Predicting flash floods For all these reasons, researchers work hard to better predict flash floods and their resulting impacts.
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People should be aware when it can be unsafe to drive through areas affected by flash floods and should plan ahead, treating flash floods like they would other natural disasters like tornadoes.
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Widespread flash floods and mudslides are a threat as well.
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Areas of Virginia and North Carolina are experiencing flash floods.
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Flash floods engulfed Socotra streets, cutting electricity and communication lines.
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Weaknesses in that system were revealed during summer flash floods.
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This is not the park's first tragedy involving flash floods.
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Tornadoes aren't worse than hurricanes or flash floods or wildfires.
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Heavy rainfall and flash floods are possible, the agency added.
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Flash floods depend more on where excessive rainfall is occurring.
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Turns out, there's no one global definition of flash floods.
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"Continuing rains and flash floods are being dealt with," Trump added.
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Areas of Virginia and North Carolina are still experiencing flash floods.
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"These rains could result in life-threatening flash floods and mudslides."
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Flash floods and landslides in May killed at least 122 people.
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Flash floods in the Israeli desert can come with staggering force.
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This rain could cause "life-threatening" flash floods, the NHC said.
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Sometimes they find human corpses — the missing victims of flash floods.
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"This rainfall may cause life-threatening flash floods," NHC forecasters said.
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"This rainfall may cause life-threatening flash floods," NHC forecasters said.
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That means Cali could be hit with flash floods and snow.
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In Malawi, scores died from flash floods that preceded the cyclone.
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A car flipped to its side after flash floods in Ellicott City.
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The drought and flash floods have displaced tens of thousands of people.
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Flash floods engulfed Socotra streets, cutting electricity and communication lines, they said.
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Lightning might start more fires, and the rains could produce flash floods.
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The tiger wasn't the only creature who had fled the flash floods.
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The country has recently been hit by flash floods and heavy downpours.
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Meantime, flash floods have threatened to trigger debris flows in scorched areas.
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In the last four years, the town has experienced five flash floods.
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Flash floods fill bodies of water extremely quickly in an unpredictable manner.
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Flash floods swamped at least two schools in the province of Kalinga.
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"This rainfall may cause life-threatening flash floods," the hurricane center said.
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El Nino has been linked to crop damage, fires and flash floods.
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Heavy rain, flash floods and severe thunderstorms swept over the Australian city.
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Heavy storms mean more flash floods and a change in the environment.
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MARYLAND FLASH FLOODS LEAVE NATIONAL GUARD MEMBER MISSING, GOVERNOR DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY
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It's raining and I'm not excited about pouring/flash floods during rush hour.
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Main Street in Ellicott City was also hit by flash floods in 2016.
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Flash floods destroyed three polling stations, disrupting voting, on Sumatra island, media said.
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Tornadoes are still possible, and flash floods and mudslides are a major concern.
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Imelda slams southeast Texas, bringing flash floods and mandatory evacuations, NBC news reports.
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In 1999 torrential rains caused flash floods that left thousands of people dead.
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Flash floods following huge rain storms also struck other parts of the country.
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"These rains could produce life-threatening flash floods," the NHC said it the advisory.
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"These rains could cause life-threatening flash floods and mud slides," the NHC said.
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At least 20 people were killed by flash floods in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province.
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The National Weather Service is also warning of possible flash floods in the region.
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Many of the deaths in the storm have been people drowning in flash floods.
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Violent storms ravaged the planet; the geologic record indicates flash floods and protracted droughts.
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"This rainfall will likely produce life-threatening flash floods and mudslides," the NHC warned. .
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Flash floods carried dark, ash-filled silt and debris into Denver's reservoirs, clogging them.
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It also said rainfall could produce flash floods in the coastal Carolinas and Georgia.
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My phone has been buzzing for days with alerts about tornadoes and flash floods.
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Season after season, its protected lands are prone to landslides, flash floods and wildfires.
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The rainfall could result in "significant to life-threatening flash floods," the center said.
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Ellicott City, has had significant flash floods before, including some floods in recent years.
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Flash floods killed several people last month, and militants still stage small-scale attacks.
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"If we could move towards an impact-based definition of flash floods, at least the humanitarian community could have a better sense of risk of flash floods, and then get a sense of if the risk is increasing or decreasing," says Kruczkiewicz.
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The flash floods have also claimed the lives of three people and left 19 missing.
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The rains could well result in "life-threatening flash floods and mudslides," the NHC said.
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While the rain is helping firefighting activities, there are concerns about mudflows and flash floods.
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Afghan government officials said hundreds of houses in Herat province were destroyed in flash floods.
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"These rains will be capable of producing life-threatening flash floods and mudslides," it said.
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The rains may cause flash floods and mudslides, especially in mountainous areas, the NHC said.
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In October, heavy rains hit Mallorca, causing flash floods that killed at least 12 people.
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Torrential rains set off landslides and flash floods that displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
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Some, unable to leave, took shelter on their rooftops as flash floods swallowed entire streets.
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Flash floods engulfed a narrow gorge inside Hell's Gate National Park in Kenya on Sunday.
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These conditions include strong winds and rain, which could potentially cause "life-threatening" flash floods.
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Flash floods are serious weather emergencies and are becoming more frequent with extreme weather events.
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That means there could be both an increased risk of droughts and of flash floods.
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Even one of the driest spots in America, Death Valley, has had dangerous flash floods.
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At least 47 people have been killed in the past two weeks from flash floods.
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Beyond flash floods, rivers rising more slowly in places like Iowa have threatened drinking water.
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Water levels could rise by up to nine feet in Puerto Rico, accompanied by flash floods.
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"These rainfall amounts may cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides," the National Hurricane Center said.
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Catastrophic flash flood strikes Maryland Cell phone footage captures the flash floods impacting Ellicott City, Maryland.
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Earlier this week, 12 people were killed in flash floods on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca.
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"This rainfall will produce life-threatening flash floods and mudslides," the National Weather Service said Sunday.
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In some areas, total rainfall exceeded 10 to 15 inches, causing flash-floods and surging rivers.
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"These rains could cause life-threatening flash floods and mud slides," the Miami-based center said.
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"These rains may cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides," the NHC said in its advisory.
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El Nino has been linked to crop damage, fires and flash floods over the past year.
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The rescue operations was suspended on Sunday following flash floods from a nearby river, officials said.
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The storm could produce "life-threatening flash floods along the central Gulf Coast," the agency said.
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More than once my flash floods have knocked down Israel's security barrier around Tulkarm and Jerusalem.
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Rome, home to 2.9 million people, has experienced flash floods, drought and earthquakes in recent years.
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El Nino is a warming of ocean surface temperatures associated with crop damage, fires and flash floods.
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Without water, nothing grows, but too much, from heavy rain and flash floods, can create problems too.
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In some spots, the rainfall could total 20 inches, potentially causing life-threatening flash floods and mudslides.
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Cyclone Mekunu made landfall on the Arabian Peninsula early May 26, causing flash floods and other damage.
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"This rainfall will likely produce life-threatening flash floods and mudslides," the US National Hurricane Center said.
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In Nepal, the death toll from flash floods and landslides rose to 115, with 38 people missing.
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This seems to be the case in Houston, which saw record-breaking flash floods just last year.
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Northern suburbs of the capital were particularly hard hit, though the city center also suffered flash floods.
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The flash floods that have devastated the Russian far east in recent years will become more common.
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Heavy rains and storm-surge waters moving inland could cause life-threatening flash floods, the NHC said.
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Even when told about flash floods that could still be coming their way, residents insisted on staying.
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Rainfall in the Bahamas and the US may cause life-threatening flash floods, the hurricane center said.
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As Hong Kong prepares for Super Typhoon Haima's arrival, the city has been experiencing severe flash floods.
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It is still recovering from flash floods that hit the northeast, affecting millions of people, in April.
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FEMA officials warn of potentially "life-threatening flash floods and mudslides" that could last through the weekend.
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Still, the National Hurricane Center is warning people that the rain could still cause very dangerous flash floods.
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They hope to give people more time to take cover from tornadoes, flash floods and even dust storms.
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"I hope people will listen to forecasters when they say 'beware of flash floods,'" Mayor Joe McComb said.
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Blue shading shows zones forecast to be at risk from flash floods from excessive rain on Sept. 14.
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Flash floods have filled a Maryland main street with water, and the pictures and videos are just apocalyptic.
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Storms and flash floods struck Melbourne over the weekend, and those hostile weather conditions helped contaminate the water.
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Cuba was being pounded by rain along its western coast, raising the threat of flash floods and mudslides.
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Laura Kelly issued a state of emergency for Doniphan County as flash floods wreaked havoc on the community.
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Southeastern Texas is no stranger to flash floods, thanks to an unfortunate combination of geology, geography, and infrastructure.
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More torrents today will increase the danger of flash floods, mudslides, and surges of 7 to 10 feet.
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Flash floods have also ripped through Pakistan and Bangladesh, which border India on the west and east, respectively.
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Hurricane Nate hit Central America as a tropical storm, causing mudslides and flash floods and killing 22 people.
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Besides GLOFs, the new project will address flash floods, another big problem in these mountainous areas, he added.
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Hurricane Dorian continues to wreak havoc with flash floods, tornadoes, and power outages along the southeastern US coast.
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Flash floods and landslides are common in Indonesia, often caused by heavy rain at this time of year.
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Flash floods and landslides in Nepal also triggered by monsoon rains killed 15 people and injured 12 overnight.
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Standard homeowner policies typically don't cover damage from floodwaters resulting from rising tides, flash floods or overflowing streams.
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He explained that decades ago, tourists used to get hurt by flash floods when it rained at Petra.
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Twenty-four people were killed when flash floods hit the town of Mandra west of Athens in Nov.
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Starting almost two weeks ago, large parts of Kerala were devastated as flash floods swept through the state.
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To reach the clinic, he and his wife had hiked through a valley known for dangerous flash floods.
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Many residents of the area had constructed their homes on dry riverbeds that were inundated during flash floods.
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Sayina Riman, president of the Cocoa Association of Nigeria (CAN), said the 2018/19 season has seen flash floods.
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In the neighboring province of Ha Giang flash floods have killed three people, the government's Disaster Management Authority said.
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Many of the deaths involved people drowning in flash floods or water-logged roads, according to The Associated Press.
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Forecasters said that on Sunday the threat of flash floods in Texas would decrease as rains become less intense.
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And although the park's average annual rainfall amounts to approximately two inches, flash floods can quickly transform the landscape.
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Major flash floods are sweeping the Houston area, as storms that began Sunday night continue to batter southeast Texas.
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"This rainfall could lead to life-threatening flash floods and mudslides in areas of mountainous terrain," the NHC said.
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And farther inland, heavy rain pounded the Sierra foothills, the Sierra Star reported, leading to flash floods and evacuations.
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Tropical Storm Karen is expected to bring flash floods, mudslides and heavy rain to the Virgin Islands on Tuesday.
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In March 2019, a cyclone ripped across Mozambique, causing flash floods and severe winds, washing away roads and houses.
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Flash floods have damaged an already fragile landscape, as near hurricane-force winds downed power lines along the coast.
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Rain over the weekend triggered flash floods in several states, including Tennessee, Kentucky, Texas, Oklahoma, North Carolina, and Florida.
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Glacier loss due to climate change has also threatened Sherpa communities with catastrophic landslides, flash floods, and glacial lake outbreaks.
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Areas that never had flash floods will start to experience them, in part because global warming will also increase precipitation.
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But that often leads to inadequate planning for the inevitable storm surges and flash floods that could lead to catastrophes.
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Bell County, Texas, Emergency Manager Michael Harmon said Owl Creek, the area where the vehicle overturned, regularly experiences flash floods.
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Some isolated areas could get up to 10 inches of rain and flash floods are possible, the weather service said.
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A state of emergency was declared in 44 of the state's 55 counties on June 24 after devastating flash floods.
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Heavy downpours caused flash floods throughout West Virginia between June 22 and June 24, devastating homes and killing 23 people.
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The University of Arkansas at Little Rock canceled classes when Coleman Creek, which runs through campus, caused several flash floods.
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Forecasters had warned of heavy rains and the possibility of flash floods in and around Baton Rouge, the state capital.
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Heavy rain this week led to flash floods in areas across northern England causing bridges to collapse and road closures.
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From this data, GOES-R will help experts observe and predict severe weather events—thunderstorms, tornadoes, flash floods, fog, etc.
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At least 53 people are dead in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta after torrential rain triggered landslides and flash floods.
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The hardened, dry ground in more rural areas could not handle the largess, leading to flash floods in some places.
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Many of these areas seeing the downpour of rain could also see life-threatening flash floods, the hurricane center said.
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It's the nation's highest death toll from flash floods since May 21, when 21 people died in Tennessee, Kentucky and Mississippi.
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Rainfall from the hurricane could mean life-threatening flash floods and mudslides, particularly in mountain areas, the National Weather Service said.
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"Northern provinces need to closely monitor the rain and be vigilant to possible landslides and flash floods," the meteorological agency said.
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Flash floods hit Veracruz state Saturday, a result of the now-downgraded tropical depression Earl, local officials said in a statement.
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Rainfall could reach 18 inches in areas of Mexico and Belize, which could result in life-threatening flash floods and mudslides.
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Fourteen family members were near the Cold Springs swimming hole on Saturday afternoon when heavy rains caused flash floods, said Sgt.
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Such a storm can still create flash floods, mudslides, and storm surges which The National Hurricane Center warns are life-threatening.
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In 1991, I saw firsthand the immense devastation on the Philippine island of Leyte after flash floods killed hundreds of people.
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These are the flash floods of outrage which in turn provoke demands that the authorities rein in the would-be censors.
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In San Lorenzo, a 45-minute-drive from San Juan, a bridge over a rushing river was destroyed by flash floods.
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It will cause unnatural disasters like hurricanes, typhoons, wildfires, and flash floods that destroy city infrastructure, destroy people's homes and property.
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This time a rainstorm was coming, and the fear was that the newly charred land would cause flash floods and mudslides.
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Because they were flash floods, and not sustained, some residents were not isolated for long periods and could find alternate routes.
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Flash floods snarled traffic and upended transportation across the New York region, leaving some fire departments overwhelmed by calls for assistance.
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When flash floods hit El Tukuko in October, Father Sandoval and Ms. Moreno handed out emergency kits to the affected families.
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Chenard said the storm system caused heavy rain and thunderstorms with the risk of flash floods in the southeastern United States.
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The National Weather Service warned of further flash floods in the west of the island on Monday as thunderstorms moved in.
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After flash floods in Chennai, India, in December 2015, for example, the police used drones to locate and rescue around 200 people.
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The U.S. National Hurricane Center warned that life-threatening flash floods and mudslides remained possible in affected Central American countries throughout Friday.
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Chitral is in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province, where flash floods killed at least 47 people and left 37 others injured in April.
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Most varieties of rice plants will die if they are completely submerged in water during the flash floods that can follow monsoons.
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Flash floods also hit neighborhoods outside the Camp fire burn area, highlighting the heavy amount of rain in a short time period.
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Some places got as much as 11 inches, and there were flash floods in some areas long unused to so much rain.
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August 18, 2016 With thousands of homes flooded in Louisiana, we're explaining how flash floods appear and what makes them so dangerous.
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Rainfall could be between three to five inches, with seven inches possible in some areas, leading to the risk of flash floods.
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Late Monday and early Tuesday, flash floods swamped Long Island and other New York urban areas drenched by the storm, he said.
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Then, flash floods turned sandy ground to sludge and burst the wadis so only their newly deployed tracked fighting vehicles could cross.
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The flooding comes two weeks after 21 people -- most of them schoolchildren on a field trip -- lost their lives in flash floods.
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When: Officials will send high-priority warnings during tsunamis, blizzards, tornadoes, hurricanes, extreme wind conditions, storm surges, snow squalls and flash floods.
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"It's going to be landslides, flash floods, inundation," said Tommy Thompson, chief of emergency support and response for the World Food Program.
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A drought, flash floods, the trade war and tightening immigration policy have combined to cause an economic crisis for New York farmers.
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After Belzoni discovered it, flash floods turned its lower chambers into a swimming pool, causing many of the bas-reliefs to crack.
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The National Weather Service predicts flash floods, landslide warnings and "prolonged significant river flooding" throughout the Southeast for the next few days.
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Spanish emergency services warned of the possibility of flash floods and urged to motorists to be vigilant in case of strong winds.
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Three people were killed in Bukidnon province, while politicians in Lanao del Sur province said 18 people had drowned in flash floods there.
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"We can expect heavy rain and downpours, flooding and flash floods in the area throughout the night," he warned at a news conference.
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Lacking the ability to deal with heavy rainfall, flash floods have been known to destroy buildings and increase the risk of waterborne disease.
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The tornado was part of a series of powerful thunderstorms, tornadoes and flash floods that have ravaged the Midwest in the past week.
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Rebecca Bunting was found dead Sunday after she was swept away by flash floods while taking photos inside a storm drain, police said.
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After the immediate coastal inundation, rainfall may cause flash floods and in the coming days cause rivers to swell and burst their banks.
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The Associated Press reports that 60 people died as a result of Harvey, most drowning and succumbing to flash floods or inundated roads.
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Officials worry people may try to drive through deep water, or get caught in flash floods on the roadways, if they venture out.
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Michael's deadly trail of devastation stretched from the Florida Panhandle to the Carolinas, where it triggered flash floods that turned roads into rivers.
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Iran's leaders will be forced to decide how to spend dwindling revenues, especially as flash floods and desert locusts besiege the Iranian countryside.
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That would be less than a year after the last El Niño faded, having brought serious crop damage, forest fires and flash floods.
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Maghferat Shah, Chitral district administrator, said some residents were missing after flash floods swamped a local mosque in Drosh town in Upper Chitral.
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The ongoing El Nino, a warming of sea-surface temperatures in the Pacific, has been tied to crop damage, fires and flash floods.
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Authorities will be on alert for flash floods and mudslides amid recovery and clean-up efforts, while Hurricane Jose swirls in the Atlantic.
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At least 13 people have been killed in southwestern France by some of the worst flash floods in a century, local authorities said.
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Eastern Florida can expect up to 8 inches of rain, which may "cause life-threatening flash floods," the NOAA said at 8 a.m.
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Three people were killed in Bukidnon province, while politicians in Lanao del Sur province said seven people had drowned in flash floods there.
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In the Caribbean, people are bracing for Hurricane Matthew, above, to bring flash floods, mudslides and winds up to 140 miles per hour.
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That brings the risk of dangerous flash floods from already bloated rivers across much of the gulf region and Mississippi Valley, he said.
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Arun Michael, a fisherman in Kollam, saw the news of the flash floods on TV on Wednesday last week and decided to help.
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Dorian Speaking of disaster relief, Tropical Storm Dorian is expected to make landfall today in Puerto Rico, bringing with it dangerous flash floods.
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The U.S. National Weather Service said on its website the dam was still in danger of failing and triggering life-threatening flash floods.
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In addition, flash floods can affect areas that are far away from bodies of water, so it's not just coastal and riverine areas.
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A search for more possible victims was under way in the town of Sentani, which was hit by flash floods late on Saturday.
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FREEPORT: Flash floods left one worker missing and damaged a power plant at a facility operated by U.S.-owned miner Freeport in Indonesia.
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Karen is expected to bring heavy rainfall, flash floods and mudslides to the Virgin Islands on Tuesday, according to the National Hurricane Center.
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Chitral is in Pakistan's disaster-prone Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where flash floods killed at least 47 people and left 37 others injured in April.
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Law enforcement officials confirm that Lela Holland, 64, of Washington, Texas, was also died over the weekend as a result of the flash floods.
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Related: Tropical System Could Make Fight Against Zika Harder Meanwhile, heavy rains sparked flash floods and school closures in southwestern Ohio over the weeked.
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Unrelenting rains have brought flash floods and mudslides to southern California — just weeks after thousands of acres in the region were ravaged by wildfires.
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In face of the twin typhoons, provinces in their way have been on high alert for heavy rainfall, storm surges, flash floods and landslides.
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Across the globe, it's as if summer weather is on steroids, with searing heat waves, deadly flash floods, and massive fires affecting many areas.
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The flash floods came with such force that they broke through Israel's separation barrier -- a 10-foot wall of solid concrete -- in two places.
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Thirty-eight tonnes of equipment had to be transported to the remote site by a convoy of trucks amid heavy flash floods , UNHCR said.
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For example, in April the northeastern districts of Sunamganj and Sylhet saw flash floods, while Barind Tract in the northwest was suffering from drought.
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Instead, we were hit with a series of torrential downpours that caused many flash floods, significantly damaging our infrastructure, ecosystem, as well as crops.
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Seven of them were "swept away by the flash floods," the Kenya Wildlife Service said Sunday, adding on Monday that one tourist remains missing.
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Flash floods swept through New York and New Jersey over the last three days, leading to states of emergency and evacuations across the region.
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These scenes played out across New York and New Jersey over the last three days as a series of flash floods hit the region.
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Flash floods were known to be a danger in the cave, and a sign at the entrance warned against entering in the rainy season.
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Thunderstorms, flash floods and tornadoes shortly before the ensemble set out roiled the waters, forcing the state to briefly close the canal's eastern stretch.
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Prashant Ranpise, chief fire officer of the Pune Fire Brigade, said many of the deaths resulted from buildings and walls collapsing during flash floods.
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Farther south, moisture moving in from the Gulf of Mexico will result in heavy rains, thunderstorms and, possibly, flash floods from Louisiana to Ohio.
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He was reportedly drawn to politics after the government's ineffective response to flash floods in the port city of La Guaira, Guaidó's home town.
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Surrounded by mountainous rainforest and with six rivers running through and around it, Mocoa's topography and location make it prone to mudslides and flash floods.
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Fire officials also are worried that rain could cause flash floods in the burn scar, which now has much less vegetation to hold back runoff.
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Four people died in landslides in the city of Sibolga in North Sumatra, while flash floods in West Sumatra killed four more, including two children.
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Twenty-three people were killed after being swept away in devastating flash floods resulting from historic rain in parts of West Virginia on Thursday night.
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Authorities were working to clear downed trees and power lines Friday after a storm brought tornadoes, heavy rain, hail, and flash floods to the Southeast.
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It hit the eastern coast as a hurricane, threatening to bring torrential rains and strong winds to a region prone to flash floods and mudslides.
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Even if Hurricane Lane doesn't make landfall, residents are still being warned of life-threatening conditions, such as treacherous winds, flash floods and possible mudslides.
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The ongoing El Nino, a warming of sea-surface temperatures in the Pacific, has been linked to serious crop damage, forest fires and flash floods.
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In the northern city of Xingtai, three people have been punished for spreading "rumours" online about flash floods there that caused at least 34 deaths.
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Jerusalem (CNN)Ten teenagers on an organized trip died after flash floods swept across Israel and the West Bank, according to Israeli emergency response services.
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The National Hurricane Center has described Maria as "potentially catastrophic," predicting it could cause "life-threatening flash floods and mudslides," The New York Times reported.
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Hurricane Harvey was downgraded to a tropical storm overnight but continues to slam the coast of Texas with heavy rains and flash floods on Sunday.
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Heavy rains have lashed Saudi Arabia for several days, causing severe flash floods throughout the kingdom and at least one death in southern Asir province.
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After Matthew made landfall, it dragged heavy bands of rain across the eastern portion of North Carolina, resulting in heavy inland flooding and flash floods.
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The severity of the flash floods are reminiscent of Hurricane Harvey in 213, which was the last time a named storm hit the Houston area.
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Heavy rains, capable of life-threatening flash floods, are possible over coastal sections of the southeastern United States from Sunday through much of next week.
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Rochefort had to withdraw because of health problems, and the production was routinely disrupted by thunder, flash floods and flyovers from a nearby NATO base.
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The weather service warned of flooding on urban roads, as well as flash floods and mud flows that could hit areas recently ravaged by wildfires.
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The storm's heavy rains — five to 10 inches along the Carolina coast, with 21 inches possible in some spots — could also cause dangerous flash floods.
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A focus on impact One key idea here is that the focus is on how flash floods impact people; it's not solely an academic endeavor.
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Persistent heavy rains this week have caused widespread disruption across South Asia, with at least 68 people killed in Nepal by flash floods and landslides.
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More than 11,500 people were displaced in flash floods and a subsequent landslide in the Sentani area of the provincial capital, Jayapura, earlier this month.
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Officials said the storm was losing speed as it moved inland, but warned that strong winds, storm surges and flash floods were still a danger.
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GULF COAST BRACES FOR IMPACT AS ALBERTO THREATENS FLASH FLOODS Another small business, Taylor Airboats, told FOX35 they had to cancel some bookings over the weekend.
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U.S. forecasters said rain could still cause dangerous flash floods in the coming days in northern Alabama and large areas of Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas.
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Six inches of rainfall was forecast for the area through Saturday, with emergency responders and local residents keeping a watchful eye against flash floods or mudflows.
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The center says Selma is expected to dump heavy rains over El Salvador and parts of Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, threatening possible flash floods and landslides.
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Since the beginning of the rainy season in Somalia in March, riverine and flash floods have caused fatalities, massive displacement and damage to infrastructure and cropland.
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Last month heavy rains triggered flash floods and landslides that killed 24 people in the remote and mountainous northern provinces of Lai Chau and Ha Giang.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Three people were reported missing in Greece on Sunday after swirling winds and torrential rain brought flash floods in several parts of the country.
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Mushimba said in the forecast that Zambia would experience normal to above normal rainfall in the 2017/2018 crop season with flash floods in some areas.
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Last month heavy rains triggered flash floods and landslides which killed 24 people in the remote and mountainous northern provinces of Lai Chau and Ha Giang.
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He urged the commission to include the perspectives of marginalized people living on coasts crumbling into the sea or mountains threatened by landslides and flash floods.
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Disaster authorities have warned provincial officials of the danger of flash floods due to deforestation, said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman of the national disaster mitigation agency.
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LONDON — Flash floods caused by thundery showers have turned a street in southeast London practically into a canal, with three cars completely submerged under a bridge.
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Surrounded by mountainous rainforest and with six rivers running through and around Mocoa, the town's topography and location makes it prone to mudslides and flash floods.
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Longcao (pronounced LONG-tsow) was one of hundreds of villages across Hebei and Henan Provinces that were overwhelmed by flash floods the night of July 19.
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Last month, heavy rains triggered flash floods and landslides which killed 24 people in the remote and mountainous northern provinces of Lai Chau and Ha Giang.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - At least four people died in widespread flash floods caused by heavy rains which lashed Greece overnight, the country's fire brigade said on Wednesday.
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Official forecasts show it will come close enough to produce damaging winds, deadly flash floods from upwards of 2 feet of rain, and pounding "extreme" surf.
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One person was missing after flash floods rampaged on Sunday through the downtown of a Maryland community that was devastated by flooding nearly two years ago.
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That combination makes them far more dangerous than flash floods and means communities need to get smarter about how they collect and store water year-round.
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Indonesia: Flash floods killed at least 30 people and left tens of thousands homeless in flood-prone Jakarta, after the capital's most intense rainfall in decades.
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Members of the Indian government's National Disaster Response Force are working to reach isolated pockets of people after deadly flash floods devastated the region's idyllic countryside.
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On Thursday, at least 11 people died and six were reported missing after the western Indian city of Pune and surroundings were hit by flash floods.
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Tropical Depression Imelda lashed southeast Texas overnight — and the National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center warns it could bring heavy rains and life-threatening flash floods.
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Numerous roads were closed, and authorities warned of the risk of landslides, tornadoes and flash floods, with dams and bridges in peril as rivers and creeks swelled.
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The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office this week identified the 248 killed, citing the cause of death as multiple traumatic injuries resulting from flash floods with mudslides.
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Also residential houses have been destroyed, partly due to a change in rain patterns which has resulted in flash floods over the past three years, says Faye.
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Though rain is typical in the area this time of year, a storm hitting so soon after fire could cause flash floods or mud and debris flows.
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The visitors were taken to safe areas before flash floods inundated parts of the mountainous city famed for its carved rock ruins, government spokeswoman Jumana Ghunaimat said.
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The team also says that each unit is weather-proof and can handle all of Mother Nature's assaults, from blizzards to flash floods to hot summer days.
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More than 25 million people from Louisiana to Virginia were facing a slight risk of severe weather threats Friday like wind damage, flash floods and possible tornadoes.
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A major cleanup is underway, both for the city of New Jersey and for one car dealership that lost most of its inventory in Saturday's flash floods.
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MADRID (Reuters) - At least 10 people including two Britons were killed as heavy rain and flash floods hit the Spanish island of Mallorca, authorities said on Wednesday.
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A torrent of heavy rain spawned flash floods across northern New Jersey on Saturday, sending cars from a dealership down a river and striking a highway overpass.
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The Israeli teenagers were on a group hike in the Tzafit Valley near the southern Dead Sea when severe storms hit the area Thursday, causing flash floods.
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Read more: Hurricane Dorian, again a Category 3 storm, heads for the Carolinas with possible 'life-threatening' flash floods"Everyone was starving," one passenger told CBS4 News.
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But regular flash floods on the nearby Vuna River also wash away trees and soil, he said, pointing to a large downed tree on the river's banks.
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"Life-threatening flash floods and mudslides are likely from this rainfall in southern and northwestern Haiti, the southwestern Dominican Republic, and eastern Cuba," the hurricane center warned.
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The heavy sedimentation means engineers sporadically release large amounts of water to clear out the system, causing flash floods where Carlos Usamá, a sugar cane farmer, lives.
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Disaster officials said many villagers had ignored warnings to leave coastal areas and move away from riverbanks, and got swept away when flash floods and landslides struck.
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"Although the core of Jerry is expected to move north of the northern Leeward Islands, heavy rainfall and flash floods are possible there today," the center said.
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Flash floods and landslides have killed 171 people in the past 11 days but half of those deaths were reported in the past three days, Nambiyar said.
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A separate Farmers report on spring auto insurance claims found that 41 percent of annual claims related to flash floods and rising water occur in those months.
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A state of emergency was declared in Maryland on Sunday as "catastrophic" flash floods and dramatic water rescues unfolded in and around Ellicott City amid heavy rains. Gov.
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The last time witnesses saw Eddison Hermond, he was helping a woman cross the water in the aftermath of the intense flash floods that affected Ellicott City, Maryland.
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An Air Force veteran and current Maryland National Guard member, Eddison Alexander Hermond, 39, was swept away in Sunday's devastating flash floods in Ellicott City, Maryland, officials said.
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River and flash floods caused by Ethiopia's "belg" rains which run from February to April are likely to affect a total of 485,610 people this year, UNOCHA said.
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And in the long run farmers will pay even more dearly: global warming already affects the vital annual monsoon, generating local extremes of flash floods and sudden droughts.
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Trump equates white nationalists to counterprotesters, saying there was violence in Charlottesville coming from "both sides"; flash floods in Sierra Leone kill hundreds; Alabama's special election heats up.
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Murillo, who manages disaster response for international agency World Animal Protection, said flash floods, flying debris and mudslides killed large numbers of animals, including pigs, goats and chickens.
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Authorities were also concerned that the tropical storm could bring mudslides and floods in the wider Athens area, which was recently hit by deadly fires and flash floods.
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KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains have left more than 30 people dead in Nepal in the past 24 hours, authorities said on Saturday.
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For one bride in New Jersey, "something blue" became the uniforms of officers who helped her into a Humvee when her wedding party became stranded in flash floods.
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Towards the back of the cave is a narrow burrow, packed with debris from centuries of wind and flash floods, that when cleared could extend about 10 meters.
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The updated figures come as Northern California contends with much-needed precipitation that could also bring flash floods and mudslides to towns charred by the devastating Camp Fire.
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The storm ripped off roofs, snapped trees, triggered tornadoes and flash floods and cut off power to nearly 225,2429 people, mostly in the Houston area, on Saturday night.
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TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - At least seven people died and thousands fled their homes in flash floods around the northern Iraqi town of Shirqat on Friday, its mayor said.
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GARUT, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesian search and rescue teams worked on Wednesday to find victims of flash floods that killed 20 people and damaged hundreds of homes, authorities said.
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North Carolina officials said that at least 23 people have had to be rescued so far, as rivers continue to overflow and flash floods catch many people unaware.
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The storm may also dump up to 18 inches of rain in some areas of the southeastern US coast and cause "life-threatening" flash floods, the NHC said.
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The Rimac River, a vital source of potable water for Lima, he said, was in bad shape because of the storms and huaycos — flash floods — and resulting runoff.
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Norma could bring as much as 8 inches (20 cm) of rain to the southern part of Baja California Sur, potentially triggering flash floods, according to the NHC.
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From there, it was expected to spread to Southern California, where officials circulated warnings about the possibility of flash floods and mudflows on slopes stripped bare by wildfires.
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Parts of Puerto Rico could receive up to 8 inches of rain from Karen, enough to possibly trigger flash floods and mudslides, according to the latest NHC advisory.
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The National Weather Service warned that flash floods, landslide warnings and "prolonged" and "significant" river flooding will continue for the next few days, the National Weather Service said.
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In Malawi, people "are now facing a second threat of flash floods" after the cyclone, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies posted on Twitter.
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" Cobham anticipates opportunities to supply cameras to monitor flash floods, "large antennas" for extreme weather conditions, and emergency communications systems for "areas where severe storms have destroyed communications infrastructure.
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Despite being fake, the shark previously went viral during Hurricane Irene in 2011, Hurricane Sandy in 2012, Hurricane Matthew in 2016, and during flash floods in Texas in 2015.
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NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Flash floods in drought-stricken parts of Ethiopia have killed people and livestock and are blocking food aid deliveries to hungry communities, a charity said.
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Now the region waits to see if climatologists are correct in their predictions of an equally strong La Nina -- an opposing weather system that brings storms and flash floods.
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After flash floods that affected the country's main rubber growing region, the Rubber Authority of Thailand estimated it would cut the country's rubber output in 2017 by 7.6 percent.
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But if a major hurricane were to stall over the area, the highly impermeable surfaces shown on this map in magenta would create a big risk of flash floods.
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The bottom line: Miami's streets can be hectic and confusing, between random lane jogs, construction detours and occasional flash floods not to mention jaywalking tourists and wrong-way bicyclists.
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A tropical storm warning remained in effect for Cuba&aposs western Pinar del Rio province, where heavy rains could trigger flash floods and mudslides, the National Hurricane Center said.
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DHAKA, May 6 (Reuters) - Flash floods have washed away crops in northeastern Bangladesh that would have yielded nearly 700,000 tonnes of rice, according to estimates from the agriculture ministry.
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"I hope people will listen to forecasters when they say 'beware of flash floods,'" Corpus Christi Mayor Joe McComb told residents of the Texas city nearest to expected landfall.
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El Nino, a warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific that typically occurs every few years, is linked to crop damage, fires and flash floods.
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Florida is expected to receive 4 to 8 inches of rain, which could cause "life-threatening flash floods," the NOAA said in a public advisory released early Wednesday morning.
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Haiti is prone to flash floods and mudslides because most of its hillsides have been stripped bare by people cutting down trees to make charcoal to sell for fuel.
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New Orleans has already seen flash floods this week, and the water is likely to keep rising: The National Weather Service has forecast up to 20 inches of rain.
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The cause of death for most of the victims will be listed as multiple traumatic injuries resulting from flash floods with mudslides, the Santa Barbara Sheriff's office said Thursday.
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It warned that expected rainfall of up to 8 inches (20.32 cm) could cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides as the storm makes its way across the region.
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KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Flash floods and landslides in Nepal triggered by monsoon rains killed 15 people and injured 12 overnight while another 18 have gone missing, officials said on Saturday.
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Read more: Hurricanes and typhoons are becoming 'sluggish' — and that makes them more destructiveThat's still enough rainfall to cause life-threatening flash floods through Friday, according to the NHC.
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The storm pummeled Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands with winds up to 155 miles an hour on Wednesday, knocking out electricity and causing flash floods and mudslides.
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Another reason flash floods can be dangerous and difficult to prepare for is that they can happen suddenly when there are heavy rains, sometimes within a few short hours.
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Bernadette Uzo, 9, was swept away by flash floods that wreaked havoc this week in a remote village in the southeastern state of Anambra, according to local media reports.
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He faced hardship, waiting for those elusive moments of perfect light: sleeping outside overnight in order to catch a sunrise, confronting a brown bear, getting caught in flash floods.
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Matthew is not expected to make landfall in South Carolina and Georgia, but it still poses a huge threat due to possible flash floods, storm surges, and high winds.
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The hurricane center also warned that western Cuba could get pounded with as much as 12 inches (30 cm) of rain, potentially triggering life-threatening flash floods and mud slides.
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California officials worked frantically into the night Sunday to evacuate thousands of residents downstream from the Oroville Dam after a hole on an emergency spillway raised fears of flash floods.
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State and local officials worked into the night Sunday to evacuate thousands of residents downstream from the dam after a hole in an emergency spillway raised fears of flash floods.
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Some 28 people were killed by flash floods in early April, the majority when a river passing through Jijiga, the capital of Somali region, burst its banks, the government said.
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Everyone dashed to their cars and had to go around the opposite side of the entire lake the golf course was on because flash floods had wiped out the roads.
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All 2877,643 residents of Princeville, the oldest town in the United States incorporated by African Americans, were told on Sunday afternoon to evacuate due to the risk of flash floods.
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Indeed, maintenance costs mean that the number of weather stations around the entire world is shrinking, making it harder to forecast flash floods and landslides even in some rich countries.
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As it moves north, the storm could drop 1 to 3 inches of rain over parts of Arizona and New Mexico through Thursday, threatening flash floods and landslides, forecasters said.
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KATHMANDU (Reuters) - The death toll in Nepal from flash floods and landslides in the past three days rose to 55 on Sunday, with dozens missing and injured, the government said.
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At least 13 people were killed Tuesday when heavy rains caused flash floods and mudslides filled with debris to slam into homes in the Montecito neighborhood of Santa Barbara, California.
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Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency Sunday in Howard County as a massive storm drenched the Baltimore region, triggering flash floods in Ellicott City and leaving one person missing.
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Northern Luzon and the provinces of Zambales and Bataan were on alert for flash floods and landslides triggered by the rains, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said.
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As Mass points out, accuracy is everything, often the difference between life and death, given that extreme weather — tornadoes, flash floods, heat waves — kills more than 500 Americans each year.
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In some areas, such as the Alps, extra water from glaciers has caused flash floods while shrinking snow cover in the Andes has led to droughts in places like Chile.
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That means only the more serious flash floods will lead to automatic warnings on your phone, hopefully meaning that people will take it more seriously when they do receive one.
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In just the past 403 days, flash floods and landslides have killed 164 people in the southern state, authorities said earlier Friday, as torrential monsoon rains continued to batter Kerala.
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While they will not face the full fury of a Category 3 hurricane, residents and tourists should remain vigilant as heavy rains, flash floods and landslides are still a threat.
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Extremely heavy rainfall events such as Hurricane Florence and the flash floods in Ellicott City, Maryland, stand out as examples of extreme precipitation that are consequences of a warmer climate.
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MANILA (Reuters) - A tropical storm in the southern Philippines triggered mudslides and flash floods that killed more than 100 people, while dozens are missing, police and disaster officials said on Saturday.
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While Vicente is expected to weaken to a tropical depression by Monday night or Tuesday, it could produce major rainfall and the risk of flash floods and landslides, the NHC said.
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Rain is in the forecast over parts of Colorado, promising some relief for firefighters but threatening to trigger flash floods on erosion-prone hillsides where trees and bushes have burned up.
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Over-fishing and the mounting impacts of climate change - including warmer water in the lake, a decline in winter rains and severe flash floods during the monsoon - are making matters worse.
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PARIS (Reuters) - At least three people still missing on Tuesday after some of the worst flash floods in a century devastated towns and villages in France's southwestern Aude region, authorities said.
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They are the latest in an onslaught of powerful thunderstorms, tornadoes and flash floods that have ravaged the Midwest in the past week — and forecasters are warning that there's more ahead.
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Rockford, Illinois, is expected to get more rain after flash floods on Monday night when storms dumped as much as five inches (13 centimeters) of rain in less than four hours.
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The island nation experienced a massive downpour in the weekend, resulting in flash floods and also landslide threats in almost 13 districts of Sri Lanka, and caused heavy traffic in Colombo.
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The central provinces of Albay, Sorsogon and Masbate are on alert for flash floods and landslides triggered by the rains, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Saturday afternoon.
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According to the National Weather Service, the storm is bringing not just prolonged rainfall, but also flash floods, landslides, damaging winds, and storm surges to the islands, including Oahu and Maui.
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Franklin could also bring rainfall of 3 to 6 inches, with isolated amounts of around 12 inches, that could produce life-threatening flash floods through the peninsula until Wednesday, it warned.
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Shah said 18 people had been killed in other areas due to rain and flash floods, and there were fears the death toll will increase once rescuers reach remote mountainous areas.
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Torrential rains and flash floods were expected to lash the Gulf Coast again on Friday amid a rash of severe weather that has killed at least five people across the South.
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Extreme rainfall totals of 15 to 20 inches are possible in Nicaragua, with up to 8 inches in Honduras, which could bring life-threatening flash floods and mudslides through Friday morning.
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KATHMANDU/GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Flash floods and landslides have killed at least 68 people in Nepal in the past three days and another 15 are missing, local authorities said on Thursday.
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In April 2012, seven members of a youth church group who had been trekking in the gorge died after being swept away by flash floods, the BBC reported at the time.
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While rainfall from Bud or its remnants would be beneficial to the drought-stricken Southwest, it could also cause flash floods if too much rain falls too quickly, according to AccuWeather.
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The National Hurricane Center warned Monday that it could cause "life-threatening flash floods" as it approaches the U.S., though the storm has since weakened from Category 5 to Category 2.
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The National Weather Service warned of hurricane-strength winds, several feet of storm surges and the risk of dangerous flash floods along much of the Florida coastline in the coming days.
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Nevertheless, officials knew about Tham Luang's dangers well and had placed a warning sign at the cave's mouth against entering during the rainy season, when flash floods could inundate its chambers.
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HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Flash floods have killed at least 32 people in western Afghanistan, destroyed homes and swept through makeshift shelters that housed displaced families, a government official said on Saturday.
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An El Nino phenomenon is a warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific that typically happens every few years, sometimes causing crop damage, flash floods or fires.
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Flooding in the Carolinas and Virginia The rapid-moving rainfall from Michael triggered flash floods in parts of Virginia and the Carolinas, including areas threatened by swollen rivers during Hurricane Florence.
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Northern Luzon and the provinces of Zambales and Bataan are still on alert for flash floods and landslides triggered by the rains, the Philippines Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said.
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More than eight people were killed and thousands forced from their homes after gale force winds and flash floods hit shanty towns already coping with Cape Town's worst drought in a century.
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Parts of New York City and New Jersey are hit with flash floods during severe rainfall, a stark transition from the heat wave that hit the area just a few days before.
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Since then, it has brought heavy rains and flash floods, lashed the southeastern US coast with powerful winds, caused tornadoes, and even caused bricks of cocaine to wash up on a beach.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Flash floods and landslides killed 24 people in Indonesia's Central Java province, officials said on Sunday, forcing residents to evacuate to safer areas as torrential rains damaged thousands of homes.
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The increasing prospect of a La Nina comes as the strongest El Nino in nearly 20 years - which has been blamed for crop damage, forest fires and flash floods - starts to subside.
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MANILA — Dozens of people were killed in the eastern Philippines in a weekend storm that set off landslides and flash floods as the country prepared for the New Year, officials said Monday.
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Three people, including two children in Texas, were killed on Saturday as severe weather lashed parts of the South, as tornadoes tore through homes and hail and flash floods battered the region.
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At least 60 people were killed and nearly 175,000 were displaced after some of the heaviest rain since records began caused flash floods and landslides in Jakarta and nearby towns on Dec.
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The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMA) said heavy rainfall over the weekend and Monday resulted in a number of flash floods and nine counties had activated their emergency operations centers in response.
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According to the "International Glossary of Hydrology," a cloudburst is "a rainstorm of extraordinary intensity and relatively short duration" that can deliver thunder, hail, even flash floods to a previously untroubled day.
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"Since the last similar tragedy in 2012, we have created clearly marked emergency exists along the whole gorge as escape routes in case of danger like the flash floods," KWS said Monday.
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But, like Florence, it wreaked most of its destruction through rain, which caused landslides and flash floods, inundating fields and ruining the crops in them, making roads impassable and cutting off electricity supplies.
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Flash floods and incessant torrential rains in New Zealand's South Island have left several hundred tourists stranded for days and forced many residents to evacuate their homes, authorities said on Wednesday.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Flash floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains in Indonesia have killed at least 21 people, including 11 schoolchildren, left 15 missing, and destroyed hundreds of homes, authorities said on Saturday.
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The last El Niño, a warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific that typically occurs every few years, was linked to crop damage, fires and flash floods in 2016.
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An onslaught of powerful thunderstorms, flash floods and tornadoes have ravaged the Midwest since last week, with more than 50 tornadoes reported in Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Colorado, Ohio, Indiana and Nebraska and Idaho.
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HANOI (Reuters) - Flash floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains have killed at least seven people and left 12 missing in northern Vietnam since Saturday, the government's Disaster Management Authority said on Monday.
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El Nino, a warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific that typically occurs every few years, faded in 2016 and was linked to crop damage, fires and flash floods.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Flash floods triggered by heavy rain have killed at least 28 people in northern Pakistan, officials said on Sunday, including some who were swept away while praying at a mosque.
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Over 3,500 visitors were taken to safe areas on Friday before flash floods inundated parts of the southern mountainous city of Petra famous for its carved rock ruins, government spokeswoman Jumana Ghunaimat said.
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SKOPJE (Reuters) - Macedonia declared a state of emergency in its capital Skopje and neighboring districts on Sunday, a day after at least 21 people were killed in flash floods caused by a storm.
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The potential emergence of a La Nina comes as the strongest El Nino in nearly 20 years - which has been linked to serious crop damage, forest fires and flash floods - begins to subside.
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El Niño, a warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific that typically occurs every few years, faded in 2016 and was linked to crop damage, fires and flash floods.
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El Nino, a warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific that typically occurs every few years and was linked to crop damage, fires and flash floods, faded in 2016.
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"(When) these artificial dams were not able to withstand the pressure anymore, flash floods came down from the mountains," said Mina Marasigan, spokeswoman for the Philippines National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.
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Tens of thousands of people were evacuated in Indonesia's capital Jakarta on Thursday after flash floods and landslides in the area killed up to 21 people, with more heavy rain forecast, authorities said.
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Indonesia will carry out cloud seeding on Friday in a bid to prevent further rainfall over the capital Jakarta, after deadly flash floods and landslides following some of the heaviest rains ever recorded.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Flash floods and landslides triggered by torrential rain in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua have killed at least 58 people, injured dozens and displaced more than 4,000, authorities said on Sunday.
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That level of rainfall would amount to about a third of the intensity of January's downpours, but still exceed the capacity of the region's catchment and drainage systems for controlling flash floods, she said.
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The National Weather Service canceled all storm warnings and watches for Hawaii, but said that lingering moisture from the tropical storm would still produce excessive rainfall through the weekend, causing flash floods and landslides.
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Still, over the last year, El Nino has parched fields in the Philippines and Indonesia, brought unseasonable rains to areas of South America and caused flash floods in Somalia that destroyed thousands of homes.
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The death toll includes those killed in mudslides on the outskirts of the West African nation's capital, Freetown, and fatalities from flash floods in other provinces, Deputy Health Minister Madina Rahman told CNN earlier.
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Those areas will see at least a few inches of rain, wind gusts of up to 50 miles per hour and rainfall that "may produce life threatening flash floods and mudslides," the NHC warned.
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New Orleans was hit with flash floods already this week, and the water is likely to keep rising: The National Weather Service has forecast up to 30 inches of rain in the coming days.
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The flash floods in early 2019 were aggravated by inadequate drainage and portend future floods, crop losses (which will add to food shortages), and forced migration to the cities, where there are no jobs.
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A Home Ministry statement said 15 people had been killed, while six others were missing and 13 were injured as incessant rains caused landslides and triggered flash floods in rivers originating in the Himalayas.
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While the city has avoided direct landfall, the outer bands and winds of the storm may graze the outer parts of Long Island, causing flash floods and provoking damaging winds in places like Montauk.
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One past civilization, the Moche people, built cities in the same deserts, only to collapse more than a millennium ago after the Pacific Ocean warmed, killing fish and causing flash floods, many archaeologists contend.
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NAIROBI, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Flash floods killed four people and three are missing after their tour group was swept away at Kenya's Hell's Gate National Park, the state-run wildlife authority said on Monday.
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Earlier this month, flash floods damaged the Minaret of Jam, a Unesco world heritage site, so security forces were clearing the area of insurgents while workers tried to prevent further damage to the structure.
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Flash floods The National Weather Service (NWS) warned that river and flash flooding was possible overnight Monday into Tuesday with rainfall of up to 3 inches possible by daybreak in New York and Pennsylvania.
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TADUWA, Nepal (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It was a simple text message that saved Shreejana Pariyar from being washed to oblivion along with all her worldly goods when flash floods devastated western Nepal last week.
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Gansu, also in the northwest, reported 15 people killed, four missing and more than 1 million affected by a week of heavy rain and flash floods, the official China News Service said on Saturday.
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With a massive raincloud band 900 kilometers (560 miles) wide, combined with seasonal monsoon rains, the typhoon could bring heavy to intense rains that could set off landslides and flash floods, the forecasters said.
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The storm is expected to dump three to six inches (7 to 15 cm) of rain on the western state of Sonora over the weekend, creating a risk of flash floods, the NHC said.
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A typhoon weakened as it cut across the Philippines on Monday with strong wind felling trees and power lines, and authorities warned of flash floods and mudslides but there were no official reports of casualties.
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The last El Niño, a warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific that typically occurs every few years, faded in 2016 and was linked to crop damage, fires and flash floods.
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Two weeks ago, 21 people, mainly children, died after they were swept away in flash floods on a school outing in the Dead Sea region, in one of the country's worst natural disasters in decades.
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DHAKA/GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains in South Asia have killed dozens of people and displaced more than a million, most in northeast India and Bangladesh, authorities said on Tuesday.
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Flash floods have displaced 290,21984 people in Ethiopia and a total of almost half a million are expected to be affected this year, sparking another weather-related crisis in the country already experiencing severe drought.
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Flash floods have displaced 120,903 people in Ethiopia and a total of almost half a million are expected to be affected this year, sparking another weather-related crisis in the country already experiencing severe drought.
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KABUL (Reuters) - At least 20 people including children were killed in southern Afghanistan by flash floods that engulfed up to 2,000 homes and swept away cars, the U.N. agency coordinating relief efforts said on Saturday.
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Haiti also began evacuating residents by boat from outlying islands in preparation for Hurricane Matthew, which threatens to wreak widespread damage in the region with flash floods and winds at about 150 miles per hour.
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In the days after its landfall, Michael was downgraded to a tropical storm, causing flash floods, damaging winds, and leaving more than 486,000 without power in Florida, Georgia, Alabama and the Carolinas, according to CNN.
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"Heavy rain is forecast to continue in northern and central provinces, and threatens to cause flash floods and landslides in Hoa Binh, Son La, Lai Chau and Lang Son provinces," the national weather forecaster said.
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Cliffs and seawalls have been reinforced, beaches bulldozed into defensive berms, drainage gullies cleared of rocks and fallen trees, and concrete "K-rails" installed to channel flash floods on hillsides laid bare by recent wildfires.
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"Wetland refilling, encroachment and unauthorized construction in river banks and conversion of paddy fields have affected the flow of water, leading to stagnation and flash floods," another official at KSDMA said on condition of anonymity.
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Heavy rainfall and severe flash floods in countries across East Africa have left more than 300 people dead and displaced thousands of others over the past two months — with Kenya and Rwanda the worst hit.
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Flash floods displaced nearly 120,000 people in Ethiopia last month and a total of almost half a million are expected to be affected this year, government and humanitarian agencies said on Wednesday.
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MADRID — Flash floods caused by torrential rains killed at least 10 people on the Spanish island of Majorca and burst the banks of a river, washing away vehicles and engulfing a town in muddy water.
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HONOLULU (Reuters) - Hurricane Lane, a powerful Category 211 storm, lashed Hawaii on Thursday with high winds and torrential rain, causing flash floods, landslides and raging surf as residents hunkered down to ride out the storm.
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The strong storm also brought fears of flash floods and mudslides to Ventura County, where the Thomas fire — the largest wildfire in California history — destroyed homes and left blackened hillsides vulnerable to the heavy rains.
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Increased rates of both could still be detected two years later, particularly among those among those who had experienced the worst aspects of flooding: flash floods, mudslides, the witnessing of injury or death, and displacement.
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Story at a glance Torrential rains set off deadly flash floods in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta and elsewhere on the island of Java, killing at least 30 people and forcing thousands from their homes.
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The rare, severe hurricane barreling toward Hawaii with 63 mph wind could produce "whiteout conditions," life-threatening flash floods and landslides as it hits the island's still-erupting Kilauea volcano, according to U.S. weather officials.
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Decades of research (and perhaps your own recent experiences on hot, humid days) have suggested that climate change will lead to an increase in big storms that cause flash floods, landslides and other natural disasters.
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The last El Niño, a warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific every few years, occurred from around 2015 to 2016, and caused weather-related crop damage, fires and flash floods.
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Flash floods in Iran have killed at least 24 people and injured hundreds more after days of torrential rain caused rivers to overflow in various parts of the country, local news media reported on Tuesday.
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Lane packed sustained winds of up to 145 miles per hour (230 km/h) and could dump as much as 20 inches of rain that could trigger flash floods and landslides, the National Weather Service said.
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The last El Niño, a warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific that typically occurs every few years, went away in 2016 and was linked to crop damage, fires and flash floods.
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WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When flash floods tore through Ellicott City, Maryland, this spring, Governor Larry Hogan called it a "once-every-123,000-year" event - even though it was the second such catastrophe within two years.
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An El Nino - a warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific that typically happens every few years - last occurred in 2015-2016 and caused weather-related crop damage, fires and flash floods.
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The two big safety concerns in this desert region are sudden downpours that cause flash floods and haboobs, giant walls of dust between 1,500 and 3,000 feet high that can cover up to 100 square miles.
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Communities in central Texas and western Louisiana, already hit by flash floods and twisters in the first round, will be hit once more by high winds, twisters and intense rain, according to AccuWeather and the NWS.
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The El Niño pattern brings a warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific every few years and was linked to crop damage, fires and flash floods before it went away in 2016.
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Beijing authorities raised their weather alert level to "orange" from "yellow" early in the afternoon, warning against lightning, hail, wind and as much as 83 mm (3 inches) of rain, threatening flash floods in mountainous areas.
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The last El Nino, a warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacifc that typically occurs every few years, occurred from 2015/2016 and caused weather-related crop damage, fires and flash floods.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Flash floods have left one worker missing and caused extensive damage to a power plant at U.S.-owned miner Freeport Indonesia's operations in the eastern-most province of Papua, company officials said on Wednesday.
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The United Nations migration agency warned that flash floods could wash away fragile shelters, housing about 100,000 refugees and local families, in congested camps in Cox's Bazar providing sanctuary for Rohingya who have fled neighboring Myanmar.
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With the development of autonomous vehicles, that sort of information becomes even more important, enabling a car to learn about road conditions from other vehicles and safely navigate around accidents, tie-ups, potholes and flash floods.
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Tropical Storm Lane drenched parts of Hawaii with about four feet of rain as it crept past the state on Saturday, causing flash floods and prompting evacuations even as it dissipated over the islands' rugged slopes.
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With a massive rain band 900 kilometers (560 miles) wide, combined with seasonal monsoon rains, the storm could bring heavy to intense rains that could set off landslides and flash floods, state forecaster Meno Mendoza said.
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Britain recorded its highest-ever temperature of 38.7 Celsius (101.7 Fahrenheit) in July, while downpours last week led to flash floods, with 13mm (2 inches) of rain falling in just one hour, the national weather service said.
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If rolled out on bus stops across the city, the company hopes that rooftop plants could help reduce the temperature, purify the air around the bus stop and curb the risk of flash floods by absorbing stormwater.
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The last El Niño, a warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific that typically occurs every few years, was linked to crop damage, fires and flash floods before it went away in 2016.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Flash floods triggered by torrential rain have killed at least 22 people in India and forced more than 170,000 from their homes, officials said on Monday, as forecasters predicted more downpours in coming days.
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At least six people died over the holiday weekend after torrential rains inundated rivers in both Texas and Kansas, triggering flash floods that wiped out entire roadways, washed away mobile homes and prompted several evacuations, PEOPLE confirms.
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Emergency officials warned that the storm could dump up to 10 inches (25 centimeters) of rain, unleash landslides and dangerous flash floods and generate waves of up to 23 feet (7 meters) as the storm drew closer.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Flash floods caused by hours of torrential rain killed at least five people in Malaysia and military forces deployed on Sunday to help rescue thousands of displaced people in the northern state of Penang.
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Kenta is one of the more than 200 people who have been killed in the aftermath of the downpour, as flash floods enveloped streets and landslides swallowed parts of the small towns that dot the Japanese countryside.
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Read more: Hurricane Dorian is bringing 'life-threatening' flash floods, tornadoes, and power outages to the Carolinas — here are the latest updates Photos show Dorian happily running around a backyard and playing with toys and other dogs.
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His 12-minute talk focused on the poor performance of regional models, which typically bring higher resolution to smaller geographical areas, and should, as a result, be better at predicting localized events, like flash floods and hurricanes.
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Forecasters were still warning that the storm could produce dangerous flash floods and mudslides with rainfall up to 18 inches (30 cm) in some areas in the Mexican states of Guerrero, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Puebla, Tlaxcula and Veracruz.
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While the mission to liberate the soccer team trapped by flash floods on June 23 generally followed an improbably successful plotline, the operation claimed the life of Saman Gunan, a 38-year-old retired Thai Navy SEAL.
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ATHENS — Flash floods in Greece have killed at least 15 people in the western outskirts of Athens, state television said on Wednesday, trapping dozens in their homes or cars and inundating hundreds of residences, businesses and boats.
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"That's where flash floods differ a little bit from big stem river floods, the latter tend to be...on the order of days and weeks," says hydrometeorologist Jonathan Gourley of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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"We remain fearful that there may still be untoward incidents because of the strong winds, the like of which have never been experienced before, and flash floods might recur," Lim told reporters in Penang, according to Bernama.
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The body of a National Guardsman was found in a Maryland river on Tuesday, two days after he went missing while attempting to rescue a woman and her cat during devastating flash floods that swept through Ellicott City.
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KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Elephants helped rescue hundreds of tourists from a flooded jungle safari park in Nepal, officials said on Monday, as the death toll from flash floods and landslides after four days of heavy rain rose to 603.
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Authorities have warned that the storm could create up to 22017 inches (25 centimeters) of rain, cause landslides and flash floods and generate waves of up to 23 feet (seven meters) across the region, the Associated Press reports.
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The sale comes as Thailand, the world's biggest rubber producer and exporter, has suffered from flash floods in its southern provinces, the country's main rubber-growing region, which have killed 45 people and halted the rubber tapping season.
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Flash floods pose the greatest threat, with the worst of the storm scheduled to come on late Tuesday, flooding could cause severe trouble for residents when local waterways already filled with rain are combined with the high tide.
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NEW JERSEY FLASH FLOODS SEND CARS FLOATING DOWN RIVER, PILING UP AGAINST BRIDGE "Unfortunately, due to the quickly rising flood waters, this bride, her new husband and wedding party friends, got a rough start on things," police said .
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MANILA (Reuters) - A typhoon weakened as it cut across the Philippines on Monday after bringing down trees and power lines, and authorities warned of flash floods and mudslides although casualties were few with police reporting only two deaths.
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Barriers such as flood walls could trap rainwater, worsening flash floods, and create a two-tier system where some areas are protected at the expense of others, usually the urban poor and those in neighboring provinces, they add.
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Yet a wider roll out to the general public is still years away since current public alert infrastructure networks for things such as flash floods and hurricane weather alerts are considered too slow for effective warning on earthquakes.
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Yet many of us barely notice losses racked up annually from flooding events all over the country: flash floods in the Midwest and Northeast, torrential rains in bone-dry Houston, dam spillways exploding in formerly drought-stricken California.
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The last El Niño, a warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific that typically occurs every few years, occurred from around 2015 to 2016 and caused weather-related crop damage, fires and flash floods.
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Even if the storm remains mostly to the south of those beaten-up islands, its outer bands of wind and rain could halt recovery efforts, inflict further damage to already-broken buildings and cause flash floods and mudslides.
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RABAT (Reuters) - At least seven people were killed in flash floods in Morocco on Wednesday, following torrential rains in mountains in the south of the country near Taroudant, 600 kilometers (373 miles) south of Rabat, local authorities said.
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Flash floods are a common phenomenon in Israel and the West Bank after heavy rains, as surges of water run through narrow channels into the Dead Sea and the rift valley region that runs along the Negev Desert.
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Downpours on Sunday hit parts of the region after heavy rainfall and flash floods in areas on Saturday, making it harder for the authorities trying to locate survivors and locals hoping to salvage what they can from the disaster.
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Among its future uses, the 3D model could predict the spread of flash floods in the city, or simulate how microwaves travel through high-density areas and certain building materials to help detect dark spots in cellular network coverage.
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Read more: Photos and videos show Imelda battering Texas with torrential rain and flash floods reminiscent of Hurricane Harvey"The current is really very strong right now so it's kind of pushed them up against the columns," she said.
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Rather than be told simply to "evacuate," for example, residents of a community facing flash floods, a tsunami, tornado or flames from a wildfire would be told to leave immediately and to go where they can find safe ground.
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The Midwest and Northeast have been putting up with these dangerous weather patterns for nearly two weeks now -- and 373 million people from northeastern Texas to the Northeast STILL face threats today of heavy rain, hail and flash floods. 5.
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As much as 3 feet (1 meter) of rain was forecast to fall over hills in Haiti that are largely deforested and prone to flash floods and mudslides, threatening villages as well as shantytowns in the capital Port-au-Prince.
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It also warned of landslides in the southern and central Appalachians, as well as "catastrophic" flash floods and river flooding from western North Carolina to far eastern West Virginia next week, as the storm turns north toward the Ohio Valley.
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The worst of the rain is over for now, but rivers in some parts of the state could take up to two days to recede to their normal levels, and any further rainfall will likely trigger another bout of flash floods.
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At least 45 people were killed this week in flash floods in northern and southern Iran after the heaviest rains recorded in Iran in at least a decade, the state news agency IRNA quoted Health Minister Saeid Namaki as saying.
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At least 19 people were killed and more than 100 injured in flash floods in Iran's southern Fars province, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Tuesday, with more rain forecast following days of devastating floods in the north.
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"One person remains unaccounted for after flash floods that occurred late Tuesday destroyed roads, bridges, water lines and most of the plant that supplies power to Tembagapura and Hidden Valley," the company said, warning employees to keep travel to a minimum.
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"We remain fearful that there may still be untoward incidents because of the strong winds, the like of which have never been experienced before, and flash floods might recur," Lim told reporters in Penang earlier on Sunday, according to Bernama.
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In Vietnam, 21 people have died and more people are missing after Tropical Depression Son Tinh triggered flash floods and landslides, submerging villages in the northern provinces of Thanh Hoa and Yen Bai, state-run Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported Sunday.
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At least 45 people were killed earlier this week in flash floods in northern and southern Iran after the heaviest rains recorded in Iran in at least a decade, the state news agency IRNA quoted Health Minister Saeid Namaki as saying.
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El Nino, a warming of ocean surface temperatures associated with crop damage, fires and flash floods, has damaged coffee and banana crops in Colombia in recent years and also contributed to a spike in food prices that stoked inflation figures.
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Thirty-eight tonnes of equipment were transported to the remote site by a convoy of trucks amid heavy flash floods for that event, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said, with 250 high-profile guests making an appearance.
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JAKARTA, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Indonesia will carry out cloud seeding on Friday in a bid to prevent further rainfall over the capital Jakarta, after deadly flash floods and landslides following some of the heaviest rains in more than 20 years.
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AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan's education and tourism ministers resigned on Thursday after an investigation into the deaths of 21 people, mainly school children who were swept away in flash floods on a school outing in the Dead Sea region, state media said.
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The Bahamas is still reeling from the devastation of Hurricane Dorian, and the remnants of tropical depression Imelda have moved inland across the Gulf coast of Texas and southeastern Louisiana as it weakened, bringing warnings of flash floods and heavy rains.
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Bangladesh, the world's fourth-biggest rice producer, has emerged as a major importer of the grain this year due to depleted stocks and record high local prices following flash floods in April that cut around 1 million tonnes of rice production.
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Governments in South Asia have failed to address the climate migration of millions of people, uprooted by cyclones, flash floods and other disasters, said a report by the non-profit groups Climate Action Network - South Asia, Bread for the World and ActionAid.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - At least 18 people were killed and around 100 others were injured in flash floods in Iran's southern Fars province, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Monday, with more rain forecast following days of devastating floods in the north.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Flash floods in southern Thailand washed out a bridge on the country's main north-south highway on Tuesday, backing up traffic for 200 km (125 miles) as the death toll from days of unseasonable rain rose to 25, media reported.
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's tourist hub of Cape Town was braced for its worst winter storm in 30 years on Tuesday and had closed schools and activated emergency protocols with flash floods, heavy rain and mudslides expected within hours, city officials said.
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Communities in central Texas and western Louisiana, already hit by flash floods and twisters in the first round last weekend, were hit once more by high winds, twisters, egg-sized hail and intense rain Thursday and Friday, according to AccuWeather and the NWS.
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CHICAGO/LOS ANGELES, Sept 17 (Reuters) - U.S. food companies kept slaughter plants shut on Monday in southeastern states swamped by Hurricane Florence as flash floods collapsed the walls of at least two hog manure pits, made roads undriveable and delayed rail shipments.
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Its proximity to a flow of moist air from the Gulf of Mexico sets the stage for heavy rain, and the high potential for rapid runoff in the Hill Country makes it vulnerable to flash floods, said Lamont Bain, a Weather Service meteorologist.
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AMMAN, Oct 25 (Reuters) - At least five school children died and 16 were missing after flash floods engulfed a spot near Jordan's Dead Sea on Thursday where around 40 children and their teachers were on an outing, two civil defence sources said.
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Here is where and when it's due to go nextNASA satellites captured Hurricane Dorian and three other cyclones lined up across the globeHurricane Dorian is bringing 'life-threatening' flash floods, tornadoes, and power outages to the Carolinas — here are the latest updates
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The majority of the approximately 700,000 refugees from Rohingya to have crossed the border since fleeing violence in Myanmar have mostly ended up in Cox's Bazar, a region notorious for flash floods that have the capacity to destroy simultaneously villages and harvest crops.
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Yet they haven't been widely adopted in the United States at the resolution required to forecast localized, or "mesoscale," events — specifically, thunderstorms, flash floods and tornadoes — because high-resolution ensembles require more computing power than the National Weather Service can currently provide.
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Time and again — in Hurricanes Floyd and Matthew, to name just two occasions — Myrtle Beach has been spared the worst damage, while Conway has taken a heavy hit: flash floods with the storm itself, then river floods in the days that followed.
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For many, the challenge could be finding a safe refuge: If Florence slows to a crawl just off the coast, it could carry torrential rains up into the Appalachian mountains, causing flash floods, mudslides and other dangerous weather across a wide area.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia — Flash floods killed at least 43 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, the authorities said on Friday, after the city's most intense period of rainfall since record keeping began more than 20 years ago.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people were evacuated in Indonesia's capital Jakarta on Thursday after flash floods and landslides killed up to 26 people amid some of the heaviest rain in more than 20 years, with more deluges forecast, authorities said.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people were evacuated in Indonesia's capital Jakarta on Thursday after flash floods and landslides killed up to 26 people amid some of the heaviest rain in more than 20 years, with more deluges forecast, authorities said.
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"We can only hope the rains and flash floods subside, so the current emergency does not turn into a larger catastrophe," said the WFP's Taal, echoing concerns from several aid agencies about the prospect of more heavy rain falling in the coming days.
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In the aftermath of that disaster, authorities instituted a policy of enforced evacuations in slide-prone areas of Santa Barbara and Ventura counties whenever forecasts call for downpours that might exceed the capacity of the region's catchment and drainage systems to control flash floods.
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Crops on 10,583 hectares have been washed away while another 600,587 hectares of farmland have been partially damaged, according the disaster ministry, in a big blow to the farm-dependent country which lost around 1 million tonnes of rice in flash floods in April.
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KATHMANDU, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Elephants were pressed into service to rescue hundreds of foreign tourists trapped in a Nepal jungle safari park, officials said on Monday, as the death toll from flash floods and landslides after four days of heavy rains rose to 70.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Scuba divers found two people dead inside an upended car lolling on a beach after torrential rains wrought havoc along France's Riviera coast in the night of Wednesday-to-Thursday, when flash floods also killed 10 on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca.
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GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Heavy monsoon rains in India's northeast Assam state displaced more than a million people from their homes and flash floods killed at least 10 in the past 72 hours, state authorities said on Saturday, warning the situation could worsen in coming days.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's first tropical storm in three decades killed one person on Friday as it arrived on the south coast, knocking down trees and blowing off roofs in its path, but was losing speed, officials said, while warning against the risk of flash floods.
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"When you add in the other factors like providing employee housing since staff can't commute, and that it can only operate half the year due to the heat and flash floods, we just couldn't figure out a way to make a profit," she said.
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A prolonged period of life-threatening storm surge, devastating hurricane-force winds, and heavy rains capable of life-threatening flash floods are expected on the Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama Sunday through Monday, and a hurricane warning is in effect for these areas. 2.
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"The homeless here are actually teaching the people who have never been homeless how to survive," he said, like how to stay safe in the tents, where to find food, and how to keep warm as flash floods bore down from the recent rains.
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ELLICOTT CITY, Md. – After flash floods sent cars floating down Main Street in historic Ellicott City, Maryland, local officials said they were heartbroken to see the community so severely damaged again less than two years after a devastating flood killed two people and caused millions in damages.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — At least 37 people were killed in landslides and flash floods and hundreds of thousands were displaced, Sri Lankan officials said on Wednesday, as torrential rains and gusting winds continued to lash the country just days after the beginning of the monsoon season.
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A study by the National Hurricane Center found that more than half the Americans killed by flooding during hurricanes and tropical storms over a 30-year period had died after the storms moved inland, presenting hazards like flash floods and mudslides and sweeping motorists off flooded roads.
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Here are a handful that they shared with us: (Please note: We regularly highlight articles on news sites that have limited access for nonsubscribers.) • Rain will continue today, with central and southern parts of the state facing heavy rain, flash floods and potential mudslides in some neighborhoods.
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In light of these numbers—and some other extremely reasonable stuff about the government causing flash floods "by doing chemistry in the sky"—and Charlie Morton recording the final out of Game 7 on his 52nd pitch, it's pretty obvious that baseball is no different than pro wrestling.
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Building fence where there is a flood risk has already caused chaos on other parts of the border: Flash floods in Nogales and Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona have caused millions of dollars in damage and two deaths because of floodwaters that built up along the fence.
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Searchers will have a few more days of dry weather, but starting late Tuesday, another 2-5 inches (5 to 13 cm) of rain is expected to drop on the Sierra Nevada foothills through next Sunday, hampering the searchers work and renewing fears of flash floods and mudslides, forecasters said.
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It had planned to reboot the program in 220, but the massive Station Fire burned up over 160,000 acres of the San Gabriel Mountains that year, increasing the risk for mudslides and flash floods in the areas most directly affected by the cloud-seeding efforts, so the operation was called off.
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Text, iMessage or WhatsApp your videos, photos and stories to CNN when it's safe: 347-322-903 (CNN)Hurricane Michael's deadly trail of devastation now stretches from the Florida Panhandle, where it wiped away a coastal city, to the Carolinas, where it triggered flash floods that turned roads into rivers.
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"Life-threatening, catastrophic flash floods and prolonged significant river flooding are likely over portions of the Carolinas and the southern to central Appalachians from western North Carolina into west-central Virginia and far eastern West Virginia through early next week," the weather service warned Saturday, adding that landslides are possible in the mountains.
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Track weather and travel forecasts here and view Tuesday's live news coverage Here's what else to expect from coast to coast: California: Get ready for flash floods and snow A severe storm will pummel California this week, bringing heavy snow in the mountains and heavy rain to the coast and valleys, Hennen said.
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Last year, insurance companies paid out nearly $24 billion to cover insured losses due to natural disasters, up from about $16 billion in 2015, according to Munich Re, a reinsurance company Floods and flash floods accounted for $4.3 billion of last year's insured losses in 2016, and hurricanes accounted for $3.5 billion of the total.
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For many people, the challenge could be finding a safe refuge: If Florence slows to a crawl just off the coast, it could bring torrential rains all the way into the Appalachian mountains and as far away as West Virginia, causing flash floods, mudslides and other dangerous conditions in places that don't usually get much tropical weather.
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Alberto makes landfall in Florida panhandle 29 Atlantic hurricane season to be 'near or above-normal,' NOAA says Maryland flash floods leave National Guard member missing , governor declares state of emergency BLOODY HOLIDAY WEEKEND IN CHI-TOWN: At least eight people were killed and 25 others wounded in shootings across Chicago since midnight Friday during Memorial Day weekend, police told WLS .. .
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Read more:A Florida cop rescued a puppy from a flooded vehicle and named her 'Dorian' after the deadly hurricaneHurricane Dorian is bringing 'life-threatening' flash floods, tornadoes, and power outages to the Carolinas — here are the latest updates'The force of a thousand sledgehammers': A storm chaser trapped in the Bahamas during Dorian described the 'most intense' hurricane he'd ever witnessed
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BORDER WALL MAY NEED OPEN GATES: "Trump's border wall probably will require the installation of hundreds of storm gates to prevent flash floods from undermining or knocking it over, gates that must be left open for months every summer during 'monsoon season' in the desert, according to U.S. border officials, agents and engineers familiar with the plans," our colleague Nick Miroff reports.
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Disaster preparation typically depends on 'lead time,' which is the period of time from when a warning for a hazard is issued to when it actually happens "The more lead time you have, the more time you have to take action —but also the lower the confidence you have in the forecast," Kruczkiewicz said, citing flash floods as an example of a natural hazard with a short lead time.
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