Polk County officials have upgraded a voluntary evacuation to mandatory for residents near Lake Livingston Dam and Trinity River due to heavy rain.
Kenyan President William Ruto on Tuesday deployed the military to evacuate
Tulane University is alerting people on the campus to evacuate due to a
More people are dying each year in Sheffield as a direct result of drinking alcohol, new data shows. Per 100,000 people, the rate of deaths directly caused by alcohol misuse has increased year-on-year since 2001 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire and across the UK. However, the rate in Sheffield is higher than average, with 19.8 deaths per 100,000 directly attributable to alcohol in the city in 2020-22, compared to the English average of 13.8 per 100,000. Project 6, a harm-reduction and recovery...
STORY: More than 700 school students stranded in their dormitories after heavy rains and the ensuing floods were rescued by emergency workers, said CCTV.The southern Chinese province has been battered by unusually heavy, sustained and widespread rainfall since Thursday (April 18), with powerful storms ushering in an earlier-than-normal start to the region's annual flooding season.As of Monday morning, 11 people were missing in Guangdong, state-owned Xinhua news agency reported without giving...
Authorities have evacuated nearly 60,000 people from their homes in
Mandatory evacuations were ordered in parts of Texas, and residents in Harris County, home to Houston, were told to be ready to stay put for days after heavy rain caused flooding. Harris County Judge Linda Hidalgo, the county government’s top executive, declared a disaster Thursday. Mandatory evacuations were ordered along the East Fork of the San Jacinto River, and residents were urged to leave before nightfall. “What we’re going to see tonight and into the weekend will not be Hurricane Harvey,...
Residents near 178 bodies of water have been told to leave as flooding is set to worsen.
Families are displaced and property lost as several rivers burst their
Flash floods and a landslide swept through houses and cut off a major road
The death toll from floods in Kenya continued to rise after a boat capsized on Sunday carrying dozens of people. The search and rescue operation, which took place after the Tana River burst its banks, was suspended overnight. It was expected to be resumed in daylight on Monday. (AP video shot by Andrew Kasuku)
Due to heavy rains and flooding, some Brazos Valley school districts have decided to close or delay classes on Monday, April 29