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More Images From Indonesia’s Devastating Earthquake and Tsunami
Indonesia’s disaster-response agency now says that the death toll from the September 28 earthquake and tsunami has risen to more than 1,400, with another 2,500 injured. Aid and supplies are starting to arrive in some harder-hit areas near the town of Palu. Rescue teams are still searching for possible survivors, as some 200,000 quake-affected residents…
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Death toll soars past 800 in Indonesian earthquake, tsunami
JAKARTA — The death toll on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi from twin disasters, a major earthquake and the tsunami that followed, jumped to more than 800 on Sunday as rescue workers began to take stock of the wreckage — pulling out survivors buried under the rubble from a collapsed hotel, treating patients in tents and…
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Florence: Death toll climbs to 36 as women in sheriff’s van drown
Police say mental heath patients were being transported to another centre when floodwaters swept their van away. Responders congregate near where two people drowned Tuesday evening when they were trapped in a Horry County Sheriff transport van [Gerald Herbert/AP Photo] [Daylife] Two women died when a sheriff’s van taking them to a mental health facility…
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17 photos show Hurricane Florence’s devastating flooding from the sky
An official looks out a Blackhawk Helicopter at homes surrounded by floodwaters due to Hurricane Florence on Monday in Conway, South Carolina. Many rivers in the Carolinas are approaching record flood stages, and officials say their levels will continue to rise through the week. Sean Rayford/Getty Images Hurricane Florence has broken rainfall records since it made landfall…
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Hurricane Florence is not climate change or global warming. It’s just the weather.
Hurricane Florence is not the result of global warming. It’s likely due to natural weather patterns, not climate change as some have already said. (Photo: Alexander Gerst/ESA/NASA via AP) Even before Hurricane Florence made landfall somewhere near the border of North and South Carolina, predicted damage from potentially catastrophic flooding from the storm was already…
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Catastrophic Flood Threat Increases This Weekend as Florence Slowly Tracks Across the Carolinas, Appalachia
At a Glance Florence will slowly move farther inland in the Carolinas on Saturday. This will produce catastrophic flash flooding and major river flooding. Life-threatening storm surge has already occurred in eastern North Carolina. Flash flood emergencies have been issued for eastern North Carolina. Florence’s remnant will linger in parts of the East into early…
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