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According to officials, thousands of
workers continued search and rescue operations Saturday after Tropical Storm
Kalmaegi hit Taiwan Friday.
The tropical storm, which was upgraded to
typhoon level, brought heavy rain on central and southern Taiwan. The
National Fire Agency informs that up to 39 inches of rain fell in no more...
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 U.S. National Hurricane Center informs that Tropical Storm Fausto, which is expected to become a hurricane, and Hurricane Elida plowed across the Pacific Ocean, hundreds of miles from Mexico, whereas in the Atlantic, Tropical Storm Bertha moved away from Bermuda.At 4 a.m., the center of Tropical Storm Bertha was situated about 355 miles...
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According to an infrared satellite image from the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National
Hurricane Center
shows Tropical Storm Bertha moving towards warmer water and gaining strength
quickly.
Hurricane Bertha has strengthened to a Category 3 storm on
the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane...
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This infrared satellite image from the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration's National
Hurricane Center
shows Tropical Storm Bertha moving towards warmer water and gaining strength in
a short time.
According to forecasters, Bertha is expected to become the
season's first hurricane. The tropical storm has sustained...
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 The death toll from tropical storm Olga climbed to more than 30 on the
Caribbean island of Hispaniola, local newspaper reports said Friday.
Twelve Haitian seasonal workers drowned in flooding late Thursday
on the Dominican Republic side of the island, which has been drenched
by days of rain that unleashed mudslides and...
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 According to Nicaraguan officials, at least 60 people have
died at the hand of Hurricane Felix after it hit the Caribbean
coast on Tuesday.
The worst damage was bound to come as Hurricane Felix’s
rampage continued. Meteorologists said that the hurricane would die down after
entering the Gulf of Mexico but they were
wrong.
The...
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California firefighters gained the upper hand
Monday on a rash of wildfires that have devastated the state for three
weeks. But the problems continued in the Golden State as the violent
thunderstorms that helped douse the flames also triggered mudslides.
'If it isn't fire, it's flood. If it isn't fire or flood, it's the
mud,' said...
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 50 homes in Southern California were considerably damaged by massive mudslides provoked by a monsoon. Officials said yesterday that heavy rains brought thunderstorms to the Sierra Nevada Mountains, generating the mudslide near the city of Independence that was 300 yards wide and up to 3 feet deep. Nature’s fury also triggered to flooding...
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 While mudslides on fire-blemished territory in the eastern
Sierra Nevada constrained people to leave their properties, more gentle weather
in Northern California facilitated the
firefighters’ work in suppressing parts of the wildfires in the area and
permitted inhabitants of numerous communities to return home.
A massive mudslide...
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 Snow and rain continued to cause serious problems across western
US states, authorities warning Monday that the risk of mudslides or avalanches still
exists in many regions.
Several main arteries in California were closed because
of heavy snowfall, as authorities have a hard time dealing with the harsh
weather that triggered...
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 Two avalanches swept slopes in California's San Gabriel Mountains, leaving one person dead and another missing, authorities said Saturday.A 22-year-old employee of Mountain High Resort near Wrightwood was pronounced dead Friday at a hospital after spending nearly an hour and a half trapped under heavy snow, the Los Angeles Times...
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 More than 300 people have been stranded in snow on a portion
of Interstate 5 in the mountainous region north of Los Angeles after a fierce
winter storm struck Southern California, authorities informed Thursday.
Hundreds of vehicles were stuck after the powerful storm
forced the closure of the interstate in the Grapevine area....
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 A powerful storm battered California on Friday leaving some 500,000
homes and businesses without power and threatening mudslides, flooding
and huge snowfalls projected to last into next week.
Meteorologists said the storm could be the worst in the state for
ten years with up to 25 centimeters of rain expected to fall Friday...
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 California was bracing Thursday for a series of storms forecast to be the worst in over a decade.
The storms were expected to bring some 25 centimeters of rain to
many areas, dump over three meters of snow in the Sierra Mountains and
cause widespread mudslides in areas devastated just two months ago by
huge wildfires.
The wet...
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 After a weeklong rampage that was thought to end in Mexico, it
appears that Hurricane Henriette is about to blow over.
Henriette weakened slightly Tuesday when it reached the
southern tip of Baja, a popular resort area for the likes of Hollywood
stars and sport fishing enthusiasts.
Henriette was on a direct crash curse with...
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 The monsoon season came earlier this year in Pakistan, caching the authorities off guard and claiming 100 lives, as the media informed Friday.Most of the fatalities were reported in the heavy-affected regions bordering Afghanistan, where at least 50 people were killed by floods and mudslides. Heavy rain continued to pour down in the past...
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Typhoon Hagupit targeted Vietnam over the weekend, killing at least 42 people, while Typhoon Jangmi left two people dead in Taiwan before weakening to a tropical storm, officials reported Monday.
Flash floods, heavy rain and landslides triggered by Hagupit also left four missing and 61 injured in northern Vietnam, the National...
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Typhoon Hagupit targeted Vietnam over the weekend, killing at least 42 people, while Typhoon Jangmi left two people dead in Taiwan before weakening to a tropical storm, officials said Monday.
Flash floods, heavy rain and landslides triggered by Hagupit also left four missing and 61 injured in northern Vietnam, the National Steering...
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 According to emergency officials, at least 6 people were killed and 6 others injured after Typhoon Kalmaegi hit Taiwan Friday. The Central Weather Bureau said Kalmaegi headed away from Taiwan and toward southern China Friday morning, with winds of 52 miles per hour. In the past 24 hours, parts of the south have recorded up to 44 inches...
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 Power outages, flash floods and landslides hit the northern Philippines
Monday amid heavy rains and strong winds brought by a powerful typhoon
that has already killed eight people.
The National Disaster Coordinating Council said more than 140,000
people were evacuated in the northern Philippines, which was suffering
the brunt of...
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 A powerful typhoon skirted populated provinces in the eastern
Philippines on Saturday, where thousands of residents had been forced
to evacuate their homes to avoid the repeat of a disaster that killed
more than 1,000 people last year.
Typhoon Mitag veered away from its course before dawn on Saturday,
sparing the provinces of...
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 A massive rescue and relief operation has been mounted Saturday by
thousands of soldiers and civilian volunteers in southern Bangladesh,
which was tossed by a devastating tropical cyclone that left a trail of
death and destruction.
Rescuers counted another 300 bodies of people killed in Friday's
cyclone that triggered mudslides...
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 Shutting down local airports and re-routing flights in or
out of China
are only a few precautioanary measures taken by the Chinese government to minimize
possible damage afflicted by the passing of the Wipha typhoon.
The imminent impact of Wipha has also caused the closing of the stock exchange market,
as meteorologists expect a...
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 China is battered by torrential rain which caused flash floods and landslides in seven provinces, 94 people being reported dead and 25 missing over the last week, as no amelioration is in sight, authorities informed Monday.Southern China was the most affected, thousands of houses collapsing under the heavy rain or were swept away by...
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 India’s southern region is under water after the monsoon season came with heavy rains that fell incessantly in the past days, causing floods and landslides that took at least 49 lives since Friday.Indian authorities informed that 45 persons died in the coastal state of Andhra Pradesh in the past 24 hours, most of them drowning or falling...
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 The second largest city in Bangladesh, Chittagong has been hit by a series of merciless floods and landslides that took 119 lives, according to the latest figures released by the authorities Wednesday.Search operations for people trapped under the huge quantities of mud and stones continued for a fourth day, 21 killed people being found...
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 Heavy rains poured down on Bangladesh
pushing rivers out of their runways and causing massive floods that cut off
thousands of localities, while 67 people were reported dead in Chittagong
on Monday.
Most of the people were killed by mudslides which caused several
homes to collapse trapping or killing the inhabitants....
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 The rain continued to fall on southern China through the weekend, triggering massive landslides and pushing rivers out of their channels. More than 70 persons died after storms, mudslides and powerful waters leveled thousands of houses in six Chinese provinces, governmental sources announced Monday.About 600,000 people were forced to...
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