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Images of heavy flooding in China


The Economic Times
Wed, 04 Jun 2014 06:23 UTC
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Residents wade through flood water along a street amid heavy rainfalls in Zengcheng, Guangdong province on May 23, 2014.

Flooding in China over the past week has left many dead and many more missing, leaving almost half a million people homeless. The seasonal rains have fallen especially hard on the country's manufacturing hub of Guangdong province near Hong Kong and more recently, on southwest China's Images of heavy flooding in China.

China's worst floods in recent history were in 1998, when 4,150 people died, most of them along the Yangtze River, China's mightiest.

Here is a medley of some of the most astounding images from the floods that has swept southern China.

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Commuters and a pedestrian manoevering their way through floods water in Liling, central China's Hunan province after heavy storms hit the city on May 25, 2014.

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A taxi is trapped by flood water that washed away parts of a road in Pingba county in southwest China's Guizhou province on June 3, 2014.
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Blue Planet

Best of the Web: Signs of change: Video round-up of extreme weather and seismic activity in May 2014

HawkkeyDavis
YouTube
Sun, 01 Jun 2014 08:59 UTC
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Record flooding in the Balkans last month
Large scale disasters continue to strike with regularity, causing catastrophic damage to multiple areas around the globe, and leaving hundreds of thousands of people displaced. Rare, strange, unusually extreme and 'biblical' weather conditions have taken place the past week or so. Also included are some dramatically breathtaking weather events caught on video last month.

Thanks for watching and stay safe! Have a plan in order!

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Bizarro Earth

Unusual flood images as heavy rain pounds İstanbul


Today's Zaman
Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:24 UTC
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Thousands of social media users posted unusual photos of floods in İstanbul as heavy rain wreaked life havoc in Turkey's financial heartland.

Üsküdar and Ümraniye coasts in Anatolian side of İstanbul inundated with water and people were seen walking and vehicles swimming through the water.


Heavy rain also significantly disrupted traffic and daily life in İstanbul.
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Cloud Lightning

4,000 houses are flooded and 7,600 people evacuated in Siberia after 4 days' worth of excessive precipitation


The Voice of Russia
Sat, 31 May 2014 13:45 UTC
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An emergency situation regime has been issued in the Republic of Altai on Friday over floods caused by excessive precipitation in the past four days, the republic's branch of the Emergencies Ministry told Itar-Tass. Nearly 4,000 residential houses are partially flooded in Siberia, with over 7,600 people evacuated from dangerous areas, said the head of the National Crisis Situation Management Center under Russia's Emergencies Ministry, Oleg Voronov.

Rescue teams of the Russian Emergencies Ministry (EMERCOM) and local authorities have organised evacuation of the population from flooded houses with 119 people taken to temporary shelters and 406 housed at their relatives'.

"The floods have destroyed 12 bridges - seven for vehicles and five for pedestrians, thus transport communication with eleven villages has been disrupted," the EMERCOM said.
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Cloud Precipitation

Images of Altruism: Risking lives to save animals from Balkans floods


RT
Sat, 24 May 2014 00:00 UTC
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© AFP/Andrej IsakovicA Serbian emergency services worker evacuates a dog from floodwaters in the town of Obrenovac, 40 kilometers west of Belgrade, on May 16, 2014
Unprecedented floods have raged across the Balkans affecting over a million people. Fleeing in panic, in packed boats and trucks, many owners could not bring their animals along - but others courageously risked their own lives to save beloved pets.


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Cloud Lightning

Floods wipe out entire towns in Balkans


Newsweek
Wed, 21 May 2014 12:35 UTC
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© Andrej Isakovic/AFP/Getty Flooding and landslides destroyed homes in Krupanj, Serbia. At least 49 people have been killed already by the worst floods in central Europe for a century.
Serbia on Tuesday declared three days of national mourning and reported another death in the worst rainfall to hit the Balkan region in living memory, even as the rising River Sava threatened more havoc.

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said the death toll in the town of Obrenovac, southwest of Belgrade, alone had reached 14.

At least 40 people have died in Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia, after days of the heaviest rainfall since records began 120 years ago caused rivers to burst their banks and triggered hundreds of landslides.

On Serbia's border with Bosnia, the mayor of Mali Zvornik said an "entire hill" was threatening to slide into the River Drina and flood the town and neighbouring Zvornik. Obrenovac was almost deserted, evacuated by police and soldiers on fears of a new flood wave.

In northern Bosnia, the Sava broke sandbag defences overnight and flooded several villages near the town of Orasje.

The government in Bosnia says more than 1 million people, or a quarter of the population, have been affected by the flooding and landslides, comparing the destruction to that of the country's 1992-95 war.

Comment: The floods have been unprecedented since records began almost 120 years ago. Homes have been submerged and many destroyed by landslides. People are worried they not be able to return to their villages.
Balkans floods trigger Bosnia's worst exodus since war - deathtoll rises to at least 47
Bosnia, Serbia hit by worst flooding in 120 years
Bodies pulled from submerged homes, thousands evacuated in Balkans 'worst ever' flooding

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Balkans floods trigger Bosnia's worst exodus since war - deathtoll rises to at least 47

Rusmir Smajilhodzic
AFP
Tue, 20 May 2014 04:59 UTC
Map of flooding in the Balkans
© AFPMap of the southeast European countries hit by deadly flooding
Bosnia said Monday it was witnessing "the biggest exodus" since the 1990s war after the worst floods in a century inundated huge swathes of the Balkans, killing at least 47 people.

Muddy waters from the Sava River have submerged houses, churches, mosques and roads in Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia after record rainfall last week wreaked havoc across the region.

There were fears that dead bodies and animal carcasses could lead to disease outbreaks, while officials warned that 120,000 unexploded mines from the conflicts of the 1990s could be dislodged.

"More than 100,000 people" have been evacuated in Bosnia alone, said Stanko Sliskovic of Bosnia's emergency services, with tens of thousands more displaced in neighbouring countries.

"This is the biggest exodus since the end of the 1992-1995 war," he told AFP.

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Bodies pulled from submerged homes, thousands evacuated in Balkans 'worst ever' flooding

Marko Djurica
Reuters
Sat, 17 May 2014 10:13 UTC
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© Reuters/Marko DjuricaA Serbian army soldier throws candy bars to people as they are evacuated a boat in the flooded town of Obrenovac, east from Belgrade, May 17, 2014
Seven bodies were pulled from flooded homes in Bosnia and the army rushed to free hundreds of people stranded in a school in Serbia on Saturday during the worst floods to hit the Balkans in over a century.

Soldiers steered huge amphibious vehicles through streets under 2-3 meters of water in the town of Obrenovac, 30 km (18 miles) southwest of the Serbian capital Belgrade, trying to rescue an estimated 700 people crammed into the top floors of the Jefimija primary school.

"The whole town is under water," a Reuters photographer at the scene said. Up to 70 people at a time scrambled onto the vehicles, mainly women and frightened children.

Others, stranded in flooded homes, climbed from roofs and balconies into small boats to be taken to safety.

Comment: Europe has particularly been flooded since the beginning of the year, as the map below shows:




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Russia sends rescuers to flood-hit Serbia at Serbian request


ITAR-TASS
Fri, 16 May 2014 07:13 UTC
Serbian floods
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The Russian Emergencies Ministry has sent rescuers to flood-hit Serbia, the ministry's spokesman Alexander Drobyshevsky told ITAR-TASS.

At the request of Serbia's authorities, the Russian Emergencies Ministry was sending rescuers of the Tsentrospas airmobile team and the Leader special risk rescue operations center, he said.

An Il-76 plane had already flown out for Serbia, he said. Aboard were more than 70 skilled specialists and high-technological equipment, including diving and other special equipment and motor boats.

The Russian team was equipped with everything necessary for operation in flooded areas and ready to work for more than 15 days, the official noted.

Specialists from the Russian-Serb humanitarian centre in Serbia were also participating in work dealing with flood consequences. Mobile power stations and motor pumps from the centre were provided for flood-hit areas, Drobyshevsky said.

Serbian authorities declared a state of emergency in the country on Thursday in connection with the flood caused by continuing heavy rains. The emergency team is headed by Prime Minister Alexander Vucic, who has described the situation as a disaster.

Overflowing rivers have flooded houses and farming fields, destroyed roads and caused landslides. The flood has killed two people, and two are missing. Weather forecasters say it will continue raining for at least a day longer.
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Best of the Web: Signs of change: Extreme weather, seismic activity, and meteor fireballs in April and early May 2014

HawkkeyDavis
YouTube
Wed, 14 May 2014 07:33 UTC
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The uptick in earthquake activity continues all along the Ring of Fire. At the center of these changes, the United States dealt with "historic flooding" which was labelled a "one-in-500-year event"!

So much more has taken place over the last month or so than this video shows. Deluges continue to hit heavily populated areas. Be prepared for large-scale disasters in your area. It has and it will continue to worsen, whether we like or not. Stay safe and thanks for watching!

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