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5 killed by floods in Kampala, Uganda

Juliet Norah
communalnews.com
Mon, 16 Dec 2019 10:41 UTC
Red Cross volunteers are assisting with relief and recovery efforts in Uganda
© UGANDA RED CROSSRed Cross volunteers are assisting with relief and recovery efforts in Uganda
Five people were killed by floods in Kampala, Uganda over the weekend, among them a marine officer on a rescue mission. Kampala Metropolitan Deputy Police spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire said that the body of the marine police officer, Sgt Godfrey Mwondha an officer with Uganda Police Force, was found in Mbuuya Katoongo swamp which is often used as a washing bay.

Police said that Mwondha was trying to save a person named Ssekitoleko of Biwologoma, Kira Division who was drowning. The bodies of the two were retrieved on Sunday morning in Nakawa Division in Kampala. The third person was a woman identified as Joweria Tumusiime, a resident of Zana Lufuka, who was also washed away by the raging flood waters. She worked with Nippon cleaning services. The bodies of the three were taken to city mortuary awaiting post mortem.

Comment: Floods kill at least 12 people in western Uganda as country is battered by torrential rain

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Two major floods wiped out several medieval Indian dynasties: Study

Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey
Times of India
Mon, 16 Dec 2019 14:52 UTC
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Two major floods caused by monsoon pattern anomalies, which inundated large parts of the subcontinent approximately 800 and 700 years ago, might have wiped out powerful dynasties across what is now known as India.

Startling evidence of this has been unearthed by a group of geology experts from IIT Kharagpur.

The group's findings, published in Elsevier, a reputable Dutch journal specialising in scientific, technical and medical content, has stunned historians and archaeologists.

The findings are based on years of study of oxygen isotopes on ancient stalagmites of Meghalaya's Wah Shikar caves. Oxygen isotopes are pointers to the traces that are left behind by precipitation or rainfall over a time-period, called time slide by scientists.
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At least 24 people killed by landslide after heavy rain in DR Congo


Floodlist
Mon, 16 Dec 2019 10:42 UTC
Artisanal mining in the DRC.
© Julien HarneisArtisanal mining in the DRC.
At least 24 people have died after a landslide buried a mine in Ituri province, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo).

Ituri province is in the far north east of the country, close to the border with Uganda, which is also experiencing heavy rain that has triggered deadly landslides over the last few days.

In the DR Congo, the landslide in Ituri province struck on 14 December. According to AFP, the provincial minister of mining said days of heavy rainfall was the main cause of the landslide. Rescuer workers are still searching the area and it is feared the death toll could rise.

Heavy rain since October has caused flooding and landslide across the country, affecting over 600,000 people in 12 of the 26 provinces, according to the UN.

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Two dead, 50 houses covered in mud as flash flood hits Sigi, Indonesia


The Jakarta Post
Sat, 14 Dec 2019 11:39 UTC
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Two died and 50 houses were left covered in mud after a flash flood hit several villages in Kulawi subdistrict in Sigi regency, Central Sulawesi, on Thursday evening.

The disaster occurred at 7 p.m. when most residents were at home and while others were holding a Christmas prayer at a church in the area.

The flood was as a result of a landslide from a mountain located in Bolapapu, a village in Kulawi located next to forests. Heavy rain for days caused the landslide, which directly hit the village.

The disaster killed a father and his daughter who were stuck in their house when the flood hit. The mother of the family was able to survive as she was not in the house.

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Two dead, hundreds of thousands of homes without power as powerful storm hits southwestern France


CNA
Sat, 14 Dec 2019 13:10 UTC
Floods in Maubourguet, south western France
© AFP/LAURENT DARDA man walks through a flooded street following heavy rains that led to the flood of the Adour and Echez rivers on Dec 14, 2019 in Maubourguet, south western France.
Two pensioners have been killed and tens of thousand of homes left without electricity as gale force winds and flooding hit southwestern France.


Comment: Winds reached 160kms/hr! And this wasn't even a named storm; just a sudden plunge in air pressure off France's Atlantic coast.


Eleven departments remained on orange alert weather warnings late Saturday.

A 70-year-old man died in the Pyrenees-Atlantique in the Basque Country on Friday when his vehicle struck a fallen tree.

In Espiens in the Lot-et-Garonne region a 76-year-old man was swept away by rising waters when he went out to fetch his mail on Friday.

Rescuers found his body 24 hours later more than a kilometre from his home.


Comment: This weather event seems to have received little coverage in anglophone media. It was quite something: it raged for almost 48 hours, brought rivers to near-record levels, and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes.

Less than a month ago, by the way, storms in France, Greece and Italy caused 'biblical' destruction.

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Ice Age Farmer Report: IT IS BEGUN: Corn shortage Brazil - Food scarcity means submit to Greta


Ice Age Farmer
Sat, 14 Dec 2019 14:41 UTC
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Brazil meatpackers warn of corn shortages in 2020 -- this is unlike greens or vegetables, as corn is a STAPLE for people and livestock -- and Christian warns that the global warming agenda is shifting: as the world's food supply is destroyed, they will scream "CO2" and push through the totalitarian agenda, holding the world hostage. Spread the word and start growing food.


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Floods wreak havoc in 22 ar­eas across south Trinidad

Radhica De Silva
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
Tue, 10 Dec 2019 19:29 UTC
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Schools and busi­ness­es re­mained closed and scores of peo­ple could not get to work as ris­ing flood­wa­ters, ex­ac­er­bat­ed by high tide, trig­gered mas­sive flood­ing in 22 ar­eas across South Trinidad yes­ter­day.

Among the schools closed were Shi­va Boys Col­lege, Debe Hin­du School, Bar­rack­pore East, and West Sec­ondary and Ra­mai Trace Hin­du School.

The floods cov­ered most of Clarke Road, Pe­nal Rock Road, Der­rick Road, Lal­be­har­ry Trace, Pa­pourie Road, Low­er Bar­rack­pore, Has­sanali Trace, Clarke Road, Kat­wa­roo Trace, Dig­i­ty Trace, Batchya, Lal­too Trace, Mo­hess Road, Ramd­har­ry Trace, Ali Av­enue and Com­mu­ni­ty Street in Pe­nal.

Late yes­ter­day, Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Kaz­im Ho­sein said the Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment Units of the Cor­po­ra­tion were ac­ti­vat­ed and over 600 Com­mu­ni­ty Emer­gency Re­sponse Team (CERT) vol­un­teers, trained this year, were on stand­by to as­sist in their com­mu­ni­ties.

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Freak Brisbane storm dumps half a year's worth of rain in ONE HOUR

Kylie Stevens
Daily Mail Australia
Thu, 12 Dec 2019 00:06 UTC
Brisbane flash floods
© NineSome Brisbane streets turned into rivers as almost 135mm of rain was dumped in the city's east
Brisbane has copped a badly needed drenching from a a wild storm that triggered flash flooding and left thousands of homes without power.

More than 100mm of rain in just over an hour was dumped on the Queensland capital on Wednesday night.

Brisbane recorded one of its highest 24-hour rainfall total in two decades, the amount equivalent to what Brisbane had seen in the previous six months.

The Bureau of Meteorology described the wild weather as a very dangerous storm with extremely intense rainfall.

Up to 3,000 lightning strikes recorded in the state's south-east.

East Brisbane recorded 135mm while the CBD weather station received 130.4mm.

Almost 2,000 homes lost power during the freak storm, with 400 still in a blackout on Wednesday morning, according to Energex.

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Thousands hit by floods in Nariño Department, Colombia


Floodlist
Tue, 10 Dec 2019 19:28 UTC
Flooding along the Telembí River in the municipality of Barbacoas, Nariño Department.
© UNGRDFlooding along the Telembí River in the municipality of Barbacoas, Nariño Department.
Around 6,000 people have been affected by flooding from the overflowing Telembí River in the municipality of Barbacoas, Nariño Department in Colombia.

Flooding began around 06 December 2019, according to Colombia's National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD). No fatalities have been reported. UNGRD have distributed relief supplies to affected families.

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Heavy rain causes floods, paralyzes Lebanon's capital Beirut


The Weather Channel
Tue, 10 Dec 2019 13:20 UTC
Heavy rain causes floods, paralyzes Lebanon's capital
Heavy rain causes floods, paralyzes Lebanon's capital
Heavy rain triggered flooding that paralyzed Lebanon's capital Beirut on Monday, stranding drivers and damaging some homes.

The storms, which began Sunday morning, impacted the entire country but hit Beirut and its suburbs the hardest.

Motorists were stranded in the southern suburb of Ouzai after vehicles became submerged in the floodwaters. When pumps used to clear water from a tunnel under Rafik Hariri International Airport stopped working, authorities closed the tunnel for hours.

A man was seen using a surfboard to pass through the tunnel, while in other parts of the city some residents used small boats to get around.

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