People wait to be rescued on the roof of a house in Kurashiki, Okayama prefecture.
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People wait to be rescued on the roof of a house in Kurashiki, Okayama prefecture.
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At least eight municipalities recorded snow during dawn on Tuesday, the 10th. Snow began to form mainly in the upper part of the Serra Catarinense during the early hours of the morning in the interior of São Joaquim (Cruzeiro Valley), Urupema (Morro das Antenas), Bom Jardim da Serra (Morro da Igreja) and Urubici New World where the intensity of snow was greater and there was accumulation that remained until during the dawn.
The cities where the snow occurred were:
- São Joaquim (Vale do Cruzeiro)
- Bom Jardim da Serra (Morro da Igreja and Mirante da Serra)
- Urupema (Morro das Antenas)
- Urubici (New World)
- Lauro Müller (Serra do Rio do Rastro)
- Rio Rufino (Interior high parts)
- Bom Retiro (Interior high parts)
- Orleans (Near Stone)
Settlements including the temporary camp sheltering the earthquake victims at local Jagati and Barahisthan have been inundated. Similarly, settlements at Radhe Radhe and the Kamerotar land pooling project in Madhyapur Thimi have also become waterlogged. Local residents have not been able to come out of their houses as hundreds of houses have been inundated since midnight on Wednesday.
Comment: Update: The Sydney Morning Herald on July 13th reported:
Residents have had to be rushed to safety as water levels continue to surge near Kathmandu, with the death toll from landslides and floods brought on by monsoons this week rising to 53 across Nepal.
Three members of a family became the latest fatalities after they were buried alive on Thursday when a landslide struck their makeshift home in a village of Bhaktapur district, officials said.
"Hundreds of security personnel have been deployed in the sites," said chief district officer Narayan Prasad Bhatta.
"A large part of the district was inundated after floodwaters from the Hanumante River entered the settlements."
The Home Ministry earlier put the death toll at 50.
"In some areas, water levels had risen up to 1.2 metres from the ground. Hundreds of people have been stranded," Bhatta said adding that schools and businesses were shut.© AP
Nepalese women look at a flood area in Bhaktapur.
The extreme weather has affected 36 of Nepal's 77 districts, with 20 people injured and nine missing.
The Department of Hydrology and Meteorology say further heavy rains were expected in next few days in the country's central, western and eastern regions.
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Rescue team in search of survivors
Landslides swept at least nine people to their deaths in Manipur in the remote and hilly northeast, said the state's Chief Minister Nongthombam Biren.
"I am deeply saddened to know that nine precious life were lost due to landslide at three places in Tamenglong headquarter," he wrote on Twitter.
Eight of the victims were children, including several from one family, local media reported.
Separately, six people were killed in floods and landslides in Uttarakhand, officials there said yesterday.
Four members of one family were swept away by a landslide and two others drowned in a river swollen by heavy rain, state emergency department official Piyush Kumar said.
© Willow Bunch Golf Club
Hail near Willow Bunch, SK ranged from toonie-sized to the size of baseballs
Hail near Willow Bunch, SK ranged from toonie-sized to the size of baseballs
Hail rained down on Willow Bunch and the golf club late Monday afternoon, as big as baseballs in some areas. Willow Bunch is about 115 kilometres south of Moose Jaw.
The warnings from Environment Canada began around 4:30 p.m. CST.
"The sky got really dark out and it was incredibly hot and humid," said Sharleine Eger, a volunteer at the Willow Bunch Golf Club.
The epicenter, with a depth of 169.16 km, was initially determined to be at 18.9332 degrees south latitude and 169.0224 degrees east longitude.
The road began to collapse around the bus in Swineshead
The Brylaine bus was transporting children home from Boston Grammar School and the town's High School at around 4.30pm on Wednesday, July 11.
As the bus pulled in to drop a student off in High Green Road, Swineshead, its back end began to sink as the road began to collapse.
Brylaine operations director Malcolm Wheatley said the only thing stopping the bus from falling further into the deep 6ft hole was the vehicle's frame.
Comment: Sinkholes are often blamed on excess rainfall, broken pipes, local mining tunnels or recent roadworks and yes, according to the article this road has been repaired multiple times, but all that tells us is that the ground underneath it is highly unstable. Also, the UK has seen over 50 days without rain and which has led to unprecedented wildfires. So what's causing this massive increase in sinkholes around the world?
For more, see:
- Sinkholes: The groundbreaking truth
- Scientists predict upsurge in major earthquakes for 2018 due to slowdown in Earth's rotation
- 8 dead as massive sinkhole swallows eight-lane road in Foshan, China (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
- GARGANTUAN sinkhole swallows several cars and building is evacuated in Rome (VIDEO)
- Major road blocked after large sinkhole appears on seafront in Devon, England
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Flooding from a waterfall on the Havasupai reservation in Supai, AZ.
Flooding from a waterfall on the Havasupai reservation in Supai, AZ.
Rescue workers evacuated most of the 200 tourists after two rounds of flooding hit the Havasupai reservation, deep in a gorge off the Grand Canyon.
All the tourists were accounted for and no one was seriously injured when heavy rain began falling Wednesday evening and before dawn Thursday, swelling a shallow creek that runs through a reservation campground, said tribal spokeswoman Abbie Fink.
Tourist Benji Xie said people were swimming at the base of waterfalls when the flash flooding struck. He and his friends ran up to a bathroom with other campers to wait out the rain.
The animal, which has four eyes and two mouths, can be seen lying on the ground. in a video clip, as workers at the farm feed one of its mouth with milk using an modified bottle
An astonishing video of the two-headed cow has emerged from the farm in Caiaponia, Brazil.
The animal, which has four eyes and two mouths, can be seen lying on the ground. in a video clip, as workers at the farm feed one of its mouth with milk using an modified bottle.
Zica Soares, the wife of the farm-owner, said: 'I never imagined a calf like that would be born on the farm, we are surprised.'
The calf was hand-fed milk for five days by workers at the farm before dying.
Jo Somers died weeks after being struck by lightning in Huntsville.
73-year-old Jo Somers, of Huntsville, died weeks after being struck by lightning on June 28th. Somers had been inspecting seawall under a tree in Huntsville when she was struck, Jensensius says.
Of the 14 lightning fatalities so far this year, there have been six in Florida, two each in Arkansas and Tennessee, and one each in Texas, Missouri, Alabama, and Georgia. All victims were engaged in outside activities when they were struck. Only about a fifth of the victims were female.
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