Heavy rain caused a river to overflow in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi, causing widespread floods in residential areas, media reported Wednesday.
The storm was forecast to pummel the city of 450,000, as well as the wider region in southern Russia, for several days, bringing with it thunderstorms, hail, strong wind gusts and snow. Meteorologists said one month's worth of precipitation fell in Sochi over the past day.
Sochi's Kherota River overflowed and flooded several homes in the city, the Krasnodar regional branch of Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said. A regional response center said pumping equipment had been dispatched to the area.
Videos shared on social media showed motorists driving on flooded streets and sections of a mountainous road washed away by water.
Brianna Willis abc30.com Wed, 18 Dec 2024 13:39 UTC
A woman has died after she was attacked by dogs in Madera County on Monday.
The mauling happened around 3:30 pm on Road 417 between Highway 41 and Quartz Mountain Road in Coarsegold.
Loved ones have identified the victim as 18-year-old Lexis Salas.
"I feel sorry that's the way she had to leave Earth, you know. That's not a way anybody should have to pass away or endure anything like that in their lifetime," said the victim's friend, Vanessa Gomez.
The carcass of a humpback whale washed ashore on the beach between Crosby Landing Beach and Linnell Landing Beach in Brewster over the weekend.
Stacey Hedman, the communications director for the International Fund for Animal Welfare, said the animal was a juvenile 34-foot female humpback weighing about 18 tons or 36,000 pounds.
After being towed to a better location, the IFAW team will perform a necropsy, or animal autopsy, on the animal, said Hedman in an email.
KFDM/Fox 4 News has learned a 78-year-old man is the victim who died following a horrific pit bull attack in Beaumont.
Beaumont Police and Animal Care are investigating the attack, reported at about 11 a.m. Monday.
Police received a call asking for a welfare check on a man bleeding following a dog attack in the 1400 block of Orange Avenue.
Officers and EMS helped the victim and Animal Care was contacted to assist. The victim's son told us he rushed over and found his father bleeding heavily on the ground.
Injured people have been arriving at hospital, reports have said, on the South Pacific island of Vanuatu after a powerful earthquake struck just off its coast, damaging buildings and causing landslides.
The tremor was centred near the capital, Port Vila, the largest city on the group of 80 islands, at a depth of 35 miles (56km) below the earth's surface on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.
It was followed by a magnitude 5.5 aftershock at the same spot and the shudders continued throughout the afternoon and evening local time.
Dan McGarry, a journalist based in the city, told The Associated Press he heard of one death in the quake from a police officer outside Vila Central Hospital where he saw three people on gurneys "in obvious distress".
The southern Pacific nation of Vanuatu sought international aid after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake killed at least 14 people, including two Chinese citizens, and damaged buildings and other infrastructure.
The UN estimates that 116,000 people could be affected, highlighting urgent humanitarian needs in the aftermath of the earthquake that hit the nation of around 334,000 people.
Vanuatu Prime Minister Charlot Salwai declared a state of emergency, calling for international aid.
The Vanuatu government is "reporting 14 confirmed fatalities and 200 treated for injuries at the main hospital in Port Vila... Rescue operations continue to free those trapped after the quake, and attention turns to urgent needs like first aid, shelter and water," said Katie Greenwood, head of delegation for the Pacific region at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).
A 20-foot-wide sinkhole has appeared on the Vikas Nagar Main Road after a section of the road caved in. Visuals of the crater have surfaced on social media.
According to reports, new instances of neglected road maintenance and deteriorating conditions in Lucknow emerge regularly.
As per the reports, on Monday morning, a road in front of Punjab National Bank on Vikas Nagar Main Road sank, resulting in a massive sinkhole and disrupting traffic. Fortunately, no injuries have been reported in the incident. After the incident, the Municipal Commissioner and other officials arrived at the spot to inspect the crater.
The police have closed the road by installing barricades. This is not the first instance of a road collapsing in the area. According to The Times of India, the frequency of such incidents has increased over the past five years. While Lucknow used to witness only 1-2 cases annually, the number has now risen to 5-6 cases per year.
On December 5 A section of the road near the IT intersection in Lucknow caved. The police barricaded the site to prevent accidents.
Nujaree Rakrun Bangkok Post Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:53 UTC
At least three people died in fresh flooding which battered four provinces in the South yesterday, which has affected over 43,500 households across the region to date.
Phatsakorn Bunyalak, director-general of the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM), said floods in the South have inundated at least 43,595 homes in 27 districts across Chumphon, Ranong, Surat Thani, and Nakhon Si Thammarat.
While the floods have begun to recede in many areas, authorities in Surat Thani remained on high alert, as water levels in the Tapee River continued to increase, according to a DDPM report yesterday.
The renewed flooding claimed the lives of three people in Nakhon Si Thammarat -- the worst-hit province -- where 32,608 households across 11 districts are affected by inundation, Mr Phatsakorn said.
Severe weather has plagued Vietnam over the past few days as heavy rain continues to impact various regions, leading to significant disruptions and hazards. According to the local traffic police department, the prolonged rainfall has resulted in landslides on several roads, particularly along the Khánh Lê Pass connecting Nha Trang and Đà Lạt. Thượng tá Nguyễn Văn Tiếp, head of the traffic police in Lâm Đồng, indicated on December 15, "Due to the heavy rains lasting several days, landslides occurred this morning on the Khánh Lê Pass.
The affected areas are located at km42, km54, and km59, causing severe traffic disruptions on National Route 27C." Authorities have swiftly responded to the situation by limiting access to the affected route, urging both locals and tourists to exercise caution.
Meanwhile, severe rainfall has also hit Quảng Ngãi province, where meteorological reports indicate rainfall exceeding 260 mm, particularly in mountainous areas. A spokesperson from the Quảng Ngãi Meteorological Center stated, "Over the past 24 hours, regions have experienced moderate to heavy rain, especially noticeable above 260 mm at certain locations. Due to this rainfall, river levels have risen rapidly, prompting emergency flooding advisories on rivers such as the Vệ and Trà Câu." The water levels of the Vệ River have reached 3.4 m and the Trà Câu River at 5.34 m, both of which are approaching emergency thresholds. Flooding has become particularly problematic for lower-lying areas.
Over the weekend the Brisbane region saw 94mm of rain in 40 minutes hitting suburbs like Mansfield, East Brisbane, Morayfield and Camp Hill the hardest.
More storms are being forecast and South-East Queensland is on on high alert.
Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'It's a reminder that a large percentage of Brisbane is built on a floodplain.'
'The thing about some of these areas is that they are very low-lying, and because of their level in terms of the ground level, the water is effectively at creek level.'
'The only real solution to stop flooding in some of those areas would be for everyone to move out. There's no drain that's going to fix it, and we're not going to ask people to move out of areas that have been established for 100 or 150 years, and so that's the challenge,' the Lord Mayor continued.
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