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5 killed by landslide in southeastern Bangladesh after heavy rains; 8 inches in 24 hours


Gulf News
Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:57 UTC
Locals look for survivors after a landslide hit a building in Lighthouse Para of Cox's Bazar early yesterday. Two people were killed and two others injured in the incident.
© Anvil Chakma,Locals look for survivors after a landslide hit a building in Lighthouse Para of Cox's Bazar early yesterday. Two people were killed and two others injured in the incident.
Two children were among five people killed after heavy rains triggered a mudslide in southeastern Bangladesh yesterday, officials said.

Five others were also injured in two separate incidents in Cox's Bazar district, said Abdul Malek, deputy assistant director of the district's fire service and civil defence.

The incidents took place at around 3am (2100 GMT Monday). Four were buried by a mass of mud, while the fifth victim died when a wall collapsed on her, Malek said.

The coastal district of Cox's Bazar has received some 20cm of rain in the last 24 hours.

Landslides have been occurring in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, combining three hilly districts of Bangladesh including Cox's Bazar since June.

Officials say incidences of landslides continue to strike unabated as people live in dangerous conditions due to lack of relief and rehabilitation policies.
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Storms bring flooding across Germany


The Local Germany
Wed, 26 Jul 2017 09:40 UTC
Floods in Hildesheim, Germany
© DPAWater levels rise in Hildesheim, Germany
As storms continue to batter much of the country on Wednesday, one woman has gone missing, one town has raised the official disaster alert, and another town is considering partial evacuation due to the weather.

A 69-year-old woman in Wernigerode, Saxony-Anhalt has disappeared amid heavy rains near a river by her home, police reported on Wednesday. Authorities said it could be possible that she fell into the river on Tuesday, as the water level there has greatly increased.

The district of Goslar in the Harz mountain region of Lower Saxony also on Wednesday officially sounded the disaster alert due to flooding caused by rainstorms in the area.

In the small town of Bad Harzburg, the train station has been blocked off due to the tracks being underwater. The water level on many streets there also reached at least 20 centimetres high. Around 350 firefighters have been working there, and police are calling for more backup.

In the city of Goslar, serious flooding in the streets - as pictured below - has also largely blocked off the city centre, and a hotel as well as a senior centre have been evacuated.

According to the German Weather Service (DWD), the amount of rain so far this week in the Harz area has in some places reached or even surpassed the level of precipitation typical for the whole month of July.

Meanwhile on the Baltic Sea island of Rügen, two vacationers sustained life-threatening injuries in a car accident, which police suspect was caused by the heavy rain.
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At least 7 inches of rain falls in Kansas City causing serious flash flooding


kmbc.com
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 19:23 UTC
flooding
At least 7 inches of rain fell over parts of the Kansas City metro early Thursday causing serious flash flooding.

One of the hardest hit areas was near 103rd Street between Wornall and State Line roads. Water covered 103rd Street and flooded some businesses in the area.

Two people were rescued from Coach's Bar & Grill after flooding swamped the area.

One of Coach's owners, Brian Darby, said in a phone interview with KMBC that one of the walls at the bar collapsed due to the force of the water. Darby said he and a woman were checking the business because of the heavy rain when they became trapped.

The pair climbed into the rafters at the business, clinging to water pipes, awaiting rescue.

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Flood leaves 6 dead, 3 missing in Shaanxi Province, China

Mengjie
Xinhua
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 19:04 UTC
Photo taken on July 27, 2017 shows damaged cars after a flood in Suide county of Yulin city, northwest China's Shaanxi Province. Six people are reported dead in a rain-triggered flood, local authorities said.
© Xinhua/Zhang BowenPhoto taken on July 27, 2017 shows damaged cars after a flood in Suide county of Yulin city, northwest China's Shaanxi Province. Six people are reported dead in a rain-triggered flood, local authorities said.
A rain-triggered flood has left six dead and three missing in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, local authorities said Thursday.

More than 71,300 people have been relocated after torrential rain battered the city of Yulin from Tuesday evening, according to the provincial flood control headquarters.

Water burst out of the Qingshuigou Reservoir, a water source for 45,000 residents in the county seat of Zizhou, on Wednesday, disrupting water supply, according to the headquarters.

More than 2,200 hectares of crop fields were damaged, and direct economic losses will exceed 230 million yuan (around 34 million U.S. dollars).

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Major flood damage following heavy local rainshowers in Western Norway

Pieter Wijnen
Norway Today
Mon, 24 Jul 2017 17:53 UTC
Large rainfall leads to flooding in Reed in Gloppen municipality in Sogn og Fjordane and several other places in southern Norway.
© Runar SandnesLarge rainfall leads to flooding in Reed in Gloppen municipality in Sogn og Fjordane and several other places in southern Norway.
The storm that hit several places in Norway in night before Monday continues into Tuesday. 50 evacuated in Utvik in Sogn og Fjordane do not know when they will be able to return home.

- The critical phase is over, but there is still high water flow in the rivers in Utvik, says CEO in the West Police District, Odd Arve Solvåg, to NTB.

Several places in Nordfjord in Sogn og Fjordane are hard hit by the rainy weather that started Sunday evening. The showers will continue for several days to come.

- The worst is over, and it becomes ever-decreasing activity by the powerful showers, reassures meteorologist Mariann Foss at the Meteorological Institute.

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Flood fury hits Rajasthan and Gujarat, India


Hindustan Times
Tue, 25 Jul 2017 18:09 UTC
Rescue work is carried out after a jeep was swept away by floods in Kherwada area of Udaipur district on Monday.
© PTIRescue work is carried out after a jeep was swept away by floods in Kherwada area of Udaipur district on Monday.
Flood waters swept across several places in the country on Monday, killing two in Rajasthan and forcing Gujarat to declare a high alert.

In an upside, the situation in flood-ravaged Assam improved considerably as the swollen Brahmaputra and Barak rivers, along with their tributaries, started flowing below the danger mark at most places.

In West Bengal, lowlands in Birbhum, Purulia, West Medinipore and Hooghly districts were inundated.

With the meteorological department predicting more rains in the Gangetic region of the state in the next 24 hours, chief minister Mamata Banerjee held a monitoring meeting with senior officials at the secretariat this afternoon.

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Myanmar floods kill two, more than 100,000 people displaced


Channel NewsAsia
Mon, 24 Jul 2017 15:55 UTC
Myanmar flooding
Myanmar flooding
Flooding across large parts of Myanmar has displaced more than 100,000 people, causing two deaths, while dramatic riverbank erosion has washed away a Buddhist pagoda, officials, residents and state media said on Monday.

Water levels have risen steadily since unrelenting monsoon rain began to lash the heart of the Southeast Asian country in early July, driving some people to higher land or seek shelter in Buddhist monasteries, a disaster relief official said.

"The situation is under control, but what happens now will depend on the weather," Ko Ko Naing, director general of the ministry of social welfare, relief and resettlement, told Reuters.

"We are prepared to support the flood-hit areas because flooding happens every year."

The government has provided food and other assistance to a total of 116,817 displaced people by Monday, as well as longer-term shelter for those outside settlements where flood waters are not expected to subside immediately, he said.

One man drowned in the floods in the Sagaing region and another was swept away while crossing a stream in Chin state, said a resettlement official in the ministry, Kay Thwe Win.

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Extreme rainfall: Over 4 inches falls within 1 hour flooding Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Matthew Cappucci
Washington Post
Mon, 24 Jul 2017 13:28 UTC
Harrisburg rain
© WeatherBell.comHRRR model estimate of total precipitable water, an indicator of atmospheric moisture, at 7 p.m. Sunday.
When it rains, it pours! Just ask residents living just outside Harrisburg, Pa., where a quick-hitting but exceptionally intense downpour dumped an unbelievable amount of rain.

In a single hour, just before 7 p.m., the atmosphere unloaded 4.27 inches at Harrisburg International Airport in Middletown, Pa. Over an inch came down in a mere 10 minutes between 6:15 and 6:25 p.m.


Harrisburg's chance of getting even 3.5 inches in an hour was just 0.1 percent, much less over four inches, tweeted meteorologist Alex Lamers.

In all, 4.71 inches of rain fell Sunday, shattering records for the date and ranking as one of the top five daily rain totals ever recorded in the Harrisburg area.
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Evacuation orders and advisories to 120,000 after record-breaking rain hits Akita, Japan


The Japan Times
Sun, 23 Jul 2017 12:52 UTC
Floods in Akita, Japan
© KYODOA man rides his bicycle through floodwaters in the city of Akita on Sunday.
Roughly 120,000 Akita Prefecture residents were ordered or advised to evacuate on Sunday as the risk of flooding and landslides rose following torrential rain in Tohoku, authorities said.

No injuries have been reported so far.

On Sunday afternoon, the Meteorological Agency warned of more flooding as an active rain front that brought record rainfall to parts of Akita decided to park itself over the Tohoku region.

The cities of Yurihonjo, Daisen and Senboku, as well as the town of Misato, collectively ordered 24,000 residents to evacuate after it was reported that houses had been flooded and landslides had struck various parts of Akita, local officials said.

Another 96,000 people in six cities and three towns in the prefecture on the coast of the Sea of Japan were issued evacuation advisories and urged to prepare for floods and landslides, the officials said.

The storm caused flooding along stretches of the Omono River, while several other rivers were deemed at risk of overflowing their banks.


Comment: Earlier this month floods in Japan killed 20 people after 'unprecedented' rainfall.

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Pearl City, Illinois, fighting through fourth '100-year flood' in 14 years

Paige Allen
kwqc.com
Sat, 22 Jul 2017 12:40 UTC
Floodwater in Pearl City
© Tabitha ZuverFloodwater in Pearl City
The little town of Pearl City, Ill. is experiencing what their fire chief is calling a 100-year flood.

"This is probably our fourth 100-year flood in about 14 years," Pearl City Fire Chief Brent Schneider told KWQC.

He says that current flood waters are about a foot above the level they reached in 2010, and the flood has yet to crest.

All roads in and out of the town from the North, East, and West are impassable. Schneider says that though there are a few roads to the South that are usable, all but one are still difficult to navigate.
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