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TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Rescuers worked by hand to clear debris from a landslide triggered by heavy rains in central Japan on Saturday, as the toll from the storms rose to 10 dead with a further three people reportedly missing. Aerial footage showed emergency workers removing wreckage from two houses that were swept away in Chiba, southeast of Tokyo, just two weeks after a deadly typhoon barrelled through the area. Nine people were […]
PATNA, India (AFP) — At least 100 people have died in northern India over the last three days in unusually heavy late monsoon rains which have submerged streets, hospital wards and houses, officials said Monday. Dozens of boats were pressed into service on streets overflowing with gushing rain water in Patna, the capital of the eastern state of Bihar, after torrential downpours far stronger the normal. At least 27 people have lost their lives […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japanese authorities on Wednesday issued a rare evacuation order for 240,000 people in the country’s southwest over flood and landslide fears, as officials confirmed a man was killed in heavy rains. The evacuation orders came after the Japan Meteorological Agency issued its highest-level alert for several parts of the northern Kyushu region. The alert is issued “if there is a significant likelihood of catastrophes” and is activated once a disaster […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japanese authorities have issued evacuation orders for more than one million people in southern parts of the country hit by heavy rains, a year after deadly floods that killed more than 200 people. Small landslides were already being reported in parts of the affected area, public broadcaster NHK reported. It said a total of 1.1 million people in Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures, on the island of Kyushu, had been ordered to […]
by Allison JACKSON RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Torrential rain left at least 10 people dead in Rio de Janeiro, officials said Tuesday, as emergency workers rescued people trapped by the downpour and clean-up efforts gathered pace. The unusually heavy rain began Monday evening and continued into Tuesday, triggering widespread flash flooding that turned some streets into raging rivers, toppled trees and swept away cars as the state emergency agency declared a crisis. The […]
(Eagle News)–The tropical depression outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility has entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said. PAGASA said the center of Tropical Depression “Samuel” entered PAR at 10 a.m., and is estimated at 980 kilometers east southeast of Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur. It is packing maximum sustained winds of up to 55 kilometers per hour near the center and gustiness of up to 65 kilometers […]
PERIBAN, Mexico (AFP) — Residents from a Mexican village try to clean damaged streets and houses after at least five people died and nine are missing following heavy rain and a river flooding. https://youtu.be/34GVWkx3OwU
(Eagle News) — Senator Bam Aquino on Tuesday, Sept. 18, urged the government to buy the “storm-damaged palay” of farmers affected by Typhoon “Ompong” so they could get back on their feet. In a statement, Aquino urged President Rodrigo Duterte to order the National Food Authority to do the same. He said the NFA, after all, already did this in the past. He said the government can also “use the President’s Social Fund or the […]
(Eagle News) — Classes on Saturday, Sept. 15, have been suspended in some parts of the country in anticipation of the inclement weather brought about by “Ompong.” Below is a list: Apayao — all levels (public and private) Batangas — all levels (public and private) Ilocos Norte– all levels (public and private) Laguna — all levels (public and private) La Union Bauang — all levels (public and private) Caba — all levels (public and private) […]
(AFP) — Videographics on how the weather works. US authorities have ordered one million people to evacuate the path of the extremely dangerous storm approaching the east coast. https://youtu.be/5bKZtLEIdmY
But continuous rains prompt Marikina to enforce evacuations as Marikina River reaches near-“Ondoy”–like levels (Eagle News)—-The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration has downgraded the red rainfall warning level hoisted over Metro Manila, but the continuous rains have prompted several local government units there like Marikina to implement a forced evacuation of its residents. In its 11 p.m. advisory, PAGASA said an orange rainfall warning level was up over the National Capital Region instead, […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A blistering heatwave smothered swathes of flood-hit western Japan Monday, hampering clean-up efforts as survivors and relief workers toil in stifling temperatures a week after devastating inundations that killed more than 200 people. Tens of thousands of rescue workers are still digging through the debris for bodies after Japan’s worst weather-related disaster in over three decades, which saw record downpours spark flash flooding and landslides across the region. The toll of […]
