The climate is shifting due to solar cycles -- NOT CO2. The effects on people, animals, and crops are becoming more pronounced by the day: Kerala, India is underwater after a 100-year flooding Monsoon, and a staggering 45,000 hectares of crops have been devastated. NSW, Aus Winter Wheat at 25% of last year's production. Start growing your own food today.
Another flood has ravaged some FCT communities including Kuruduma and Kobi, killing three persons and destroying houses.
The flood, which followed the heavy downpour that started around 1 p.m. on Monday, inflicted pains and sorrow on residents of the communities who lived along the water channels.
Addressing journalists at Kurudu community on Tuesday in Abuja, a witness, Ezekiel Kacha, said that two children were swept away in Kuruduma community.
Mr Kacha said that a young man in his late 20s and one Uche were carried away by the flood when they were struggling to save properties at Kobi village.
Nigeria's cocoa harvest is threatened by floods and an outbreak of fungal disease as heavy rains fall in the West African country's main growing regions, the cocoa association said.
"It has been raining heavily and nonstop, almost daily since late July," Sayina Riman, president of the Cocoa Association of Nigeria, said by phone from the southeastern cocoa-trading hub of Ikom, where he runs a 112-hectare (276-acre) farm. "Just as flooding is threatening the survival of the cocoa trees, excessive rain is boosting the spread of black pod disease."
A fungus that attacks both pods and trees, black pod spreads fast in damp weather, causing pods to shrivel and turn black while trees whither. The worst-affected southeastern cocoa belt could lose as much as 40 percent of its estimated output of 72,000 metric tons of cocoa beans, according to Riman.
Flood strips Kerala food stocks by one-third, farmers lose Rs 13.57 billion 06.09.2018 views: 192 The day-to-day food needs of 45 million people are in jeopardy as Indian policymakers grapple with the gargantuan devastation in the state of Kerala.
The floods there, dubbed the worst in the past 100 years, has left the state's grocery basket bare by at least one third. Union agriculture secretary Shobhana K Pattanayak has officially confirmed the report that damages in paddy, banana, spices and other crops in Kerala extent to 45,000 hectares.
Comment: Extensive crop damage is occurring all over the planet and it's likely that food shortages will strike a great many people in the near future:
Torrential rain on Saturday saw a flash flood rip through the village of Cebolla, in the Spanish province of Toledo, unfortunately coinciding with the celebration of local fiestas. The waters, which were flowing from the nearby Sangüesa creek, swept away vehicles in their wake, and also flooded basements and buildings, including the local health center.
Locals told Spanish news agency EFE that the flooding is "the worst seen in recent years," given that the creek often overflows around this time of year when there is a major storm, but the conditions are not usually so serious.
In the video above, which was recorded by witnesses, one woman is seen holding on to the outside of a window by the security bars, as the flooding sweeps by.
This weekend saw heavy rain in many parts of Spain, but fortunately, the spectacular flash flood in Cebolla, which has a population of 3,000, left no injuries in its wake.
This undated photo purportedly shows residents gathering at the site of a landslide in Ethiopia's south.
Heavy rains triggered a landslide in southern Ethiopia on Tuesday, killing 12 people and "severely injuring" another four, state-affiliated media said.
The victims were killed when the landslide crushed three houses in the Dawro Zone of the Horn of Africa country's SNNP Province, the Fana Broadcasting Corporation said.
Flooding in the city of Piedras Negras in Coahuila state, northern Mexico on Tuesday, 04 September affected more than 10,000 residents.
According to local authorities, the floods also affected around 2,500 homes. Around 20 people were forced to evacuate and stay in temporary accommodation. Roads in the area also suffered damage. No injuries or fatalities were reported however.
Local Civil Protection said that more than 150mm of rain fell from late Monday 03 September to early Tuesday 04 September. The heavy rain caused the Arroyo (creek) "El Soldado" to break its banks, as well as some surface flooding in the city's streets. The city, with a population of around 250,000 in the wider metro area, is situated on the border with Texas, USA, along the Rio Grande river.There were no reports of the Rio Grande overflowing.
Richard Davies FloodList Wed, 05 Sep 2018 20:53 UTC
Flooding is evident across the town of Kumchon. Water levels have risen along the Ryesong River and tributaries on either side of the town, reaching homes and covering fields
Severe floods have been affecting North and South Hwanghae provinces in North Korea since late August, 2018, according to the UN. Kangwon province has also been affected according to other reports·
"In both (North and South Hwanghae) provinces there are 76 reported deaths, and 75 people missing. Over 9,000 people are displaced and nearly 1,800 residential buildings destroyed or damaged," UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a report (pdf) of 03 September.
Several parts of the country recorded heavy rain from around 28 August, 2018. Kaesong recorded 298 mm of rain in 24 hours to 29 August, 2018. Nampo recorded 191 mm, Sariwon 121 mm, Ryongyon 135 mm and Pyonggang 189 mm during the same period.
Abubakar Ahmadu Maishanu Premium Times Wed, 05 Sep 2018 20:20 UTC
Flooded mini-estate used to illustrate the story
The council chairman, Ringim Local Government Area of Jigawa State, Abdulrashid Ibrahim, said at least seven persons were killed while over 2000 houses and farmlands were destroyed by flood in the state.
The council boss highlighted the incident to journalists on Tuesday in his office at Ringim, after he paid a sympathy visit to the affected communities ravaged by the flood.
He explained that the damage is alarming because the flood is the first of its kind in the area, since 2003.
More than one hundred hectares of farmlands were submerged as the flood damaged farm produces and rendered over forty five thousand farmers and families homeless.
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