain fell in just 4 hours. All schools, parks, sports facilities, libraries and museums along with several roads have been closed.
A main road in Songkhla province and parts of Narathiwat municipality were under floodwater on Friday morning as heavy rain continued to lash the southern region.
Water up to 50 centimetres deep blocked traffic on Road 407, a main road connecting Hat Yai and Muang districts of Songkhla province.
Motorists slowed their vehicles to a crawl as they negotiated the flooded section at Ban Klong Leuk in Muang district, causing traffic to build up. Another road in Hat Yai district was also flooded.
Songkhla and other southern provinces along the Gulf of Thailand have been pummelled by rain for three days.
Melani Manel Perera Aasianews.it Thu, 11 Nov 2021 13:11 UTC
Floods caused by torrential rains have killed at least 25 people and injured seven in recent days, Sri Lanka's Disaster Management Centre (DMC) reported. So far, more than 200,000 people in 145 divisional secretariats in 17 districts have been affected, but this could change.
Fearing landslides, the authorities have ordered the closure until tomorrow of the road connecting the capital to Kandy at Pahala Kadugannawa (Kegalle district). In several areas, people have been ordered to evacuate with immediate effect. In Jaffna Province, schools have been closed until a later date.
Priyankara Costa, a resident of Madampe, a village in North Western Province, told AsiaNews that the fury of the waters swept away his cultivated land. "We have never experienced such terrible rain and flooding," he explained.
His son is studying at Jaffna University and had to leave his boarding house in a hurry due to the danger of flooding. For now, he is staying at a campus hostel.
Emergency situation in Agrigento province of Sicily.
The Agrigento area of Sicily has been hammered by heavy rains leading to widespread flooding and landslides on the southwest coast of the Italian island.
The prefect of Agrigento, Maria Rita Cocciufa, has issued a "heartfelt appeal" to residents in the area, urging them: "do not get in the car and do not leave the house, the condition is of great, very great, risk due to the wave of severe weather that is affecting the northern area of the province of Agrigento."
Weather-related events have resulted in the deaths of 538 Americans in 2021, making it the deadliest year for major weather disasters in the USA since 2017, when Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, killing more than 3,000 people, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported.
For the 50 U.S. states, 2021 is the deadliest weather year since 2011, when 764 died primarily because of several violent tornado outbreaks across the South.
"These deaths in 2021 are mostly the result of extreme summer heat in the Pacific Northwest, extreme cold across the South during the February freeze and Hurricane Ida across many states," Adam Smith, a climatologist with NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, told USA TODAY.
Comment: There's increasing evidence supporting the theory of Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection, as described by Pierre Lescaudron in his book of the same name. With the anniversary quakes in Mexico this year being just one recent example. And, if this year's uptick in extreme weather phenomena is anything to go by, when we consider the suffering much of the world's population has endured over the past year, particularly with the addition of the violations to their person with the coercive, experimental Covid injection and passport roll out, 2022 could be a doozy.
It may be that we're already seeing signs of what's up ahead this winter with deadly blizzards, record breaking snowfall, and winter appearing in some regions up to a month earlier than usual:
The National Works Agency (NWA) has begun to assess the damage to the road network in western Jamaica after sustained heavy rainfall lashed that section of the island between Sunday afternoon and yesterday morning, triggering widespread flooding and damage to infrastructure.
Several roads in St James, Hanover, and Westmoreland, including some which were recently rehabilitated, were rendered impassable either because of a build-up or debris or as a result of the road surface being eroded by floodwaters, which also damaged homes and farms in several communities.
Montego Bay Mayor Leeroy Williams was thankful that the St James Municipal Corporation did not have to activate any of its emergency shelters despite some homes being inundated.
"We have a crew down in the Unity Hall area, which has been badly affected in terms of debris on the roadway and we have dispatched heavy equipment to King Street area, which has been affected by a land slippage," Williams said yesterday. "We are monitoring the situation and we are prepared to take whatever action we deem necessary."
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Comment: There's increasing evidence supporting the theory of Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection, as described by Pierre Lescaudron in his book of the same name. With the anniversary quakes in Mexico this year being just one recent example. And, if this year's uptick in extreme weather phenomena is anything to go by, when we consider the suffering much of the world's population has endured over the past year, particularly with the addition of the violations to their person with the coercive, experimental Covid injection and passport roll out, 2022 could be a doozy.
It may be that we're already seeing signs of what's up ahead this winter with deadly blizzards, record breaking snowfall, and winter appearing in some regions up to a month earlier than usual: