Floods in Italy due to Storm Boris pummeled the same area affected in May 2023
Storm Boris' passage through northern Italy has caused severe flooding in Emilia-Romagna region, with more than 1,000 people evacuated overnight.
The entire region, where the regional and civil protection alert has been elevated from orange to red, was hit by heavy rain overnight Wednesday.
More than 800 people were evacuated in Ravenna area, and almost 200 in Bologna area. They spent the night in shelters set up by the municipalities.
Mayors and local administrations have made appeals through all available channels, from loudspeakers to Facebook posts, urging residents to go to the highest floors of their buildings due to rising rivers.
A towering waterspout off the island of Margarita, Venezuela, came ashore on September 17 and damaged buildings, local media reported.
The waterspout, which formed amid intense rainfall and thunderstorms, caused walls to collapse and roofs of houses to fly away, according to Noticia al Dia.
Footage shared by Instagram user @enriquezabala7 shows the impressive waterspout spinning off shore. Credit: @enriquezabala7 via Storyful
Vijay Pinjarkar Times of India Thu, 19 Sep 2024 11:07 UTC
Tempers ran high in Jhinjeria village in the buffer zone of Pench Tiger Reserve (PTR), Maharashtra, after a tiger mauled to death a 65-year-old woman, Nita Buddhu Kumbhare (55), on Tuesday evening.
This is the fifth human death in the last seven months in Pench buffer area, and the ninth in the last four years. Two deaths were also reported in territorial forests, which have overlapping boundaries with Pench.
Irate villagers damaged two forest department vehicles and also attacked forest staff who reached the spot to launch rescue operations immediately after learning that a woman was killed in a tiger attack.
When forest officials and staff reached the spot, angry villagers attacked them, injuring two forest guards seriously. Some forest guards and other personnel sustained minor injuries. Video of the incident shows village youths breaking the windowpanes of two govt vehicles. Local police help was sought to pacify the crowd.
A 30-year-old German tourist died earlier this week following a fatal shark attack while swimming in the waters off Dakhla, Morocco.
The incident took place shortly after 4 p.m. on Monday, roughly 180 kilometers west of Dakhla in southern Morocco.
According to reports from German and Spanish media, the woman was on a British-flagged yacht when she jumped into the ocean and was bitten on the leg.
Reports also indicate that shark attacks are uncommon in the area where this tragedy occurred.
"For a German tourist, her vacation ends fatally. The 30-year-old was attacked by a shark. The animal bit off the German's leg," wrote the German newspaper Focus Online.
Around fifteen cars were swept away by the waters this Wednesday after the ravine overflowed in the town of Alcalá del Júcar (Albacete).
According to sources from Europa Press, Castilla-La Mancha emergency service 112. At that time it was not raining in the city, but "it had rained higher up", when a flood of water crossed the city, overflowing the ravine.
The Castilla-La Mancha Emergency Service received the call at 3:27 p.m. and sent Civil Protection personnel and mobilized firefighters from Casas Ibáñez and the Civil Guard. The only thing to regret was material damage, according to the 112 service.
The president of the Provincial Council of Albacete, Santi Cabañeromoved to the town of Alcalá del Júcar where an intense flood occurred that, "in a matter of minutes" dragged several vehicles into the river, leaving much damage in the area, but causing no injuries.
The mayor of a Polish city has asked all 44,000 residents to evacuate, as widespread flooding continues to batter central Europe.
Nysa mayor Kordian Kolbiarz asked people to head for higher ground, citing the risk of an embankment breaching and releasing a cascade of water into the town from a nearby lake.
The death toll from the floods that hit over the weekend rose to at least 16 on Monday, with seven confirmed fatalities in Romania. Casualties were also recorded in Austria, the Czech Republic and Poland.
At least seven people, including three firefighters, have died as wildfires continue to rage across Portugal, according to local news outlets.
Parts of the country have been ablaze since the weekend, with temperatures in some areas topping 30C (86F). The northern and central parts have been worst affected.
The firefighters - two women and a man - died while tackling a blaze in Tábua in Coimbra, central Portugal, the country's civil protection authority said.
More than 5,000 firefighters have been tackling the wildfires that Portuguese Prime Minister Luís Montenegro said are "raging across the country".
Puddles, flooding, fallen trees and disruption to transportation are some of the effects left by the heavy rains and strong winds recorded in Mexico City (CDMX) during the course of Monday, September 16. Among the most affected municipalities are Tlalpan, Iztacalco and Venustiano Carranza.
In fact, the Secretariat for Comprehensive Risk Management and Civil Protection has announced that the rainfall recorded this afternoon could continue to cause damage, which is why it has asked the capital's population to follow all official recommendations.
Curtis Grevenitz ktvh.com Tue, 17 Sep 2024 12:17 UTC
Obertauern, Austria
It can snow any month of the year here in Montana, but what's going on in Europe right now is historic. Many higher elevations in the Alps have been buried under three to five feet of snow. Like Montana, while snow in the Alps this time of year is not uncommon, this amount of snow in September is rare and record-breaking.
Even some of the valleys in Austria are dealing with two to three feet of snow. Toward the ski areas, some of the settled snow depth is greater than 5 feet, indicating that the snow totals were even higher.
A strong north flow across Europe has created their version of a pineapple express. Moisture from the North Atlantic hit the Alps similar to moisture streaming in from the Pacific and slamming into the cascades or Sierra Nevada, where snow totals can reach many feet more frequently.
Not all snow, this storm has created equally historic flooding with dams bursting, power knocked out, and it was responsible for at least 18 deaths. As this snow melts, more flooding is likely.
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