Buses taking on water, collapsing walls and heavy traffic frustrated Istanbulites on Monday as downpours and flash floods gripped the Turkish megalopolis.
In the early hours of Monday, downpours began hitting the European and Asian sides of the city during rush hour. Streets and roads at lower altitudes that lack drainage were submerged with rainwater which also inundated some shops. The Grand Bazaar, the city's most famous and historic marketplace, was also hit by floodwaters while shopkeepers struggled to clean up their shops in the market and the nearby shopping district Eminönü. The main road in Eminönü was also clogged due to floodwaters.
In Fatih, where Eminönü and the Grand Bazaar are located, downpours ripped apart pavement stones, blocking a street, while rainwater overflowing from clogged drainage pipes flooded the streets elsewhere. In the Yenikapı district, two vehicles were trapped in a flooded underpass, with firefighters helping the stranded drivers.
In Sarıyer, raging waters from the Bosporus combined with floodwaters inundated a main coastal road while the Kağıthane stream almost overflowed its banks on the European side of the city. Two vehicles fell into sinkholes when streets collapsed due to floodwaters in the Gaziosmanpaşa and Avcılar districts.
At least 19 people drowned in flash floods in Musa Khel in Balochistan and Dera Ghazi Khan in Punjab while the rescuers fished out nine dead bodies.
Reportedly, a dam in Musa Khel, Balochistan swept away following the torrential rains on Monday. As a result, 12 people drowned in the floodwater. The rescuers took out four bodies while the search for 8 others was underway.
Confirming the news, Deputy Commissioner Yasir Iqbal Dashti said that hundreds of houses collapsed during the recent spell of heavy rains.
According to official data, the death toll in Balochistan has reached 196.
The rescue operation began in Solang Nala in Himachal Pradesh's Kullu on Tuesday after two people went missing in the flash floods caused due to heavy rain on Monday.
The teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the Police Fire brigade are deployed at the spot.
According to the officials, the water level has currently been reduced.
Two people drowned while crossing a temporary bridge built on a drain in Solang, Manali on Monday.
Visitors at a waterfall in Rustaq, north of Oman, scream as a man is swept downstream during a flash flood. Sightseers make it out by scrambling up a rocky bank as fast-flowing flood water and debris surge in the southern Arabian Peninsula.
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Dozens of people have died in flooding in parts of Nigeria.
At least 50 people have died and "many" displaced after recent torrential rains caused flooding in northern Nigeria, Sani Yusuf, executive secretary of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) for Jigawa State said.
"When you go around [Jigawa State], we lost about 50 people to the flood," Yusuf told reporters on camera Sunday from the city of Dutse, which was broadcast by local media.
Yusuf said at least 237 homes had been damaged in the area of Balangu alone, forcing people into temporary camps. Eleven temporary camps have been set up for those displaced, he said.
Nigeria's Federal Minister of Humanitarian Affairs Sadiya Farouq also visited Jigawa State recently to distribute relief materials, the federal ministry tweeted.
Weyburn area producers have begun harvesting, but a hailstorm on Sunday evening had an impact on some of the crops in the field, some suffering 100-per-cent damages. There were also some reports of vehicles damaged by hail on Highway 13 in the Weyburn area.
While harvest is underway in other parts of the province, particularly in the southwest, farmers in the southeast are just getting underway with some crops.
Just south of Weyburn, Dan Cugnet began his harvest a week ago with fall rye, and noted while that crop looks "exceptional", the hail from Sunday night is going to hurt the crops still in the field.
"After a late start and cooker spring, we have had perfectly timed rains and this heat is bringing everything in. Other than some disease pressure in the area for pulse crops like peas and lentils, everything looks terrific," he said.
Historically cold mornings were suffered in Ecuador over the weekend, particularly across the nation's Highlands.
Harsh frosts were noted as the merucy dipped below the freezing point.
The town of Latacunga, for example, plunged to to -3.8C (25F) — a new record-low for the month of August, and a reading only 0.9C from the national monthly low (the -4.7C (23.5F) set in Pisayambo).
An 10-year-old boy was attacked by a shark in the Florida Keys on Saturday, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission.
According to FWC, Jameson Reeder Jr. was snorkeling at Looe Key Reef around 4:30 p.m. when he was bitten on the leg by the shark.
The boy's uncle, Joshua Reeder, told News 6 that Jameson's leg had to be amputated below the knee after being attacked by what's believed to be an 8-foot bull shark. Despite the severity of the injury, Reeder said the family's spirits are strong.
Saturday in Laramie changed from a pleasant summer day to a sledgehammering-deluge of heavy rain and large hail, with lightning strikes directly over town.
A "monsoon" storm hit Laramie at about 4 p.m., in some places dumping more than 2 inches in of rain in less than two hours. Streets became ponds and curbside gutters turned into roiling rivers.
A sunken green space near Scout Park just east of north 22nd Street became an impromptu lake. It drew curious onlookers after the storm past, as well as a few bolder souls who waded out into the water.
During the peak of the storm, hailstones large enough to hurt came hurtling down; venturing outside without a hardhat would have been ill-advised.
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