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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Snow Los Angeles - Record snow Las Vegas & Flagstaff, Arizona - Floods Brazil


Adapt 2030
Sat, 23 Feb 2019 06:25 UTC
Las Vegas snow
© AP Photo/John LocherA man takes a picture of a small snowman at the "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign along the Las Vegas Strip, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019, in Las Vegas. Las Vegas is getting a rare taste of real winter weather, with significant snowfall across the metro area in the first event of its kind since record keeping started back in 1937.

Snow over the last day in Los Angeles, the last time snow was seen 1962, with new cold record in Santa Barbara. Flagstaff, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada break their all time snow fall records. Sao Paula, Brazil atmospheric compression event and biblical floods blast through the city. More signs the Grand Solar Minimum is intensifying.


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Flash floods and landslides hit south and midwest USA


Floodlist
Fri, 22 Feb 2019 19:17 UTC
A severe landslide occurred in Hawkins County,
© TDOTA severe landslide occurred in Hawkins County, Tennessee, where 1 person died and 1 was injured.
Heavy rain in southern and midwestern states of the USA has caused several landslides and widespread surface flooding.

Local media reported high water rescues after people were stranded in vehicles in Indiana and Alabama. Roads have been closed in parts of Georgia, Alabama and Kentucky after heavy rain caused surface flooding and some landslides.

A major landslide also occurred in Hawkins County, Tennessee, where one person died and another was injured, according to local media reports.

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One dead, one in stable condition after mudslide in Hawkins County, Tennessee


wvlt.tv
Fri, 22 Feb 2019 09:57 UTC
Highway 70 North in Hawkins Co., TN
Highway 70 North in Hawkins Co., TN
A mudslide in Hawkins County has killed one person and injured another.

The Hawkins County Emergency Management Agency director told WVLT News that one person died instantly, while another was transported to a local hospital where, according to WJHL, he is in stable condition.

THP identified the man who died as 62-year-old Steven Lawson, of Jonesborough. Troopers said Lawson was traveling south on State Highway 70 when his Chevy pickup truck left the road when it was washed away by the slide.

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18 trillion gallons of rain in California in February with more on the way

Hannah Fry
Los Angeles Times
Tue, 19 Feb 2019 07:30 UTC
California rain
© Mark Boster / For The TimesOrange County Public Works' Shannon Widor surveys damage where Trabuco Creek overflowed the Trabuco Canyon Road bridge last week.
California has already received an 18-trillion-gallon soaking this month - enough water to fill 27 million Olympic-sized pools - and the state's wild winter isn't over yet.

A series of storms, including a moisture-packed atmospheric river that slammed the state last week, has brought consistent rainfall in February that has reached nearly half the volume of Lake Tahoe.

Los Angeles has received its fair share of the rain, with more than 4 inches falling on the Southland since Feb. 1. San Diego has had more than 10 inches of rain this month, passing its average for the entire winter season, according to the National Weather Service.

The totals are likely to increase this week - though not by much - as another storm rolls into the region Wednesday night. That low pressure system is expected to bring less than a quarter of an inch of precipitation through Thursday, said Lisa Phillips, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard.

Comment: History says California overdue for biblical, catastrophic flooding

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Landslide following a week of heavy rainfall hits illegal Peru mine, kills 7

Sinikka Tarvainen
Western Advocate (Australia)
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 16:14 UTC
Seven people are dead after a landslide hit an illegal mining site in Peru.
Seven people are dead after a landslide hit an illegal mining site in Peru.
A landslide has hit an illegal mining site in southern Peru, killing seven people, local media reports.

The incident occurred in Ituata district, Carabaya province, on Wednesday.

The landslide hit tents where miners were staying. The body of a 50-year-old woman was found, reports said.

Other people remained missing. The reports quoted Aniceto Vilca Peralta, a civil defence official, as saying a total of seven people were killed.

The landslide followed a week of heavy rains.

Source: Australian Associated Press
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26 killed as torrential rain triggers flash flood, roof collapse in Pakistan


The New Indian Express
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 16:03 UTC
Earlier, the Balochistan government issued flood emergency alert to Lasbela and other effected areas and called out the Pakistan Army for the rehabilitation activities.
© Balochistan InsightsEarlier, the Balochistan government issued flood emergency alert to Lasbela and other effected areas and called out the Pakistan Army for the rehabilitation activities.
At least 26 people were killed on Thursday in the incidents of roof collapse and flash floods, triggered by torrential rains that lashed several cities in Pakistan, according to a media report. At least 10 people were killed in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.

Four people, including two children and a woman, were killed in landslide and roof collapse incident in Dir, the Express Tribune reported. Uninterrupted rainfall has flooded the provincial capital Peshawar while flash flood submerged villages near the southwestern town of Lasbella, in Balochistan province, it said.

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Two buried alive in landslide caused by heavy rainfall in Madang, Papua New Guinea

Dorothy Mark
The National (Papua New Guinea)
Tue, 19 Feb 2019 19:02 UTC
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Two people were buried alive in a landslide as heavy rain caused havoc in Madang last week.

Raicoast MP Peter Sapia travelled to Ranara in the Naho Rawa local level government to assess the damage with the disaster office team from Madang.

Madang disaster office director Rudolf Mongallee said heavy rain in the area caused the landslide which buried the two people alive.

It could not be confirmed whether their bodies had been recovered.

He said people living along the Finisterer mountain range has been subjected to landslides.

He warned the villagers to be careful as water coming down the mountains were causing more soil erosion.
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Floods leave 2 dead after record rainfall in Zimbabwe - 8 inches in 24 hours


Floodlist
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 21:13 UTC
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Local media in Zimbawe are reporting that at least 2 people have died in flooding in Chiredzi District in Masvingo Province.

Meteorological Services Department of Zimbabwe (MSD) reported record rainfall of 203 mm in 24 hours, 13 to 14 February, breaking the previous high of 98 mm set in 1977. MSD had issued heavy rainfall warnings for Masvingo, Manicaland, Midlands Provinces and surrounding areas on 12 February.

Around 50 homes have been damaged or destroyed in the floods in Chiredzi, affecting approximately 300 people. The government has started mobilising support for the flood victims according to media reports.

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Jammu-Srinagar highway in India closed after fresh landslides triggered by rain


Times of India
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 20:33 UTC
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After remaining partially open for three days, the strategic Jammu-Srinagar national highway was closed on Friday due to fresh landslides in Ramban-Ramsoo sector.

"Rain has triggered fresh landslides on the highway in Panthal. The operation to remove the debris has started and the highway is likely to be restored for one-way traffic in the afternoon," an traffic department official said.

"There are around 1,700 trucks carrying essential supplies stranded on the highway. Once the highway is restored, only stranded traffic will be allowed to move from Jammu to Srinagar," he said.

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Four missing in Heraklion, Greece after their car swept away by flood


The National Herald (Greece)
Sun, 17 Feb 2019 18:52 UTC
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© AP /Petros Giannakouris
A search operation currently underway in the area of Mires, Heraklion region on Crete, to locate four persons that were passengers in a car that was swept away by flood waters at the passage of Geropotamos.

According to police in the car were three women and a man. The rescue team started searching the area at 01:00 on Sunday.

A strong force of firemen and an army helicopter are searching the area assisted by a drone and a Disasters Special Unit (EMAK) vessel.

Comment: Elsewhere parts of mainland Greece and some of the islands have variously experienced storms, waterspouts, heavy snowfall, a landslide and flash floods over the last few days as the following posts on social media demonstrate:














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