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Hundreds flee rising floodwaters in North Island, New Zealand

Charlotte Curd
stuff.co.nz
Sun, 21 Jun 2015 09:54 UTC
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© Warwick Smith/ Fairfax NZThe Whangaehu River in flood.
A hundred people have been evacuated from Waitotara - likely the south Taranaki village's entire population - after flooding engulfed the remote town.

Waitotara is located about 30 kilometres north of Whanganui. It has sixty houses and sits on the Waitotara River, which flooded in the heavy rain over the weekend.

Residents were not able to return to their homes on Sunday, as flood waters were still high, Civil Defence said. Some residents were asked to evacuate, while others self-evacuated. Many went to the nearby town of Waverley.

A state of emergency remains in place for Taranaki, Whanganui and Rangitikei.

More than 200 people were evacuated from areas near the Whanganui River, which reached record levels of 9.1 metres at Town Bridge at 3am on Sunday. Many more people had self-evacuated.

About 100 flood affected homes on the city's Anzac Parade could be inaccessible until Tuesday because of the high waters, the Ministry of Civil Defence said.

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Swim to your car, it's 'normal'! Downpour turns roads to rivers in Russian cities (VIDEOS, PHOTOS)


RT
Sat, 20 Jun 2015 21:39 UTC
floods in Russia
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Several Russian cities, including Moscow and Kursk, were partly flooded on Saturday. While streets turned into "rivers" as sewer systems failed to cope with the torrents of water, local authorities said that everything was "normal."


The city of Kursk in Russia's southwest was flooded on Saturday, after heavy rain hit the city of some 430,000 people. Residents said the rain was the worst so far this year.


The low-lying center of the city was reported to have been affected the worst.

Residents took to social media, posting videos and photographs of roads that had literally turned into rivers in some parts of the city.
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6 inches of rain in 3 hours floods Edinburg, Texas

Sky Chadde and Jared Taylor
The Monitor
Fri, 19 Jun 2015 20:31 UTC
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© Veronica Christine SalinasFloodwaters cover Cano Street and Eighth Avenue in Edinburg after heavy rainfall June 19, 2015.
Felipe Ayala Jr. said he was cooking hot dogs Friday afternoon when the water started seeping through the walls.

More floodwater crept onto the floor. And when he opened the door, brown water and garbage spilled in.

"It was like a swamp," the 42-year-old said at an emergency shelter Friday evening. "There was trash everywhere."

Ayala has lived at the house along Cypress Drive in a neighborhood just south of Iowa Road in Edinburg for about the past two weeks — a period with several days of localized torrential rainfall that seemingly reached a new apogee Friday afternoon.

As much as six inches fell in less than three hours, prompting evacuations and road closures in east Edinburg and the surrounding colonias, including San Carlos, where the Federal Emergency Management Agency had been set to survey already damaged properties.
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Floods overwhelm major streets in Lagos, Nigeria

Jola Sotubo
pulse.ng
Sat, 20 Jun 2015 20:15 UTC
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Flooding in Lagos
Motorists are finding it hard to navigate their way due to the water level and pedestrians are unable to pass unaided.

Major streets in Lagos State are now flooded due to the heavy rain which fell today, June 20, 2015.

Motorists are finding it hard to navigate their way due to the water level and pedestrians are unable to pass unaided.

The affected areas include Lekki, Ajah, Oshodi, Iju, Opebi, Agege and Ikorodu among others.

Floods are a constant problem in Lagos leading the state government to provide a free phone line, 08099183777, for residents to report flooding incidents in their respective areas.

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Heavy rainfall and high tide combine to flood Mumbai, India; 12 inches of rain in 24 hours

Richard Davies
floodlist.com
Fri, 19 Jun 2015 19:49 UTC
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© Khozema AgarwalaMumbai Floods, 19 June 2015.
Heavy monsoon rain in Mumbai, India, has brought wide areas of the city to a standstill.

Roads have been blocked, rail services interrupted and flights delayed. Some power generating plants have been shut down by Mumbai electricity board after flooding was considered to pose a danger. Many schools have also been closed for the day.

Many areas have seen over 150 mm of rain fall in the last 24 hours. According to WMO, as much as 310 mm of rain was recorded in the last 24 hours in Santacruz, Mumbai. India Meteorological Department (IMD) report that some Mumbai suburbs received 283.4 mm of rain while south Mumbai recorded 208.8 mm rain between in 24 hours between Thursday and Friday.

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There was heavy water-logging in the areas under the Sion Bridge

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Flash floods hit much of China, sweeping away homes


euronews.com
Thu, 18 Jun 2015 08:56 UTC
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House washed away in China floods
Torrential rains made a surprise visit to most parts of China on Wednesday, causing severe damage to infrastructures and disrupting road traffic in many cities and regions. In Yingshan County, in the central Hubei Province, downpours led to severe flooding in crop fields and some neighbourhoods. A home near a swollen river was washed away by a flood.

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Southern Bulgaria submerged in floods after torrential rains


novinite.com
Thu, 18 Jun 2015 08:47 UTC
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© BGNES Flooding in Bulgaria
Hundreds of houses have been affected and many hectares of crops have been destroyed by torrential rains and hailstorms in Bulgaria's south.

Belozem, a village near Bulgaria's second-biggest city Plovdiv, has been left almost completely sumberged in water, private national NOVA TV channel says.

In the nearby region of Haskovo, to the east, the hail took by surprise residents who seldom see any rain falling.

In Plovdiv itself, many streets and boulevards were left under water for some time.

The nearby Tundzha, Arda and Maritsa rivers are swelling. Authorities are trying to prevent any incidents related to a potential overflowing of dams located in the immediate vicinity (Kardzhali, Studen Kladenets, and Ivaylovgrad).

Last year's floods and torrential rains caused the death of more than 13 people across Bulgaria and destroyed property worth hundreds of millions.
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Sudden downpour causes floods on Metro Manila streets


gmanetwork
Wed, 17 Jun 2015 15:05 UTC
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© Teresa Andrada Motorists navigate through a flooded portion of Scout Chuatoco Street in Quezon City on Wednesday, June 17, as thunderstorm dumps rain in many parts of Metro Manila.
Several roads in Metro Manila were flooded Wednesday afternoon after a thunderstorm brought heavy rain in the National Capital Region and nearby provinces.

Tweets posted by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) said MacArthur Highway in Valuenzuela is not passable to all types of vehicles as of 4:30 p.m.

Gutter-deep flood, meanwhile, was reported on the loading bays along EDSA Aurora and Farmers Market, but all lanes are passable.

In Scout Lozano corner Tomas Morato in Quezon City, floods reached waist level.

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© Jam SisanteFloodwater in Manila
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16,000 pigs drowned after monster rainstorms in China

Daniel Miller and Edward Chow
Daily Mail, UK
Wed, 17 Jun 2015 14:33 UTC
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Catastrophe: Some farmers in the region were able to get their livestock to safety, but at the pig farm in Dahua Yao the water rose too fast
Thousands of pig carcasses have been washed up on farmland in southern China after days of continuous and torrential rain sparked devastating flash floods.

Health and safety authorities in south China's Guangxi region are removing and sterilizing an estimated 16,000 pig carcasses after filthy, algae-filled floodwater swamped the large farm, drowning most of its animal inhabitants, according to People's Daily Online.

The pig farm is situated in a valley in the autonomous county of Dahua Yao walled by steep mountains on either side which caused the water levels to rise rapidly following the relentless downpour.

Pictures of the remote valley with the farm buildings flooded have been quickly shared on Chinese social media showing thousands of pig carcasses floating among the rubbish and debris.


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Aftermath: A total of 16,000 pigs drowned at the farm in south China's Guangxi region after heavy rainstorms caused devastating flooding
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Over 370,000 impacted by floods in Assam, situation worsens


The Citizen (India)
Sun, 14 Jun 2015 14:32 UTC
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Flood situation in the state is grim
With one more death, the floods in Assam have taken a total of three lives till now, the flood situation in the state has deteriorated. The number of affected have reached to 3.7 lakh ( 370,000) albeit it had come down to 2. 1 lakh on Friday. The rivers continue to flow above the danger mark, villages remain inundated and a total of 16 districts have been hit by the first wave of floods in the state.

According to the flood bulletin of the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) issued Saturday evening, over 1.5 lakh people were newly affected by flood across the state in the past 24 hours.

The heavy rains last evening has deteriorated the situation, particularly in the lower districts of Barpeta, Goalpara and Kamrup The incessant rains, with the onset of the monsoon last week, in Assam has brought with itself floods, devastation and damage. At least 702 villages are marooned, roads and bridges badly damaged and rivers, including the Brahmaputra, are overflowing.


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