Floods

Flash flooding fears prompt state of emergency in British Columbia

CBC News
Sat, 21 Jul 2012 12:53 UTC

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Last month, flash flooding near Sicamous, B.C., washed the highway, damaging several vehicles and cutting off road access and drinking water supplies to hundreds of residences.

Fears about the possibility of a flash flood have led a city in British Columbia's Cariboo region to declare a state of local emergency.

The City of Quesnel, located 114 kilometres south of Prince George, B.C., says specialists from Emergency Management BC have visited the site of a landslide on Baker Creek, near Pinnacles Provincial Park.

They say the slide may have taken place as early as June 28, creating a blockage and backing up water to a depth of three to 3.6 metres.

Floods kill 2 in Philippines, halt traffic

Statesman.com
Sun, 22 Jul 2012 09:15 UTC

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Children play in floodwaters following heavy monsoon rains spawned by a tropical depression in Manila, Philippines, Saturday July 21, 2012. The heavy rains flooded most parts of metropolitan Manila Saturday forcing cancellation of classes, creating massive traffic jams and closure of some businesses.

Torrential monsoon rains have inundated large areas of the northern Philippines, leaving at least two people dead and six missing and halting traffic in parts of the capital for many hours.

The weather bureau says the rains early Saturday were aggravated by a passing tropical depression.

A civil defense report says the body of a man was recovered from floodwaters in Laguna province south of Manila and another person drowned in a swollen creek in northern La Union province.

Many roads in the sprawling capital area were underwater for hours, halting traffic.

Suburban Pasay City Mayor Antonio Calixto says some areas near Manila's airport had neck-deep floods, forcing vehicles to take other routes.

China: 10 Dead, 30,000 Evacuated in Beijing Downpour

Yang Lina
Xinhua
Sun, 22 Jul 2012 05:00 UTC

The heaviest rain in six decades in the Chinese capital has left 10 people dead, Beijing authorities said Sunday.

As of 4 a.m. Sunday, more than 30,000 residents in districts of Fangshan, Huairou, Mentougou and Pinggu as well as Miyun and Yanqing counties were relocated, the city's floods control headquarters said at 9 a.m.

In Fangshan, where the maximum precipitation reached 460 mm in Hebei Township as of 6 a.m., road traffic in 12 townships was disrupted. Mobile telecommunication services and Internet access were cut off in six townships, the headquarters said.

Flood warnings in Scotland as up to three inches of rain are forecast in the west

Alistair Grant
Daily Record
Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:52 UTC

Gloomy July is set to get gloomier - with more flood warnings in the Central Belt and the south of Scotland. The Met Office warned the west can expect up to three inches of rain, with half an inch in the east. Government forecasters said up to two inches' rain had already fallen yesterday in south-west Scotland. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency are expected to issue flood alerts.

Scotland's sunshine is down more than 50 per cent this month at just 34 hours - around two hours a day - on course to beat 1931's record low of 84 hours. Maximum temperatures average just 15.2C, down 1.7C on the usual - and on track for one of the top 10 coldest ever Julys and the coldest since 1993's 14.8C. Records began in 1910.

Rainfall is more than treble the usual in parts, with Midlothian on course for one of its wettest Julys after being soaked by 106mm of rain.

China, Japan hit by torrential rains

Moscow Time
Sun, 15 Jul 2012 05:25 UTC

Scores of people were killed in flash floods caused by torrential rains in western China earlier this week, officials said on Sunday, adding that more than two million people were affected by the disaster.

Extreme weather: Drought turns to floods as Houston goes under water

Jason Samenow
Washington Post
Fri, 13 Jul 2012 02:24 UTC

Since Tuesday, 5-15" of rain has fallen around Houston producing many instances of flooding.

Heavy rain is drenching the water-plagued area now, and a flash flood warning is in effect through 2:45 p.m. local time.

Writes the SciGuy Eric Berger of the Houston Chronicle:

There has already been substantial street flooding in downtown, where three inches of rain have fallen during the last three hours.

It's strange to be talking about flooding in Houston after last summer's historic drought there. Since Tuesday, much of the area has picked up more rain than it did all of last summer.

The Chronicle's Berger pronounced Houston's drought over on Wednesday.

Torrential rains kill 20 and displace 3 million in China

Indian Express
Sat, 14 Jul 2012 10:58 UTC

Heavy storms battered many parts of China over the last two days, killing 20 people and affecting more than 3 million others, officials have said. The storms swept across 15 counties and cities, causing floods and landslides. In eastern province of Shandong, four people have died, and more than 100,000 forced to evacuate from low lying areas, Xinhua reported. More than 3 million people have been affected in the province.

Floods have inundated crops, damaged houses and killed livestock. The disaster has caused an economic loss of more than 1.5 billion yuan (around USD 240 million). Eight people were killed on Friday after rainstorms triggered landslides in the city of Liupanshui in southwest China's Guizhou Province, the city government said.

Massive storm floods Edmonton streets - Lightning, Hail damage homes

CBC News
Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:54 UTC

A severe thunderstorm has flooded streets, yards, basements and construction sites in Edmonton. Sections of Whitemud Drive are underwater at 111th Street west of Calgary Trail. City workers arrived shortly after 7:30 a.m. to begin clearing the water.

Dharminder Gill told CBC News he was driving to work at 3 a.m.when his car stalled in the rising water. Within five minutes the water was waist deep, he said, and when he opened his window to escape the water began pouring in.

"I was scared," he said. "I took my bag and ran through the water and moved to a safe place."

The normally busy Mill Woods intersection at 66 Street and 34 Avenue is also flooded.

Firefighters spent much of the morning rescuing people from submerged vehicles, with at least 18 cars becoming trapped due to rainstorm, and responding to alarms set off by the storm.

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20 Inches of Rain Cause Flash floods in Japan leaving trail of destruction

Arata Yamamoto
NBC News
Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:49 UTC

An unprecedented 20 inches of rain descended on the town of Aso in southwestern Japan, inundating homes and rice paddies and killing at least 6 people. 20 people are still reportedly missing.

Images on local news reports showed cars being dragged into the raging rivers and houses destroyed by landslides. But by around noon time the rain had stopped, allowing for the clean up efforts to kick in.

The local fire department in Aso District said they had managed to rescue 8 people trapped in mudslides.

Devastating India floods kill threatened rhinos

Agence France-Presse
Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:15 UTC

Devastating floods in northeast India have killed around 600 animals in the region's largest wildlife park, including more than a dozen threatened one-horned rhinos, officials said July 9. "Most of the animals either drowned or were mown down by speeding vehicles when they tried to flee the heavy flooding," said S.K. Bora, director of 430-square-kilometre (165-square-mile) Kaziranga National Park in Assam state. "The water level is now receding, but the vast majority of animals that fled the park are yet to return," he told AFP by telephone.

According to Bora, various species of deer accounted for more than 500 of the animal victims, which also included 14 rhinos and two elephant calves. Assam has been the focus of severe regional flooding in recent weeks, triggered by heavy monsoon rains that caused the Brahmaputra river to burst its banks, inundating large areas of the state.

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Floods

Flash flooding fears prompt state of emergency in British Columbia

Floods kill 2 in Philippines, halt traffic

China: 10 Dead, 30,000 Evacuated in Beijing Downpour

Flood warnings in Scotland as up to three inches of rain are forecast in the west

China, Japan hit by torrential rains

Extreme weather: Drought turns to floods as Houston goes under water

Torrential rains kill 20 and displace 3 million in China

Massive storm floods Edmonton streets - Lightning, Hail damage homes

20 Inches of Rain Cause Flash floods in Japan leaving trail of destruction

Devastating India floods kill threatened rhinos

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