Flash floods and landslides left 150 people dead, people accused leaders of not warning
Some 37,000 people affected by flash floods in Somalia
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Locals wade through floodwater after bursting of a river in Beledweyne, central Somalia, May 17, 2020. (Xinhua/Hassan Bashi) Flash floods caused by heavy rains have affected about 37,000 people in Somalia, causing a humanitarian crisis in the regions affected, Somalia’s … Read More
Tornadoes and extreme weather tear through the southern Plains
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Extreme weather continued to batter huge swaths of the Midwest and the southern Plains on Tuesday, leaving survivors just grateful they weren’t killed or seriously injured. A tree crashed through the home of Lisa Watson, but the Tulsa, Oklahoma, mom … Read More
70 million are in the path of ‘bomb cyclone’ set to strike the central US, bringing snow, hail and rain
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(CNN)An intense and ferocious winter storm — a “bomb cyclone” — is expected to bring hurricane-force wind gusts, blizzard conditions and a flood threat across a swath of the US heartland Wednesday. A bomb cyclone occurs when there is a … Read More
Hurricane Florence is not climate change or global warming. It’s just the weather.
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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 … Read More
Catastrophic Flood Threat Increases This Weekend as Florence Slowly Tracks Across the Carolinas, Appalachia
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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 … Read More