dfo Robert Brakenridge 2006-03-30T22:40:03Z 2008-07-16T15:06:21Z Dartmouth College 12.00 1024x768 2 #DD0806 3 #1FB714 4 #0000D4 5 #FCF305 6 #F20884 7 #00ABEA 8 #900000 9 #006411 10 #000090 11 #90713A 12 #4600A5 10365 17100 -270 255 False False Register # Annual DFO # Glide # Country (click on active links to access available inundation maps) Other Nations Affected Locations and Rivers Rivers Began Ended Days Dead Displaced Damage (USD) Main cause Severity * Affected sq km Magnitude (M)** Notes and Comments (may include quoted material from copyrighted news stories) Centroid X Centroid Y "x" if active M>6 Total annual floods M>6 M>4 Total annual floods M>4 Date Began Total floods M>6 Total floods M>4 3497 66 China Southern China 2009-07-01T00:00:00.000 2009-07-06T00:00:00.000 6 20 700000 Heavy Rain 1 542100 6.5122306576642375 7-Jul-09: "Chinese state media are reporting at least 20 people have been killed in heavy flooding in the southern China.Heavy rains have been pounding central and southern China since Wednesday.The official Xinhua (shin-wah) News Agency says about 700,000 people have fled their homes after the rains toppled houses, flooded roads and damaged a dam.A school official in the (Guangxi) region says flood waters have blocked the entrances to a a middle school, stranding some 300 teenagers with limited food and water. Officials used boats to deliver supplies to the school on Saturday, including pumps to lower the water level. Flood waters are more than eight feet deep in the town. 112.71 25.31 x 1 17 1 66 2009-07-01T00:00:00.000 831 2976 3496 65 FL-2009-000122-IND India Assam 2009-07-01T00:00:00.000 2009-07-06T00:00:00.000 6 500000 Heavy Rain 1 129000 5.8887409606828927 7-Jul-09: "The Brahmaputra river was flowing above the danger level at several places including Dibrugarh, Jorhat and Guwahati. In the worst-hit districts of Lakhimpur, Dhemaji and Jorhat, vast tracts of land were submerged due to breaches in embankments.The situation in Lakhimpur is very grave following a breach in the 100-metre embankment and 200 villages submerged under gushing waters.National Disaster Rescue Force Personnel are rescuing the affected people, said DD News. Meanwhile, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has announced an inquiry into the breach of multi-crore Matmora embankment on the Brahmaputra river in North Lakhimpur district. July 5, 2009: Over 300,000 people have been hit by flood in the northeastern Indian state of Assam after incessant rains ,reported the semi-official Press Trust of India..One person has died and 400,000 have been displaced in a northeastern Indian state where a rain-swollen river burst its banks four days ago, swamping hundreds of villages, an official says."One tribal villager drowned and thousands have been rendered homeless in the flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rain," Assam's state minister for rehabilitation, Bhumidar Barman, told AFP on Sunday. The official said that around 50,000 more people were still marooned in some of the worst-hit districts, adding paramilitary forces would soon bring them to safety." 93.82 27.48 x 0 16 1 65 2009-07-01T00:00:00.000 831 2975 3495 64 FL-2009-000123-BGD Bangladesh Surma and Khusiara rivers, landslide near Habanganj town 2009-07-03T00:00:00.000 2009-07-06T00:00:00.000 4 6 Torrential Rain 1 49030 5.2925218845741409 5-Jul-09: "Torrential rains triggered landslides and flash floods killing six people and stranding half a million in their homes in Bangladesh, officials said on Saturday.The landslides occurred near Habiganj district town, some 200 km (125 miles) northeast of the capital Dhaka Saturday, burying all six members of a family.Officials said the situation had worsened at three other nearby districts, with some 500,000 people stranded at their homes as the rivers Surma and Khusiara, flowing into Bangladesh from northeastern India, burst their banks following incessant rains over the last four days."Hundreds of thatched houses were damaged, and standing crops on vast lands and rural infrastructures have been damaged," a senior disaster management official told Reuters without giving details.The situation is likely to deteriorate as the Bangladesh Meteorological Department forecast more rains in the region including northeastern India. (Reporting by Nizam Ahmed; Editing by Valerie Lee)July 5, 2009: Torrential rains triggered landslides and flash floods killing six people and stranding half a million in their homes. 89.09 25.26 x 0 16 1 64 2009-07-03T00:00:00.000 830 2974 3494 63 FL-2009-000124-VNM Viet Nam Mountainous northern regions 2009-07-03T00:00:00.000 2009-07-06T00:00:00.000 4 20 700000 Torrential Rain 1 69860 5.44628857262959 7-Jul-09:, "Vietnam's Central Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Control said torrential rains and floods since Friday had killed 20 people and left 18 others in the country's northern mountainous provinces so far, the Vietnam News reported Monday.Among the deaths, 13 are in Bac Kan, three in Cao Bang and four others in Ha Giang, Lai Chau, Lao Cai and Lang Son, said the committee.Heavy rains and floods also swept away crops and hundreds of houses, and caused landslides, resulting in serious traffic jams, said the newspaper.According to the committee, official estimates for damages were not available now as many districts were completely isolated due to washed out roads and cut electricity and telephone lines.The committee sent an urgent order to require relevant authorities to monitor reservoirs and dams, said the newspaper.District-level authorities were urged to promptly evacuate locals to safe areas, provide food and safe water to flood victims and rebuild destroyed homes. Families having dead people were given financial support.The National Hydro-meteorological Forecasting said heavy rains would keep battering northern provinces over the next few day". July 5, 2009: Heavy rains triggering floods and landslides in mountainous northern regions of Vietnam have killed at least 15 people, destroyed houses and damaged roads. . 104.3 20.67 x 0 16 1 63 2009-07-03T00:00:00.000 831 2973 3493 62 FL-2009-000120-BWA Botswana Angola Central and northern provinces, Botswana 2009-05-10T00:00:00.000 2009-07-01T00:00:00.000 53 Heavy Rain 1 571700 7.4814440618150613 July 1, 2009: Dartmouth Flood Observatory's River Watch sites and MODIS mapping of flooding in May and June show extensive areas under water (see http://www.dartmouth.edu/~floods/hydrography/E20S10.html). Although flooding in these areas is a seaonal ocurrence, exceedance of the 5 yr recurrence interval flood is demonstrated at many Botswana and Angola River Watch sites (e..g. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~floods/AMSR-E%20Gaging%20Reaches/1272.htm). This is unusually severe and sustained flooding. 23.32 -16.7 x 1 16 1 62 2009-05-10T00:00:00.000 830 2972 3492 61 FL-2009-000121-CZE Czech Republic Poland Eastern Czech Republic, southern Poland 2009-06-21T00:00:00.000 2009-06-28T00:00:00.000 8 13 Heavy Rain 1.5 47130 5.7524786858072607 June 29: Warsaw - Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he would find half a billion zloty (155 million dollars) to help victims of the nationwide floods that claimed one victim and damaged hundreds of homes and farms in southern Poland last week. Residents in the region would start receiving aid by late Monday afternoon, Tusk said during his visit to the village of Zawada.'Thank God there weren't any victims (in the area) though the force of the water was very strong,' Tusk said. 'Everyone agrees: the firemen's devotion was extraordinary.'One man drowned Thursday in high waters engulfing the region around the south-eastern town of Ropczyce. Flash floods in the region also claimed 13 lives in the neighbouring Czech Republic" June 27: " Prague - Flash floods in the northern Czech Republic claimed a twelfth victim, after a volunteer fireman drowned in the city of Jesenik, local media reported Saturday. This week's flash floods in the eastern Czech Republic killed 11 people, officials said Friday. Rescuers were searching for a missing rafter who was assumed to have drowned in the country's south.In the country's north, as many as 500 soldiers have been deployed as emergency aid workers. Meteorologists fear further rains may worsen the situation over the weekend, ....Firefighters say a man has drowned in floods following heavy rainfalls in southern Poland.Storms and heavy rains this week have swollen rivers in the region, especially the Wielopolka river near the southeastern city of Ropczyce. Firefighter's spokesman Boguslaw Drozd said Friday that a middle-aged man drowned in the area and some 600 people have been evacuated from villages. The man was the first fatality in Poland; at least six people have drowned in flooding in the Czech Republic this week.Images on television showed flooded fields, destroyed bridges and water flowing through streets and a churchyard in Ropczyce.The rains are expected to continue several more days. June 26: "Firefighters say a man has drowned in floods following heavy rainfalls in southern Poland.Storms and heavy rains this week have swollen rivers in the region, especially the Wielopolka river near the southeastern city of Ropczyce.Firefighter's spokesman Boguslaw Drozd said Friday that a middle-aged man drowned in the area and some 600 people have been evacuated from villages. The man was the first fatality in Poland; at least six people have drowned in flooding in the Czech Republic this week.Images on television showed flooded fields, destroyed bridges and water flowing through streets and a churchyard in Ropczyce.The rains are expected to continue several more days. 18.03 50.13 0 15 1 61 2009-06-21T00:00:00.000 831 2971 3491 60 Austria Towns along the Danube River in northern and western Austria 2009-06-19T00:00:00.000 2009-06-24T00:00:00.000 6 Heavy Rain 1 12250 4.8662873390841952 June 24: "VIENNA, June 24 (Reuters) - Vienna's Albertina Museum, home to landmark Impressionist works by Monet and Renoir, will start removing 950,000 artworks from its leaking underground depot following some of Austria's heaviest downpours in 50 years.The gallery, which remains open, will start moving the works on Thursday, including pieces by Flemish painter Rubens and Italian master Michelangelo.Austria has put 10,000 soldiers on standby to cope with the flooding, which has mainly affected towns along the Danube River in northern and western Austria 14.74 48.37 0 15 1 60 2009-06-19T00:00:00.000 829 2970 3490 59 FL-2009-000117-GTM, LS-2009-000116-NIC Guatamala Nicaragua Guatamala: Department of Escuintla; Nicaragua: municipality of Moyogalpa, island of Ometepe 2009-06-19T00:00:00.000 2009-06-22T00:00:00.000 4 Heavy Rain 1 127000 5.7058637122839189 June 22: "Due to heavy rains during the last days, floods have affected 10,818 people in the Department of Escuintla and 183 people have been evacuated" " Due to heavy rains, there have been 4 landslides around of the area of the Volcano Concepci?n in the municipality of Moyogalpa, island of Ometepe. 12 houses and 64 people affected" -88.64 13.42 0 15 1 59 2009-06-19T00:00:00.000 831 2969 3489 58 FL-2009-000113-CHN China Southwest China, Chongquin 2009-06-19T00:00:00.000 2009-06-22T00:00:00.000 4 8 106000 59000000 Heavy Rain 1 82900 5.5206145218782359 June 22: "BEIJING, June 22 (Xinhua) -- Floods in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality have left at least eight people dead and three missing, the Ministry of Civil Affairs announced Monday. From June 19 to 21, 220 millimeters of rain fell, triggering floods in many areas in Chongqing. As of 8:00 a.m. Saturday, about 106,000 were evacuated to safe places. A total of 6,603 homes collapsed during the disaster and 15,218were damaged In addition, some 4,800 hectares of crops were ruined.The direct economic losses caused by the disaster reached about 400 million yuan (59 million U.S. dollars).Chongqing's civil affairs department sent three teams to the worst-hit areas including Fengjie, Nanchuan, Liangping. The department has delivered 500 tents and 3,000 quilts to the affected people. 110.28 26.85 0 15 1 58 2009-06-19T00:00:00.000 829 2968 3488 57 USA Michigan 2009-06-20T00:00:00.000 2009-06-22T00:00:00.000 3 Heavy Rain 1 33320 4.9998262474544122 June 22: "Thousands of people are still without power after storms rolled across the state Friday and early today, dumping more than 3 inches of rain at Detroit Metro Airport. Consumers Energy spokeswoman Harmony Nowlin said the company, which provides service statewide, had 22,400 customers without power. She said most of those customers would be restored by Sunday afternoon and the remainder by 8 p.m. Monday.DTE Energy spokesman Scott Simons wouldn’t say how many DTE customers were without power. He did say there were scattered outages but was no major problem. “We’re not getting into any numbers,” Simons said.The storms also led to flooding in southwestern Michigan. The National Weather Service said the most severe problems were reported in Holland, where workers dealt with stranded motorists, downed trees, power outages and other flood-related emergencies.Holland Mayor Al McGeehan told the Grand Rapids Press that several thousand homes throughout the city of 34,000 had water in their basements, some as much as 8 feet. Holland is about 25 miles southwest of Grand Rapids." -84.58 42.29 0 15 1 57 2009-06-20T00:00:00.000 831 2967 3487 56 MS-2009-000115-CIV Cote d'Ivoire Abidjan 2009-06-10T00:00:00.000 2009-06-12T00:00:00.000 3 18 Heavy Rain 1 10720 4.5073160400764136 June 12: "Series of mudslides caused by torrential rains have killed 18 people in Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan, rescue services said Friday 12 June." -4.2 5.57 0 15 1 56 2009-06-10T00:00:00.000 829 2966 3486 55 Ghana Accra 2009-06-20T00:00:00.000 2009-06-22T00:00:00.000 3 5 Heavy Rain 1 9340 4.4474681309497557 June 20: "Accra, June 20, G NA - T he Greater Accra Regional Administration, has announced that intensity of rainfall that occurred last Friday night, has caused flooding in some low lying areas within the Accra Metropolis, resulting in some in deaths.It said the areas included Sakaman, Mataheko, Kaneshie and Mallam, adding that seven lives have been confirmed lost by the Police. A statement, signed by Nii Armah Ashiety, Greater Accra Regional Minister, and made available to GNA on Saturday., said the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), was coordinating emergency response to bring relief to the affected communities.It said safe havens have bee provided at the Mataheko Cluster of schools and affected persons were encouraged to move to the safe havens and disclosed that the phone number of the operation room of NADMO was 0244-444350.The statement said: "a section of the Kaneshie Mallam Road was damaged by the floods and the Department of Urban Roads has started repair works on the damaged section. We appealed to the travelling public to observe the traffic management measures put in place." It said a special taskforce would be put in place to desilt critical drains in the affected areas and maintain security." -0.1 5.73 0 15 1 55 2009-06-20T00:00:00.000 831 2965 3485 54 TC-2009-000105-IND Bangladesh India 2009-05-25T00:00:00.000 2009-05-26T00:00:00.000 2 115 20000 Tropical Storm 1.5 27820 4.9214783803756896 May 26: "Cyclone Aila caused major flooding in areas of eastern India and Bangladesh overnight, destroying thousands of homes and killing 115 people. Almost 3,000 thatch and mud houses were torn away and tens of thousands of people have been left stranded. Six-foot high waves smashed into the area and breached flood protection embankments, flooding much of the region southwest of Dhaka. Soldiers were deployed on Monday night to help evacuated villagers. Aila tore down nearly 3,000 thatched and mud houses and uprooted a large number of trees in nearly 300 villages across India's West Bengal state, said Kanti Ganguly, a state minister. He said 34 people were killed in West Bengal. Storm surges hit coastal areas in neighboring Bangladesh, killing at least 81 people, according to the Food and Disaster Management Ministry in Dhaka. It said most victims drowned or were washed away by the waves........."Tropical Cyclone,India: Cyclone AILA ripped coastal West Bengal on 25 May 2009 unleashing storms that uprooted trees, electricity poles and thatched homes, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake, killing approx 30 people and affecting 100,000 others. A severe storm with a wind speed of 110 kmph accompanied by heavy rainfall preceded the cyclone ripping through the districts of Kolkata, North and South 24 Parganas, Howrah and Hoogly. The coastal blocks like Sagar, Namkhana, Kakdwip and also Patharpraima, Canning, Basanti, Mathurapur and Kultali have all been severely affected and casualties have been reported. The West Bengal state?s Disaster Management Minister told BBC that 100,000 people had become homeless. The accompanying rains caused water-logging in large parts of the city, while power supply remained erratic and several flights were cancelled. Nearly four people were killed and 15 injured in Kolkata due to the storm that paralysed normal life. The usually bustling city streets were deserted since noon, as the authorities stopped tram services and asked people to stay indoors till evening. The city administration and police swung into action and virtual emergency was declared. Assistance of army has also been sought to help the civil administration in tackling the action. Cyclonic storm AILA also paralysed life in several parts of Coastal Orissa triggering heavy rains and high velocity winds prompting government to gear up for relief work. No casualties have been reported so far. According to the Regional Meteorological Centre Director, the cyclone now lying stationery 50 km west of Kolkata is moving in a northerly direction and will weaken gradually to a depression affecting the Northern and North Eastern states of India 89.09 22.16 0 15 1 54 2009-05-25T00:00:00.000 829 2964 3484 53 FL-2009-000095-TJK Tajikistan 25 of the country’s 58 districts... Khatlon and Sughd provinces worst hit. 2009-04-20T00:00:00.000 2009-05-15T00:00:00.000 26 21 15000 Heavy Rain 1.5 62470 6.3867361129725211 20 May 2009 (IRIN) - Aid agencies in Tajikistan have appealed for emergency aid to replenish the country’s stocks, including food, as heavy rain continues to cause floods and mud flows which have displaced over 15,000 people.A 15 May report by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said continuous torrential rain since 20 April had displaced more than 734 families (over 15,000 individuals), and was stretching emergency supplies country-wide."We ask the international community to help replenish our stocks so we can continue to respond to the onslaught of small-scale emergencies," Gabriella Waaijman, an OCHA regional disaster response adviser in Almaty (Kazakhstan), told IRIN.The Tajik government has said heavy rain between 20 April and 15 May caused flooding and mud flows in 25 of the country’s 58 districts, leaving over 21 people dead. Some 14,000 hectares of agricultural land had been damaged and 3,600 people had lost their homes, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, with Khatlon and Sughd provinces worst hit. ..Heavy rainfall on 8 May resulted in floods affecting households, damaging houses, infrastructure and agricultural sectors in: Ismoily Somony district of Dushanbe capital; Shahrinau district (Directly Ruled Districts (DRD)- 47 kilometres south-east from the capital city; Tursunzade district (DRD) - 75 km south-east from Dushanbe city) 71.290000000000006 38.51 1 15 1 53 2009-04-20T00:00:00.000 831 2963 3483 52 Haiti 2009-05-15T00:00:00.000 2009-05-21T00:00:00.000 7 21 Heavy Rain 1.5 5754 4.7811591566242457 May 23: Floods have killed at least 11 people this week as heavy rains swamp towns still rebuilding from last year's hurricanes, Haiti's civil protection department said Friday. Most of the victims were swept away by swollen rivers or died when their flimsy homes collapsed, officials said. Five of the deaths were reported in the rice-growing Artibonite Valley. Rains that began a week ago have been heaviest on the southern peninsula near Les Cayes and Camp Perrin, where 1,000 homes have been flooded. Some areas received nearly three inches of rain Thursday night, Haiti's meteorological office said.New flood alerts were issued Friday for all of Haiti's 10 administrative regions.Even small amounts of rain can swell rivers and overflow fields in this poor Caribbean nation, which is particularly vulnerable to flooding because of erosion from farming and deforestation. President René Préval visited the west-coast town of St. Marc to view flooding Wednesday and urged residents to stop building homes in ravines, Radio Kiskeya reported.With a new hurricane season officially starting June 1, officials worry new floods could damage Haiti's struggling agriculture and economy.Last year, four tropical storms killed some 800 people and caused $1 billion in damage, aggravating chronic malnutrition in several areas.International donors pledged $324 million last month to help Haiti rebuild, but the government said it could need three times that amount. -72.33 19.559999999999999 0 14 1 52 2009-05-15T00:00:00.000 829 2962 3482 51 USA Florida, Volusia and Flagler counties 2009-05-18T00:00:00.000 2009-05-21T00:00:00.000 4 Heavy Rain 1.5 13740 4.9161379831071752 May 21: Homes, businesses and roads across Volusia and Flagler counties flooded today as relentless rains drenched the area for the third day in a row. Several homes in the Crane Lakes subdivision in Port Orange also were damaged overnight by high winds.The National Weather Service said this morning more than 11 inches of rain were recorded at Daytona Beach International Airport between 8 a.m. Monday morning and 8 a.m. today. And another 2.74 inches had fallen by 2 p.m., bringing the three-day total to almost 14 inches.Even larger rainfall totals were reported in some parts of Flagler County. Emergency Management technician Bob Pickering said downtown Bunnell has received 19 inches since Sunday and Haw Creek, in extreme western Flagler, got 16.5 inches. Other notable totals: 16 inches in Port Orange, 10.6 inches in DeLand and 7.05 in Ponce Inlet. Both counties are under a flood watch today. The rainfall totals in Flagler County already far exceed what the area got during Tropical Storm Fay last summer. Bunnell's total during that lingering storm, which caused extensive flooding in West Volusia, was 13.2 inches. That was the highest total in the county during Fay's slow-motion march across the area." -81.209999999999994 28.98 0 14 1 51 2009-05-18T00:00:00.000 830 2961 3481 50 China Southern China, Hunan Province, Chenzhou City,Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in South China, Guangdong province, some provinces along the Yangtze river. 2009-05-19T00:00:00.000 2009-05-21T00:00:00.000 3 Heavy Rain 1 201100 5.7805333253164042 May 21: "Flood water runs down a river in Chenzhou city, south China's Hunan province, May 20, 2009 after heavy rain swept across provinces in south China for the second day. Agricultural crops in some rural areas were flood by the unexpected summer flood.""Heavy rain has fallen into some regions of southern China, triggering floods and threatening agriculture production. Local authorities have raised the alert level.Heavy downpours hit Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in South China, cutting transport links and flooding local homes. Local authorities upgraded the alert level to red, the highest. In Guangdong province, heavy rains and stormy weather cut the power supply and ruined houses and farmland.The rain has also caused flooding in provinces along the Yangtze river. Local authorities in Hunan have evacuated people into safer areas. Weather forecasters say the heavy rain will linger over southern China until Wednesday 111.23 25.76 0 14 1 50 2009-05-19T00:00:00.000 829 2960 3480 49 Australia Southeastern Queensland, northern New South Wales 2009-05-19T00:00:00.000 2009-05-28T00:00:00.000 10 16000 Heavy Rain 1.5 68690 6.0129847754321153 May 28: "Up to 9,000 people are still isolated 10 days after northeastern NSW was first hit with floods, and many could remain cut off for another month." May 25: " More than 21,000 people were now cut off by floodwaters along Australia's east coast, officials said.Emergency services said they carried out 47 rescues but an elderly man died on Friday after his car was swamped.Clean up operations were getting underway, with the worst of the flooding believed to be over.Hard hit overnight was the northern New South Wales (NSW) town of Maclean, where more than 400 State Emergency personnel helped locals stranded in their homes.The NSW government has declared a natural disaster area covering the Kempsey , Coffs Harbour, Bellingen, Nambucca, Port Macquarie-Hastings, Tweed, Byron, Ballina, Lismore, Kyogle, Richmond Valley and Clarence Valley areas.NSW Premier Nathan Rees toured Kempsey and nearby flooded areas on the mid- north coast on Sunday to inspect damage and talk to community leaders about recovery efforts."I can assure communities along the coast from the border south that we are ready to help them through this emergency and to return to normal as quickly as possible," Rees said in a statement on Sunday. "The impact of these floods is comparable to the severe floods that swept over such a large area of northern NSW in 2001. Like then, this will be a large- scale recovery effort to help restore the region." Water entered Kempsey overnight after a levee was breached when the Macleay River peaked at 6.9 meters (22.6 feet), with 32 people spending the night" May 21: "SE Qld flooding 'worst since 1974'..Queensland Deputy Premier Paul Lucas says the flood crisis in the state's south-east is the worst since the 1974 floods that devastated many parts of Brisbane.There are still reports of flooding in many parts of the south-east although conditions have eased in Brisbane.The severe weather is now focused on the southern Gold Coast, where a large wave has already turned a car into a sand sculpture.State Emergency Service (SES) crews are still responding to about 1,000 calls for assistance, ranging from the Sunshine Coast to the Gold Coast and west to Ipswich.Mr Lucas has told State Parliament the flooding has been wide-ranging."The rain and subsequent flooding in south-east Queensland are the worst we've seen since 1974," he said.""TEN properties have been evacuated at the mouth of the Tweed River on the New South Wales north coast as heavy rain pelts the area and floodwaters rise. The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) has issued warnings of severe weather and moderate to major flooding for people living along the coast between the Nambucca region and the Queensland border. Flood watches are current for the Tweed..." 152.72999999999999 -29.05 1 14 1 49 2009-05-19T00:00:00.000 830 2959 3479 48 Afghanistan Faryab Province 2009-05-11T00:00:00.000 2009-05-13T00:00:00.000 3 Heavy Rain 1 58890 5.247162809039331 May 18: "KABUL: The Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) were assisted by International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops in providing humanitarian relief to the victims of flooding in Faryab province on May 12. The heavy rainfalls on May 11 made many of the rivers of Faryab province burst their banks and caused a landslide in the small mountain village of Bataw-e-Bala. German and Norwegian ISAF commands responded quickly and were able to provide four helicopters to support the relief action in order to help the residents of the village. The natural disaster caused extensive damage to the village but fortunately its residents were able to escape onto a nearby plateau. The ISAF helicopters were used to support GIRoA and the UN-OCHA to transport tents, food, blankets and medical aid to the remote region. The coordination of the relief aid was undertaken by a Disaster Management Committee, an ad-hoc group of representatives from GIRoA, UNAMA, UN OCHA and Non-Government Organizations. In addition to the assistance of the ISAF aircraft, Regional Command North was able to provide 500 wool blankets, more than 1,000 litres of potable water and a large amount of food. ISAF handed over the valuable supplies to the Afghan National Army (ANA) who distributed them to the local Afghan people." 64.400000000000006 34.880000000000003 0 13 1 48 2009-05-11T00:00:00.000 829 2958 3478 47 USA Southern West Virginia, Kentucky 2009-05-03T00:00:00.000 2009-05-10T00:00:00.000 8 Heavy Rain 2 16460 5.4205498135321761 May 10: "GILBERT, W.Va. (AP) -- The National Guard is helping residents in West Virginia's southern coalfields recover from weekend flooding that destroyed at least 300 buildings, knocked out power and caused mudslides that flushed trash, debris and at least one mobile home downstream.Gov. Joe Manchin toured the region and activated 300 Guard troops Sunday on top of the 30 he called up a day before when he declared a state of emergency for six counties, said Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management spokesman Robert Jelacic.Emergency crews, residents and business owners - some covered in mud - assessed the damage in Gilbert and used shovels to clean up after downpours dumped several inches of rain Friday and Saturday. On the road leading to the town of about 400 people, a mobile home broke loose Saturday and floated a quarter-mile before it was split in half by a poplar tree.""CHARLESTON -- Victims of storms in West Virginia may qualify for tax relief from the Internal Revenue Service. Following severe storms, flooding, mudslides, and landslides on May 3, 2009, the President declared Mingo and Wyoming counties federal disaster areas qualifying for individual assistance. " -81.28 37.659999999999997 0 13 1 47 2009-05-03T00:00:00.000 829 2957 3477 46 TC-2009-000093-PH Philippines Luzon 2009-05-03T00:00:00.000 2009-05-08T00:00:00.000 6 47 65000 Tropical Storms 1.5 21370 5.2840470316033947 May 5: "Over 20 killed in Philippine floods. FLASH floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains dumped by a typhoon have killed 20 people and left three missing in the Philippines, the country's disaster agency said yesterday. The weather bureau said Typhoon Kujira was centred off the coast of the southeastern province of Catanduanes in Luzon island and was slowly moving to the northeast, with maximum sustained winds of 120 kph near the centre. Among the dead are a 2-month-old girl whose house collapsed and a 1-year-old girl who died of injuries from a landslide. Thousands of residents were evacuated to schools and government offices at the weekend. The central province of Albay, about 550km from the capital Manila, declared a state of calamity at the weekend. Officials pegged the damage to infrastructure and agriculture caused by the typhoon at 148.77 million pesos ($4.5 million). Most of the farm damage was to rice and corn crops. Landslides and flash floods are common across the Philippines during the monsoon months from May to November. But weather officials said they were surprised with the high rainfall levels in the summer months of March and April.."May 7: "At least 24 people have been killed and three are missing in the northern Philippines after a powerful typhoon swept through the area, officials have said.Typhoon Cha-hom packed winds of 120kmh when it made landfall in Pangasinan province north of Manila overnight on Thursday, dumping heavy rains and uprooting trees.The storm has triggered landslides, which killed nine people in Kiangan town in Ifugao province.At least 12 people died in Pangasinan, an area that has been isolated by flooded roads and toppled trees, Gilbert Teodoro, Philippines defence secretary, said.Cha-hom rapidly weakened into a tropical storm after crossing the mountains of Cordillera and Sierra Madre, forecasters said, and was heading towards China late on Friday.With many roads flooded, several towns were cut off during the storm and authorities struggled to move hundreds of residents to safety.Soldiers have been sent into some areas to clear the debris left by the typhoon, Teodoro said. In central Iloilo province, a passenger ferry ran aground amid strong winds and rough seas but the coast guard rescued all 80 people aboard, local radio reported. Another 1,000 passengers and 71 vessels were stranded in ports because of the storm.Cha-hom is the second cyclone to hit the Philippines in the space of a week.Last weekend at least 27 people died and 55,000 had to be evacuated from their homes as tropical storm Kujira lashed the same region of the country.About 20 typhoons and storms hit the Philippines each year, but forecasters said they usually do not appear this early and that the extreme weather may have been caused by global warming 121.36 18.03 x 0 13 1 46 2009-05-03T00:00:00.000 829 2956 3476 45 USA Alaska, Yukon Watershed and river, other locations 2009-05-01T00:00:00.000 2009-06-07T00:00:00.000 38 snowmelt 1.5 790450 7.6537492594652425 June 12: " President Obama has issued a disaster declaration for several parts of Alaska affected by spring flooding and ice jams, ordering federal aid to help in recovery efforts.Federal funds will be available to affected residents in the Alaska Gateway, Kuspuk, Yukon Flats and the Yukon-Koyukuk regional education attendance areas.The government says assistance can include grants for temporary housing and home repairs and low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses.Federal funds also are available to state and local governments in the Alaska Gateway, Kuspuk, Lower Kuskokwim, Yukon Flats and Yupiit attendance areas and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.Federal officials say damage surveys continue, and more areas may become eligible for assistance.June 7: "WORST: Even 30-year residents can't recall a flood as bad as 2009...As the ice dams on the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers began to break loose last week allowing floodwaters to subside, residents of the Alaska villages hit hardest began assessing the damages to their families as well as to their communities." May 12: " Brutal ice flows and raging flood water are wreaking havoc in small, isolated villages scattered along the Yukon River. Most of the 80 or so people of Stevens Village were evacuated during the weekend, with 25 men staying to do what they could as water engulfed the community through Monday morning".May 10: "Elders and pregnant women have been evacuated from a flooded Kuskokwim River village, Alaska responders said Saturday....37 people including four pregnant women were flown Friday night from Akiak to the hub town of Bethel 25 miles southwest."There's water in a lot of the village right now," Fisher said. "The runway is operational."... most of the remaining residents in the southwest Alaska village of 350 are staying at the local school. Also vulnerable is the Yukon River community of Stevens Village, 90 miles northwest of Fairbanks. State responders arrived there Saturday afternoon and an evacuation of about 30 women and children was under way as a precaution. They were being flown to Fairbanks. A massive ice jam in a canyon eight miles downriver was causing waters to rise swiftly around the village. The river washed over the nearest road Saturday afternoon, said Corey Bogel, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.Fisher said that as responders flew to the village, they spotted a 60-mile run of ice heading downriver toward the jam."It could get worse," he said. Meanwhile, cleanup continues in Eagle just west of the Canadian border after a devastating flood caused by ice jams from the Yukon River caused extensive damage. Flooding and ice essentially destroyed nearby Eagle Village, a traditional Han Kutchin Indian community" May 8: "An unusually warm spring thaw in Alaska is causing some of the state's worst flooding in decades, with rising rivers wiping out an entire village and bombarding another town with ice chunks as big as houses...A house in Eagle, Alaska, was surrounded by ice Thursday.The Alaska Railroad shut down from Sunday through Thursday between the state's two biggest cities, Anchorage and Fairbanks, after water and ice submerged a section of track. There have been no reports of serious injuries in the flood...The governor on Wednesday had declared a disaster for the flooded areas, including the Susitna River, which runs through her hometown of Wasilla near Anchorage. While no serious damage was reported in the Wasilla area, officials said some nearby roads were closed because of high water, keeping people from their homes.With rivers continuing to rise, forecasters have issued flood warnings and watches for towns and villages spanning the state, the nation's largest by area.Every building in tiny Eagle Village was destroyed, authorities said, and upward of 100 people were evacuated from homes there and in the nearby town of Eagle. Minor flooding also hit at least nine other communities. The floods resulted from a rare combination of unusually heavy winter snow and a spring warm-up over the past week that saw temperatures soar into the 70s -- a good 20 degrees higher than normal for this time of year. National Weather Service forecasters said temperatures have dropped to seasonably cool levels and are likely to stay that way for the next week or so, which they say could ease some of the flooding.One of the hardest-hit waterways has been the Yukon River. At 2,300 miles long, it is Alaska's lengthiest river. Melting snow in the Yukon's Canadian headwaters poured more water than normal into the river. At the same time, the warmer temperatures caused giant chunks of ice to break up and form a massive jam just upstream from the communities of Eagle (population about 140) and Eagle Village (population about 70), said Robin Radlein, a regional hydrologist for the weather service in Anchorage." -142.30000000000001 65.430000000000007 x 1 13 1 45 2009-05-01T00:00:00.000 829 2955 3475 44 FL-2009-000089-BRA Brazil Maranhao, Bahia states; northern Brazil 2009-04-22T00:00:00.000 2009-05-14T00:00:00.000 23 39 408000 Heavy Rain 2 524400 7.3824205146996205 May 18: TRIZIDELA DO VALE, Brazil — Swelled rivers that have flooded homes to their rooftops and forced more than 260,000 people from their homes in northeastern Brazil will probably take a few more weeks to recede, Brazilian authorities said over the weekend.The intense flooding has paralyzed large swaths of this sweltering tropical region, where schools and government buildings have been closed for weeks and whole towns are almost underwater. While water levels have receded somewhat in recent days, showers continued through the weekend. That further complicated the timeline for the drenched areas to dry out and for residents to return to their homes. With only marginal assistance arriving from the federal government, local authorities in some of Brazil’s poorest states say they are at the breaking point. “The water level is not dropping fast enough,” said Jânio de Sousa Freitas, the mayor of Trizidela do Vale, one of the worst-hit towns. “We are facing a critical situation. We don’t have the resources to cope with the heavy demand for basic goods, from food to medicines to mattresses.”The flooding, which began in April, has been the third-worst in the past 49 years, based on the amount of rainfall in a single month, said Lincoln Muniz Alves, a climatologist in São Paulo for the Center for Weather Forecasting and Climate Studies.It is the second time in six months that intense flooding has turned into a regional disaster. In November, torrential rains in Santa Catarina, in the south, caused landslides that left 135 people dead and swept more than 78,000 from their homes, affecting some 60 towns.“What we are observing in the last few years in Brazil is a pattern of droughts and more intense rains,” said Carlos Nobre, a climatologist in São Paulo at the National Institute of Space Research.Colder temperatures in the Pacific Ocean, which climatologists have called the La Niña effect, are colliding with warmer temperatures in the tropical southern Atlantic Ocean, one possible explanation for the extreme weather patterns, he said.Heavy rains continue to force more people from their homes. Civil-defense authorities said Sunday that the number of homeless or displaced people in the state of Maranhão had climbed beyond 116,000, with 10 dead and 93 towns in a state of emergency. ""May 14:Thousands of Brazilians returned home yesterday following devastating floods but water kept on rising in some places and civil defence officials used helicopters, trucks and boats to deliver aid to victims in isolated communities.The death toll dropped from 42 to 39. The number of homeless decreased from 300,000 to 267,000 as residents headed home in some of the 11 states affected by the floods - an area more than five times the size of New Zealand. But waters were still rising in some places and authorities warned that the situation remained a threat because the weather forecast calls for more downpours.A major aid effort was still under way, with civil defence officials delivering food and drinking water to isolated communities surrounded by muddy water and newly formed lakes.Flood victims gathered around helicopters dropping off aid in the hard-hit state of Maranhao, and Globo TV showed images of people living on the roofs of homes inundated with water because they feared looters would strike if they headed to shelters.Rain was still falling in some parts of the zone stretching from the Amazon to normally dry northeastern Brazil, which has experienced its worst flooding in at least two decades. Meteorologists have blamed the rainfall that led to the floods on an Atlantic Ocean weather system that usually moves on in March but didn't budge this year.Water was still rising yesterday in sprawling Amazonas state, and low-lying parts of the jungle city of Manaus were flooding as the mighty Rio Negro river that feeds the Amazon approached a record set in 1953." "May 10: Floodwaters receded some in inundated towns across northern Brazil on Sunday, but the number of homeless rose above 300,000 and two people were missing after an overloaded canoe overturned in swift waters.Forty deaths had been confirmed in northern Brazil's worst flooding in decades, fed by two months of unusually heavy rains in a zone stretching from deep in the Amazon to normally arid areas near the Atlantic coast." May 8: "Northern Brazil's worst floods in decades have driven 218,000 people from their homes to seek refuge wherever they can, packing onto flatbed trucks and braving rivers teeming with deadly reptiles in a scramble for higher ground. Already, 36 people have been killed in the flooding, sparked by unusually heavy rains that have been falling for two months on 10 of Brazil's 26 states. Three times the size of Alaska, the affected area stretches from the normally wet rainforest to coastal states known for lengthy droughts. Meteorologists blame an Atlantic Ocean weather system that typically moves on by April and they forecast weeks more of the same....Some shelters were already packed with people, pets and livestock, and had little food or medical supplies. Even fleeing presented its own perils: In the same newly formed rivers that flood victims waded through or plied with canoes swam anacondas, rattlesnakes and legless, rodent-eating "worm lizards," whose bite is excruciating....Alligators swam through the city of Santarem, civil defense official Walkiria Coelho said. Scorpions congregated on the same high ground as people escaping the rising water...Authorities worried about thousands of people isolated for days with little food or clean water, rushing aid to towns and cities. In some places, aid was stuck because there were no local workers to distribute it...Rivers were still rising as much as a foot (30 centimeters) a day in Maranhao. The surging torrents wrecked bridges and made it too dangerous for relief workers to take boats onto some waterways. Globo TV said planes were unable to land in remote areas of Piaui state and roads were impassable, leaving boats as the only option because helicopters were not available" April 27, 2009: "Floods and mudslides from heavy rains in northeastern Brazil have driven more than 33,000 people from their homes and killed three, including an infant. Officials say 30,000 people were forced to flee residences in Maranhao state, along with 3,400 more in neighboring Bahia state. Maranhao Civil Defense official Nivaldo Duarte said Thursday that flooding killed two people.Antonio Rodrigues of Bahia's Civil Defense office said a mudslide in the state capital, Salvador, killed a one-month-old child.Rains have battered the region for the last two weeks. -45.43 -3.19 x 1 12 1 44 2009-04-22T00:00:00.000 828 2954 3474 43 USA Houston Area, Texas. Other locations, Texas 2009-04-20T00:00:00.000 2009-04-29T00:00:00.000 10 5 Heavy Rain 1.5 60190 5.9556156023804707 April 29, 2009:"Houston may get chance to dry out today and much of next week after Tuesday's downpours flooded the west and northwest areas of Harris County... Severe weather pounded areas on both sides of the Red River on Wednesday, dumping heavy rain and causing flash floods in the far northern portions of Texas and southern Oklahoma, the National Weather Service said.The southern portion of Oklahoma and the North Texas counties of Montague, Cooke, Grayson and Fannin, received from 6 to 12 inches of rain in the afternoon and into the evening" April 20, 2009: "Severe weather washed over the Houston area Saturday afternoon, causing serious street flooding and prompting the National Weather Service to issue multiple watches and warnings. Street flooding and high water rescues were reported across region after the cluster of storms dumped heavy rain on already saturated ground. The conditions were treacherous for drivers.Late Saturday afternoon, five children were killed when the vehicle they were riding in plunged into Greens Bayou.Two adult males and one child were able to get out safely. Pearland was hit particularly hard by the rain. 11 News Meteorologist Mario Gomez said more than 6 inches of rain fell there Saturday. About 1.5 inches fell in Pearland in just 12 minutes. Gomez said rainfall that severe is usually only seen in tropical storm conditions. “We were getting incredible amounts of rainfall around town,” Clear Creek and the St. Bernard River – both in the League City area—were experiencing flooding, and Gomez said those water levels would take a few days to go down.There were reports of flooded roads in Kingwood, Pearland, the Heights and the southeast side of Clear Lake, as well as along the North Freeway -95.96 29.47 0 11 1 43 2009-04-20T00:00:00.000 827 2953 3473 42 Indonesia Samarinda City, East Kalimantan 2009-04-17T00:00:00.000 2009-04-27T00:00:00.000 11 20000 Heavy Rain 1 9797 5.0324857932071128 April 27, 2009: Floods engulfing the East Kalimantan capital Samarinda over the past week have shown no signs of receding. As of Wednesday, a number of businesses and schools in the area had temporarily closed as a result of meter-high floods. The flooding has forced three schools - the political science, forestry and community health schools - at the Mulawarman University, to close temporarily.Floods have inundated the three schools to the height of an adult's waist, or more than a meter high."I have been given leave today because my campus is flooded," said forestry student Iwan.The economic school and the administrative building are also flooded, although not as severely as the forestry and community health schools.Adding to the city's paralysis, Samarinda's Temindung Airport has also been closed since Monday." April 20, 2009: At least 20,000 residence in Samarinda city of East Kalimantan province have fled their homes and took shelters at makeshift tents and relative houses after floods hit their area, National Disaster Management Agency said here Monday.Consecutive days of heavy rain was blamed for the natural disaster since Sunday, spokesman of the agency Priyadi Kardono said."The waters have submerged 5,563 houses and predicted more than 20,000 people have escaped the floods," he told Xinhua.The waters had also submerged roads to airport, causing no flight since Monday morning, Kardono said."The access to the airport has been inundated," he said. Flood is common in Indonesia after a heavy rains due to lack of forest-covered areas caused by forest destruction." 116.93 -0.3 0 11 1 42 2009-04-17T00:00:00.000 827 2952 3472 41 FL-2009-000075-BDI Burundi 2009-04-12T00:00:00.000 2009-04-15T00:00:00.000 4 8000 Heavy Rain 1 11710 4.6706168864003255 April 15, 2009: Rain-induced floods have displaced over 8,000 people in a commune north of Bujumbura, the Burundian capital, and damaged at least 1,200 houses as well as crops, an official has said."The rains have destroyed many houses and crops; others are still flooded," Moise Ndayisenga, the administrator of Buterere Commune, said. More rain fell on 12 April in Buterere - a low-lying area - but the displacement and damage caused has not been fully assessed because some locations are still inaccessible, the official said At Maramvya, a settlement in Buterere, another downpour on 12 April displaced 450 households and destroyed at least 100 homes, he said, adding: "Half of Buterere Commune's population might become destitute." Flood waters had reached areas that were previously unaffected, "even moving down a road leading to Bujumbura International Airport," he sa 29.75 -3.27 0 11 1 41 2009-04-12T00:00:00.000 827 2951 3471 40 FL-2009-000080-AFG Afghanistan 2009-04-06T00:00:00.000 2009-04-30T00:00:00.000 25 1200 Heavy Rain 1.5 88520 6.5210726729829389 April 29: On 20-21 April, flooding was reported in 10 locations on the outskirts of Mazar city and 3 in Chemtal district of Balkh province. Two children were killed, a total of 240 houses completely destroyed, 157 partially damaged. 240 families have lost everything"..."Flash floods, landslides and earthquakes in different parts of Afghanistan in the last 10 days or so have damaged thousands of houses, killed hundreds of livestock and made thousands homeless, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said. At least 15 people lost their lives and over a dozen of others were injured by floods in Herat, Badakhshan, Parwan, Faryab and Takhar provinces over the past two weeks, according to the Afghanistan National Disasters Management Authority (ANDMA).“In Balkh Province [northern Afghanistan] about 1,500 families need emergency assistance,” said Sheilagh Henry, an OCHA field coordinator.Over 2,000 families were also affected by floods in Herat Province, (western Afghanistan); about 800 families were hit in Badghis Province (northwestern Afghanistan); and hundreds more were affected in several other provinces" April 9, 2009: "Heavy rains and flood have destroyed over 300 houses and left dozens of people homeless in the west Afghan province of Herat, the province’s top emergency official said. “The natural disaster affected people in the districts of Kohsan, Gulran, Anjil and Guzara and has also badly damaged hundreds of hectares of agricultural land,” 63.59 33.07 x 1 11 1 40 2009-04-06T00:00:00.000 827 2950 3470 39 Canada New Brunswick 2009-04-01T00:00:00.000 2009-04-09T00:00:00.000 9 200 Ice jam/break-up 1 20490 5.2657844678405201 April 9, 2009: "April 9, 2009: "High water levels surging along the St. John River pushed ice over the river's banks, crushing guard rails and pavement, as flooding forced more than 200 people from their homes in western New Brunswick.Across the river in Grafton, N.B., resident Mike Kavanaugh said he was astonished at the speed of the ice-jam."There was so much of it, so fast," he said. "I've never seen that before. Usually it takes overnight for it to pile up like this, but it was just over two hours." Ice is also jamming the Meduxnekeag River, which meets the St. John in Woodstock. Meanwhile, more than 200 residents of Perth-Andover had to leave their homes because of flooding from the river. But the waters have since receded in the area, after an ice jam on the river gave way in the early morning hours. Water levels dropped by about four metres, but not before about 30 basements were flooded. A state of emergency for the region has since been lifted. Heavy rains throughout the province are also swelling waterways. The community last experienced major floods in 1987 and 1976."" -67.63 47.16 0 10 1 39 2009-04-01T00:00:00.000 826 2949 3469 38 USA Northern Florida 2009-04-06T00:00:00.000 2009-04-09T00:00:00.000 4 1000 Heavy Rain 2 82060 5.8172214996228373 April 9, 2009: "Record flooding continued to force people from homes in north Florida on Thursday with the focus moving from the Panhandle, where floodwaters were receding, to rivers that were still rising in rural areas farther east. Initial reports so far show floodwaters have destroyed or caused major damage to nearly 200 homes and minor damage to more than 500 across Florida's northern tier in the past two weeks. The toll is expected to increase because officials haven't been able to reach some flooded areas and rivers are still rising in others."We've had river flooding before, but we've never had anything like this," said Jim Stanley, emergency management director for Madison County about 50 miles east of Tallahassee. "We've got some homes that are nearly completely underwater." Stanley estimated 100 homes have been affected by floodwaters from the Withlacoochee River, but no official assessment yet has been made there. The Withlacoochee crested at a record 89 feet near the Florida-Georgia state line, topping the old record set in 1948 by four feet" -85.233000000000004 30.84 0 10 1 38 2009-04-06T00:00:00.000 826 2948 3468 37 Australia New South Wales 2009-03-30T00:00:00.000 2009-03-31T00:00:00.000 2 Heavy Rain 1.5 56500 5.2291697025391013 31 March 2009: "A severe weather warning has been issued for parts of New South Wales as residents remain stranded by floodwaters in Coffs Harbour and on the mid north coast.The flooding, which has isolated thousands of people, is being described as a once-in-a-century event.Residents in Sydney, the Northern Rivers, mid north coast and Hunter regions are being warned of flash flooding, damaging surf and some damaging winds.The Bureau of Meteorology says a low-pressure trough off the northern NSW coast is moving slowly south and is forecast to develop further.A separate flood watch has also been issued for NSW coastal rivers from the Queensland border to the Hunter, with flood warnings current for the Bellinger, Hastings, Williams, Nambucca, and Orara rivers and Coffs Creek at Coffs Harbour.". 151.35 -32.46 0 10 1 37 2009-03-30T00:00:00.000 826 2947 3467 36 FL-2009-000068-ZMB,FL-2009-000063-AGO,FL-2009-000062-NAM Zambia Angola Namibia Botswana Namibia, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Botswana and Zimbabwe 2009-02-27T00:00:00.000 2009-04-25T00:00:00.000 58 150 54000 240000000 Heavy Rain 2 1148000 8.124399877288873 May 8, 2009: "More than 200 schools were closed because they were surrounded by water or because young children were too small to walk across the huge flat pans -- locally known as oshanas -- filled with water one metre deep.These shallow pans have no real river beds. As unusually heavy seasonal rains hit Namibia and neighbouring Angola earlier this year, the waters silently filled the oshanas.Once they were full, even more rain connected the oshanas to form vast shallow lakes stretching for kilometres and taking months to dry up. At least 102 people have died since January in the worst flooding since 1972, which has affected about 600 000 people across northern Namibia.Namibia's government says it will cost about two billion Namibian dollars ($240-million) to clean up and repair infrastructure to prevent future disasters. "I have lost all my millet crop because the flood put my field under water for weeks," said Hileni Amunyela, a middle-aged widow living near one of the region's few main roads. "It is too late now to plough with my two oxen and plant again," she said as she looked over the blackened plant stalks that had only grown knee-high when the floods hit in February. 20 April: "The United Nations and its agencies are rushing to provide urgent assistance to victims of heavy flooding, which has claimed over 150 lives so far in Angola, Namibia, Madagascar and Zambia, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).In Angola, the UN is supporting government efforts, with the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) seeking to improve access to safe drinking water and providing much-needed items and sanitation facilities to people seeking shelter in relocation camps. The World Health Organization (WHO) has sent staff to help the local authorities to assess the needs of flood-hit populations. Since the beginning of 2009, torrential rains in Southern Africa have swollen rivers to levels not recorded in last four decades and claimed over 150 lives. According to a recent report, over 600,000 others affected by the heavy rains, have left over 200,000 in need of food aid over the next two months.OCHA warned that the flooding, which has also affected Botswana, Malawi and Mozambique, could worsen as the region is hit with higher than average rainfall over the next few months. Authorities have predicted that the risk of outbreaks of water-borne diseases is increasing". 16 April: "The death toll from deadly floods in southern Africa has risen to 145, aid workers and officials said Thursday, with hundreds of thousands of people affected by the high waters. In Angola the death toll jumped from 24 last week to over 60 this week, after months of heavy rains and flooding in the south of the country, General Eugenio Laborinho, head of the National Service for Civil Protection. Aid workers fear the waters will cause even more damage as the floods move south across the border into Namibia, where the death toll already stands at 85.The floods have hit Angola, Namibia and Zambia the hardest, with a total of 781,000 people suffering damages to their homes or crops in the three countries, according to national estimates. More than half of the victims are in Zambia, although national authorities there have not reported any fatalities. Months of heavy rains have also raised fears of water-borne diseases, with the United Nations reporting nearly 500 cases of cholera so far this year in Angola." 9 April: "More than 350,000 people have been affected by the flood while 13 000 were displaced. Their immediate needs include shelter, access to clean water, sanitation facilities and health care, food and medicine" 30 March 2009: "THE rainy season is coming to an end but leaving behind a trail of destruction characterised by flooding and damaged roads and bridges in most parts of Zambia.The hard hit provinces are Western and North-Western provinces where floods have caused severe damage to crops and infrastructure in districts. Shang'ombo District in Western Province is reportedly the worst hit in the country and remains cut off because of damaged roads and bridges that cannot be repaired immediately until the water level recedes.Reports coming from Shang'ombo are that efforts to reconnect the district to the rest of Zambia are being frustrated by floods where earth moving equipment has been stuck."..Continuous floods have resulted in floods in some parts of the southern African country with Western Province being the most affected. Hundreds of people have been displaced while crops washed away.The country's Disaster Management and Mitigation said the number of affected districts has increased from the initial 15 to 21.... The United Nations on Tuesday raised the number of people hit by floods in Angola to 200 000 and warned that numbers are "likely to increase" amid the worst floods lashing the region in more than four decades.The latest figures marked a 40 000 rise from estimates of 160 000 given last Friday by the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs.Heavy rains and floods have also affected up to 350 000 people in Namibia, with Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Botswana and Zimbabwe also hit by the floods."The flooding in southern African is intensifying," said OCHA spokesperson Elizabeth Byrs, adding the floods "are the worst in the region since 1963". More from Mar 30: "The tourist resort of Kasane remains under threat and could be submerged by the violent Zambezi and Chobe floods.. the flooded river is already encroaching on homes in the tourists resort while five more villages in the Chobe remain under serious threat...Chobe is home to the world's biggest elephant population and a variety of game....Already flooding the Okavango, the Zambezi and Chobe Rivers north of the country have displaced 430 people, submerging eight villages, and five tourists facilities. No one has perished yet...The flooding Chobe and Zambezi rivers have put 1,000 lives in two villages immediately under threat, according to District officer Orapeleng Modimoopelo, who told the Monitor that the two villages of Satau, and Parakarungu with a total population of over 1,000 could be swept away within a matter of days."Water engineers are telling us these are the worst floods here since 1965. The last time a similar flood swept past this place those two villages were sunk, so we expect the same thing to happen, looking at the weight and the speed with which the flood is going," Modimoopelo said. The Chobe officer told the Monitor that the Botswana-Zambia-Namibia-Zimbabwe crossing point known as Kazungula, has also been impassable for two days. "We have been working around the clock to pour more concrete so that we can raise the road level. We hope in the next 30 minutes cars will start crossing between our countries", Modimoopelo said on Friday.Two lodges, Tsaro Lodge and Thebe Lodge have also been submerged in floods, according to the Chobe District official.Meanwhile in the Ngami District alone, 61.28 hectares of ploughed fields have been submerged. All in all 38 ploughing fields have been submerged, Ngamiland District Commissioner, Bernadette Malala, said in a phone interview from the Okavango Delta where they continue to monitor the situation and rescue people.District Commissioner Malala says she expects the number of people displaced by the flooding Okavango to rise by another 500, because another village, Xamasere, is heavily under threat. The village is still being monitored.She said two lodges situated along the Delta have been submerged while another facility remains heavily under threat. The affected lodges are the Trotsky Lodge and Sepopa Lodge. Shakawe Lodge has also been closed due to the floods, according to Botswana Tourism Board marketing manager, Joe Motse.Government authorities have already set up a temporary village structure for the displaced 24.23 -18.760000000000002 x 1 10 1 36 2009-02-27T00:00:00.000 826 2946 3466 35 Indonesia Suburb of Cireundeu to the southwest of Jakarta 2009-03-27T00:00:00.000 2009-03-27T00:00:00.000 1 99 1600 Dam Break, Heavy Rain 1 19200 4.2833012287035492 Mar. 30:"The death toll from Friday's dam flooding on the outskirts of the Indonesian capital has risen to 99, and another 151 people are missing, local media reported. The 10-meter-high dam, built in 1933, burst in the suburb of Cireundeu to the southwest of Jakarta at 2:00 a.m. More than 400 houses were submerged and hundreds of people were forced to flee their homes."The bodies of 99 people have been found. We have focused our efforts on searching for another 151 people who are missing," Indonesian news website detik.com quoted the coordinator of the local rescue team as saying.The cause of the tragedy is being investigated. It was earlier believed that the dam collapsed due to torrential rains, but meteorologists have denied the reports. Other media believe the collapse occurred due to lack of maintenance."" Indonesia stepped up the search on Monday for survivors of a flash flood sparked by a burst dam in Jakarta, with 98 already confirmed dead and more than 100 listed as missing, officials said.Hundreds of rescue workers had been deployed after the dam collapsed on Friday and a wall of water surged through hundreds of homes and buildings in the middle-class Cireundeu and Ciputat suburbs of southern Jakarta. 106.36 -6.55 0 9 1 35 2009-03-27T00:00:00.000 825 2945 3465 34 FF-2009-000069-IDN Indonesia Western Sumatra province of Sumatra 2009-03-30T00:00:00.000 2009-03-31T00:00:00.000 2 1000 Torrential Rain 1 44400 4.9484129657786013 Mar. 31:" About 1,000 residents have fled home after floods and landslides hit West Sumatra province of Sumatra island in Indonesia, Disaster Management Agency said here Tuesday.One person has been killed by the natural disaster, the agency said.The disaster had damaged dozens of houses, schools buildings, mosques, roads and bridges, spokesman of the agency Priyadi Kardono said. "Most of the displaced persons lived in makeshift tents," he told Xinhua. The floods and landslide have occurred since Monday morning, said Kardono.Floods and landslide often take place in Indonesia during the rainy season due to forest destruction. ." 100.73 -1.21 0 9 1 34 2009-03-30T00:00:00.000 825 2944 3464 33 USA Canada Red River, Fargo, North Dakota and Minnesota, James River, South Dakota, Winnepeg, Manitoba 2009-03-24T00:00:00.000 2009-04-20T00:00:00.000 28 5000 Snowmelt and Heavy Rain 2 39740 6.347415889779997 April 20: "While floodwaters south of Winnipeg appeared to crest over the weekend, the Red River's damage had been done. More than 2,200 people have fled their homes and officials warn that rainfall could spoil the reprieve. But with homes and farmland swamped and the Red River now a 750-kilometre lake, there was some good news: All the river's tributaries were reported to have crested by yesterday morning. But serious flooding continued southwest of Winnipeg along the Pembina River yesterday, with residents sandbagging for two days to prevent the Pembina from swamping the Holiday Mountain ski resort near La Rivière". April 17: "Officials in Dickey County, N.D., called for a voluntary evacuation of all homes around the James River on Thursday night as flooding continued to intensify in North Dakota and South Dakota....all roads around the James River were being closed as officials expected floodwater to overtake a spillway near the Dickey County and LaMoure County, N.D., line on Thursday night...the river, which was already washing out roads and threatening homes, was expected to rise another two feet" .Mar. 31:" As a blizzard lingered in North Dakota, the state's National Guard commander told lawmakers on Monday that the Missouri River could flood again and that the Red River is bound for a second crest, but how high and when are still unknown....Maj. Gen. David Sprynczynatyk also said the state has spent more than $40 million in flood fighting efforts". April 16: "A state of emergency was declared Thursday in some parts of the central Canadian city of Winnipeg, as it fights for safety against rising Red River flood waters. Hundreds of volunteers are working around the clock to build sandbag dikes around endangered properties. On Wednesday experts predicted the city could be hit by a crest of 6.78 meters, the second highest in history, in a day or two... Manitoba's chief flood forecaster said the flooding situation is specially tough this year along the Red River, which wreaks havoc on the province each spring as melting snow and rain swells the river and its tributaries. This year is an anomaly in that it will have three distinct flood crests, rather than the usual one. The third crest, which just passed through the U.S. North Dakota State, is expected to arrive next week, he said" Mar. 30: "The threat of flooding from the Red River that separates North Dakota and Minnesota has receded -- at least temporarily -- after the water crested lower than expected on Saturday near Fargo, N.D.North Dakota must remain vigilant for at least a week or so as the water could rise again, bringing a torrent of icy flash flooding to the area." -97.03 48.25 x 1 9 1 33 2009-03-24T00:00:00.000 825 2943 3463 32 Malaysia Beaufort 2009-03-17T00:00:00.000 2009-03-19T00:00:00.000 3 1 330 Heavy Rain 1 14510 4.6387886671573986 March 19: "KOTA KINABALU, Mon:Floods in the west coast town of Beaufort have caused 328 people to be evacuated from their homes today.The water level in some hard-hit areas have reached to as high as one meter and access roads from in and out of the town have been blocked.The Padas river has also hit the danger level of 9.75 metres...the 328 victims from 84 families were at the Pak Musa community hall, Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Beaufort and Limbungan community hall. In Sipitang, about 60km from Beaufort, rescue efforts are still being made to find 16-year-old schoolgirl Caroline Murang who went missing when the four-wheel-drive vehicle she was travelling in got swept away in the Meligan river last Friday." 114.67 4.2699999999999996 0 8 1 32 2009-03-17T00:00:00.000 824 2942 3462 31 FL-2009-000063-AGO, FL-2009-000062-NAM Angola Namibia Southern Angola, southern Cunene Province, northern Namibia 2009-03-01T00:00:00.000 2009-03-19T00:00:00.000 19 90 20000 Heavy Rain 1 187900 6.5526803810533547 March 19: "Namibia's President Hifikepunye Pohamba has declared a state of emergency in six northern districts after floods killed at least 90 people.He said the floods could be one of the worst disasters of its kind in recent memory and warned of food shortages.Field after field of crops have been destroyed, as have houses, schools, health centres and roads.Crocodiles and hippos are swimming through the flood waters, attacking and killing people.Even though the rains have subsided, correspondents say the damage is so great that it will be some time before the thousands of people displaced by the floods will be able to return home. Mr Pohamba called for emergency assistance" March 16: "Namibia has received heavy rains over the past three weeks, resulting in floods in the north-eastern and north-western parts of the country. The heavy rains in neighbouring Angola exacerbated the situation, leading to devastating floods in Namibia. The four north-western regions affected by the floods are the Oshana, Ohangwena, Omusati and Oshikoto regions.The Angolan Province of Cunene (Angola) has over the past 3 weeks experienced heavy rains mostly affecting the central part of the Cunene Province. The Three worst affected municipalities are located in the south: Kwahama, Namacunde and Cuvelai". March 13: " Luanda - Flooding in southern Angola has left at least 20 000 people homeless and the region is now at risk of a cholera outbreak, aid agencies said on Friday...the flooding in the southern province of Cunene was already worse than last year, when 25 000 people lost their homes, and said it was critical to get in supplies as soon as possible to stop the spread of disease. "From floods like this, you get waterborne diseases like cholera and malaria," he said. "And this is a big worry for us." "The government is doing its best to get some latrines constructed and we are giving out water purification tables, oral rehydration sachets and jerry cans." A number of roads have been cut off and some villages and towns are only accessible by boat. Thousands of hectares of farmland have also been destroyed and many of cows and goats have drowned...The landlocked province of Cunene, on the Namibian border, is one of Angola's poorest provinces where the majority of the population rely on subsistence farming.". Also, from Namibian source: "THE scale of this year's floods is unprecedented both in terms of force and size and so too should be our national response to mitigate the effects thereof. Our national response to this natural disaster has to be full scale, adequate and equally long term, if we are to save lives and property now and in future. Already, people have died and property destroyed by the force of the water in the northern regions. It is not far-fetched to speculate that more lives could still be lost unless appropriate measures are taken to save lives. The floods mainly cover the four northern regions of Oshana, Omusati, Ohangwena and parts of Oshikoto as well as the Kavango and Caprivi regions. Latest indications are that the Kavango River is swelling with mass water. Its force has led huge volumes of water to spill into homes that are now submerged by water. Up to 36 or more homesteads at Sikondo village in the Kapako constituency of the Kavango Region are under water. The Kavango Regional Council plans to relocate 105 people that are affected by the floods." -17.079999999999998 16.68 x 1 8 1 31 2009-03-01T00:00:00.000 824 2941 3461 30 Mozambique 2009-03-04T00:00:00.000 2009-03-09T00:00:00.000 6 Heavy Rain 1 29980 5.2549828788959045 March 6: "Road traffic between the southern Mozambican districts of Magude and Moamba, in Maputo province, has been interrupted following flooding on the Incomati river. According to the National Water Board (DNA), the Incomati went into flood on Wednesday, as a flood surge traveling from the South African border reached the district. The Magude district administrator, Zeferino Cavele, confirmed to Radio Mozambique that the road to Moamba was cut, and added that the river has also swamped crops grown near its banks. He said a survey is now under way to ascertain the possible losses.Cavele said the warning of the impending flood arrived in time for farmers to remove pumps and other equipment, and harvest whatever they could before the waters roseThe DNA has issued flood warnings for a series of villages in Magude located near the banks of the Incomati.The Licungo river in the central province of Zambezia, swollen by heavy rains in the region, has also reached flood alert level at the town of Gurue." 32.17 -25.12 0 7 1 30 2009-03-04T00:00:00.000 823 2940 3460 29 USA Midwestern US 2009-03-06T00:00:00.000 2009-03-13T00:00:00.000 8 Heavy Rain 1 94120 5.8767719054959269 March 13: "Some residents evacuated and commuters battled flooded streets yesterday after days of heavy rain sent rivers spilling out of their banks in Northern Indiana.Crews helped people from houses along a stretch of the Tippecanoe River near Lafayette that saw record flooding last winter as water rushed through the Oakdale Dam at the southern end of Lake Freeman.Rescuers said they had fewer people to evacuate near the Tippecanoe River than last year, when flooding swamped hundreds of homes, because many of those living near the river had already left."We're having a lot less people we're having to go out and get," said state Conservation Officer Matt Tholen, who was helping with the evacuations. "I think people paid better attention (to the warnings) than before."The National Weather Service issued a flash-flood warning for the Tippecanoe River and urged those in the area to move to higher ground, although water was not forecast to reach the levels of the January 2008 flood. A flood warning also was issued for the northern third of the state and counties along the Wabash River" March 9: "Days of rain precipates major flooding...The impact won't be clear for a couple of days, but major flooding along two eastern Iowa rivers has local and county officials preparing for the worst.The major floods of last summer left a lasting impression on the eastern part of the state, one its residents are not eager to repeat.But as a weekend of steady drizzle turns into major flooding along the Iowa and English rivers....emergency responders are "in limbo.""There's definitely the potential for some major impacts," -91.01 41.68 0 7 1 29 2009-03-06T00:00:00.000 823 2939 3459 28 South Africa KwaZulu-Natal north coast 2009-02-28T00:00:00.000 2009-03-03T00:00:00.000 4 5 300 Heavy Rain 1 56340 5.3528768339777173 March 2: "Five people have died and more than 300 people have been displaced after ferocious storms hit KwaDukuza on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast yesterday.Two motor vehicles were washed away in swollen rivers, with two people drowning in each car, while one person drowned while trying to cross a river. The worst affected areas include Stanger, Ntshawini, Darnall, Doesberg and Mandeni.Ilembe District Municipality Mayor, Welcome Mdabe, says rescue teams have found some of the five bodies. “We had five people, we discovered three bodies, two bodies are still missing. Our rescue team is on the field trying to work around the clock to recover the remaining bodies. The areas are inaccessible because of bridges that were washed away and certain roads are impassable.”Emergency relief will be given to the affected residents, and construction work will begin soon to repair the infrastructure that was destroyed. The weather office is forecasting more rain for the province. Residents and motorists have been advised to be on the alert." 30.82 -29.41 0 7 1 28 2009-02-28T00:00:00.000 823 2938 3458 27 FL-2009-000053-IDN Indonesia East Java, Bojonegoro Bengawan Solo river 2009-02-23T00:00:00.000 2009-03-09T00:00:00.000 15 1 20000 Heavy Rain 1.5 21570 5.6860326632139078 Mar. 7: Thousands of people fled their homes Friday in East Java, Indonesia, as more rivers burst their banks after days of heavy rains...The flooding was in the Tuban and Bojonegoro districts.In one village, Selogabus, almost 500 houses were flooded, along with several schools, a villager told Antara news agency. Floodwaters cut off some roads and inundated the bus terminal in Purubaya. On Monday, eight dams burst in East Java and three deaths were reported, including that of a 6-month-old baby, the Jakarta Globe reported. At that point, at least eight people had been killed by flooding in two weeks" ."Mar. 2: More than 20,000 people have fled homes after floods hit Eastern Java since Feb. 23, the National Disaster Management Agency reported. Consecutive days of downpours have triggered Bengawan Solo river passing through Central and East Java overflowed and submerged more than five thousand houses and forced the residents to took shelters in higher grounds". Feb. 26: "Floods caused by the the overflowing of the Bengawan Solo river have driven thousands of Bojonegoro residents from their homes, and was believed to have claimed one live.One dead body was found by a passerby on a flooded road at Simbatan village, Kanor sub distrct, Kanor Police Chief Adjunct Commissioner Susilo, said here on Friday. The victim was identified as Sabin (80), a resident of Prigi village, Kanor. Sabin was believed to have been swept away by floodwaters Meanwhile, around 1,200 people from two villages at Dander sub district, have fled to safer areas, according to Bambang Sutrisno, Dander sub district head.The flood victims decided to take refuge as the water level of Bengawan Solo floods continued to rise. Thousands of houses were submerged by floodwaters reaching a height of between 1 and 1.5 meter.The evacuation started on Thursday by using two rubber boats, Sutrisno said."Today, the evacuation of the flood victims continues," he said.They were accommodated in emergency tents set up along Bengawan Solo embankment and Bojonegoro-Padangan roadside, he said.Residents of Kalitidu sub district, which was among the worst flood-affected area, have also fled their home to higher ground.One rubber boat was prepared to evacuate the flood victims, Nurul Azizah, Kalitidu sub district head, said.The floods affected 100 villages including Sukorejo, Ngroworejo, and Karangpacar, at 14 sub districts in Bojonegoro District.Some 23 elementary school buildings and one junior high school building were also flooded, preventing around 4,000 students from going to school.Some villages at Parengan sub district, Tuban District, East Java, were also inundated, he said. Roads connecting Bojonegoro and Jatirogo, Tuban, were submerged by the flood" 121.98 0.81 0 7 1 27 2009-02-23T00:00:00.000 823 2937 3457 26 FL-2009-000045-BOL Bolivia 2009-02-12T00:00:00.000 2009-02-23T00:00:00.000 12 Heavy Rain 1 167900 6.3042319421856732 Feb. 15: "- Heavy rains in February have affected 10,000 families across the country. 20 districts of the city of Santa Cruz were flooded on the 13 Feb." -62.62 -18.760000000000002 1 7 1 26 2009-02-12T00:00:00.000 823 2936 3456 25 FL-2009-000044-BIH Bosnia and Herzogovina 2009-02-01T00:00:00.000 2009-02-16T00:00:00.000 16 Heavy Rain 1 20490 5.5156619410571199 Feb. 15: "-Heavy rainfall between 19 and 28 of January has caused flooding in southern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The vast water masses have severely affected the population in the municipalities of Trebinje, Popovo polje, Ravno, Neum and Svitava." 18.18 43.5 0 6 1 25 2009-02-01T00:00:00.000 822 2935 3455 24 FL-2009-000039-CRI Costa Rica 2009-02-05T00:00:00.000 2009-02-16T00:00:00.000 12 Heavy Rain 1 7232 4.9384396635149317 Feb. 15: "- Due to a cold front in the Caribbean coast, heavy rains, floods and violent winds have affected thousands of people since early February 2009." -83.28 10.050000000000001 0 6 1 24 2009-02-05T00:00:00.000 822 2934 3454 23 Angola Luanda 2009-02-14T00:00:00.000 2009-02-16T00:00:00.000 3 2 415 Heavy Rain 1 61810 5.2681799983114876 Feb. 15: "- Two children died and 415 people were left homeless after floods caused by heavy rain swept through Angola's capital Luanda at the weekend, a civil protection service official was quoted as saying on Monday.Authorities across the country remained on alert as heavy rain is expected to continue in coming days, he said.Authorities struggled to set up tents for the homeless in Luanda, most of whom live in the hundreds of shanty towns, made up of mud and tin huts, that surround the city.Floods are common during Angola's October-April rainy season, often causing severe damage to infrastructure in Luanda, where one third of nation's 16.5 million people live." 14.15 -9.84 0 6 1 23 2009-02-14T00:00:00.000 822 2933 3453 22 Peru Rimac 2009-02-15T00:00:00.000 2009-02-17T00:00:00.000 3 1 300 Heavy Rain 1 85600 5.4095950193968161 Feb. 17: "The flood which hit Peru on Sunday, Feb 15 left hundreds of people homeless and one dead. Officials said that heavy rains and consequent mudslides started in the district of Chosica, 47 kilometers east of Lima, the capital city of Peru on Sunday morning.Police officials recovered the body of 15-year-old Lucero Vasquez, who died in the incident. She died while trying to overcome a mudslide using an improvised wood bridge. Reports suggest that the river Rimac reached its highest level in several years with 103.6 cubic metres per second and burst its banks in the district of Chosica.Majority of the houses in the area are under water. The road connecting to Lima was the centre of the nation was blocked due to flood for hour" -74.430000000000007 -13.57 0 6 1 22 2009-02-15T00:00:00.000 822 2932 3452 21 FL-2009-000052-COL Columbia Mira 2009-02-15T00:00:00.000 2009-02-17T00:00:00.000 3 6 10000 Heavy Rain 1 72650 5.3383568733537023 Feb. 26: "The Andean region of Colombia has been deeply affected by constant rain. The sectors of Antioquia, Tolima, Santander, Cauca and Nari?o amongst others in the Pacific region are in a high state of alert due to floods and landslide". Feb. 17: "More than six persons were killed and 14 missing after rain-swollen Mira river flooded the port city of Tumaco and other towns on Colombia's Pacific coast, and leaving 2,500 families homeless...the drowned and missing were all from Tumaco, 1,200 kilometers southwest of the capital Bogota.The two towns of Barbacoas and Ricaurte were also flooded by the Mira river following heavy rains that washed away over 247 houses, The water level according to some reports reached over one and a half meter" -76.510000000000005 4.3600000000000003 0 6 1 21 2009-02-15T00:00:00.000 822 2931 3451 20 Brazil 2009-02-12T00:00:00.000 2009-02-16T00:00:00.000 5 3000 Heavy Rain 1.5 109300 5.9136814253414025 Feb. 15: "MORE than 3,000 people have been evacuated in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state as of Saturday following days of torrential rains, flooding and mudslides that prompted officials to declare a disaster area. One of the municipalities most severely affected was Itaborai, some 30 km northeast of the city of Rio where 1,000 residents were evacuated from their homes and more than 280 buildings were damaged or destroyed, according to civil defense forces. Further to the northeast, the locality of Cardoso Moreira was declared a disaster area, while other cities were under similar conditions as meteorologists were forecasting renewed heavy rains for Sunday. Concern focused on the state's largest river, Paraiba do Sul, which news website G1 said had risen more than five meters since the rains began Thursday and inundated several adjacent communities. In neighbouring Sao Paulo state the town of Tambau was on high alert over the risk of collapse of a dam that supplies water to the city. Waters that topped the dam's floodgates have already washed out a nearby bridge" -46.96 -24.19 0 6 1 20 2009-02-12T00:00:00.000 822 2930 3450 19 FL-2009-000032-SLR Solomon Islands 2009-02-12T00:00:00.000 2009-02-16T00:00:00.000 5 13 3000 Heavy Rain 1.5 118000 5.9469432706978251 Feb. 16: "THE death toll from the recent flooding in the Solomon Islands has reached 13 but could rise further as some villagers remain missing. The Solomons' National Disaster Management Office confirmed the 13 dead after three bodies were found at the weekend, the Solomon Star newspaper reported. But at least six villagers were still missing feared dead after torrential rain and flooding last week hit northwest Guadalcanal - the largest island in the Solomons group - and nearby Savo Island. Several thousand locals have been displaced from their homes, while some were evacuated to the capital Honiara. Most of the country's Guadalcanal province was declared a disaster area, and relief efforts continue to provide the region with much-needed supplies.." -158.66 -8.14 0 6 1 19 2009-02-12T00:00:00.000 822 2929 3449 18 USA Western Washington State 2009-02-09T00:00:00.000 2009-02-10T00:00:00.000 2 1000 Heavy Rain and Snowmelt 1.5 47810 5.1566399984154518 Feb. 12: "Rivers swelled by drenching rains have gone over their banks, swamping roads and forcing evacuations. Here are the latest developments across Western Washington:Both directions of the SR 169 Green River bridge are closed because of a landslide, the WSDOT says. WSP is directing traffic to detour.Reporter Graham Johnson says officials in the city of Snoqualmie are expecting the Snoqualmie River to crest at 4 p.m. at 46,000 cfs. The community is coming together, he says, putting up sandbags to keep floodwaters from buildings. Earlier, the city of Snoqualmie declared a state of emergency. King County officials say 16 roads are closed in eastern King County because of flooding on the Snoqualmie and Tolt rivers. Pierce County is calling for emergency evacuations for areas of Sumner along the Puyallup River. Pierce County has declared an emergency due to projected flood warnings for the Puyallup, Nisqually and Carbon rivers.The Skagit County town of Hamilton is evacuating voluntarily.People are filing sandbags and placing them along the Skykomish River in Sultan, trying to protect buildings on Main Street from floodwaters. The flooding Skykomish has closed roads in nearby Gold Bar.Rising floodwaters along the Skykomish and Snoqualmie rivers have triggered evacuation warnings in eastern Snohomish County. The Department of Emergency Management is urging residents along Tualco Loop Road, Tester Road and 164th/Ben Howard Road to prepare for evacuation. Waters in that area are expected to rise above flood stage and begin covering roadways near noon.Officials have urged about 200 people to evacuate from along the rising Carbon River in Orting....From the National Weather Service: One to 3 inches of rain has fallen in the lowlands and 3 to 7 inches of rain has fallen in the Cascades. One to 3 inches of additional rain may fall through this afternoon before tapering off this evening. Most rivers are still rising." -122.91 46.91 0 6 1 18 2009-02-09T00:00:00.000 822 2928 3448 17 Argentina Northern Argentina near border with Bolivia, Town of Tartagal 2009-02-09T00:00:00.000 2009-02-10T00:00:00.000 2 9 Brief Torrential Rain 1.5 225600 5.8304603500309673 Feb. 10: "Nine people were missing in northern Argentina on Tuesday after a mudslide and flooding that swept up a railway bridge and dozens of houses and vehicles...More than 1 200 people had been evacuated on Monday, before the storm which provoked the disaster struck the town of Tartagal.A third of the community's 60 000 residents were said to have been affected by the emergency. Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo, who gave the figures, said after visiting the zone: "This is the worst tragedy ever to have struck Tartagal." Strong rains and winds resulted in the Tartagal river breaking its banks, knocking aside trees, cars, houses, shops and even the 100-year-old rail bridge.Rescue workers were searching intensively for two women who witnesses said were plucked from the roof of their home by the furious waters. Argentina's government has sent aid and extra police, firemen and soldiers to the zone, located near the border with Bolivia. -" -64.290000000000006 -24.15 0 6 1 17 2009-02-09T00:00:00.000 822 2927 3447 16 United Kingdom 2009-02-07T00:00:00.000 2009-02-12T00:00:00.000 6 Heavy Rain and Snowmelt 1.5 76950 5.8404511336068223 Feb. 16: Water levels in flood-threatened Chatham should peak Sunday night, with Thames River levels expect to rise 17 feet, or five metres, above normal...River levels are expected to surge two feet beyond the peak reached in the New Year’s Day flooding, and washed-out streets and flooded basements are expected in several areas of the city. “This is much worse than it usually gets,”...During..the area’s one-in-100-years flood, which hit in 1937 and 1947, the water was 20.5 feet above normal — three feet higher than what’s expected tonight" .Feb. 10: "More than 100 flood warnings were in force this morning as freezing rain, snow and strong winds brought a fresh extreme weather hazard to a beleaguered England and Wales.A powerful storm hovering over the English Channel lashed most of southern Britain, flooding homes in Sussex, Essex and Suffolk during the night as up to a month's rain fell in 24 hours.Further north at least 3,000 homes were left without power after heavy snow fell over a swath of the country from the Welsh borders to the southern Midlands.At least 20 drivers have had to be rescued from their stranded cars in floods around Taunton in Somerset. Highways Agency road maintenance crews worked through the night to clear roads of snow and clean out gullies to drain floodwater. Even so, police forces in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Sussex, Kent, Essex and Suffolk reported roads closed due to flooding, and warned drivers to stay at home. Forecasters said that last night's downpour was adding to the already high level of water in swollen rivers in southern and eastern England due to melting snow. At present the greatest concern was for the town of Chelmsford in Essex, where the Environment Agency placed a severe flood warning on the rivers Chelmer and Can. It has imposed nearly 300 less severe alerts, including 101 flood warnings and 190 flood watches. Low-lying coastal areas were said to be particularly at risk, as the high winds, gusting at up to 60mph, were producing unusually high tides. This had had the effect of "tide-locking" rivers, preventing them from emptying their waters into the sea. When this effect was combined with snow melt and the latest heavy rain, it produced a heightened risk of floods, said Craig Woolhouse, the agency's head of flood defences" -1.28 52.5 0 6 1 16 2009-02-07T00:00:00.000 822 2926 3446 15 FL-2009-000031-DOM Dominican Republic Northwest and Northeast Dominican Republic 2009-02-02T00:00:00.000 2009-02-12T00:00:00.000 11 5 10000 Heavy Rain 1 15150 5.2218053179965489 Feb. 11: "SANTIAGO.- Although the authorities still evaluate the farm sector’s losses from the flooding in several zones, in the country’s Northwest and Northeast they surpass RD$300 million.The provinces most affected by the floods were Santiago, Santiago Rodriguez, Dajabón, Montecristi, Puerto Plata, San Francisco, Espaillat, La Vega and Monseñor Noel. Overflowed rivers, streams and creeks also flooded thousands of houses in urban as well as rural areas, forcing the evacuation of thousands. In Santiago the body of Eugenio Garcia, 37, was recovered yesterday, whereas in nearby Altamira a mother and her 10 year old daughter drowned and also a farmer who tried to cross a swelled river. It’s been more than nine days of downpours in the North, Northeastern and Northwest regions, whereas the National Meteorology Office expects the rains to continue for another 24 hours". Feb. 9: "SANTO DOMINGO. - More than 10,000 people have now been evacuated as downpours sparked flooding in the Cibao region (north), with 2,097 houses damaged, seven severely and three destroyed....Emergency Operations Center (COE) director Juan Méndez said the drainage of Tavera dam and swollen rivers caused damages, with 17 provinces still under a flood watch....He said five communities have been cut off, three bridges and three highways damaged, and evacuations continue in the towns Gaspar Hernandez and Montecristi, where water from the dam has also begun to rise...He said the rains also flooded plantations of bananas, peppers and rice in the Cibao region...Mendez also recommended that the people who live in vulnerable areas be alert to mudslides, and that Tavera continues to drain." -70.08 19.28 0 6 1 15 2009-02-02T00:00:00.000 822 2925 3445 14 FL-2009-000034-MAR Morocco Northern and Central Morocco 2009-02-01T00:00:00.000 2009-02-12T00:00:00.000 12 24 2000 Heavy Rain 1.5 188200 6.5298921241945438 Feb. 8: Severe flood waters and storms in Morocco have claimed the lives of at least 24 people since the beginning of the month...Last week, four family members died when their house gave way after heavy rain. The extreme weather is reported to have caused widespread damage to more than 2,500 homes...Large areas of farmland have also been badly hit with the north and central parts of Morocco seeing the worst weather...Moroccan aid agencies have been distributing food and water to those most affected by the flooding with some 2,000 people being evacuated and housed in temporary shelters." -6.16 32.65 1 6 1 14 2009-02-01T00:00:00.000 822 2924 3444 13 Philippines Negros Oriental Province 2009-02-07T00:00:00.000 2009-02-09T00:00:00.000 3 5 Heavy Rain 2 8473 4.7061884567905263 Feb. 8: "DUMAGUETE CITY, Philippines -- At least five persons were killed after heavy rains triggered floods and landslides in Negros Oriental province over the weekend, authorities said. Three people were killed after they were washed away by flood waters while two children were killed in landslides in the mountains of Sagbang in Valencia town...The floods were spawned by strong and steady rains brought about by a low pressure area spotted east of Mindanao. The rains had caused rivers and creeks to rise by about four meters Saturday.The floods washed away a still undetermined number of houses, and placed many parts of Dumaguete City and other towns and cities under water. Reports reaching the provincial disaster coordinating council indicated enormous property damage in what was considered as the worst flooding here in the last 50 years. "We have not yet started to determine the damage because the flooded areas are still inundated and cannot be reached," Dumaguete City Mayor Agustin Perdices said Saturday evening. The floodwaters, however, started receding by late afternoon Sunday, as the rains subsided leavings homes, offices, stores and warehouses damaged, the governor said. Elsewhere in the province, the rains damaged property in Bacong town, eight kilometers south of Dumaguete, up to Bio-os, Amlan, about 30 kilometers north of the capital city. "The rain appeared to be concentrated on the mountain range above these areas so this is where we are getting a lot of damage reports from....Landslides were also been reported in the mountains of Bais City but the damage was worse in the coastal areas because of the meeting of the floods and the waves" 122.97 9.9 0 5 1 13 2009-02-07T00:00:00.000 821 2923 3443 12 Malaysia Sarawak 2009-02-02T00:00:00.000 2009-02-12T00:00:00.000 11 2000 Heavy Rain 1 52060 5.7578968489314422 Feb. 12: "KINABATANGAN...Worsening flood conditions saw another 108 people from 21 families evacuated in this district today. The number was an increase from the 50 evacuated yesterday. According to Kinabatangan district officer Abdul Latif Kandok, 69 were evacuated from Kampung Pengkalan Bukit Garam while another 39 were from Kampung Buang Sayang. The number brings the overall total to 1,914, involving 364 families in the district’s 13 villages, he told Bernama when contacted here today. He added that as of 4pm, water level at the Kinabatangan River remained at the danger level, recording 10.53m. Among the villages affected by floods are Tulang-Tulang, Kuamut, Lokan, Muhibbah, Dagat, Tidung and Litang." Feb. 7: "A statement from the Miri Disaster Operation Control Centre said 42 of the settlements were in Tinjar and Teru, Baram’s central and downstream areas (30), Beluru and Bakong (22), Sungai Tutoh (10) and Long Lama (eight). The water level at Sungai Baram, the second longest river in Sarawak, was recorded at 5.78m in Marudi and 12.14m in Long Lama. The statement said the state’s power provider, Sesco, had cut off electricity supply to four villages near Marudi this morning, following the rise in water levels.The previous water levels recorded at the four villages were between 0.6m and 1.33m. Meanwhile, Miri disaster management committee chairman Datuk Ose Murang said delivery of food supplies to the flood-hit settlements was facilitated by the Royal Malaysian Air Force’s Nuri helicopter." 113.77 3.34 0 5 1 12 2009-02-02T00:00:00.000 821 2922 3442 11 Indonesia Java and Sulawesi islands 2009-01-28T00:00:00.000 2009-02-02T00:00:00.000 6 18 12000 Heavy Rain 1 60610 5.5606955343936537 Feb. 2: "Landslides, flash floods and high waves have killed at least 18 people on Indonesia's Java and Sulawesi islands...The flash floods, triggered by incessant rains, caused the Bengawan Solo River to burst its banks, submerging thousands of homes on Monday in the East Java district of Bojonegoro. The floodwaters inundated homes in dozens of villages over the weekend in the upper regions of the river in central Java's Solo regency and nearby areas.In addition, more than 1 700 hectares of rice fields in Bojonegoro were inundated by floodwaters up to one-metre deep... rain-triggered landslides killed at least seven people - six in central Java and one in southern Sulawesi - while two people were killed in flash floods in the two provinces.In East Java province, two people were killed and another two were missing and feared dead after flooding swept through the Jember and adjacent Pasuruan district. Hundreds of other residents remained at an evacuation centre after floodwaters had inundated their homes since the middle of last week.." 120.26 -2.63 0 5 1 11 2009-01-28T00:00:00.000 821 2921 3441 10 Madagascar Western Madagascar 2009-01-22T00:00:00.000 2009-01-29T00:00:00.000 8 3 3000 Tropical Storm Fanele 1 207800 6.2207355302131022 Jan. 22: "A powerful cyclone that hit the west coast of Madagascar killed three people and left nearly 3,000 homeless...Cyclone Fanele hit the Morondava district on Wednesday, bringing with it heavy rain and winds of up to 130 miles per hour. It uprooted giant trees, flattened homes and left large areas flooded, an Associated Press reporter saw during a tour of the affected areas with government disaster officials and relief agencies." 46.52 -17.690000000000001 1 5 1 10 2009-01-22T00:00:00.000 821 2920 3440 9 Algeria Eight desert cities in the valley of M'Zab, the largest of which is Ghardaia 2009-01-26T00:00:00.000 2009-01-27T00:00:00.000 2 33 Heavy Rain 1 132800 5.42422807069598 Jan. 26: "At least 33 people were killed and 48 injured this week in southern Algeria in flooding caused by heavy rains, local media reported on Saturday. The flooding affected eight desert cities in the valley of M'Zab, the largest of which is Ghardaia, which is located about 600 kilometres south of the capital Algiers. The sudden storms caused the M'Zab river to overflow its banks in less than 20 minutes, witnesses said." 0.71 29.61 0 4 1 9 2009-01-26T00:00:00.000 820 2919 3439 8 FL-2009-000648 Australia Northwest Australia, Queensland 2009-01-26T00:00:00.000 2009-02-27T00:00:00.000 33 400 Tropical Storm Dominic, Heavy Rains 2 477500 7.4985173114616339 Feb. 20: "LARGE areas of NSW have been declared natural disaster zones after heavy rain and extensive flooding in Bourke and the Mid- North Coast, including Coffs Harbour, Bellingen and Kempsey. The State Emergency Service has received 1011 calls for help since the rains started on Friday, with nine people needing to be rescued and about 30 people evacuated" Feb. 16: " A FLOOD-BOUND Northern Territory community has been evacuated while another has been warned off tap water. Residents from Palumpa, which is surrounded by floodwater about 375km southwest of Darwin, have advised to boil all drinking water. "Feb. 11: " AT least 13 towns, hundreds of cattle stations and mines remain cut off from the rest of Australia as the worst floods on record continue in north Queensland...up to 700 Karumba residents were stranded and forgotten in the worst floods since European settlement." Also: " TORRENTIAL rain, gales and dangerous surf will continue to batter parts of New South Wales today as residents clean up from 24 hours of flooding and damaged homes.The Hunter region and the Mid North Coast bore the brunt of the weekend weather, with some areas receiving 210mm of rain in 24 hours. Residents in the drought-stricken town of Bourke had to pump water from homes after receiving a 200mm deluge in 24 hours - the highest one-day fall in 120 years. About 25 homes were affected by flash flooding, while farmers in surrounding districts had to move livestock to higher ground". Feb. 8: "Residents at isolated Ingham in north Queensland are waking to their seventh day of flooding. The Bureau of Meteorology says the Herbert River peaked at 12.25 metres in the town overnight - about the same level as on Tuesday.The Tully and Burdekin Rivers are falling, but the Houghton River near Giru is still rising. The Bruce Highway is cut between Ayr and Townsville and the town of Tully is also cut off." ."Feb. 7: "...Meanwhile, the country's saturated north was inundated overnight, with 350 millimetres (14 inches) of rain causing flash floods in the town of Innisfail and swelling engorged rivers...."This morning we realised that the waters were beginning to come back again," said Pino Giandomenico, mayor of the worst-hit town of Ingham. Many people had started cleaning up, believing the waters were receding. Giandomenico said "it's a bit disheartening and people do get upset." Treasurer Wayne Swan on Saturday announced emergency relief funding for flood victims, while a commercial jet laden with food and other supplies left Sydney for the waterlogged region. Much of Queensland state has been declared a disaster zone, with an area of more than one million square kilometres (386,100 square miles) and 3,000 homes affected by floods due to torrential rains. Hundreds of people were forced to evacuate, or have been stranded in their homes for up to six days. The sugar cane and cattle industries have been devastated by the floods, with tens of thousands of stranded cows starving to death. A tropical low off the northeastern coast was fuelling the rains, which were being compounded by abnormally high "king tides" in the region, the weather bureau said". Jan. 27: "Heavy rain is being dumped over Western Australia's north-west as Cyclone Dominic moves further inland.... the category 2 cyclone crossed the coast near Onslow a few hours ago causing flash flooding and dangerous conditions for motorists in the Pilbara and Gascoyne...As the rain comes inland, the floodways will rise...In the last 24 hours, Onslow has received more than 200 millimetres of rain and recorded winds of more than 100 kph, while more than 100 millimetres of rain has been recorded at Karratha." 120.56 -20.11 x 1 4 1 8 2009-01-26T00:00:00.000 820 2918 3438 7 Australia New South Wales coastal areas 2009-01-22T00:00:00.000 2009-02-02T00:00:00.000 12 Heavy Rain 1 427400 6.710015763875675 Jan. 27: "Weather conditions have improved overnight in New South Wales, with rain and winds easing....The threat of flooding across Sydney and parts of the Central Coast has eased.But a minor flood warning had been issued for homes near the Georges River in Sydney's south-west after heavy rain in the area.The Nepean River and Lake Illawarra are also under flood watch and some local roads are still closed.Weather conditions have improved overnight in New South Wales, with rain and winds easing....The SES and other authorities are recommending that people stay out of the coastal zone as conditions are still very dangerous." 150.68 -29.41 x 1 3 1 7 2009-01-22T00:00:00.000 819 2917 3437 6 Philippines Southern Philippines; Kabacan town in North Cotabato province 2009-01-26T00:00:00.000 2009-01-27T00:00:00.000 2 5 200 Heavy Rain 1 17180 4.5360531551592045 Jan. 27: "Five people were killed when flashfloods swamped several villages in the southern Philippines... the flooding occurred late Monday in Kabacan town in North Cotabato province, 960 kilometres south of Manila. It was triggered by overnight heavy rains which caused the Kabacan River to breach its banks and sweep away several houses.Hundreds of people were forced to seek shelter in higher ground" 124.95 7.12 0 2 1 6 2009-01-26T00:00:00.000 818 2916 3436 5 Brazil Minas Gerais State, Rio de Janeiro State 2009-01-20T00:00:00.000 2009-01-27T00:00:00.000 8 11 Heavy Rain 1 1186000 6.9771746760201871 Jan. 24: Floods swamp parts of Brazil...Rescue teams rush in to save trapped flood victims as heavy rains and severe flooding continue to plague Brazil's southeastern state of Minas Gerais". Jan. 22: "Incessant heavy rains from Wednesday in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state have caused eight landslides and several floods, killing at least seven people....more than 200 people have been displaced.The largest landslide took place on late Wednesday in the state's capital city of Rio, severing the Grajau-Jacarepagua Highway, one of the city's main highways, for over 14 hours. On the RJ-116 state road, two large landslides were registered in the early hours of Thursday on stretches located in the small towns of Cachoeiras de Macacu and Nova Friburgo. Another two small landslides were also registered in the Nova Friburgo section of the RJ-116 road. At the state's southern coast of Angra dos Reis, several landslides hit the BR-101 federal road and the RJ-145 road in the early hours of Thursday. The heavy rains falling all day long caused floods in several parts of Rio on Wednesday. In the northern part of the city, water levels were high enough to float cars in several streets. In the Ilha do Governador neighborhood, a three-floor building collapsed in the rain. Floods are common in summer in several parts of Brazil. A huge flood in 2008 killed 135 people and left over 70,000 others homeless in the southern Santa Catarina state." -44.89 -16.59 1 2 1 5 2009-01-20T00:00:00.000 818 2915 3435 4 Domnican Republic 2009-01-08T00:00:00.000 2009-01-16T00:00:00.000 9 11 44000000 Heavy Rain 1 14540 5.1168069159623437 Jan. 25: "Persistent rains of medium intensity caused floods in the north and central part of the Dominican Republic, leaving one person dead and causing the evacuation of 1,530, an indefinite number of people missing and hundreds of homes damaged....COE spokesperson said the alert has been maintained for 11 provinces: Puerto Plata, Santiago Rodriguez, Maria Trinidad Sanchez, Duarte, Mao, Samana, Montecristi, Dajabon, Hato Mayor, El Seibo and Espaillat." ." -70.14 19.32 0 1 1 4 2009-01-08T00:00:00.000 817 2914 3434 3 Romania 2009-01-23T00:00:00.000 2009-01-26T00:00:00.000 4 11 Snowmelt 1 19410 4.8900855267163248 Jan. 25: ".Warm weather in northern Romania caused widespread flooding as snow and ice melted earlier than usual. At one point the River Iza was blocked by ice-flows and emergency workers used dynamite to release the dammed up water. Hundreds of homes and farms were flooded. Because the weather temperature increased over the normal in this period of the year, Ice and snow melted quick, so rivers level raised dangerously in the North part of Romania. Army and firemen blow up with dynamite ice floes on the rivers to release the dangerous waters. Some villages were flooded and lots of people lost their good" 24.93 47.61 0 1 1 3 2009-01-23T00:00:00.000 817 2913 3433 2 France Spain 2009-01-23T00:00:00.000 2009-01-26T00:00:00.000 4 11 Heavy Rain 1 173200 5.8406078790092906 Jan. 25: "...News outlets throughout Europe are reporting Storms in South Western France and Northern Spain, taking seven lives so far. No such storm has been seen for a decade in those parts of Europe, coming from the Atlantic with winds of 172 Km/h and torrential rain falls causing floods and devastation...The BBC does report some Children killed as a Sports hall collapsed partially in Catalonia...The Independent reports for its part that more causalities in the Pyrenees mountain as well as in Madrid, the capital city of Spain...The areas affected so far are South Eastern France, Northern Spain, South Western Germany and North western Italy. Casualty reports are coming in from France, Spain, and Germany....Liberation France reports that many roads are blocked and inaccessible. Toulouse one of France's largest City has stopped all Air traffic and grounded all planes." -2.6 42.24 0 1 1 2 2009-01-23T00:00:00.000 817 2912 3432 1 FL-2009-000010-FJI Fiji 2009-01-08T00:00:00.000 2009-01-16T00:00:00.000 9 11 9400 44000000 Heavy Rain 2 348.6 3.7975998878772805 Jan. 19: "The cost of damage from flooding in Fiji's "worst ever natural disaster" is rocketing, its military regime says, with the latest figure estimated at just over $44 million... the flooding - which left at least 11 people dead - was the worst ever, eclipsing floods in 1956, 1972 and 1999. The flood hit the western area of the main island of Viti Levu especially hard. Agriculture accounted for almost half of the estimated damage, particularly in the key sugar industry.Damage to roads, water and sewerage accounted for most the rest. The figure did not include the losses to private houses and shops in areas such as the tourist hub Nadi, where the business centre was inundated by flood waters up to three metres high". Jan. 14: " Police have urged Nadi residents to move to higher ground as flood waters continue to rise following the heavy rain... there is at least two meters of water in Nadi town...Initially, the water had started to recede but due to the heavy rain, the water levels have started rising again” Jan. 12.: "Health authorities in the Pacific island state of Fiji warned Monday of a possible typhoid outbreak following four days of torrential rains which have flooded large areas, killed seven people and forced over 9,400 people to be evacuated from their homes...With three towns, including Nadi, home to the country's international airport, under water and another tropical depression threatening it, the health ministry urged people to collect rainwater to drink and to beware of contamination that could cause typhoid, dengue fever and diarrhoea...A state of emergency remained in force in the western division of the main island Viti Levu, where Nadi, Sigatoka and Ba were still closed to allow civic authorities to mop up as floodwaters receded. Dusk to dawn curfews were enforced in the towns to prevent looting of abandoned homes and stores. With food supplies running short, a New Zealand tourist on the resort island of Denarau told the TV3 channel that restaurants were closed and holidaymakers were effectively confined to their rooms. Power supplies were cut in some places, drinking water was restricted and telephone lines were down. Fiji's ruler, military strongman Voreqe (Frank) Bainimarama, launched a worldwide appeal for aid to support the government's National Disaster Relief and Rehabilitation Programme...". 178.05 -17.739999999999998 0 1 0 1 2009-01-08T00:00:00.000 817 2911 3431 180 Viet Nam Phu Yen, Binh Dinh, Quang Binh, and Quang Nam provinces 2008-12-25T00:00:00.000 2009-01-05T00:00:00.000 12 9 20000 Heavy Rain 1 29580 5.5501794157084987 Jan. 5.: "Five people were swept away by floods in the central provinces of Binh Dinh and Quang Nam Saturday, bringing the death toll from unseasonal flooding to nine...At least 100,000 hectares of crops have been destroyed, thousands of homes damaged and major dikes breached by the flooding that has deluged central provinces over the past ten days....The provinces of Phu Yen, Binh Dinh, Quang Binh, and Quang Nam were at the center of the devastation" .Jan. 4: "Unseasonal floods in central Vietnam have killed at least five people and left three others missing and feared dead in recent days, national emergency services and state media reports said Sunday. Four men were swept away in floods and one woman drowned when her small fishing boat sank in a swollen river as heavy rains hit Quang Nam and Quang Ngai provinces, said the National Flood and Storm Control Committee in Hanoi. More than 5,000 houses were destroyed or damaged, and almost 75,000 hectares (185,000 acres) of crops were under water, it said in an online report". 107.06 16.89 0 62 1 167 2008-12-25T00:00:00.000 817 2911 3430 179 USA Western Oregon, Washington 2008-12-29T00:00:00.000 2009-01-16T00:00:00.000 19 Heavy Rain 1.5 35110 6.0002756894738614 Jan. 12: "The state of Washington has declared a state of emergency in the wake of floods that have hit the area in the last week. Due to the heavy dump of snow followed by the rapid melting, the rivers in the area are not able to accomodate all the water, and are therefore flooding their banks and the surrounding areas - such as roads, neighbourhoods and even highways....Residents near the Snoqualmie River have never seen it rise so high before and more than 30,000 people living in the area have been asked to evacuate their homes....Major highways have been shut down, and numerous rescues have had to take place. There is also the continued threat of mudslides and avalanches taking place throughout the state. "This appears to us to be the largest requested evacuation that anyone here is aware of," said Mark Stewart, a spokesman at the state Emergency Operations center. "We still have rivers going up, so it's really hard to determine what the scale of the flooding will be" .Jan. 5: "ESTACADA, Ore. – They are bracing for more flooding this week in this Clackamas County town, even as they try to clean up from last week's destruction. In recent days, both townspeople and outside volunteers have hurried to fill and distribute sandbags. "It's kind of nice to see the whole community around here doing what they can to help out," said James Kenney of Vancouver, Wash". Jan. 3.: "A State of Emergency has been declared by Oregon’s governor, after heavy rains caused flooding, mudslides and other problems for people across the western half of the state. In the Portland area on Friday, creeks around the area quickly spilled over banks, flooding some neighborhoods. Areas in southeast Portland, near Johnson Creek, sent many homeowners looking for higher ground; with some saying this is the worst flooding they’ve seen since 1996. Many roads are closed as emergency officials wait for the water to recede over the weekend. But forecasters are watching another storm that could move in at the end of the weekend." -123.77 42.84 1 62 1 166 2008-12-29T00:00:00.000 817 2910 3429 178 Malaysia Thailand Southern Thailand,Narathiwat. Malaysia: Central and Northern Malaysia, Pahang, Kelantan, Terrrangganu, eastern Sarawak State, Borneo 2008-12-29T00:00:00.000 2009-01-19T00:00:00.000 22 10000 Heavy Rain 1 76570 6.2264813279161446 Jan. 19: "The flood situation in Sabah’s northern Kota Marudu district has improved significantly with nearly all 1,568 evacuees allowed to go home. Evacuees at 12 relief centres went home yesterday following improved weather conditions...the district would remain on 24-hour alert, as the current weather conditions were unpredictable. The situation in other flood-hit areas like Pitas and Beluran also improved." Jan 17: "there are more than 6,000 people affected by the floods here and in Pitas after the situation worsened following almost six days of incessant rain. While their Kudat neighbours were allowed to return home two days ago after water levels receded, more families had to be moved from Kota Marudu and Pitas to 20 relief centres, instead. Twenty-four Kota Marudu villages are now deemed unsafe for residents while the figure remained at 21 villages flooded in Pitas...as of 4.30pm on Friday, 414 families comprising 1,738 people from Kota Marudu are presently putting up at 12 temporary flood evacuation centres. At the same time, 1,052 families comprising 4,341 people from Pitas have been placed at eight centres in the district. "In Kota Marudu, the Bandau River has gone below the cautious level of 5.2m but the Kinarom River is still over the danger level, at 8.1m.""Sungai Bengkoka and Kabatasan (in Pitas) are still over the danger level at 6.05m and 6.3m, respectively," Relief workers also had to airlift rations using a Nuri helicopter to residents in Kampung Liyu, Pitas. Villagers were advised to move to higher grounds or seek assistance from various agencies involved in relief operations in case the water level in their areas starts to rise." Jan. 12. " Malaysian police say monsoon rains have led to worsening floods in eastern Sarawak state on Borneo island...7,042 people have been moved to evacuation centers as of early today after their homes were flooded over the weekend... the rains have stopped for now but high tides may sweep inland, causing flooding rivers to rise further and inundate low-lying areas today and tomorrow, but the situation may improve Wednesday. Extensive thunderstorms and flooding are common in eastern Malaysia during the annual monsoon season between November and February" Jan. 5: " Floods in central and northern Malaysia have triggered the evacuation of more than 5,000 people, and forced tens of thousands of children to miss the first day of school...In central Pahang state, which is worst affected, the number of evacuees rose to 3,776 despite floodwaters receding in some districts...In northern Kelantan, the number of displaced rose to 783 and several major roads were under water and closed to traffic...In neighbouring Terengganu state, there were 445 evacuees being sheltered at relief centres." Jan. 5: " Three provinces in Thailand's 14-province southern region have been hard hit by floods as a seasonal monsoon is creating havoc in the region, especially Narathiwat, Phattalung, and Yala where Thai Army units have been pressed into service to help evacuate communities that are cut off...About 1,000 houses have been flooded in the southern province of Narathiwat, hard hit by heavy rain for almost a week...Many roads are impassable and government offices and houses are under water. All trains have been halted due to inundated stretches of track making passage impossible." 101.1 6.64 1 61 1 165 2008-12-29T00:00:00.000 816 2909 3428 177 Australia NE Queensland, Northern Northern Territory 2008-12-28T00:00:00.000 2009-01-12T00:00:00.000 16 4000000 Tropical Storm Charlotte; Monsoon rains 1.5 776800 7.2705204586115544 Jan. 12: "About 100 homes in Cairns have been flooded as Cyclone Charlotte delivered torrential rain this morning. In the past 24 hours, Low Isles north of Cairns has had 394mm and 255.6mm has been recorded at Cairns Airport - most of that in the past three to four hours...Charlotte crossed the coast from the Gulf of Carpentaria as a strong category one cyclone about 4am...about 100 homes had been inundated by rain and tides, despite sandbagging on Sunday night. A host of roads were also closed...Cairns Mayor Val Schier said a king tide at 10am (AEST) was expected to reach 3.8 metres and would remain until the tide turned. Jan. 5: " The Queensland Government says flooding has caused $4 million worth of damage in the state's north-west. Four days of heavy falls have cut roads and forced a number of evacuations.The weather bureau says the Gregory, Leichardt and Flinders Rivers are still rising.Grant Wiles from Julia Creek says emergency crews have pulled cars to safety on the Flinders Highway near Cloncurry.He says floodwaters have completely cut off the town and hundreds of visitors are stranded." Jan. 4." One family has been evacuated as floodwaters rise in Mount Isa and surrounds in Queensland's north-west. A monsoonal low continues to dump heavy rain in the Gregory, Leichhardt and Cloncurry river catchments, flooding parts of the Barkly Highway and isolating towns from Mount Isa to the Avon Downs in the NT". Jan. 4: "A property manager from the Northern Territory's Barkly region says eight times more rain has fallen in one downpour than fell in the whole of last year. Manager of Avon Downs, Ben Wratten says he's had about 450 millimetres since Saturday, forcing his neighbours at Austral House to be evacuated by helicopter after being inundated. In the 14 months previous, his property had received only 55 millimetres..."There have been cattle swept away in the flood waters. Because we've had such a volume of rain in such a short period of time, although this country is very flat, the water's been very fast and that's where we've copped the most losses because there's cattle tangled in trees." The Northern Territory roads manager in the Barkly says he's never seen so much rain dumped in the region during his 25 years with the department...John Bertram says the monsoonal rain is unusually heavy, with massive falls in the Rankin and James River catchment areas" 143.13999999999999 -17.13 1 60 1 164 2008-12-28T00:00:00.000 815 2908 3427 176 TC-2009-00005-PHL Philippines Mindanao, Gingoog City, Iligan, Cagayan de Oro. 2009-01-03T00:00:00.000 2009-01-13T00:00:00.000 11 28 200000 Tropical Storm and Heavy Rain 1 36190 5.5999812682664247 Jan 18: " ...the death toll brought about by the effects of the tail-end of the cold front that triggered massive flooding and landslides in at least nine regions in the country has reached 20, with Northern Mindanao and Caraga regions in Mindanao among the worst affected... " Jan. 14: "Nearly 200,000 people have been displaced by severe flooding across the eastern coasts of the Philippines...the tail-end of a cold front sweeping through the eastern regions triggered continuous heavy rains from 7 to 13 January, causing floods, landslides and tidal surges that capsised small motorised fishing boats.Close to 38,000 families or some 191,586 people had been affected in 38 municipalities and 11 provinces from northern Luzon island to the main southern island of Mindanao.So far, nine people have been killed, either by drowning or in landslides..More than US$50,000 in damage to agriculture and infrastructure in the western Mindanao region has been reported in the past week alone, the NDCC said, adding that more than 500 houses were damaged in the area". Jan. 5: " One person was already reported drowned as rescue and relief operations went into high gear in affected flooded areas in southern Gingoog City...A PDCC report identified the victim as a certain Rudy Andig of Gingoog City, who was crossing an overflowed river when washed away by the rampaging floodwaters..Rescue and relief operations to some 20,000 flash flood victims in the cities of Gingoog and Iligan, and this region’s capital city went into high gear, as more rescue teams from the different disaster councils were already deployed in several flood-prone and low-lying areas in urban centers...at least 11 barangays in Cagayan de Oro, five in Gingoog City and seven in Iligan City are under floodwaters" . Jan. 4: "Reports...said there were floodings in the provinces of Negros Oriental, Bohol and Samar in the Visayas; and Zamboanga del Norte, Iligan, Cagayan de Oro and Gingoog City in Western Mindanao" 125.04 8.4499999999999993 0 59 1 163 2009-01-03T00:00:00.000 814 2907 3426 175 Mozambique Maputo, Inhambane 2008-12-28T00:00:00.000 2009-01-19T00:00:00.000 23 25 3500 Heavy Rain 1 126000 6.4620983811351556 Jan. 16: "Floods caused by heavy rains in Mozambique have claimed at least 25 lives since December...The floods that have come ahead of the annual rainy season have so far affected only half the 1 million people authorities had expected would be affected.." Jan. 12.: "Authorities in Mozambique say torrential rains have killed 19 people in the past few days and worse flooding may ahead... most of the victims died trying to cross a raging river in the central province of Manica..hundreds have been given shelter in emergency centers and roads in the area are impassable...Mozambican television showed pictures Monday of people trying to cross the Mweri river with their belongings and domestic animals....Four more people have been killed and 1,000 displaced in the coastal region of Inhambane in the past two weeks...Authorities fear that, as the rainy season in the southern African nation continues, the flooding will worsen". Jan. 5: "The flood on the Pungue river...is worsening, with new areas inundated in Dondo and Nhamatanda districts...The central region water board (ARA-Centro) has warned that the river will continue to rise...At Mafambisse, where flood alert level is six metres, the Pungue rose from 6.68 to 6.77 metres between Saturday and Sunday. Melembe warned that continuing rain upstream, in Zimbabwe, was likely to ensure that the flood will worsen...The Zambezi river remains above flood alert level at Caia and Marromeu, on its lower reaches...The other major river in Sofala province, the Buzi, is now dropping. At Goonda, it fell from 3.05 metres on Saturday to 2.85 metres on Sunday". Dec. 31: " Authorities in Mozambique say torrential rains and flooding have forced more than 2 000 from their homes, severed road links, damaged crops and killed at least one person. The southern African nation is prone to flooding during the annual rainy season...The southern coastal province of Inhambane - popular with tourists this time of year - is one of the worst-hit areas. At least 2 000 people in the region have fled their homes.Hundreds more abandoned their shacks in the capital, Maputo" 34.03 -22.92 1 59 1 162 2008-12-28T00:00:00.000 814 2906 3425 174 Indonesia Southern Sumatra, several sub districts in West Lombok District of West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Province 2008-12-26T00:00:00.000 2009-01-12T00:00:00.000 18 24 Heavy Rain 1 126700 6.358049119986747 Jan. 12: "Floods which have been hitting several sub districts in West Lombok District of Indonesia's West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Province since last Friday, have claimed three lives.The inundation triggered by incessant downpours since Friday have inundated hundreds of houses, and damaged dams as well as bridges in Mataram city, West Lombok, and West Sumbawa Districts....The current rainy season has triggered floods and landslides in various parts of Indonesia and dozens of people have died.". Dec. 27: " LAMPUNG, More than 15,000 people have escaped floods in Lampung province on the island of Sumatra...Consecutive days of heavy rain have caused rivers to overflow. Thousands of houses in South and East Lampung are submerged since Thursday.... 14,728 people have fled homes in South Lampung and 176 others in East Lampung...The waters also inundated hundreds of hectares of shrimp ponds and rice fields and were predicted to cause hundreds of millions of Rupiah in financial losses... The floods also paralyzed transportation as the water submerged roads" 103.14 -3.33 1 58 1 161 2008-12-26T00:00:00.000 813 2905 3424 173 USA Oregon, Washington 2008-12-26T00:00:00.000 2008-12-28T00:00:00.000 3 Heavy Rain 1 66260 5.298372686265604 .Dec. 28: " Rivers swelled by drenching rains have gone over their banks, swamping roads and forcing evacuations."..For western Washington, "Both directions of the SR 169 Green River bridge are closed because of a landslide, the WSDOT says. WSP is directing traffic to detour...Officials in the city of Snoqualmie are expecting the Snoqualmie River to crest at 4 p.m. at 46,000 cfs. ..King County officials say 16 roads are closed in eastern King County because of flooding on the Snoqualmie and Tolt rivers. ...Pierce County is calling for emergency evacuations for areas of Sumner along the Puyallup River." -123.53 44.66 0 57 1 160 2008-12-26T00:00:00.000 812 2904 3423 172 USA Illinois,Indian, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Michigan 2008-12-26T00:00:00.000 2008-12-28T00:00:00.000 3 Snowmelt 1 313400 5.9732202468522342 Dec. 28: "Melting ice and heavy thunderstorms delivered a nasty one-two punch to the Chicago area Saturday, resulting in widespread flooding in low-lying areas and power outages throughout the city and suburbs.Severe storms dumped as much as 1.5 inches of rain in some areas by Saturday evening. The National Weather Service estimated that water from melting snow and ice added another 1 to 2 inches to the mix, setting the stage for flooding...Residents of Riverside along the Des Plaines River were asked to evacuate their homes by Saturday evening in anticipation of near-record flooding overnight into today. ...The Des Plaines River is expected to rise to 9.7 feet by 6 a.m. today. The record, since records have been kept, is 9.9 feet." -89.46 41.04 0 57 1 159 2008-12-26T00:00:00.000 812 2903 3422 171 FL-2008-200246-GUY Guyana 2008-12-10T00:00:00.000 2008-12-17T00:00:00.000 8 Heavy Rain 1 40000 5.5051499783199063 Dec. 16: "GEORGETOWN, Guyana: The Ministry of Health has mobilized and dispatched several teams of health care workers to provide medical attention to villages still under water in Guyana .The authorities say a number of mobile medical teams are also on standby and all Health Centers in areas affected by the recent heavy rainfall will be opened for extended periods.The flood water, which is waist high in some villages, has submerged a number of rice fields and other areas where food crops and livestock are maintained.So far this month the country has had twice the amount of rainfall normally experienced in the whole of December. Meanwhile, the government has established a Cabinet task force on flooding and the rainfall headed by this country’s Prime Minister Samuel Hinds was established and is in the field monitoring the situation. Dec. 14: "Guyana's prime minister says heavy rains have inundated several coastal towns and farms...a few low-lying coastal villages are under more than a foot (0.30 meters) of water, but there have been no injuries. Guyana's meteorologists on Saturday warned inhabitants of this South American country to brace for more flooding amid December's rainy season. Most of Guyana's 270-mile (430-kilometer) coastline is located nearly 6 feet (1.8 meters) below the Atlantic and flash floods are a constant threat during storms. Coastal towns, including the capital, are protected by canals and storage trenches that are drained during low tide. -58.58 7.01 0 57 1 158 2008-12-10T00:00:00.000 812 2902 3421 170 Columbia Plato, Magdalena Province; also, "a large part of Columbia". Magdalena River 2008-12-13T00:00:00.000 2009-01-12T00:00:00.000 31 76 1200000 Heavy Rain 1.5 195400 6.9583775122727083 Jan. 12: ...the tragedy occurred before dawn in the rural area around the town of Villa Gomez, at some 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Bogota, where the waters of a rio are dammed up. Drowned in the flood were two sisters 12 and 14 years old and a male cousin of 16. The river was swollen as a result of rains that have devastated a large part of Colombia from September to the end of the year and have caused floods and overflowing. The rains have caused at least 76 deaths and left 1.2 million homeless around the country". Dec. 15: "The overflowing of the Magdalena River broke the retaining wall in the town of Plato (580 kilometres North of Bogota) and affected about 20,000 people (4,000 families). Power systems and drinking water have been restricted in several areas of the municipality. According to the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies (IDEAM), it is the highest overflow in the past 38 years. On December 12, the department of Choco was declared a State of Ecological Emergency following the flooding caused by the overflowing of the San Juan River. The second rainy season, which began in mid- September, has left 59 dead, 18 people missing, 91 injured and nearly 1 million people affected. Some 2,020 houses have been destroyed and 78,203 are damaged." -74.23 9 1 57 1 157 2008-12-13T00:00:00.000 812 2901 3420 169 United Kingdom Southwestern U.K., Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, North Cotswolds 2008-12-13T00:00:00.000 2008-12-14T00:00:00.000 2 2 Brief Torrential Rain 1 21320 4.6298171960185162 Dec. 15: "British officials said cleanup operations were under way Monday after weekend flash flooding killed two people and affected hundreds of motorists.The hardest hit areas of Britain were parts of the southwestern counties of Devon and Somerset that were submerged under 18 inches of water Saturday, stranding motorists and killing Henry Collier, 86, who was found dead near South Petherton after apparently trying to get away as floodwaters engulfed his Ford.." -1.73 51.49 0 56 1 156 2008-12-13T00:00:00.000 811 2900 3419 168 USA Hawaii, Oahu,Kauai, 2008-12-11T00:00:00.000 2008-12-15T00:00:00.000 5 200 Brief Torrential Rain 1 4905 4.3896090160519865 Dec. 17:""The water was like a rushing river, and it took my home on Wai'anae Valley Road off its foundation," she said...The American Red Cross' Hawaii Chapter said yesterday that among the more than 200 homes damaged by floods on O'ahu, three dozen were severely damaged or destroyed. State civil defense said at least 47 homes or other structures suffered major losses, with a preliminary damage estimate of $1.6 million." -155.46 19.62 0 56 1 155 2008-12-11T00:00:00.000 811 2899 3418 167 Italy Rome Tiber 2008-12-11T00:00:00.000 2008-12-15T00:00:00.000 5 Heavy Rain 1 5425 4.4333697468565862 Dec. 14:"Rome has declared a state of emergency after two weeks of heavy rain.Dozens of people have been left stranded in their homes and cars, rescued by whatever vehicles can make it through.The level of the River Tiber has risen by five metres in two days and emergency services have been using boats to take people away. Built in 200BC and once the site of a major battle, the famous Milvio Bridge is coming close to being submerged by the forces of nature. Hundreds of sandbags are being filled to protect buildings and homes. 13.16 41.83 0 56 1 154 2008-12-11T00:00:00.000 811 2898 3417 166 Malaysia Kelantan 2008-12-01T00:00:00.000 2008-12-08T00:00:00.000 8 2000 Heavy Rain 1 58100 5.6672661193822744 Dec. 3 :"Only the areas near Sungai Golok in Rantau Panjang and Tumpat have a large number of evacuees because the water level in the river is still above the danger level of 9.91 metres, although it had receded slowly compared to the level this morning which was 10 metres,” 101.82 4.9400000000000004 0 56 1 153 2008-12-01T00:00:00.000 811 2897 3416 165 Thailand Narathiwat, Surat Thani, Songkhla, Yala, Phatthalung, Trang, Chumporn, Nakornsrithammarat and Pattani Provinces 2008-11-20T00:00:00.000 2008-12-10T00:00:00.000 21 21 200000 Heavy Rain 2 15650 5.8177636322803679 Dec. 15: " Flooding in the South has led to 27,562 cases of waterborne disease in the past 25 days, the Public Health Ministry said yesterday.Some 242 mobile medical units had assisted flood victims in Chumphon, Surat Thani, Trang, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Phatthalung, Songkhla, Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat from November 19 to December 14. "Hong Kong foot" accounted for the largest proportion of patients, at 39 per cent, followed by flu at 32 per cent, while 1,900 people suffered severe stress and insomnia". Dec. 8: "Nine southern Thai provinces have been hit by downpours, leading to 21 deaths and affecting some 200,000 households or 700,000 people. More than 200,000 people are still displaced and unable to return home in the disaster zones, according to the Thai Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department...The affected areas include Narathiwat, Surat Thani, Songkhla, Yala, Phatthalung, Trang, Chumporn, Nakornsrithammarat and Pattani Provinces. While the situation in Chumporn, Surat Thani and Trang has begun to improve, the other six provinces are still of concern, with many roads and bridges blocked and people in some disaster areas having to travel by boat" Dec. 3: "Yala province on Tuesday announced the temporary closure of 18 schools in Raman district and a school in the provincial seat as floodwaters had not yet receded due to continuous heavy rain since Sunday. A police station in Raman district was also flooded by water as much as one metre deep. Damage was initially estimated at about Bt2 million, while an estimated ten thousand local residents in three Yala districts were reportedly affected.In nearby Narathiwat, the water level of the Sungai Kolok, Sai Buri and Bang Nara rivers, reached critical level, overflew the banks and inundated 13 districts, forcing 12 schools to close. Nov. 29: " At least 21 people have died in floods which continue to ravage many lower southern provinces.The death toll is one in Phatthalung, five in Surat Thani, 14 in Nakhon Si Thammarat and one in Pattani". 100.11 7.55 0 56 1 152 2008-11-20T00:00:00.000 811 2896 3415 164 Phillippines Southern Luzon, eastern coast of the main islands of Luzon and Mindanao 2008-12-01T00:00:00.000 2008-12-10T00:00:00.000 10 18 50000 Heavy Rain 2 24110 5.6832272060414351 Dec. 8:" The death toll from flooding in various parts of Luzon and Mindanao has risen to 18, the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) said Monday. NDCC said the 18 fatalities included four in Camarines Norte, seven in Cagayan, four in Isabela, and three in Aurora province.At least three were reported injured in Camarines Norte, while seven persons remain missing, including three in Isabela and four in Camarines Norte.The NDCC also said the floods had affected 92,879 families or 444,788 persons in 844 villages in 51 towns.Some 26,929 houses were damaged in Cagayan, Isabela, AUrora, Quezon and Camarines Norte. Of these, 459 were totally destroyed, it noted. Estimated cost of damage were placed at P709.585 million, including P396.541 million to infrastructure and P313.044 million to agriculture." Dec. 4: "Twenty-nine people are dead or missing and around 50,000 have been left homeless as widespread flooding hit the eastern seaboard of the Philippines...Heavy monsoon rains this week flooded 48 towns and cities on the eastern coast of the main islands of Luzon and Mindanao, bringing misery to more than 400,000 people".Dec 2.:"The Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council here reported 13 persons missing as of Monday afternoon due to the floods that hit seven of the 12 towns of Camarines Norte when rains continuously poured on Monday....Earlier in the day, the PDCC reported five persons missing and 1,093 families displaced by floods.The Philippine National Police, however, has placed the number of families displaced and relocated at the evacuation centers at 2,211." 121.77 17.2 0 56 1 151 2008-12-01T00:00:00.000 811 2895 3414 163 Italy Venice 2008-12-01T00:00:00.000 2008-12-04T00:00:00.000 4 High Tides 2 2220 4.2494429614425826 Dec 3.: "Strong southern winds pushed the Adriatic Sea into Venice again yesterday, submerging parts of the lagoon city a day after an unusually high tide caused the worst flooding in 20 years.Yesterday's tidal surge peaked at 3ft 4in, well below Monday's 5ft 1in level, which marked the fourth-highest tide in the city's recorded history and the worst since 1986. Still, the water yesterday was high enough to flood the city's landmark St Mark's Square and other low-lying areas". 12.19 45.02 0 56 1 150 2008-12-01T00:00:00.000 811 2894 3414 163 FL-2008-000239-NIC Costa Rica Nicaragua San Juan, Boca de San Carlos y Sarapiki rivers in the department of San Juan, Nicaragua. 2008-11-26T00:00:00.000 2008-11-28T00:00:00.000 3 7 46000 Heavy Rain 2 103400 5.7926717891415676 Nov.28: "The flooding caused by heavy rains during the past days has left at least 46,000 people homeless and caused at least 22 million U.S. dollars in losses in Costa Rica...highways, roads and crops suffered damage, and economic loss is expected to rise as houses and aqueducts need to be repaired and water wells cleaned...among the homeless, nearly 6,000 people remained at shelters till Thursday, and 35 towns isolated by water could only be accessed by air. Landslides blocked the road linking San Jose and Limon" 80.8 8.57 0 56 1 150 2008-11-26T00:00:00.000 811 2893 3413 162 TC-2008-000237-LKA, TC-2008-237-IND Sri Lanka India Northern Sri Lanka, northern Jaffna peninsula and the Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu districts, Tamil Nidal and Puducherry in India 2008-11-22T00:00:00.000 2008-12-04T00:00:00.000 13 61 171000 Tropical Cyclone 2 103400 6.4294938867287419 Dec. 3: "The Kilinochchi ,LTTE tigers adminstrative capital still under flooded sitation.The northeast monsoon is Active heavily this week never before, this caused flooding many areas, Muddying and slow down troops logistics Movements and advancement to tiger’s Heart Kilinochchi...Despite the heavy monsoon rain brave Sri Lankan Troops are still engaging in the final battle against the LTTE with a high Moral....Pro LTTE site claimed that Sri Lankan Air Force droped Cluster Bombs." Nov.30.:" Floods caused by days of heavy rains killed at least seven people, left four soldiers missing and displaced tens of thousands in insurgency-ravaged northern Sri Lanka...the northern Jaffna peninsula and the Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu districts were inundated and nearly 8,000 houses have been destroyed...Seven people were confirmed dead and more than 88,000 were displaced in the north alone...The military said four soldiers stationed in Jaffna were missing after being caught in the flooding. Hundreds of thousands of people in the northern region had already been displaced by fighting between government troops and separatist Tamil Tiger rebels and are living in temporary huts. An additional 10,000 people have become homeless because of the floods in the rest of Sri Lanka". 80.8 8.57 1 56 1 149 2008-11-22T00:00:00.000 811 2892 3412 161 FL-2008-000234-BRA Brazil Santa Catarina State, Itajai River and others 2008-11-22T00:00:00.000 2008-12-03T00:00:00.000 12 117 80000 Heavy Rain 2 103400 6.3947317804695301 Dec. 3: " Brazil is committed to quickly repairing key ports damaged in massive floods in order to recoup millions of dollars in daily losses to the economy...The floods, which have claimed at least 116 lives in the southern Santa Catarina region, severely damaged the major Itajai port, which has lost more than $400 million in revenue since the flooding began last month...those losses grow by $35 million a day. Ships have been forced to dock in ports hundreds of miles (kilometers) away in neighboring states." Nov 30th, 2008: "Rescue workers took advantage of clear skies Sunday to resume searching for victims of devastating floods that have killed 114 people and ravaged more than a dozen cities in southern Brazil...Heavy rains subsided, allowing authorities to continue looking for 19 people thought to be missing across Santa Catarina state and to boost aid to some 80,000 people whom floods have driven from their homes in the past week.Bad weather had grounded air force helicopters on Saturday, slowing rescue efforts. Rains are forecast to resume in coming days, increasing the risk of mudslides..."Nov. 24.: The death toll from flooding and landslides caused by heavy rains in southern Brazil has increased to 33...The count of deaths from the weekend devastation rose from 20 reported on Sunday as civil defense officials receive updated information...Nearly 20,000 people have been forced from their homes, and access was cut off to four towns where residents have no electricity....Rescue efforts were focusing on the Itajai River valley, where waters were 9 meters (30 feet) above normal.Santa Catarina state Gov. Luiz Henrique da Silveira declared a state of emergency" "The rain-fueled flooding in southern Brazil affected 1.5 million residents and cut off four cities -- Rio dos Cedros, Pomerode, Itapoá and Benedito Novo -- from the rest of the nation." -49.34 -25.1 1 55 1 148 2008-11-22T00:00:00.000 810 2891 3411 160 Venezuela 2008-11-20T00:00:00.000 2008-11-23T00:00:00.000 4 Heavy Rain 1 61390 5.3901576247082597 "Nov. 22.: Heavy rains unleashed flooding and mudslides in Venezuela that killed at least eight people, including four children, The victims following Thursday's downpours included two girls, 9 and 11, who died in a mudslide that hit a poor Caracas neighborhood. They were among at least four killed in the capital...Officials in other parts of the country reported at least four more victims, including a 10-year-old boy and a pregnant 17-year-old who were buried by a landslide in western Zulia state. The rains flooded streets, toppled trees and set off torrents of water and earth that damaged homes and hindered rescue crews in some areas.The storm damaged 300 families' homes in the western state of Trujillo." -66.400000000000006 9.77 0 54 1 147 2008-11-20T00:00:00.000 809 2890 3410 159 Australia Queensland 2008-11-20T00:00:00.000 2008-11-23T00:00:00.000 4 21 1200 Dam Break, Heavy Rain 1 105500 5.6253124509616734 Nov. 23:"A dam burst in Australia's Queensland state on Sunday after days of heavy rain and up to four people were believed missing in floodwaters..."There are reports of people missing....The bursting of the Bedford dam, near the town of Blackwater in the state's central highlands, reportedly sent thousands of gigalitres of water rushing downstream....It follows days of bad weather in the northeastern state. Police have advised the public to avoid the area. " 147.03 -21.56 0 54 1 146 2008-11-20T00:00:00.000 809 2889 3409 158 FF-2008-000233-PHL Philippines Nothern Philippines 2008-11-18T00:00:00.000 2008-11-24T00:00:00.000 7 6 30000 Heavy Rain 1 21770 5.1829564690553509 Nov. 23:"Six people have died and thousands became homeless due to floods in the northern Philippines. Heavy rains over the past one week have led to flooding in 18 towns and about 200 villages in the provinces of Isabela and Cagayan in northern Luzon island. According to reports, more than 30,000 families were displaced and ready crops were damaged by these floods. Rescue operation has been started in the affected areas and social workers are shifting the affected people to safer places". Nov. 22: "Five days of heave rains have flooded 40 of the 91 villages in a northern Philippine town near Ilagan, capital of Isabela province, with more towns and villages in foreseeable danger as a local dam is on the verge of releasing water...The police forces and disaster relief agents have joined the local government in the rescue operation, using motorized rubber boats to save residents trapped in deep water...The water level at the nearby Magat Dam reservoir is approaching the 192-meter critical line. Once the dam releases excess water, more Isabela towns are expected to be flooded..".Nov. 23: "At least two people were reported to have drowned while some 147,990 residents were affected by flash floods that hit northern and Central Luzon in the past week. The National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) also said at least P42.905 million in damage to agriculture in Cagayan province alone was recorded" 121.35 17.95 0 54 1 145 2008-11-18T00:00:00.000 809 2888 3408 157 TC-2008-000229-VNM Viet Nam Central Viet Nam 2008-11-17T00:00:00.000 2008-11-20T00:00:00.000 4 21 1200 Tropical Storm Noul 1 36160 5.1602884131312878 Nov. 19:"Heavy rains from a storm in central Vietnam have killed nine people, including three children, bringing the toll since late last week to 21, although the flood levels have peaked...Disaster reports from six central provinces hit by the storm that landed on Monday (local time) said more than 5,000 hectares of rice paddy had been destroyed...Several hundred families in Binh Dinh province were forced to flee their homes because of floods, while landslides from heavy rains had blocked traffic in mountainous areas in Quang Ngai province...Tropical Storm Noul, the 10th tracked by the South East Asian country this year, did not cause damage on the scale predicted by the Government " 107.71 15.7 0 54 1 144 2008-11-17T00:00:00.000 809 2887 3407 156 TF-2008-000230-CUB Cuba Eastern Cuba, Jamaica, Grenada 2008-11-17T00:00:00.000 2008-11-20T00:00:00.000 4 20000 Heavy Rain 1.5 35290 5.3258029087436132 Nov. 19:"Heavy rains caused a river in eastern Cuba to overflow its banks, flooding highways and more than 2,000 homes, and leading authorities to evacuate nearly 20,000 people...Severe flooding was also reported in the neighboring Caribbean islands of Grenada and Jamaica. There were no immediate reports of deaths on any of the three islands. The flooding was especially pronounced in Cuba's eastern province of Holguin, where heavy rains caused the Rio Grande river to overflow...Rainfall of more than six inches over five days caused floods and landslides that wiped out at least one roadway on the island of Grenada" -76.17 20.61 0 54 1 143 2008-11-17T00:00:00.000 809 2886 3406 155 Australia Northeastern Australia, Queensland, Brisbane 2008-11-19T00:00:00.000 2008-11-20T00:00:00.000 2 100 Torrential Rain 1.5 183500 5.7407573233077702 Nov. 20:"A storm centred around Brisbane on Australia's east coast has caused the worst flooding in decades, sweeping one woman to her death in a car and cutting power to 800 homes....The violent storm saw almost 200mm (8in) of rain in a few hours in Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, and surrounding towns. Strong winds battered coastal areas in the south-east corner of the state. Most floodwaters had subsided by late in the day but more heavy rain is forecast for coming days." 151.49 -30.05 0 54 1 142 2008-11-19T00:00:00.000 809 2885 3405 154 South Africa The Cape, Keisie River, Touws River 2008-11-12T00:00:00.000 2008-11-17T00:00:00.000 6 100 Heavy Rain 1 76450 5.6615287401319829 Nov. 16:"The resort town of Montagu has been hard hit by the floods, with holiday homes in the hot-springs area washed into the river and the town cut in half...Floodwaters raged down the Keisie River, stranding tourists and washing away 23 holiday chalets and two villas at Montagu Springs Holiday Resort...Twenty people, including two babies, had to be evacuated before dawn on Thursday as the chalets began slipping into the river....In the town proper, the flooded Keisie River divided the community in half....About 900 people in Montagu West were cut off from all transport and left without sewerage or water on Wednesday night after a bridge was washed away'. Nov. 15.: "The Cape was all but cut off from the rest of South Africa on Friday morning after flooding closed the N1 and a number of other key routes, leaving the N2 as the only remaining artery linking it to the country's economic heart...The N1 was closed in the worst flooding since 1981 in Touws River and this morning trucking traffic was backed up for 5km on either side of the Donkies River....Towns in the area have been left without electricity and hundreds of people are stranded, with many rescue operations under way" 20.9 -33.01 0 54 1 141 2008-11-12T00:00:00.000 809 2884 3404 153 FF-2008-000227-ETH Ethiopia Wadi Shebelle, Southeast Ethiopia 2008-11-16T00:00:00.000 2008-11-20T00:00:00.000 5 11 500 Heavy Rain 1 25490 5.1053398398052865 Nov. 20: "The floods, which have occurred in an area beset by drought in recent months, follow heavy rains in both the Somali region and the highlands of the neighbouring Oromiya region. The rains caused the Wabi Shebelle, Genale, Woito and Omo rivers to break their banks"..Nov. 18: "At least 52,000 people have abandoned their homes in Ethiopia's Somali region after the Wade Shabelle and Genale rivers burst their banks following heavy rains"...Nov. 17:"A river in Ethiopia's highlands burst its banks after heavy rains, killing 11 people and stranding hundreds more, the state news agency said on Monday...Flooding from the Wabe Shebelle river in southeast Ethiopia has submerged more than 100 villages..."Inhabitants in 116 villages in an area covering a 90km radius have been stranded on hillocks surrounded by the flood water"..."Efforts to rescue hundreds of marooned people have become impossible due to the extent of land covered by the flood." 43.06 0.83 0 54 1 140 2008-11-16T00:00:00.000 809 2883 3403 152 USA Northwestern U.S., Washington State 2008-11-06T00:00:00.000 2008-11-12T00:00:00.000 7 2 Heavy Rain 1.5 75160 5.8971760704984257 Nov. 12: " Because of the heavy rainfall, flood warnings are in effect for 25 mainstream rivers in western Washington. Many of these are expected to reach major flood stage today, with some possibly threatening record flood stages. Even after the bulk of the rain ends today, flooding will continue to be a threat as the volume of rainfall makes its way downstream."...Nov 7.: "AUBURN, Wash. — A car driven by a 16-year-old girl and carrying two younger children plunged into a rain-swollen river Friday morning, and authorities said that the teen managed to escape but that there was not much hope for the other two.Divers found the Volkswagen about 100 yards from where the distraught girl told authorities it went off a road into the Green River, authorities said. A tow truck and crew were brought in late morning to attempt to pull it out of the water, but recovery efforts were soon suspended." -122.77 47.01 0 54 1 139 2008-11-06T00:00:00.000 809 2882 3402 151 Kenya Uganda Western Kenya, Nzoia River 2008-11-10T00:00:00.000 2008-11-12T00:00:00.000 3 28000 Heavy Rain 1.5 37960 5.2325387175305984 Nov. 11: "The United Nations humanitarian wing has dispatched an emergency team to western Kenya, where floods following heavy rainfall have forced more than 7,000 families out of their homes and submerged entire villages....The emergency team is working with its aid partners in the towns of Eldoret and Kisumu to assess the available relief stocks and is also supporting national and district authorities to set up an aid pipeline to ensure the relief response is coordinated....The flooding is worst in Budalangi district of Western province, near the border with Uganda, where the Nzoia River burst its banks yesterday after heavy rains upstream, breaching dykes and submerging villages. Budalangi is prone to flooding each year and over 28,000 families were affected by floods in 2007" 35.119999999999997 0.05 0 54 1 138 2008-11-10T00:00:00.000 809 2881 3401 150 Somalia Southwestern Geddo, Bardera 2008-11-03T00:00:00.000 2008-11-04T00:00:00.000 2 52000 Heavy Rain 1.5 111900 5.5259513412480121 Nov. 4: "Flash floods in south-western Gedo region have displaced hundreds of families and inundated hectares of farmland in and around Bardera, the regional capital....the floods followed heavy rains in the town and in the hilly areas around it..."We had 11 hours of very heavy rains on Monday [3 November]"... "The floods displaced around 2,000 families [12,000 people] in and around Bardera and destroyed 500 hectares of farmland." Nov. 9: "Residents in Somalia's Luq town said thousands of people have been displaced by flash flooding in the southwest part of the country.....Saturday's floods followed after Jubba river has broken its banks in the town that destroyed large farmlands.....many of the displaced are living in makeshift shelters in elevated areas around the town..... water levels in Gedo region are rising, creating fears of more flooding.". 43.5 1.25 0 54 1 137 2008-11-03T00:00:00.000 809 2880 3400 149 Viet Nam China Northern and Central Viet Nam, southwestern China (Yunan, Guangxi) 2008-10-27T00:00:00.000 2008-11-03T00:00:00.000 8 92 3000 Heavy Rain 2 74590 6.0768005898078545 Nov 4: "On Tuesday, more rain fell in Hanoi, which has experienced its heaviest flooding since 1984, and the authorities reported 20 deaths in the capital and surrounding area from drowning, electric shock or lightning..."This natural disaster is characterized as the largest ever in Hanoi," Pham Quang Nghi, chief of the Hanoi branch of the ruling Communist Party, was quoted by state media as saying...In southwestern China's Yunnan province, mudslides caused by heavy rain killed at least 26 people, with 45 missing, Chinese state media reported. Mountain torrents triggered by heavy rain hit Guangxi to the east of Yunnan, killing eight"...Nov. 3: "The death toll from nearly a week of flooding across northern and central Vietnam stood Monday at 54 and parts of the capital remained under water, but rains were easing and floodwaters receding in many areas.Hanoi alone recorded 18 deaths since heavy rains started lashing the city Friday, authorities said. Elsewhere, 34 deaths have been reported". Also: "The central province of Ha Tinh reported 17 deaths with the rest of the deaths spread among other provinces in northern and central Vietnam....About 500 to 800 millimetres of rain fell on Hanoi from Friday to Monday morning...Disaster centres warned residents living along the Red, Nhue, Duong and Cau rivers in Hanoi that they were in danger as water levels were predicted to rise through the day Monday....Around the country, more than 55,000 houses have been damaged, and 183,000 hectares of crops and 9,600 hectares of aquaculture ponds in northern and central Vietnam have been submerged. 106.32 20.74 1 54 1 136 2008-10-27T00:00:00.000 809 2879 3399 148 Morocco 2008-10-23T00:00:00.000 2008-11-03T00:00:00.000 12 28 1200 Torrential Rain 2 146700 6.5466413555548888 Nov. 3: "Flash floods following torrential rains across Morocco have claimed the lives of at least 13 people, overwhelmed emergency services and forced factories and businesses to close. Eleven people were killed in the village of Driouch, 500km north of Rabat, when 20 homes collapsed in what local authorities described as the heaviest rains in the area for more than 20 years. Local officials confirmed on Friday that a two-year-old child was among the dead. Two more people were swept away by flood waters"...Oct 24.: "Eleven people were killed in northeastern Morocco overnight after torrential rains caused heavy flooding, the interior ministry said Friday...The worst hit area was the commune of Driouch in Nador province where more than 20 homes collapsed and many others were submerged by floodwaters. The local authority in Nador said the rains were the heaviest witnessed in the area for more than 20 years...The deaths are due to heavy flooding in the wadi of Guerti which swept away 11 people, including a child of two," ...Another person was killed by the flooding in the city of Tangiers, to the west, according to the interior ministry, where rains cut off thousands of workers at an industrial zone until late Thursday night after the water level reached 1.5 metres (five feet). Serious material damage has also been caused by the floods in the northeastern city of Taza" -4.7699999999999996 33.729999999999997 1 53 1 135 2008-10-23T00:00:00.000 808 2878 3398 147 Yemen 2008-10-23T00:00:00.000 2008-10-24T00:00:00.000 2 69 6800 Torrential Rain 2 133200 5.7265642161622443 "At least 18 people died in Yemen when floods caused by heavy rains swept through the southeastern province of Hadramaut, which has been declared a disaster zone...According to first reports received by a crisis cell set up to coordinate rescue efforts, seven people perished in Al-Mukalla, capital of Hadramaut, and 11 more died elsewhere in the province, a cell member told AFP.The official, who requested anonymity, said the town of Shibam, listed by UNESCO as a world heritage site, was totally isolated by the waters and its famous historic buildings were threatened with collapse.Shibam ...is located some 450 kilometres northeast of Al-Mukalla. A local official earlier told AFP that dozens of people were reported missing in the floods caused by torrential rains that have lashed the region since Thursday. Witnesses said they saw bodies floating in streams swelled by a downpour that lasted for some 30 hours. A member of the crisis cell set up by authorities in Al-Mukalla also said that at least 340 houses have been destroyed in the localities of Tarim, Al-Kotn and Shibam, all in Hadramaut, which is located on the Arabian Sea...."On 24 and 25 October, storm and torrential rains caused severe flooding in the eastern part of Yemen, affecting most districts of the Hadramout and Al-Mahara governorates.The latest figures report that 69 people are killed or missing, 1,700 houses are destroyed or damaged, and infrastructure is also seriously damaged." 49.78 15.54 0 52 1 134 2008-10-23T00:00:00.000 807 2877 3397 146 FL-2008-000191-Nic, FL-2008-000191-NIC Honduras Belize Nicaragua 2008-10-19T00:00:00.000 2008-11-12T00:00:00.000 25 110 320000 15000000 Tropical Depressions 2 96390 6.6830019846071993 Oct 22.: "At least 12 people have died and 130,000 have been displaced by flooding and mudslides in Honduras as a stalled storm compounds the misery of a previous tropical depression" Oct 20: "Massive flooding in the western and central areas of Belize has cut off many villages and towns from the rest of the country, led to emergency evacuations, loss of crops and the closure of most schools and the University of Belize. Tropical depression 16 crossed over the Central American region last week bringing most rivers in Belize to flood state. And new rains which started last night have lead to heavy flooding at the western border between Belize and Guatemala leading authorities from both countries to close the border crossing" Oct. 24: "More rains have returned to Belize leading to widespread floods in the Western and Central areas of the country and accompanying damage to property, infrastructure and services....Access to the Western border of Belize with Guatemala at Benque Viejo del Carmen has been cut off again as the highway has been closed by authorities due to flooding....Flash floods have been reported in western Belize and flood waters are begining to affect villages and access roads in the Belize District...Portions of the Cayo District have been declared disaster areas by the government of Belize and losses in the agricultural sector have been estimated at $15 million. Rains and floods are expected to continue into the weekend". Nov 11.: "United Nations aid agencies are stepping up their relief efforts and appeals for funding in Honduras, where a persistent tropical storm has intensified in recent days and spread to new areas of the Central American country. At least 60 Hondurans have now died as a result of Tropical Storm Paloma, and the number of people affected by the flooding has risen this week by about 50,000 to nearly 320,000" -89.28 15.86 1 52 1 133 2008-10-19T00:00:00.000 807 2876 3396 145 Viet Nam Central Viet Nam 2008-10-19T00:00:00.000 2008-10-20T00:00:00.000 2 22 12000 Heavy Rain 1.5 39090 5.0691869251519099 "Four people were injured and seven were reported missing Sunday after heavy rains and flooding struck central Vietnam...More than 20,000 homes were threatened by landslides in Thua Thien-Hue, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai and Quang Tri provinces and hundreds of dwellings had their roofs blown off in the storms...Torrential rains have submerged homes and roads in the provinces, which were inundated by 3-foot-high waves of floodwaters"..."At least seven people have died in flash floods triggered by heavy rains in central Vietnam....Thousands of houses have been submerged in the provinces of Thua Thien Hue, Quang Nam and Quang Ngai. A baby and two children are among the dead...Oct. 20: deaths were in Nghe An, Thua Thien-Hue, Quang Tri, Quang Nam and Quang Ngai provinces" 107.46 14.9 0 51 1 132 2008-10-19T00:00:00.000 806 2875 3395 144 FL-2008-000191-CRI Costa Rica Nicaragua Honduras Guatamala Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua and the southern Mexican state of Chiapas 2008-10-10T00:00:00.000 2008-11-03T00:00:00.000 25 3 2100 Heavy Rain 1.5 39420 6.1697478876711429 Nov. 4: "Weeks of rain have caused the deaths of nearly 50 people and left more than 20 missing in Honduras and killed dozens more in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua and the southern Mexican state of Chiapas...Most of the victims were buried in landslides and drowned in rivers that overflowed their banks...In Honduras, 100,000 people were affected by flooding while the emergency services agency estimated damage to highways, bridges, crops and houses at 150 million dollars...In Nicaragua, tens of thousands of people have been evacuated to higher ground". Oct 24: "At least six people died in Costa Rica and another person died in Nicaragua as a result of heavy rains in recent days...The rain has also affected Honduras and caused property damage across Central America... 274 municipalities in the country suffered flooding, with 2,100 people forced to flee their homes for emergency shelters.Hardest-hit in Costa Rica were Parrita and Quepos on the central Pacific coast, and many municipalities in the northern province of Guanacaste reported flooding...The Costa Rican National Emergency Commission said that 287 homes and 20 bridges were damaged...last week in San Jose was the capital's wettest since 1944...In Nicaragua, at least one person died and more than 2,000 people had to be evacuated as a result of heavy rain...Heavy rains over the last 10 days in Nicaragua have caused serious flooding, overflowing rivers and damage to roads. Tegucigalpa, Honduras - Flooding from heavy rains killed at least three people and four others were reported missing as civil defence officials issued a red alert along the Ulua River basin stretching across northern Honduras". Oct 18: " Two people died in flooding of the Guayape River in the eastern department of Olancho, and one victim was reported in the capital, Tegucigalpa, after a collapsed wall buried a house... Two people were reported missing in Olancho and two others in the southern department of Choluteca bordering Nicaragua...Flooding also hit southern Nicaragua, where one person was killed". -85.96 11.48 1 51 1 131 2008-10-10T00:00:00.000 806 2874 3394 143 Kenya Somalia 2008-10-14T00:00:00.000 2008-10-16T00:00:00.000 3 3 10000 Heavy Rain 1 45130 5.1315865882398084 "Three people are feared dead after floods swept across Mandera Town on Tuesday night, leaving at least 10,000 people homeless...more than 1,800 families were displaced when River Laga burst its banks...The arid North Eastern Province is prone to floods whenever it rains....Jamhuri and Bula Mpya villages are still submerged and many residents are marooned in the town""at least three people were killed and 6,000 uprooted from their homes in the district of Mandera in north-east Kenya, when the River Daua burst its banks on 14 October" 41.9 4 0 50 1 130 2008-10-14T00:00:00.000 805 2873 3393 142 China Southern China, Hainan Island