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Incessant rain brings flood to Indonesia - at least 29 killed (UPDATE)


Tempo.co
Sun, 28 Apr 2019 14:39 UTC
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Ten people were reportedly killed and eight others were missing after flood swept through several parts of Bengkulu province on Friday (April 26),

The 10 consisted of two from Bengkulu city, six from Central Bengkulu district. and two from Kepahiang district. Chief of the Bengkulu Provincial Disaster Mitigation Board (BPBD) Rusdi Bakar said on Sunday.

Incessant rains caused several rivers in Bengkulu to overflow their banks on Friday night, flooding several parts of the province.

The flood also caused landslides, cutting off land communications among districts in Bengkulu and between the province and other provinces, including South Sumatra and Lampung.


Comment: Update: Al Jazeera on the 29th of April reports:
Floods sparked by torrential rains have killed 29 people in Indonesia with a dozen more still missing, officials said on Monday, marking the latest calamity for a disaster-prone nation.

Landslides and floods are common, especially during the monsoon season between October and April, when rains lash the vast Southeast Asian archipelago.

On Monday, Indonesia's disaster agency confirmed 29 deaths and said at least 13 more people were missing after days of pounding storms on the island of Sumatra.

Some 12,000 people have been evacuated from water-logged Bengkulu province with hundreds of buildings, bridges and roads damaged.

Hardest hit was Bengkulu Tengah district, just outside of the provincial capital, where 22 people were killed along with hundreds of livestock.



Authorities have set up temporary shelters and public kitchens for the evacuees.

Meanwhile, a landslide triggered by heavy rain in Sumatra's Lampung province on Saturday killed a family of six and disrupted transportation links to neighbouring regions.

Flooding in parts of the capital Jakarta during the week killed at least two people and forced more than 2,000 to evacuate their homes.

Residents are salvaging belongings as floodwaters submerged their homes
© [Diva Marha/AFPResidents are salvaging belongings as floodwaters submerged their homes


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Mozambique - Tropical Cyclone Kenneth leaves 38 dead and 20,000 displaced


Floodlist
Tue, 30 Apr 2019 17:34 UTC
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Tropical Cyclone Kenneth has continued to batter parts of Mozambique with heavy rain after the storm made landfall in the north of the country on 25 April, 2019, causing severe flooding. River levels are extremely high and the flood situation is likely to worsen over the coming days, according to reports.

Pemba, the capital of Cabo Delgado Province on Mozambique's northeastern coast, recorded 300mm of rain in 24 hours to 28 April. The UN says the town has seen over 540mm of rain since Kenneth made landfall.

Mozambique's National Disaster Management Institute (INGC) said at least 38 people have now died as a result of TC Kenneth. Four people died when Tropical Cyclone Kenneth passed over the Comoros Islands on 24 April, 2019.

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Thousands of Canadians evacuated due to severe flooding

Margaret Wollensak
The Epoch Times
Mon, 29 Apr 2019 20:43 UTC
A house along the Ottawa River flooded in Gatineau, near Ottawa, Canada
© Jonathon Ren/The Epoch TimesA house along the Ottawa River flooded in Gatineau, near Ottawa, Canada, on April 27, 2019.
Thousands of Canadians have been evacuated from their homes as a result of severe flooding and rising water levels, while thousands more are working to stem the flow of water.

Across the provinces of Quebec, Ontario, and New Brunswick, thawing snow and heavy rain have led to record-high water levels in some places. Thousands of volunteers and residents, as well as the military, have been working to save homes.

The Canadian Armed Forces has deployed troops to help flood-hit regions across all three provinces. More members of the military are involved in fighting flooding in eastern Canada right now than in combat zones overseas.

"We don't have any limit. It's all based on the situation. If more are needed, we will always make more troops available," Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan said.

Authorities have asked homeowners in many of the at-risk areas to evacuate while the roads are still usable.


Comment: Meanwhile in Alberta and Saskatchewan a weekend snowstorm closed highways with drifts of over two feet.

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Abandon ship! Indonesia plans to move capital city as it is slowly sinking underwater


RT
Mon, 29 Apr 2019 15:46 UTC
children playing in Jakarta
© Reuters/BeawihartaChildren playing in Jakarta.
The world's fourth most populous country Indonesia looks set to move its capital city away from flood-prone, sinking and overcrowded Jakarta to elsewhere on the Asian archipelago, according to the country's planning minister.

"The president chose to relocate the capital city to outside of Java, an important decision," Planning Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro said of disputed President Joko Widodo's proposal and campaign promise.

The minister cited examples such as Brazil, Australia and Kazakhstan which all, at one point, moved their capital cities. The official presidential election results are due on May 22 and Widiodo's rival Prabowo Subianto has also claimed victory.
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'We are losing everything': Rising floodwaters hit Mozambique after Cyclone Kenneth


Aljazeera.com
Mon, 29 Apr 2019 08:19 UTC
In Macomia district, Cyclone Kenneth flattened more than 35,000 homes
© Saviano Abreu/ OCHA via AFPIn Macomia district, Cyclone Kenneth flattened more than 35,000 homes

Floodwaters triggered by Cyclone Kenneth's heavy rains rage in parts of Mozambique, causing homes to collapse

Rescuers raced to help people caught in fast-rising floodwaters in Mozambique's cyclone-hit city of Pemba on Sunday, as houses collapsed in one neighbourhood and heavy rain raised fears of worse to come.

More than 160,000 people have been affected in the largely rural region, many left exposed and hungry.

"Help us, we are losing everything!" residents of the northern city shouted at passing cars as the rushing waters flooded their homes. Women and girls with buckets and pots tried to scoop away the torrent. But in vain - the water poured into doorways.

In the worst-affected neighbourhood of Natite, homes have begun to collapse, the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a tweet.

"We are unfortunately expecting devastating floods," it said.

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Best of the Web: Flash-flooding, dust-storms, hailstorms, and even snow: Entire Mid-East & North Africa regions pummeled all month long with extreme weather

Oli Smith
Daily Express, UK
Sun, 21 Apr 2019 14:59 UTC

Comment: The Express story on this concerns one set of events that took place in the MENA regions last week. But as you'll see in the videos below, there have actually been successive waves of extreme weather from Tunisia to Iran, all month long...


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Hail carpets the desert in Saudi Arabia, April 3rd 2019
A bizarre freak weather phenomenon has struck the Middle East, unleashing heavy snowfall, extreme floods and "apocalyptic" dust storms.

The mysterious and extreme weather has caused bizarre 'ice floods' to sweep across deserts in Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates. The freezing plunge in temperatures has perplexed meteorologists in a region that is typically basking in scorching sunshine at this time of year. Last week, several parts of Tunisia were hit by snow and torrential rainfall, causing fatalities.

Floods and colder temperatures were felt throughout the Levant, as rain led to severe flooding in Riyadh, and hail, thunderstorms, and flash floods struck the UAE.


At the same time, nearly one hundred villages have been evacuated in Iran due to an extreme rainfall deluge and subsequent flash floods.

Large parts of Saudi Arabia have been submerged in snowfall, sparking wonder amaze local residents and concern among scientists.

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A Book Review - Prehistory Decoded


Cosmic Tusk
Thu, 25 Apr 2019 01:13 UTC
Gobekli Tepe
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Any follower of Catastrophism the last few years has seen extraordinary confirmations of ancient cataclysm and novel contributions to our way of thinking. To the Tusk, three revelations have characterized the period: The discovery of an extraordinarily youthful late Pleistocene crater in Greenland; a series of popular, comprehensive and unrefuted major journal articles which exquisitely defined hard evidence for the Younger Dryas impact catastrophe; and the singular contribution of Dr. Martin Sweatman, as made in his fabulous book, Prehistory Decoded.

Dr. Sweatman has done our planet and history a tremendous favor by writing Prehistory Decoded. By employing the hard science of probability, he has managed to demystify the world's very earliest and most mysterious art.

Prehistory Decoded begins by documenting Sweatman's initial discovery, reported worldwide in 2015, of an empirical method for decoding the world's first art using pattern matching and statistics. Guess what? The code is a memorial and date stamp for our favorite subject here: the Younger Dryas Catastrophe, and its associated Taurid meteor traumas.

Sweatman has managed to produce a synthesis explanation for the previously indecipherable succession of artistic animal figures at Gobekeli Tepe in Turkey, Chauvet Cave in France, Lascaux Cave in France, and Çatalhöyük in Turkey, among others. Unsurprisingly to the open minded, the ancient artists are communicating using a universally handy and persistent reference set: Stars. Or, more precisely, the appearance of constellations as adjusted over time according earth's precession.

(Don't you love the internet? One hyperlink and no need to explain all that!)

It seems reasonable then to the Tusk that, if there were a code, someone, somewhere, would break the code soon given the global availability and intense interest in the information. In fact, if I waited much longer without someone cracking it, the Tusk may have become convinced the oldest art is simply stunning cave paintings, and heavy carved rocks, with no relevant common narrative (other than horses are pretty, and moving rocks is cool).
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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Planetary chills in both hemispheres


Adapt 2030
Sat, 27 Apr 2019 18:27 UTC
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20-30 F below normal temperatures invade both hemispheres signaling an early start for the Southern Hemisphere and very late spring for the Northern Hemisphere.

These abnormal temps are pelting the Middle East with rain, floods, hail and new abundant rainfall weather patterns not seen in millennia. US potato crop delayed in NW grow zone with more snow on the way, compressing the planting season into three weeks what they usually do in 2.5 months.


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Comment: Also relevant: 'Water is life': Unexpected rainfall revives Iraq's historic marshlands

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Heavy rain triggers flooding in Jakarta, Indonesia


The Straits Times
Sat, 27 Apr 2019 14:22 UTC
Floods hit residential areas in Pejaten Timur
© Warta Kota/Adhy KelanaFloods hit residential areas in Pejaten Timur subdistrict in Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta on Friday.
Torrential rain triggered flooding in parts of the Indonesian capital on Thursday night, the country's disaster agency said yesterday, forcing the evacuation of residents.

Heavy rain pounded the greater Jakarta area, causing the Ciliwung River to burst its banks and cause flash floods in at least 17 communities.

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5 killed, 9 injured after bus hit by landslide in Kashmir


Times of India
Wed, 24 Apr 2019 17:33 UTC
The mini bus was crossing a muddy patch when it came under debris and rocks.
The mini bus was crossing a muddy patch when it came under debris and rocks.
Five passengers, including three women, were killed and nine others injured when their minibus came under a landslide at a slide-prone stretch of road in J&K's Doda district on Wednesday.

The bus was travelling from Thathri to Gandoh and crossing a muddy stretch when it was hit by a sudden landslide at Piyakul on Thathri-Kilhotraan road. The debris and boulders came crashing in, resulting in the death of five passengers and injuring nine, said SDPO Gandoh Bhallesa Nawaz Khanday.


Comment: Three days earlier another landslide was witnessed damaging several houses in the same district:



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