Flood

Flood misery lingers in storm-hit Philippines

After a series of devastating storms since late September, many communities in the Philippines are still badly flooded, and the government estimates it may take months for the waters to drain. The BBC's Daniel Vincent in Manila...

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Flood heroes return for training

Two hovercrafts were bought in the wake of the 2007 floods Two Italian hovercraft pilots who came to Gloucestershire's aid during the 2007 floods will return to train the county's hovercraft rescue team. The instructors are...

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Praise for policeman killed in UK floods

More rains forecast for Saturday in northern England but less risk of flooding One police officer killed when swept away on collapsing bridge 11 bridges closed across northern county of Cumbria because of weather London,...

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Northern England braces for more rain

More rains forecast for Saturday in northern England but less risk of flooding One police officer killed when swept away on collapsing bridge 11 bridges closed across northern county of Cumbria because of weather London,...

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Warning that dam may have to be opened again

By Ralph Riegel Saturday November 21 2009 THE ESB warned Cork householders and traders last night that one more inch of rainfall in the next 24 hours could trigger another major water release. ESB officials told Cork City...

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Rainfall gets more severe as climate heats up

The record rainfall that caused yesterday's devastating floods cannot be blamed directly on climate change, experts said. But they warned we were likely to see more extreme weather of this kind in the coming years as a result...

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Flood forces Vancouver Island evacuations

Dozens of homes have water "up to the doorknobs" and others are under evacuation alert after heavy rain combined with high tides to flood low-lying parts of Duncan, B.C., an hour's drive north of Victoria.

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Flood strands 140 polytechnic students, lecturers in Terengganu

A total of 140 students and lecturers from the Kota Baru Polytechnic in Kelantan who were on a camping trip in the Lata Belatan recreational area at the foothills of the Tebu Mountain, near Jabi, were stranded when the road...

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Dutch build more dunes against rising seas!

Updated on Saturday, November 21, 2009, 11:05 IST Tags: Monster (Netherlands): On the beach at Monster, bulldozers painstakingly turn sand dredged from the bottom of the North Sea bed into dunes in an ambitious effort to...

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KZN flood damage could run into millions

Damage caused by heavy rains that hit KwaZulu-Natal in the past few days could run into hundreds of millions of rands. The floods have left seven people dead and hundreds of houses damaged across the province.

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