The weather in the Western Cape has certainly been bolder, and George has had to bear the brunt of Mother Nature's rainy endeavours.
The heavy rainfall led to flooding all over the city and was so intense that the George Municipality even asked all residents to stay indoors, with several schools closing for today due to bad weather.
Many locals with their cameras at the ready captured the sights in full. Take a look:
Several rivers broke their banks following heavy rain in Chocó Department, Colombia. Authorities reported almost 3,500 households have been affected, with flood water "up to neck height" in some areas.
Several rivers broke their banks on 19 November 2021 following heavy rain. Officials reported flooding from the Misará, Baudó, Orochocó, Pepé and Dubasa rivers, with areas of Medio Baudó and Alto Baudó municipalities severely affected. Some flooding was also reported in Nuquí and Bahía Solano municipalities.
The government of Medio Baudó said 3,489 families were affected, which is an estimated 14,000 people. Reports suggest hundreds of homes have been damaged and according to local media as many as 120 homes have been completely destroyed. Widespread damage to livestock and crops including rice, corn, banana and yucca was also reported.
A depression over the southwest Bay of Bengal brought heavy rainfall to parts of Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Andhra Pradesh in southeastern India from 16 November 2021. At least 9 people have died in rain-related incidents in Tamil Nadu. Hundreds of people have been evacuated or rescued by police, military and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) in Andhra Pradesh and Puducherry.
Andhra Pradesh
Teams from police, NDRF and military have responded to the worsening flood situation across several districts of Andhra Pradesh. Rescues and evacuations were carried out in Tirupati, Chittoor, Kadapa, Anantapur and Nellore districts.
The Cheyyeru dam in Kadapa district was reportedly breached or damaged, flooding nearby villages. Videos shared on Social Media showed bridges and buildings washed by the overflowing Swarnamukhi river in Tirupati. Workers were reportedly stranded by flood water from the Papaghni River near Vempalli, Kadapa district. Dozens of people were rescued after 3 buses were submerged by floods in Kadapa district.
Andhra Pradesh rains: 17 dead, over 100 feared missing in deluge across Rayalaseema districts
At least 17 people died and more than 100 were reportedly missing in separate incidents as incessant rains caused flash floods across the four districts of the Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh on Friday.
The depression in the Bay of Bengal led to flash floods triggering off a deluge.
As the Cheyyuru river's water breached the Annamayya project leading to flash floods across several mandals in the Rajampet assembly constituency and other parts of Kadapa district, three APSRTC buses filled with passengers were stuck in the flood water near Ramapuram in Rajampet mandal on Friday.
Though the fire services personnel rescued a majority of the passengers and the APSRTC staff, twelve persons washed away in the flash floods were found dead at various places across Rajampet mandal. While officials retrieved 7 bodies near Gandluru, three more bodies were retrieved near Rayavaram and the bodies of two others were retrieved near Mandapalli.
Meanwhile, 30 persons belonging to Mandapalli, Akepadu, Nandaluru in Rajampet mandal were reportedly washed away in floods and officials have launched a search operation to rescue them.
Rail and road traffic between Tirupati and Kadapa came to a standstill as floodwater damaged the railway tracks and national highways at several places along the route.
While the Kadapa airport has been sealed off till the 25th of this month, nearly 10 trains plying between the Nandalur-Rajampet route have been diverted by the south central railways. APSRTC has also suspended bus services from Tirupati-Kadapa, Tirupati-Piler-Rajampet and other routes as flash floods have damaged roads along these routes.
Meanwhile, a man and his wife who went to the KC canal for some religious rituals on the Karthika Deepotsavam eve were washed away in the floods on Friday. Their bodies were recovered near Padidampadu. The deceased were identified as Raghavendra and Indira, residents of Abbas Nagar in Kurnool.
Tungabhadra river which received heavy inflows was in full spate prompting officials to lift 12 crest gates and release waters downstream. This is the first time in 39 years that the Tungabhadra project reached its full reservoir level in the month of November.
Update 2 : The Economic Times reports on November 21:
Andhra Pradesh floods: Death toll in two districts rises to 41
As floods continue to ravage Andhra Pradesh, the death toll in the Rayalaseema and Nellore districts has risen further from 29 to 41 on Sunday. Six more bodies were retrieved at Rajampet mandal and two fresh flood-related deaths were reported at Chinnamandem mandal in Kadapa district.
Three bodies are yet unidentified at the Rajampet government hospital in Kadapa district, while fifteen bodies have been handed over to the families of the victims. Four deaths were reported in the Nellore district on Sunday.
Two siblings including a woman who tried to cross over the Mandavya river in Chinnamandem mandal were washed away in the strong currents and their bodies were retrieved near Vandadi village. Two unidentified bodies were retrieved near the Somasila project on Sunday.
Nearly 44,275 persons have been evacuated and moved to 92 relief camps across Nellore district.
The floods continued for the fourth consecutive day across Chittoor, Kadapa, Anantapur and Nellore districts.
A road bridge connecting Kadapa-Tadipatri towns along the Papagni river collapsed in the early hours on Sunday, while road connectivity to several villages along the route remained suspended.
Traffic along the national highway also was brought to a grinding halt after the national highway caved in at two places near Nellore.
Martin Goillandeau and Sana Noor Haq CNN Sun, 21 Nov 2021 12:08 UTC
A 70-year-old man sustained a "serious leg injury" in southwestern France on Saturday after an encounter with a bear, according to a statement from the southwestern prefecture of Ariège.
The hunter, who had been pursuing wild boars, was assisted by the high mountain gendarmerie team and promptly taken to a local hospital "in a worrying condition," the statement said.
A spokesperson from the French Gendarmerie was unable to confirm to CNN whether the hunter shot the bear, though the statement from the prefecture of Ariège read that gendarmes had "located a bear carcass below the place where the victim was found, which could accredit the thesis of an accident linked to the encounter between the man and the animal."
A picture shared by a social media users reportedly shows the snowfall in the city of Qurayyat, in Al Jawf Province.
Parts of northern Saudi Arabia were covered in a fine layer of hail and snow on Sunday as temperatures plummeted to approximately 7C.
Images circulating on social media showed the a white landscape in the city of Qurayyat, in Al Jawf Province. The Saudi city is 30 kilometers away from the border with Jordan.
In one video hail can be seen falling from the sky.
A Saudi National Center for Meteorology report said thunderstorms accompanied by light winds and hail showers would fall across Al-Jawf, the northern borders and Tabuk, extending to the coastal areas of the Medina region.
An Antarctic penguin's misadventure has seen it waddle ashore almost 2,000 miles from home.
The Adélie penguin, which is native to Antarctica, washed up on the coast of New Zealand on Wednesday.
The rare visitor was spotted by resident Harry Singh, just south of Christchurch in Birdlings Flat on the South Island. A video captured by Singh shows the penguin wandering around on the beach.
"I did not notice any physical injury, but it was tired and hungry," Singh told NBC News via Facebook Messenger on Friday.
The last sighting of an Adélie penguin was in 1993 and this is only the third time one of the birds has made it to New Zealand's shores, according to an online encyclopedia of New Zealand birds, which says that one was found dead in 1962 and a live Adélie penguin was reportedly found in 1993.
Sipho Mabuza Zimlive.com Sun, 21 Nov 2021 13:46 UTC
Thirteen inmates at Hwange Prison were hospitalised on Friday after they were struck by lightning while having lunch in the prison courtyard, officials said.
On the same day, police said two teenagers, both aged 15, were killed by lightning while walking home from school in Chitungwiza.
Police said one of the children died instantly, while a second was runover by a vehicle as she lay on the tarred road. The two were students at Seke 1 High School.
Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) spokesman Superintendent Peter Chaparanganda, meanwhile, said 13 inmates suffered varying degrees of burns after they were struck by lightning at around 11AM last Friday.
Two young men were killed and ten others injured when they were struck by lightning on a football field in Sheepmoor, Mpumalanga on Saturday.
Paramedics and provincial emergency services found the two men lying beneath a tree, while ten others were scattered around the field.
"Medics assessed the patients and found that the two men beneath the tree, both believed to be 18-years-old, showed no signs of life," said ER24 spokesperson Russel Meiring.
"Unfortunately, nothing could be done for them, and they were declared dead.
"The ten other men and women were assessed and found to have sustained injuries ranging from minor to serious.
"The patients were treated on the scene and thereafter transported to Ermelo Provincial Hospital for urgent treatment."
But some of the vessels will have to wait for at least one week before they are released from captivity in the remote Arctic sea-ice.
Comment: Although SOTT picked up this story when the drama began back on the 8th of November, unsurprisingly it has gone largely unreported by the mainstream, global-warming/climate-crisis propaganda press, and the first part of this update is actually from 10 days ago, with more recent developments below.
District authorities in the Russian Far East have decided to commission two icebreakers to aid the vessels currently ice-locked in the East Siberian Sea.
The nuclear-poweredYamalis due to arrive in the region by 20th of November, while the diesel-poweredNovorossiiskwill arrive by 15th of November, regional authorities in Chukotka inform.
Comment: Note the ships aren't relying on 'green' energy to get the job done.
In addition will be sent the rescue vessel Spasatel Zaborshchikov.
Comment: Fleetmon gave an update on the situation yesterday, 19th November:
IcebreakerVAYGACHis leading convoy of Far East bound 5 ships, including NORDIC NULUUJAAK, GOLDEN SUEK, NORDIC QINNGUA, GOLDEN PEAR, UHL FUSION. Have a look at convoy track, it's a broken curve, usual tactics inbattling ice cover and floes. Icebreaker is leading ships, trying to use each and every ice-free patch/area her helicopter canfind. All in all, everything is so far, absolutely normal, something to be expected from NSR late fall transit routine. Convoy is already in Chukcha sea, will reach Bering Strait in probably 2-3 days or maybe even earlier, Arctic is unpredictable in this sense, up until last minutes and meters of transit.
West bound ships, including MV KUMPULA, are stuck in ice north of Kotelny island, bordering Laptev and East Siberian seas, waiting most probably, for icebreaker TAYMYR, presently positioned in Obskaya Gulf.
Latest Arctic ice cover map, no signs yet of ice-free Arctic with palm trees to, soon, fringe its' coast
In some areas, ice edge already surpassed median 1981 - 2010 ice edge
Research indicates that ice ages can come on rather quickly, and there are numerous signs that our planet is now entering a period of significant cooling:
Rosedale Grocery ran out of milk around 1 p.m. on Tuesday. The store in Rosedale, B.C., a little farming town about two hours east of Vancouver, didn't receive a shipment all day Tuesday. The produce truck didn't show, neither did the dairy truck or the truck carrying non-perishables, all due to floods that have choked off highway access for much of the province's lower mainland.
"When we ran out of milk, that was kind of the nervous point," Rosedale Grocery manager Caitlin Lajeunesse said. "We had to have someone set up at our front door, just to not let people in because you couldn't move in the store, there was so many people."
Provincial authorities and retail industry leaders have tried to talk down a wave of panic buying in B.C. stores since Tuesday, amid fears that washed-out roads and rail lines could result in temporary shortages, including dairy.
In the end, we return to the question, just how much do you love truth? Do you really love truth or are you just curious? Do you love it enough to rebuild your understanding to conform to a reality that doesn't fit your current beliefs, and doesn't feel 120% happy? Do you love truth enough to continue seeking even when it hurts, when it reveals aspects of yourself (or human society, or the universe) that are shocking, complex and disturbing, or humbling, glorious and amazing - or even, when truth is far beyond human mind itself? Just how much do we love truth? It's a good question to ask ourselves, I think.
- Scott Mandelker
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