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Two dead, four trapped after landslide hits residential building in South China


CGTN
Sun, 02 Jun 2019 11:19 UTC
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Two people were killed and four others trapped after a landslide on Sunday hit a three-story residential building in Yangjiang City, south China's Guangdong Province, according to the national fire department.

The landslide occurred at around 2:50 a.m. local time. The local fire brigade has been dispatched to the site for search and rescue operations.

Severe weather increases the difficulty of the rescue mission and could trigger a secondary slide, said authorities.

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Drone footage shows landslide near Casper Mountain, Wyoming after rain and snowmelt


Oil City News
Sun, 02 Jun 2019 11:01 UTC
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© Jeremy ThiesA still from drone video footage shows what appears to be recent landslides near Wolf Creek at the base of Casper Mountain.
Aerial footage shows what appears to be new landslides on the foothills of Casper Mountain.

Drone footage made by Jeremy Thies shows slabs of land that appear to have moved recently following days of rain and snowmelt.

There have been numerous reports of rockslides and land movement round the state after a heavy dose of spring moisture over the last couple of weeks.

Thies, an area landscape and wildlife photographer, says the footage was shot "up from Wolf Creek" on Thursday, May 30, 2019.

Oil City News has reached out to BLM for more information and will update when it becomes available.

Video below courtesy of Jeremy Thies Photography

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Tornado outbreaks and spiking corn prices


Adapt 2030
Fri, 31 May 2019 22:08 UTC
Water floods a cornfield in Malden, Illinois, U.S., on Wednesday, May 29, 2019
© Daniel Acker/BloombergWater floods a cornfield in Malden, Illinois, U.S., on Wednesday, May 29, 2019. Claims known as prevented plant pay out when farmers are unable to sow crops at all. With unceasing rain keeping farmers out of fields, growers are increasingly weighing how best to get paid and ease the impact from the bad weather and an escalating U.S.-China trade war.
Major headlines scream of the tornado outbreak across the USA being solely caused by CO2 climate changes, but if we look back to 2003, there were more severe outbreaks as well as the 1970's. Corn prices about to spike through the roof as last plant by dates will be misses or farmers will plant in standing water fields to qualify for federal crop insurance. Here we go, up and up on food prices.


Comment: Crop catastrophe hits US Midwest: Latest USDA report outlines nightmare food production scenario

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Heavy rain turns streets into rivers in San Luis Potosí, Mexico


Mexico News Daily
Sat, 01 Jun 2019 14:25 UTC
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Heavy rain caused flash flooding in Matehuala, San Luis Potosí, yesterday evening, damaging some 300 vehicles and sweeping away about 50 of them.

Rain began falling at 7:00pm yesterday and subsequent floodwaters were enough to almost cover vehicles and currents were strong enough to carry them away.

About 40 stores were also affected.

Officials said there were no casualties.

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Heavy rain, flash floods kill 3 in Vietnam


Vietnam Plus
Fri, 31 May 2019 18:02 UTC
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Heavy rainfall is expected to continue in the northern region and the central province of Thanh Hoa over the weekend, the National Hydro-Meteorological Forecast Centre has warned.

The centre has warned of possible whirlwinds, lightning and hailstorms in northern localities, and flash floods and landslides in the mountainous provinces of Lai Chau, Lao Cai, Yen Bai and Ha Giang.

Moderate rain is expected in the capital city during the day, and showers and thunderstorms are likely at night.

Temperatures will be between 24 and 31 Celsius degrees in northern localities and between 25 and 36 degrees in the central and Central Highland regions.

Heavy downpours have hit the country's northern mountainous region this week, killing three, injuring several more and devastating the region's infrastructure and agricultural production.
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Spillway water is devastating Mississippi Sound ecosystem says coastal authorities

Nicondra Norwood
Fox 8
Tue, 28 May 2019 19:25 UTC
Bonnet Carre Spillway
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Water from the Bonnet Carre Spillway is devastating the Mississippi Sound without benefit to its citizens, Coastal authories said in a meeting Tuesday (May 28).

The leaders came together in Biloxi to learn how the fresh water impacts the sound and brainstorm solutions to protect their coast.

Surveys show high oyster deaths, according to Rick Burris, the deputy director of Marine Fisheries within the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources. Burris said there has been a 50 percent mortality rate, "across all reefs."

Dolphins and endangered sea turtles have been harmed as well. Moby Solangi, president and executive director of the Institute of Marine Mammal Studies, said the freshwater from the spillway has damaged the saltwater animals' skin and resulted in numerous deaths.

"You have these animals that we have seen on the beaches with their skin peeling off, sores on their bodies," Solangi said.
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Hundreds of roads under water as historic flooding breaches levees, threatens Midwest US communities

Madeline Holcombe and Joe Sutton
CNN
Fri, 31 May 2019 09:43 UTC
Levee breach in W AR
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Heavy rains in the Midwest are causing levees to breach along the Mississippi and Arkansas rivers, which may eventually put thousands of homes in danger.

The Dardanelle Levee along the Arkansas River breached early Friday near the community of Holla Bend, sending water gushing into farmland that already had been saturated by leaks in the levee a day earlier, video from CNN affiliate KARK shows.

About 75 homes around Holla Bend, just downriver from the city of Dardanelle, have so far been impacted by flooding in a three-mile area, Yell County Emergency Management Director Jeff Gilkey said Friday. Yell County Judge Mark Thone told CNN affiliate KATV that he urged everyone in the area to evacuate immediately.

The rushing water is expected to spread to Smiley Bayou, an area of about 500 people. Because the terrain is hilly, only an unspecified number of people in low-lying areas are expected to evacuate, Gilkey said.
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Accra in Ghana floods following minutes of rain


GhanaWeb
Thu, 30 May 2019 20:16 UTC
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Homes, offices and shops in the busy Accra suburb of Odawna which adjoins Adabraka in the Klottey Korle Constituency were reduced to streams after some minutes of rains Wednesday afternoon.

The community's many link roads and alleys were heavily flooded, rendering the roads impassable. A police rapid response team strategically parked at a safe point in the floods and flashed its emergency vehicle lighting to ward off any hero-seeking driver not to attempt wading through hazard.

Many drivers and commuters in nearby communities were also forced to make long detours or had to park and wait till the floods receded.


Comment: This is the third major flooding event for the city this year, details of the others:

7 bodies recovered from flood waters after downpour in Accra, Ghana

Five dead after flooding in Accra, Ghana

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Record river floods - USA grain prices spike as reality sets in


Adapt 2030
Thu, 30 May 2019 19:38 UTC
The already flooded Arkansas River
The already flooded Arkansas River is expected to crest at a record high of 42.5 feet in Van Burden on Wednesday. The river has already swallowed up hundreds of homes in Sand Spring, Oklahoma, as pictured above Tuesday
All time record floods along the Arkansas River and Mississippi, these records extend back 150 years. Farmers WILL not get the crops in the ground, so they will need to WET PLANT to be able to claim US govt crop insurance. USDA raised non plantable acres from 4 million to 13 million which sent a tidal wave through the futures markets, over 50% of traders reversed their short positions to long, expect huge price shifts in commodities moving forward.


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8 dead as flash floods hit Kampala, Uganda


Floodlist
Thu, 30 May 2019 18:07 UTC
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Uganda Red Cross Society reported on 29 May, 2019 that at least 8 people have died in recent flash flooding in the country.

The fatalities occurred in the areas of Kikajjo, Lubowa and Lufuka in the south of Kampala after heavy rain from 26 May. Uganda Red Cross said that over 500 households were affected in the area, adding:
"The flash floods have had a devastating effect on the lives of people, livestock, businesses, household items and has affected human settlement. Many people have been displaced while others have had to move to neighboring villages for shelter with relatives and close friends. Schools too have been affected and this has an impact on the education of children in the affected areas."
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