On Saturday, September 6, at approximately 11:30 a.m., a massive rockfall occurred at the Cirque du Fer-à-Cheval, a natural area located in the commune of Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval, in the Giffre Valley.
The city hall, which published the information on its page, stated that the phenomenon occurred in the Méridienne-Pas Noir sector and required a reconnaissance of the affected area.
As Hurricane Lorena churned off the west coast of Mexico's Baja peninsula, its outer bands dropped heavy rain on areas like Cabo San Lucas and Los Cabos. Watch this video to see how some streets were filled with mud and debris after flash floods swept away cars and pushed into some buildings.
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San Antonio police found two bodies along the Salado Creek on Monday afternoon while searching through piles of debris.
The bodies of two people were found Monday after a San Antonio creek flooded Sunday night.
San Antonio police said friends of the victims reported them missing. One of the bodies was later found by them and the other was found by authorities that had responded to the scene.
The victims, only identified as a man and woman, were found in Salado Creek along with lots of debris that washed downstream during flooding on Sunday night, according to police.
A third person who had been reported missing was later found safe.
About 2 inches of rain was reported at San Antonio International Airport on Sunday night, according to the National Weather Service. A Flash Flood Warning was issued for the north side of San Antonio at about 7:15 p.m. CT.
The deaths come nearly two months after catastrophic flooding in central Texas during the July 4th holiday resulted in nearly 140 deaths. Most of those happened at Camp Mystic, an all-girls Christian retreat near the Guadalupe River in Kerr County.
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Torrential rain caused the slopes of the Marrah Mountains to collapse
At least 1,000 people are feared dead in war-torn Sudan following a catastrophic landslide which has wiped out an entire village.
The disaster struck in the settlement in Tarasin following torrential downpours in late August. Days of heavy rain loosened the soil, triggering the collapse of the slopes of the Marrah Mountains.
On Sunday, families who had sought refuge after leaving their homes due to the on-going war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, were crushed to death.
Sudan Liberation Movement leader Abdelwahid Mohamed Nour made an urgent appeal to the United Nations and international aid agencies for their help to recover the bodies.
He said: "Initial information indicates the death of all village residents, estimated to be more than one thousand people. Only one person survived."
Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province was dealing with the biggest flood in its history, a senior official said on Sunday, as river water levels rose to all-time highs.
Nearly half a million people have been displaced by flooding in eastern Pakistan after days of heavy rain swelled rivers, relief officials said, as they carried out a massive rescue operation.
Three transboundary rivers that cut through Punjab province, which borders India, have swollen to exceptionally high levels, affecting more than 2,300 villages.
Nabeel Javed, the head of the Punjab government's relief services, said on Saturday that 481,000 people stranded by the floods had been evacuated, along with 405,000 livestock.
Overall, more than 1.5 million people have been affected by the flooding, including in Lahore, the provincial capital and the country's second-largest city.
"This is the biggest rescue operation in Punjab's history," Irfan Ali Khan, the head of the province's disaster management agency, said at a news conference.
Only the top part of a pickup truck can be seen in a flooded area along Mother Ignacia Ave. in Quezon City Saturday afternoon.
A number of areas in Metro Manila experienced flooding following heavy to intense rainfall on Saturday afternoon.
In Quezon City, footage from YouScooper Gelo Imperial showed floodwaters up to the roof of a vehicle along Mother Ignacia Avenue in Barangay South Triangle.
Floodwaters on Mother Ignacia Avenue rose to around average human height in less than an hour, Darlene Cay said in her report on "24 Oras Weekend."
Due to the strong current, a plastic barrier was taken away while a utility van, a pickup truck, and a street sign were submerged.
Several motorists and commuters were stranded due to the flood.
The amount of rainfall reached 121 millimeters in just one hour in Quezon City, which is much more than the highest amount of rainfall in an hour during Tropical Storm Ondoy, which was 90 mm/hour.
Five people were killed and eleven others went missing as heavy rains and a series of cloudbursts wreaked havoc in various districts of Uttarakhand early Friday, triggering landslides that damaged houses and left people buried under mounds of rubble, officials said.
Chamoli, Rudraprayag, Tehri and Bageshwar districts bore the brunt of the natural calamity which came close on the heels of the Tharali disaster on August 23.
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Seven people were killed and nine others went missing after fresh landslides struck Himachal Pradesh's Chamba district, while an entire village was swallowed by the swollen Ravi river, officials said on Thursday.
In Basondhan village, a brother-sister duo who had stepped out to watch boulders tumbling down a hillside were buried alive when the slope gave way. In Mehla, two women died in separate landslide incidents. Authorities confirmed that two more residents remain untraceable in the flood-hit district.
During the ongoing Manimahesh Yatra, six pilgrims were also injured near Donali after a rockfall hit them while trekking above Hadsar waterfall. They were initially treated in Bharmour hospital and later airlifted to Chamba Medical College. Two of the pilgrims sustained broken legs, while four others suffered multiple injuries, officials said.
In the Holi area of Bharmour Assembly constituency, Saloon village was completely submerged as the Ravi river, swollen by relentless rain, eroded its banks. Videos showed houses collapsing into the raging waters as the earth beneath them crumbled.
Heavy rainfall in Kamareddy and Medak districts of Telangana triggered flash floods on Wednesday, August 27, inundating a few towns and villages and bringing road and rail traffic between Hyderabad and Kamareddy to a halt.
Flood water from overflowing rivulets, streams and lakes flooded highways, railway tracks, residential areas in towns and villages, trapping several people.
Farmers and workers were caught in overflowing streams at a few places and were waiting to be rescued. People in a few marooned villages have taken shelter on rooftops.
Pocharam reservoir in Nagireddypet mandal on the border between Nizamabad and Medak districts was overflowing, posing a flood threat to nearby areas. Officials said the reservoir received massive inflows from upstream due to heavy rains since Tuesday night.
The reservoir was overflowing by about eight feet. About 1.30 lakh cusecs were flowing above the reservoir. This has inundated the Medak-Yellareddy highway, bringing the vehicular traffic to a halt.
Comment: From the same source on August 31: