Register #	Annual DFO #	Glide #	Country (click on active links to access current and past inundation extents)	Other	Nations	Affected	Detailed Locations	Rivers	Began	Ended	Duration in Days	Dead	Displaced	Damage (USD)	Main cause	Severity *	Affected sq km	Magnitude (M)**	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	Notes and Comments (may include quoted headlines from copyrighted news stories for internal research purposes only)
	145	FF-2009-000246-LKA	Sri Lanka						21-Nov-09	22-Nov-09	2				Torrential Rain	1	920	3.3	79.94	7.07	x	0	32	0	138	21-Nov-2009	849	3049	Flash Flood,Sri Lanka: 60,000 people were left homeless in the capital Colombo and the suburbs. some of the roads in the capital were up to two metres (six feet) under water as storm systems were unable to cope with the deluge.. .
3575	144		Turkey						21-Nov-09	22-Nov-09	2				Torrential Rain	1	15630	4.5	40.01	40.83	x	0	32	1	138	21-Nov-2009	849	3049	November 22, 2009: "Four people have been killed following landslides and flooding in northern Turkey after torrential downpours.In Trabzon, dramatic amateur footage showed a house collapsing under the weight of a landslide. An eyewitness said its residents fled five minutes before it collapsed after he called to warn them of the danger.Falling rocks killed two people after they crushed a house and rescue workers were searching for others believed to trapped in the rubbleTwo others died in floods when a river burst its banks, washing away a road running along the river bank.Meanwhile in nearby Rize, heavy snowfalls closed roads. .
3574	143		Singapore						19-Nov-09	20-Nov-09	2				Torrential Rain	1.5	1051	3.5	103.83	1.43	x	0	32	0	137	19-Nov-2009	849	3048	November 20, 2009: "SINGAPORE: The big clean—up is underway on Friday in many areas across Singapore which were flooded due to the heavy rainfall on Thursday.Environment and Water Resources Minister Yaacob Ibrahim has said that work is ongoing to improve the structure of the drains to cope better with such events. He said what happened on Thursday occurs only once every 50 years.The wet season, due to the northeast monsoon, could well spill over into January. Authorities here said they are planning to upgrade some facilities in phases.Dr Yaacob said: "I hope the public will have more patience with us because it will take us some time to enlarge those drains. But having said that, it is not possible for us to plan for every event.
3573	142		United Kingdom	Ireland					19-Nov-09	22-Nov-09	4				Heavy Rain	2	106600	5.9	-1.68	54	x	0	32	1	137	19-Nov-2009	849	3048	November 22, 2009: "Clean-up efforts are underway in flood-hit towns following the heaviest downpours ever recorded in England, as fears mount for a woman missing near a swollen river in Wales.About 314mm of rain fell in 24 hours - the highest level since records began - over Cumbria as torrential rains swept across Britain and Ireland.The Environment Agency said 65 flood warnings are in force across England and Wales, with four severe warnings in Cumbria in northwest England, the area hardest hit.About 60 people were still sheltering in reception centres on Sunday and more than 700 properties remained without power.An urgent safety review of Cumbria's 1,800 bridges was underway, with emergency services warning one bridge in the coastal town of Workington could collapse at any time.The Calva Bridge's closure cut off the north side of the town.Workington's other bridge has collapsed, taking the life of a policeman who was diverting motorists away from it on Friday. Tony Cunningham, member of parliament for Workington, said: "We have concerns about people who have not got prescriptions, medication, the medical centre is down to its last nappies for babies.The floods in Cumbria and southern Scotland are expected to trigger insurance claims of up to STG100 million ($A181.21 million), the Association of British Insurers said.Meanwhile a search is underway for a woman believed to have been swept away by the River Usk in Brecon, south Wales, late on Saturday. The river is under flood watch.Prime Minister Gordon Brown surveyed the grim aftermath on a visit on Saturday to the badly hit Cumbria town of Cockermouth, with houses filled with muddy water, silt and sludge carpeting the roads and cars left awkwardly where the floods left them.Cockermouth town centre was cordoned off as surveyors, structural engineers, utility workers and Environment Agency staff continued work to start the clean-up." ..."Ireland battled floods on Saturday described as a "once in 800 years event", with the government rushing to provide shelter and drinking water and soldiers sent to assist those affected. Rivers burst their banks, coastal towns were threatened by sea flooding, 18,000 households were left without water in Cork, Ireland's second city -- and forecasters warned of more heavy rain to come."We have been told this is a once in 800 years event. We have had no fatalities and that is a blessing," Environment Minister John Gormley told RTE state radio as he toured some of the worst hit areas.Prime Minister Brian Cowen chaired a meeting of the national emergency coordination committee, and said the main concern was to help people evacuated from their homes and to maintain water supplies."Clearly we are very concerned about maintaining the priority of helping those who have been displaced or have to be looked after in accommodation. Also making sure that people have access to clean drinking water," he said."There is also a situation where major installations have to be protected, hospitals for example."Troops were drafted in to assist emergency services in the worst hit areas, particularly Cork in the south and towns in the south, midlands and west of the republic, as forecasters predicted more heavy rain to come.In Cork where the River Lee burst its banks, RTE reported that 18,000 homes had their water cut off following extensive damage to the city's main pumping station, and said it was unlikely to be restored for at least a week....In Galway to the west, local authorities warned flood waters were still rising and urged motorists to avoid travelling, amid widespread road closures.Thousands of hectares of farmland were submerged and the Irish Farmers Association warned of severe economic repercussions.The Meteorological Office has issued a weather alert and warned of severe gales. It said its stations at Sherkin Island, County Cork and Claremorris, County Mayo in the west have already had more rain than in any previous full November. Meteorologist Gerry Fleming added: "The run of wet summers and wet winters we been having in the last two years are unprecedented." November 20, 2009: "Parts of Scotland and northern England were under several feet of water Friday morning after raging rivers burst their banks and flooded towns, officials said.A police officer was missing after flooding in Cumbria, near the border with Scotland, Cumbria police said Friday. An earlier report that 11 people were missing was incorrect, a police spokesman said.The Cumbria town of Cockermouth was one of the worst hit. The Georgian market town sits at the junction of two rivers, the Cocker and the Derwent, which raged overnight and flooded the town center.The waters were so strong at times that rescuers could not send their boats against the flow to reach trapped residents, witnesses said.Two bridges in Workington, about seven miles east of Cockermouth, collapsed because of the floods, Cumbria police said. Engineers are trying to assess bridges for structural damage, though the work is difficult while the waters remain high, police said.Witnesses said the nearby town of Keswick, about 10 miles to the southeast of Cockermouth, was also badly hit.The Fire Service and Royal Air Force evacuated about 200 people by helicopter from Cockermouth's main street and town square, both cut off by the floodwaters, Cumbria police said.Police advised against all non-essential travel in Cumbria because many roads are closed and impassable.Several reception centers were set up at schools and leisure centers for residents forced from their homes, the police said.British Prime Minister Gordon Brown spoke with Cumbria's chief constable Friday morning and promised him any government help he needs, Brown's office at Downing Street said."His thoughts are with all those who have been impacted by the floods and our thanks go to the emergency services, who continue their extraordinary efforts to help those affected," a statement from his office said.Environment Secretary Hilary Benn was in Cumbria on Friday to assess a government response, Downing Street said.There were no deaths reported from the floods, which began Thursday after heavy rain swept over the region.One of the largest recorded totals was in Seathwaite, about 20 miles south of Cockermouth, known for being one of the wettest places in the United Kingdom. About 14.6 inches (372 millimeters) of rain fell there between Wednesday night and 4 a.m. Friday (11 p.m. ET Thursday), said forecaster Robin Thwaytes of the Met Office weather service."It's a phenomenal amount of rain to come down in such a short period of time," he said.Bad weather was forecast to continue across the United Kingdom over the next few days, with more heavy rain and gale-force winds bringing the continued risk of flooding, the Met Office said..."Raging floods engulfed northern England's picturesque Lake District on Friday following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain, killing a police officer and trapping dozens in their swamped homes.Military helicopters winched dozens of people to safety and emergency workers in bright orange inflatable boats rescued scores more after an unprecedented deluge.British soldiers conducted house-to-house searches for those trapped by floods as deep as 8 feet (2.5 meters). Troops also dropped down on lines from Royal Air Force helicopters, breaking through rooftops to pluck people to safety.Constable Bill Barker, 44, died as he joined rescue attempts, swept into the surging waters when a major bridge collapsed. Emergency services said more than 200 people were rescued in the hardest-hit town, Cockermouth and about 1,000 homes were flooded.In a message to local officials, Queen Elizabeth II said she was "deeply concerned and saddened by the dreadful flooding across Britain." British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Barker "was a very heroic, very brave man."Britain's Met Office said a record 12.3 inches (314.4 millimeter) of rain fell in 24 hours in the area - the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in the U.K.Cockermouth, a market town 330 miles (530 kilometers) northwest of London, lies at the junction of the Cocker and Derwent rivers and is known as the birthplace of poet William Wordsworth. The flood was "of biblical proportions," local House of Commons lawmaker Tony Cunningham said.Heavy rain and gales also brought widespread flooding to Ireland, as more than 3 feet (1 meter) of water shut down the center of the country's second-largest city, Cork, and more than a dozen towns and villages. The Irish army was used to rescue the stranded from waist-deep floodwaters and a helicopter winched to safety a County Galway family of five, including the 87-year-old grandmother.Floods caused transport chaos along Ireland's western coast. At the Lake Hotel, on the shores of the fabled Killarney Lakes in County Kerry, about 170 guests at the Victorian period building were evacuated by tractor, as staff carried period furniture upstairs.Irish weather forecasting service Met Eireann said parts of southern and western Ireland suffered their most intense and sustained rainfall in 30 years
3572	141		Argentina	Paraguay			Argentina: Misiones, Santa Fe, Chaco, Corrientes and Entre Rios		14-Nov-09	22-Nov-09	9		1,793		Heavy Rain	1	415000	6.6	-59.05	-32.99	x	1	32	1	136	14-Nov-2009	849	3047	November 18, 2009: "BUENOS AIRES – Argentina is currently struggling with contrasting weather emergencies, with wide areas in the central and northwestern parts of the country suffering from drought and the northeast threatened by the rapidly rising Parana River.With the heavy rains to the north in Brazil, the level of the Parana River has risen significantly, as high as 23 meters (75 feet) in the province of Misiones and 7 meters (23 feet) in the provinces of Santa Fe, Chaco, Corrientes and Entre Rios, according to the latest measurements released Friday.Because of flooding along the riverbanks, authorities have had to evacuate about a thousand people in Chaco and are preparing to do the same with another 2,000 in Santa Fe in the coming hours.Meanwhile in the provinces of Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Mendoza and Tucuman the situation grows more desperate from the lack of water following a prolonged drought.The tourist town of Villa Carlos Paz in Cordoba province has been forced to ration drinking water after declaring a “water emergency” due to the extremely low level of neighboring San Roque Lake, the city’s chief source of water.Cordoba authorities have also alerted locals to the high risk of forest fires because of the drought.In Mendoza, the lack of water has ranchers stymied by the almost insurmountable difficulties in fattening their cattle.In Tucuman, rivers and reservoirs are at less than 50 percent of their normal levels, which is causing problems for farmers in the province while the authorities ask people to use water rationally.In the province of Buenos Aires the most serious situation is in the city of Bahia Blanca, where because of low water pressure the local hospital has made a plea for tanker trucks to supply it with drinking water. EFE "
3571	140		Spain				Galicia, Pontevedra province, NW Spain		15-Nov-09	16-Nov-09	2		1,793		Torrential Rain	1	39820	4.9	-7.51	42.53	x	0	31	1	135	15-Nov-2009	848	3046	November 16, 2009: "46 municipalities reported flooding from the storm..Galicia reported yesterday flooding and mudslides...Pontevedra province was the hardest hit by the storm
3570	139		Malaysia				Kota Setar, Kedah, Bandar Bharu,Baling.  Sungai Kepala Batas and Sungai Pantai Johor rivers		10-Nov-09	16-Nov-09	7		1,793		Heavy Rain	1	14490	5.0	100.96	5.74	x	0	31	1	134	10-Nov-2009	848	3045	November 16, 2009: "ALOR SETAR: The number of flood victims evacuated in Kedah rose to 1,793 up from 1,338 Sunday evening, said a state floods operation room spokesman. Bandar Bharu and Baling districts were the new districts hit by floods and 300 people from 69 families were moved to flood evacuation centres."In the Bandar Bharu district, 280 people from 61 families were moved to four centres while in Baling 20 victims from eight families were still at one evacuation centre," he said. The Kota Setar district registered the highest number of victims at 641 people from 185 families and they were housed at six centres while the Kubang Pasu district charted 474 people from 119 families who were moved to six evacuation centres."In Pokok Sena, 349 people from 77 families were moved to the three centres of Sekolah Kebangsaan Bukit Hijau, Surau Kampung Permatang Limau and Dewan Kubang Keriang," he told Bernama here today.He said the readings of two rivers in Kota Setar exceeded danger levels with Sungai Kepala Batas registering 4.13m (danger level 3.8m) and Sungai Pantai Johor registering 2.47m (danger level 2m).Meanwhile, observation by Bernama at the Sekolah Kebangsaan Gunong evacuation centre here saw that the number of flood victims was increasing.According to the Kota Setar district community welfare assistant officer, Nurul Hafizah Yahya, the centre was reopened on Nov 14 after being closed for two days earlier."We are continuously monitoring and are ready to receive more flood victims due to the continous rain," she said."The victims here are from 11 villages, among them Kampung Alor Gunong, Kampung Seberang Pumpong, Kampung Jalan Pondok Tanjung Bedil and Kampung Sungai Baru," she said.A victim from Kampung Seberang Pumpong, Samsiah Husin, 73, said she was evacuated twice in one week." "I was allowed to return three days ago but could not clean my house as water rose again," she said.
3569	138		Tanzania				Goha Village in Same District , Morogoro and Dodoma regions, Kibaigwa, Dodoma Region		10-Nov-09	13-Nov-09	4	20			Heavy Rain	1	194800	5.9	35.89	-6.77		0	31	1	133	10-Nov-2009	848	3044	November 13, 2009: ".As residents of Goha Village in Same District began burying the victims of Tuesday's deadly mudslides, El Ni-o-driven rains continued to cause havoc in various parts of the country yesterday.Heavy rains flooded villages and swept away bridges in Morogoro and Dodoma regions.Hundreds of travellers were stranded for hours on end in Kibaigwa, Dodoma Region, after a downpour that started on Wednesday night swept away bridges in the area.One of the travellers told The Citizen by telephone that no vehicle could cross the flooded section of the Dodoma-Morogoro highway.Elsewhere, Kilimanjaro Regional Commissioner Monica Mbega criticised residents of the village affected by the mudslide for not reporting the precarious condition of the nearby hills. At least 20 people were killed at Goha Village on Tuesday night in a mudslide triggered by heavy rains, which lashed the area for three days.Ms Mbega said yesterday that villagers noticed last year that a section of the hills was about to collapse but did not bother to take any precautions, including reporting the looming danger to the relevant authorities.She made the remarks as she was leading rescue efforts and the burial of bodies that had been recovered.She said villagers said they noticed huge cracks on the hillside, which, however, "disappeared" earlier this year.Ms Mbega, who is also the Iringa Urban MP, said something would have been done to avert Tuesday's disaster had the information been relayed to district and regional authorities.The bodies of 19 adults and a toddler were recovered from the smashed village on Wednesday. The search for survivors and more bodies continued yesterday.President Jakaya Kikwete sent his condolences to the Kilimanjaro RC following Tuesday's disaster...
3568	137		Brazil				Rio De Janeiro		12-Nov-09	13-Nov-09	2	3	200		Torrential Rain	1	47900	5.0	-43.12	-22.54		0	31	1	132	12-Nov-2009	848	3043	November 13, 2009: "RIO DE JANEIRO, November 13 (RIA Novosti) - Three people died and 200 were left homeless in Brazil as the result of heavy rains which hit the northern suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian civil defense service said.Some 15 residential districts were submerged by downpours on Thursday. About 20,000 pupils left home as all schools were closed in the area following the flood.
3567	136		USA				Southeastern U.S.		10-Nov-09	13-Nov-09	4				Tropical Storm Ida	1	468100	6.3	-83.74	35.16		1	31	1	131	10-Nov-2009	848	3042	November 12, 2009: "Relentless rain drenched much of the Atlantic seaboard Thursday, pelting communities from North Carolina northward with gusty winds and heavy rains, inundating streets and stranding drivers in hard-hit Virginia.The downpours were the continuing aftermath of late-season Tropical Storm Ida, which quickly weakened once it made landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday but still soaked a swath from Alabama to Georgia.In Virginia, Gov. Timothy Kaine declared a state of emergency and officials urged people in some areas to stay home. Rain and resulting floods were predicted to continue at least through Friday, especially along the state's southeastern coast.
3566	135	FL-2009-000237-THA	India				Tamil Nadu		3-Nov-09	8-Nov-09	6	70			Torrential Rain	1.5	35730	5.5	77.85	11.47		0	30	1	130	3-Nov-2009	847	3041	November 10, 2009: "CHENNAI—Heavy rain in southern India triggered flash floods and landslides that killed 41 people in the last 24 hours, police said Tuesday.More than 70 deaths have been recorded across several districts in the state of Tamil Nadu in the last week, where downpours have caused widespread damage to buildings and ruined crops.The hillside district of Nilgiris, about 450km west of the state capital Chennai, is estimated to have received up to 61cm of rain over two days, police said.One village there was destroyed."The toll is 71 as of now. Nilgiris bore the brunt of the rain and 38 lives have been lost there in the last two days," an officer in the local police control room told AFP, referring to deaths overnight and on Monday.Another three were killed overnight in more southern districts of Tamil Nadu.Rescue efforts were underway to help those trapped in debris, and authorities said most deaths were due to walls collapsing, drowning or electrocution.Schools were closed in several districts and forecasters predicted more rain over the next 24 hours.
3565	134	FL-2009-000237-THA	Thailand	Malaysia			Northern Malaysia, southern Thailand		7-Nov-09	8-Nov-09	2	15	6,800		Monsoonal Rain	1	35580	4.9	-91.05	18.48		0	30	1	129	7-Nov-2009	847	3040	November 9, 2009: "Narathiwat - The flooding in this southern border province has so far killed 10 people, the provincial disaster prevention and mitigation centre announced Monday.The centre announced that the flooding affected 26,525 families in 367 villages and 17 communities in 13 districts.The latest victim was Panida Waephakdee, 12.A total of 1,697 families have been evacuated following the flooding...- Floods caused by heavy rains have claimed 15 lives in southern Thailand, officials said Monday. Heavy rains sparked flash floods in Thailand's southernmost provinces of Songkhla, Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala over the weekend, affecting hundreds of thousands of people, Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation officials said. In Narathiwat province, the floods claimed at least 10 lives, affected 124,335 residents and prompted the government to evacuate 1,697 households. Flooding is common in the region during the monsoon season, which lasts from June to October. Flood,Thailand: Floods caused by heavy rains have claimed 15 lives in Thailand's southernmost provinces of Songkhla, Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala. In Malaysia: November 9, 2009: "Heavy rains triggered flash floods that killed two people and forced thousands to evacuate their homes in northern Malaysia, officials say.The downpours mark the start of an annual monsoon season between November and February that often leads to widespread flooding in low-lying towns and villages in Malaysia's northern states.A nine-year-old girl drowned on Sunday after she fell into a rain-swollen river while playing with her friends, said Mohammad Abdul Aziz, a flood relief effort co-ordinator.Separately, authorities recovered the body of a man who was swept away while swimming in a river, said Ismail Saat, a police officer in northern Kelantan state.Officials in three separate states said about 5,000 people had taken shelter at schools and community centres since the downpours began late last week.
3564	133		Australia				New South Wales		7-Nov-09	9-Nov-09	3				Heavy Rain	1	98550	5.5	151.64	-30.39		0	30	1	128	7-Nov-2009	847	3039	November 9, 2009: "The NSW government has declared the shires of Nambucca, Bellingen, Kempsey and Coffs Harbour natural disaster zones, making funding available to local councils for infrastructure repairs.Mr Fraser welcomed the declaration but said farmers and small business owners - already burdened with loans following previous floods - would not benefit from it.Speaking in Bathurst on Monday, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the federal government was ready to help "in whatever way we can".Meanwhile, state agencies are continuing to assess the situation in NSW."The Department of State and Regional Development, Department of Primary Industries and DOCS will be carrying out an assessment in the next 24 hours to determine if the affected area meets the community recovery criteria set out in the state and federal guidelines," NSW Emergency Services Minister Steve Whan told AAP.About 100 people are still cut off by floodwaters at Coutts Crossing, south of Grafton, while the Orara River peaked about 1pm (AEDT) on Monday, a spokeswoman for the State Emergency Services (SES) told AAP.The Bureau of Meteorology said no significant rain had been recorded in the Orara valley since 9am (AEDT) on Monday but minor flooding was expected to continue at Coutts Crossing for the next 24 to 36 hours November 8, 2009: "  The New South Wales state government declared several areas on the state's mid north coast a natural disaster zone after severe flooding damaged roads and left up to 5-thousand people isolated, Australian news agencies reported on Saturday. Heavy rainfall on Friday night caused homes to be evacuated, left cars submerged, and debris washed up on riverbanks. The seaside town of Coffs Harbor, about 340 miles north of Sydney , had 528mm (20 inches)of rain in the 48 hours up until Saturday morning local time, the New South Wales State Emergency Service (SES) said. Shops became flooded overnight on Friday, while SES workers escorted residents from their homes as water levels rose. By Saturday morning some of the water had subsided and shop owners in the booming holiday area were beginning to clean up. Several roads remain closed and authorities have advised against non essential travel in the flooded areas around Nambucca, Bellingen, Kempsey and Coffs Harbour. The local councils in the four areas affected will receive state government funding to rebuild damaged roads, bridges and infrastructure. Residents and local businesses that suffered damage in the flooding will also have access to financial help. The SES is expecting flood waters to subside by Sunday, restoring access to settlements cut off by the deluge.
3563	132	FL-2009-000238-SLV	El Salvador				Central regions		7-Nov-09	9-Nov-09	3	192	35,000		Heavy Rain	2	5541	4.5	-89	13.77		0	30	1	127	7-Nov-2009	847	3038	November 15, 2009: "SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- Salvadoran authorities say at least 192 people were killed by floods and landslides that swept through the country last week.El Salvador's Civil Protection agency says in a statement that 89 of the victims were killed in the state of San Vicente, where days of heavy rains caused mud and boulders to sweep down the side of the Chichontepec volcano before dawn a week ago.The agency said Sunday that dozens more remain missing. It says that more than 14,000 Salvadoran have been affected by the floods and mudslides that were indirectly linked to Hurricane Ida's passage through the region. November 12, 2009: "Relief materials from different countries and aid organisations have begun to arrive for the flood affected people in El Salvador, as the toll has risen to 157 following a devastating storm last weekend.Officials said 58 people are still missing days after Hurricane Ida hit the country.Thousands of people have also been displaced in floods and mudslides caused by the storm.'Various governments, through their ambassadors, and in some other cases directly ... have called me to express to us their solidarity and, at the same time, to respond in an immediate manner to the demands this emergency creates,' President Mauricio Funes has said.'I'm taking this moment to express my acknowledgment of the solidarity,' he told a gathering Wednesday.Torrential rains continued in five of El Salvador's 14 provinces since Hurricane Ida made landfall last weekend.Donations have arrived from the US, Japan, Nicaragua and Venezuela, as well as from the UNICEF and Red Cross. The relief items are being distributed at 132 emergency shelters where more than 14,000 flood affected people are hous" November 9, 2009: Floods and landslides left at least 124 people dead in El Salvador on Monday after a late-season hurricane ravaged parts of Central America and took aim for the United States.Landslides and overflowing rivers carried away houses, while a raging torrent ripped through an entire section of one town. Some of the bodies were taken to a chapel and covered in mud-caked sheets."All we heard in the morning was loud noise," Arnoldo Paz, a resident of Verapaz in the central region of the country, told AFP."It was a torrent of water and mud that swept away everything in its path. All I could do was tell my wife to grab the kids and flee."November 8, 2009: " Torrents of mud and boulders choked the streets of Verapaz on Sunday, part of massive wave of rain-fueled flooding that authorities said killed 91 people throughout El Salvador and left about five dozen missing.Almost 7,000 people saw their homes damaged, destroyed or cut off by floods and mudslides across this Central American nation.Rescue workers dug frantically for victims, but the mud flows were so high they nearly swallowed vehicles completely. Many streets were blocked with boulders."What happened in Verapaz was something terrible," said Interior Minister Humberto Centeno, who flew over the city Sunday to survey the damage. "It is a real tragedy there."At least 23 people were killed in San Vicente province, where Verapaz is located, and at least 60 people were unaccounted for in the city located about 25 miles (40 kilometers) east of the capital, San Salvador.Provincial Gov. Manuel Castellanos said workers were struggling to clear roadways and power and water service had been knocked out.At least 300 houses in Verapaz were flooded after a river overflowed its bank, Red Cross spokesman Carlos Lopez Mendoza said.The rains unleashed massive rock slides from the Chichontepec volcano that buried several other houses, Verapaz Mayor Antonio Cerritos told Radio Nacional.In San Salvador, authorities reported 61 dead. Lopez Mendoza said the toll included a family of four — two adults and two children — who were killed when a mudslide buried their home Sunday morning.The remaining victims were buried by slides or carried away by raging rivers in other parts of the country, Vice Interior Minister Ernesto Zelayandia told .El Salvador was slammed by three days of heavy rains from a Pacific coast low-pressure system indirectly related to Hurricane Ida, which brushed the Mexican resort of Cancun Sunday and steamed into the Gulf of Mexico as a Category 2 hurricane.The mountains in El Salvador quickly funneled rain down into populated valleys. Poverty and precarious construction appeared to play a role in the destruction, as homes clinging to steep hillsides quickly fell prey to mudslides.Authorities had to use helicopters to reach some of the most severely affected townships, Centeno said.Centeno said it has been impossible to reach many of the affected areas because of damage to roads.Hurricane Ida's presence in the western Caribbean may have played a role in drawing a Pacific low-pressure system toward El Salvador, causing the rains, said Dave Roberts, a Navy hurricane specialist at the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.He added, however, that "if there were deaths associated with this rainfall amount in El Salvador, I would not link it to Ida."
3562	131		Mexico				Gulf  Coast, Tobasco		1-Nov-09	12-Nov-09	12		200,000		Heavy Rain	1.5	44320	5.9	-91.05	18.48		0	30	1	126	1-Nov-2009	847	3037	November 12, 2009: "The Mexican government has declared parts of the Gulf coast state of Tabasco disaster zones due to flooding from days of heavy rains, freeing up federal relief funds for the area.The Interior Department decree issued Monday covers the cities of Cardenas and Huimanguillo, where the government is handing out food and household goods to some of the estimated 200,000 people affected by high waters.But flooded roads are making it difficult to get aid in. Some areas have been under water for about 10 days. Tabasco Gov. Andres Granier says some victims lack food and drinking water.About 40,000 people remain in emergency shelters, but others are waiting out the floods on the roofs of their homes."November 8, 2009: "VILLA HERMOSA: A week of torrential rain has flooded the homes of more than 200,000 people along Mexico’s Gulf coast, officials said yesterday. Residents in some towns complained that no help had arrived. The flooding in eastern Tabasco state has worsened as rains persist and more rivers overflow their banks. Three people drowned earlier in the week while trying to flee a torrent of water in a drainage canal. People “are in a desperate situation,” Tabasco Gov. Andres Granier said, but he added that many were ignoring pleas to move to shelters for fear their homes would be looted. The floods affect more than a dozen towns. Santos Perez Jimenez said no help had arrived in his rural community of Luis Cabrera. “We’re trying to get our things out as best we can,” Perez Jimenez said. “We’ve radioed for help several times but they have not paid attention to us.” An estimated 20,000 people were in 100 shelters set up by the state. Others, however, set up makeshift tents on dry land near their soaked homes, fearing looting. “This is the closest we can be to our stuff. And we are used to these floods,” said Rebecca Rodriguez, who was living under a plastic sheet along a stretch of highway between Tabasco and Veracruz state. Floods occur yearly in Tabasco despite government efforts to improve infrastructure. In 2007, floods left 1 million homes under water and killed 33 people. The Gulf of Mexico accounts for a quarter of US domestic oil production and 15 percent of natural gas output. The Gulf Coast is also home to 40 percent of the nation’s refining capacity. November 3, 2009: "Flooding after days of heavy rain along Mexico's Gulf Coast has forced more than 44,000 people from their homes.Tabasco state Gov. Andres Granier says several rivers jumped their banks, flooding homes in more than 90 communities.The federal government declared a state of emergency and troops were helping rescue people Tuesday.Residents expressed frustration that government infrastructure projects have not prevented yearly flooding in Tabasco. In 2007, floods killed 33 people and inundated more than 1 million homes.''Since the 2007 floods, they say are going to complete projects and once again we've been flooded. Every time the rivers swell, we lose everything,'' said Hipolito Escobar, a 58-year-old farmer. .
3561	130		United Kingdom	Scotland			Aberdeenshire		1-Nov-09	3-Nov-09	3				Heavy Rain	1	14190	4.6	-3.12	55.66		0	30	1	125	1-Nov-2009	847	3036	November 2, 2009: Heavy rain has caused havoc in north and east Scotland with homes flooded, roads closed and trains cancelled.Dozens of elderly people had to be moved from their care home in the Aberdeenshire town of Huntly. The centre of Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire was under water after rivers burst their banks.And a man in his 60s died after his car was in collision with a lorry on the A90 Fraserburgh to Cortes road. Police said weather could have been a factor.The crash happened at about 0520 GMT and the road was closed for several hours.Arbroath in Angus was left virtually cut off, with all main routes in and out - including the railway line from Edinburgh to Aberdeen - impassable.Residents in Stonehaven filled pillow cases with sand from the beach to try to protect buildings, after the rivers Cowie and Carron burst their banks on Sunday.Some streets in the town were evacuated.David Fleming, chairman of Stonehaven Community Council, said it had been a "horrendous" night but the water was now receding.He said: "The river Carron flowed into the town down two of the main streets and the water in the high street was up to chest height."Mr Fleming said he never seen anything like it in the town.About 50 people were evacuated from their homes and many more were forced to move to the upper storeys of their properties.An Aberdeenshire Council spokesperson said: "Our crews have been working throughout the night providing support to the emergency services, keeping roads clear as best they can and helping with the evacuation of residents."The torrential rainfall across a large part of Aberdeenshire has meant that our crews have been stretched very thinly but they have been committed to helping wherever possible."Our resources were stretched to the limit. We'd already given out most of our sandbags. Anyone experiencing flood-related difficulties can phone 01224 665470 and we will offer advice, support and assistance."There were 12 schools closed or partially closed in Aberdeenshire.Insp Kevin Wallace, of Grampian Police, said the force's focus had moved to the Huntly area, where dozens of houses were affected by high waters from the river Deveron.He said water had got into a large number of properties on the north side of Huntly.Dozens of people from a local care home - many elderly and vulnerable - were taken to safety by rescuers after a river burst its banks.First Minister Alex Salmond, who is the MSP for Gordon, visited Huntly and said: "Many families and elderly people have been affected by what has been the second round of flooding in as many weeks."Many people in Huntly and across the north east have had a miserable night and my thoughts are with everyone who has been affected by the flooding."
3560	129	FL-2009-000234-PHL, TC-2009-000230-VNM	Philippines	Viet Nam	Cambodia		Bicol, Southern Tagalog and Metro Manila		30-Oct-09	4-Nov-09	6		98		Tropical Storm Mirinae	1.5	124900	6.1	107.66	14.91		1	30	1	124	30-Oct-2009	847	3035	Nov. 4, 2009: "At least 90 people have been killed in flooding in central Vietnam sparked by Tropical Storm Mirinae, which slammed into the country this week.A further 22 people were reported missing after the storm struck on Monday, destroying hundreds of homes and leaving more than 200,000 people stranded, according to local reports.Television pictures from the provinces of Phu Yen and Gia Lai, which were among the worst hit regions along with Binh Dinh, showed rescuers in boats helping desperate residents escape some of the worst flooding there in decades.Water in places reached up to the rooftops of buildings, where some residents had sought refuge. The VTV channel reported that 200,000 people were stranded in Binh Dinh province alone". Nov. 3, 2009: "Tropical Storm Mirinae unleashed severe flooding in parts of central Vietnam, killing 23 people, leaving two missing and stranding families on rooftops, disaster officials said Tuesday.Five more bodies have been recovered, bringing the death toll in the hardest-hit province of Phu Yen to 15 people after the storm hit Monday, drenching the region with heavy rains, said disaster official Dang Thi Lanh."Many villages remain cut off by rising waters and we expect the death toll to rise," she said.Several villages in neighboring Binh Dinh province suffered the worst flooding in four decades after the Ha Thanh River surged over its banks, said disaster official Nguyen Van Hoa. Five people were killed by falling trees or washed away by floods in Binh Dinh and two others were missing, Hoa said.In Khanh Hoa province, south of Phu Yen, three people were killed, a disaster official there said refusing to give his name.The military sent two helicopters to drop instant noodles to people in isolated villages and to rescue people who were still trapped on rooftops a day after the storm, which lost force as it moved inland."We have received many calls for help from people who are still stranded," Hoa said by telephone.Ho Quoc Dung, vice chairman of Binh Dinh provincial People's Committee, said some 400 soldiers were mobilized to use speed boats to reach areas cut off by flooding and have ferried out more than 1,000 villagers.Several thousand remain stranded, he said.Mirinae hit the Philippines with typhoon strength over the weekend, killing 20 people before losing strength as it moved across the South China Sea toward Vietnam." Nov. 1, 2009: " Philippine authorities Sunday scrambled to restore power and repair damage after Typhoon Mirinae smashed into the storm-weary nation, killing at least 14 people.A day after Mirinae brought heavy rains and winds, crews were clearing roads of fallen trees and power lines in the capital Manila and nearby areas.Efforts were being made to repair four bridges that collapsed in urban areas south of Manila, while power was slowly being restored to most of the 22 towns that were blacked out at the height of the typhoon, the Red Cross said."We have been told that power in most areas has been restored and in terms of flooding, the waters receded within hours," national Red Cross secretary general Gwen Pang told AFP.She said a pre-emptive evacuation of about 115,000 people in the typhoon's direct path to safer ground days ahead of its landfall had meant fewer casualties compared with two recent deadly storms.As of early Sunday, Mirinae had weakened and was located 450 kilometres (279 miles) southwest of Manila in the South China Sea, the weather bureau said.In its latest update Sunday noon, Manila's National Disaster Coordinating Council said the typhoon left "remarkably less damage to lives and properties" compared to two recent typhoons.Tropical Storm Ketsana, which caused massive flooding on September 26, and Typhoon Parma, which hit a week later, together killed more than 1,100 people."People were more prepared and more or less knew what to do," Pang said. "People did not wait until it was too late to evacuate and were quickly moved away from harm's way to safer ground."She said most of the more than 5,000 people who had moved into temporary shelters as Typhoon Mirinae lashed the main island of Luzon had begun trickling back to their homes as the weather cleared Sunday.However, relief and rehabilitation efforts will continue for the 87,000 people still packed into evacuation centres whose homes were destroyed by Ketsana and Parma, she said.Even before Mirinae hit, outlying districts that are home to more than a million people were expected to remain flooded into the New Year, raising concern among health experts of an outbreak of disease.October 31, 2009: "Close to 116,000 persons were forced to flee their homes as Typhoon Santi (international codename: Mirinae) triggered flooding in Bicol, Southern Tagalog and Metro Manila early Saturday, the National Disaster Coordinating Council said.As of 1 p.m. Saturday, NDCC spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Ernesto Torres said 23,101 families displaced by the floods were taken to 251 evacuation centers.Save for a missing man in Muntinlupa City, he said the NDCC and its local offices have yet to record any deaths since the typhoon battered the southern part of Luzon starting Friday evening.Torres said Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro went to Sta. Cruz, Laguna to personally check on the condition of affected residents and the damage wrought by the typhoon on public infrastructure.“The NDCC and the Armed Forces already sent disaster relief teams to affected areas. We also distributed relief goods in some areas two days [earlier],” Torres told the Inquirer.According to Torres, 8,567 passengers were stranded in various ports in the Calabarzon and Bicol regions.He said the typhoon’s strong winds toppled electric posts in Camarines Norte, Laguna and Metro Manila, causing power outages.
3559	128	FL-2009-000226-PRY	Paraguay				Encarnacion (Itapua), Ayolas (Misiones), Ciudad del Este (Alto Parana) e Ita Cora (Neembucu))		26-Oct-09	28-Oct-09	3				Heavy Rain	1	163300	5.7	-56.27	-25.1		0	29	1	123	26-Oct-2009	846	3034	October 27, 2009: "Flood,Paraguay: Hundreds of families have been affected by floods in Encarnacion (Itapua), Ayolas (Misiones), Ciudad del Este (Alto Parana) e Ita Cora (Neembucu)).
3558	127		Viet Nam				Central Viet Nam		23-Oct-09	26-Oct-09	4	1			Tropical Storm	1	28280	5.1	107.39	15.57		0	29	1	122	23-Oct-2009	846	3033	October 26, 2009: "Heavy rains bring floods, landslides to central Vietnam. Torrential rains brought by a tropical low forming in the East Sea last Friday have caused floods and landslides, leaving one missing in the central provinces over the past two days.Thousands of cubic meters of soil and rocks have collapsed from part of Ho Chi Minh Highway, which runs from the north to the south, in Thua Thien – Hue Province’s A Luoi District, causing traffic snarls, according to the provincial storm and flood control committee.Many local communes have been submerged under 0.7 meters of water.Flash floods have also swept away almost 1.3 kilometers section of a railway and caused landslides in other parts of Ninh Thuan Province’s Ninh Phuoc District, prompting the management company to delay all trains.Nguyen Cong Dong, director of Thuan Hai Railway Management Company, said all the repairs are expected to be completed by Saturday afternoon.Rescuers in Quang Ngai Province are searching a fourth grader, Nguyen Thi My, who was swept away by floods on her way home from school on Friday.Central Vietnam was hit late last month by typhoon Ketsana that killed 163 people and caused losses of over VND14 trillion (US$785.85 million).
3557	126	FF-2009-000229-SOM	Kenya	Somalia	Ethiopia		Tana Delta and Tana River; between Malindi and Garsen		20-Oct-09	28-Oct-09	9		2,000		Heavy Rain	1	197700	6.3	40.68	2.99		1	29	1	121	20-Oct-2009	846	3032	October 29, 2009: "Flash floods caused by four days of torrential rains have displaced more than 15,000 people in the southwestern town of El-Waq near the Kenyan border and submerged most homes and businesses, say locals."Most of the town is under water, with people moving to higher ground around the town," Alaso Gurhan, a resident of El-Waq, in Gedo region of southwestern Somalia, told IRIN on 28 October.The local administration and civil society groups have been able to move many people to safer ground, she said.She said mothers with small children and the elderly were being given priority in the provision of shelter material. "We are all in the open now with very little help. We don't have much so we have to give first to the weakest."A lot of livestock have reportedly died due to the ongoing rains. "Hundreds of goats and sheep weakened by the drought have succumbed to the rains and the cold weather," said Ali Hassan, a civil society activist.He said El-Waq, like the rest of Somalia, was waiting for the rain but it was "too much in too short a time. If the rain continues the way it has for the last four days we will be in serious trouble."He said most of the residents, about 18,000 with some 900 displaced families (5,400 people) from Mogadishu, had been affected. "We are no better than the displaced today," he added. He said the population was concentrating on the hills around the town. "Any higher ground in the area is now occupied."Hassan Hussein, an engineer with Development Frontier International, an NGO, told IRIN they were now trying to dig trenches to allow the water to drain from the town.He said there was still a danger of more flooding since the rains were ongoing. He said his group was organizing the population to alert them to any more danger. "We are using the loud-speakers in mosques to tell people to help the weak and to get to higher ground."People who are still in low-lying areas were also being told to move to higher ground, he said.He said shelter material was urgently needed. "There are many people who are too weak to stay in the open or in the flimsy shelters we have. We need help in the provision of tents and other shelter material if we are to avert a serious health situation."There are fears that with the rains mosquitoes and waterborne diseases will not be far behind, he warned" October 29, 2009: "After days of heavy rain, flash floods in Kenya's coastal Magarini district have displaced at least 500 families, sweeping away houses and livestock, officials said.Most of the affected families were from Kurawa and Kanagoni villages in Magarini. Many have already sought alternative shelter, with some heading to a camp for the displaced along the Malindi-Garissa highway.John Manasseh, a local leader, told IRIN on 28 October: "We had assumed that since the rains were delayed at the beginning of the year, we would not experience any flooding. We even started cultivating our farms in readiness for the rain, but it seems we were all wrong."Most of the coastal region has been dry, having not had rains since early 2009. In August, the Kenya Meteorological Department warned that the country could soon experience El Niño-related enhanced rainfall. Already, heavy rains have been reported in many parts of the country, with Coast Province being the latest to experience flooding.The Magarini flash floods occurred a day after two people reportedly died in Kolongoni village in neighbouring Kilifi district, after a house in which they were sleeping collapsed after a downpour, crushing them.Jillo Galgalo, one of those displaced by the floods in Magarini, said they lacked clean water for domestic use and were at risk of infection from waterborne diseases."Most pit latrines have been washed away because nobody expected any floods to occur this soon," Galgalo said. "We are in dire need of clean water because most water points are now filled with all sorts of waste, including human waste and cow dung."Along with the neighbouring Tana River district - where roads connecting the towns of Mombasa, Garissa and Lamu have been cut off due to the rains - roads in Kilifi have not been spared, with most roads connecting local trading centres impassable" October 28, 2009: "Nairobi — Three districts were yesterday morning cut off from Mombasa after El-Nino rains washed away a section of the Mombasa-Lamu highway.The damaged Kinagoni bridge puts the lives of more than 200,000 people in Lamu, Tana Delta and Tana River at risk of not getting food and other supplies from Mombasa and Malindi.Over 2,000 people were rendered homeless when more than 500 homesteads were submerged by water between Malindi and Garsen.A 500 metre stretch of the road was extensively damaged and will require total reconstruction, Magarini DC Peter Karanja said at the scene of the damaged bridge.A man who tried to cross the seasonal river shortly after the bridge was damaged was swept away by the floods and was believed to have drowned, although rescuers had not yet recovered his body, Mr Karanja said. Travelers from both sides of the road were stranded as buses turned back when they reached the section of the road" .October 25, 2009 "Experts estimate that the situation is not currently as bad as the El Niño floods of 1997 that put much of eastern Kenya under water, but the short rains are expected to last until December or longer so conditions in both Somalia and Kenya are likely to deteriorate further.The United Nations currently estimates that a total of up to 1.8 million people are affected by the floods in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia.In addition to the life-threatening rising waters, cholera outbreaks have been reported and the toll from diseases such as malaria is expected to rise.The floods followed a regional drought earlier this year that killed large numbers of livestock and left millions of nomadic herders reliant on food aid and other assistance even after the rains."
3556	125		Niger				Northern Niger, Agadez Region		21-Sep-09	15-Oct-09	25				Heavy Rain	1	133600	6.5	8.06	17.22		1	28	1	120	21-Sep-2009	845	3031	October 19, 2009: "AGADEZ, Niger, 25 September 2009 – Unprecedented rainfall has led to severe flooding in northern Niger's Agadez region in recent weeks."We had never seen such floods," said Tahrit Adam, 70, who is staying at one of the schools where area residents have temporarily relocated. She is one of the 80,000 people who have been affected by the floods."It happened all of a sudden in the middle of the night," said Fadima Ahmed, 30, a mother of four who was forced out of her home."Water came into my house like a torrent. In a few seconds, I had it up to my waist. I thought we were going to die. We have lost everything."While many families have found shelter with relatives, 11 sites are operating as shelters for the flood-affected population. Among these are five primary schools and one secondary school.Fadima Ahmed lost her home and all her belongings due to the early September floods that have affected Agadez in northern Niger.Four new sites have also been identified. The Government of Niger, UNICEF and other partners are equipping them with water and sanitation facilities, as well as shelters.In order to provide safe water in the flood zone, UNICEF has installed two water tanks at one site and is setting up water systems at four more camps.The raging waters destroyed the dyke protecting the town of Agadez, flooding entire sectors and prompting the government to call for international assistance on 11 September.While no epidemics have thus far been reported, cases of diarrhoeal disease and malaria are on the rise. Thousands of children under the age of five are particularly at risk of contracting infectious diseases caused by unsafe water and poor sanitation.
3555	124		Nigeria				Ohia-Era community in Obio/Akpor local government area of Rivers State.Also Delta State		20-Oct-09	26-Oct-09	7		5,000		Heavy Rain	1	53020	5.6	6.51	5.54		0	27	1	119	20-Oct-2009	844	3030	October 24, 2009: "Over 5,000 people have been displaced, as 200 houses were submerged in flood at Ohia-Era community in Obio/Akpor local government area of Rivers State, following the heavy rains which enveloped the state last week.Disclosing the development in Port Harcourt, yesterday, South-South Coordinator of National Emergency Management Agency, Mr. Umesi Emenike, said the flood had chased away occupants of the buildings who are currently elsewhere.October 22, 2009: "Warri — FLOOD has ravages 36 Ijaw communities, destroying state-owned electricity project, secondary and primary schools in Burutu local government area of Delta State.This comes as the Gbekebor Progressive Forum (GPF) has called on the federal and state governments for relief materials and immediate assistance for victims of the flood.Gbekebor town, an ancient Ijaw community in Ogbolubiri-Mein Kingdom, is being currently overrun by the over-flowing waters from River Niger in view of the very high tide of the season.The Gbekebor Progressive Forum, in a statement signed by three youth leaders in the community, Messrs Michael Ezonfade, James Ebitonmo and Daniel Pereware respectively, has, therefore, appealed to the federal and state governments, including the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and other corporate organizations to come to their aid by building foreshore wall and reclaiming the land through sandfilling for the distressed people.The most affected places are Gbekebor Secondary School , Meindu Primary School and satellite villages of Founkoro, Ekorogbene, Okosugbene, Asiagbene, Etakuwa and others..
3554	123	TC-2009-000221-JPN	Japan						7-Oct-09	9-Oct-09	3		5,000		Typhoon Melor	1	106300	5.5	138.2	36.42		0	27	1	118	7-Oct-2009	844	3029	October 8, 2009: "On 8 October 2009, a strong typhoon 0918(Melor) has struck Japan, leaving a trail of damage across the centre of the country. As of 9 October, 4 people are reported killed and missing, 119 people injured, 3 houses totally destroyed, 19 houses half destroyed, 754 houses partially destroyed, 261 houses inundated above floor level and 1,140 houses inundatad below floor level.
3553	122	FL-2009-000219-NPL	Nepal						4-Oct-09	12-Oct-09	9	45			Heavy Rain	2	129700	6.4	80.76	29.81		1	27	1	117	4-Oct-2009	844	3028	October 21, 2009: "Food insecurity has increased for thousands of families in Nepal’s far- and mid-west regions as a result of flooding and landslides earlier this month. According to the Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS), the country’s largest humanitarian organization, more than 60 people were killed and some 4,000 displaced as a result of the unseasonal rains; 25,000 families, most of whom have lost their food stocks, are affected.“The worst impact has been on food security during this harvesting period. This has left many farmers in a state of shock,” Pitamber Sharma, head of the NRCS disaster department, told IRIN in Kathmandu.Many had been wrong-footed by the late rains: “This is absolutely shocking for us all because the monsoon had never been delayed like this,” Sharma said.The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said thousands of families had lost stocked food and seeds for the next planting season.Emergency food will be a major need of flood- and landslide-affected families over the coming three months, with many paddy fields still under water, and large areas of harvested crops washed away, it said.The districts affected include Dadeldhura, Acham, Bhajang, Bajura, Doti, Baitadi, Jumla, Rukum and Darchula in the Hill Region and Kailali, Kanchanpur, Banke, Bardiya and Dang in the Terai Region bordering India. "October 12, 2009: "Lucknow, Oct 10 (IANS) Excess water from Nepal’s Sharda river has flooded large parts of the Dudhwa National Park in Uttar Pradesh and washed away a key pier of a 120-year-old bridge over the river, a senior wildlife official said Saturday.The bridge, that carried both rail and road traffic, was the sole connection between the park and the rest of Uttar Pradesh.While officials are yet to assess the extent of damage to the park, state Chief Wildlife Conservator B.K. Patnaik said: “The damage could be extensive and we have to be prepared to suffer loss of both flora and fauna.”Hoping the water would recede and the internal roads and paths dry out before the commencement of the park’s tourist season in mid-November, Patnaik remarked: “But we are still keeping our fingers crossed, just in case Nepal releases more water over the coming days.October 8, 2009: "Torrential rains have caused massive landslides and floods in the Himalayan states of Nepal and Bhutan.The death toll from flooding and landslides in mid and western Nepal has risen to 45, officials say.Thousands more have been displaced by the heavy late monsoon rains, predicted to continue until the weekend.In Bhutan, major rivers have swelled, flights have been cancelled, landslides have blocked national highways and a major hydro-power plant has been shut.MaroonedOfficials in Nepal say at least 12 more deaths have been reported from the western districts on Thursday.The army and police force have been helping with relief efforts and the cabinet has decided to provide a relief package for those affected.A swollen Karnali river has marooned around 500 residents of Kailali's Dhanasinghapur and Narayanpur areas, the Himalayan Times website reportedIt said that members of some 100 households have been marooned.Officials said relief was yet to reach some people stranded by landslides because of a lack of helicopters.Most of the deaths have taken place in the western districts of Dadeldhura and Achham.Meanwhile, reports say Bhutan has but hit by the heaviest rainfall in 13 years.The rains, which started on Tuesday evening, have hit all 20 districts, according to the Kuensel newspaper website.Heaviest showers have been reported in southern Bhutan, followed by western Bhutan, it said.The monsoon season in Bhutan is from 1 July to 30 September and officials say this kind of heavy rain at this time of the year is "abnormal and unexpected". Unseasonably heavy rains in western Nepal left a trail of destruction Tuesday(05/10/2009), killing at least 36 people and injuring several others, official said. Government officials said landslides struck at least five districts in western Nepal while flash floods were reported in Nepal's plains, known as Terai, after heavy rain began falling Sunday evening.
3552	121	TC-2009-000214-PHL	Philippines				Northern Luzon		2-Oct-09	17-Oct-09	16	438	40,000		Typhoon Parma	2	34500	6.0	121.422	17,57		1	26	1	116	2-Oct-2009	843	3027	October 26, 2009: "More than 1.5 million people are struggling to live in flooded suburbs or crowded shelters one month after devastating rains began pounding the Philippines, and officials warn no quick fix is in sight.The impoverished Southeast Asian nation faces a huge long-term battle to recover from the two storms that claimed at least 929 lives in Manila and other parts of the main Luzon island, the government and relief organizations said."The storms and torrential rains... have left the people of the Philippines facing one of the greatest challenges in memory," the UN's World Food Programme director, Josette Sheeran, said during a weekend visit to Manila.After tropical storm Ketsana dumped the heaviest rains in more than 40 years on Manila on September 26, entire districts remain waist-deep in water and piles of flood debris still litter other parts of the capital.In mountainous areas of northern Luzon that were pummelled by 10 days of torrential rain from tropical storm Parma which arrived a week later, villages remain ghost towns after being hit by landslides. The World Health Organisation says 1.43 million people, mostly in and around Manila, continue to endure a dangerous existence living in flooded districts.Those areas may remain flooded for months because chaotic urban planning has led to natural drainage systems along lakes being blocked. Already 175 people have died in those areas from leptospirosis, a bacterial disease that is contracted from contact with flood waters contaminated with rat and cat urine."The solution is to get them out of these places," Art Pesigan, an official with the WHO's emergency and humanitarian action unit, told AFP, referring to those living in the flood waters. Another 163,000 people who lost their homes in the disasters remain in evacuation centres, according to the government, with few options but to stay there and rely on handouts.The government, which has repeatedly said it is not able to cope with the twin disasters on its own, has appealed for international help. But although foreign governments and international aid agencies have provided crucial aid, less than a third of a UN appeal for $74 million has been raised.Amid the immediate relief concerns, the government is also having to grapple with longer-term reconstruction efforts. One of the main concerns is that too many people, particularly slum dwellers, in Manila have been allowed to live in flood-prone areas.A government report last week called for 2.7 million people in shantytowns to be moved from "danger zones" alongside riverbanks, lakes and sewers. The plan would affect one in five Manila residents and take 10 years and P130 billion ($2.77 billion) to implement. Economic migrants who flocked Manila's teeming shantytowns are being offered free bus fares back to their abandoned farms.October 18, 2009: "The death toll from two devastating storms that struck the Philippines over the past month has risen to 858, with ensuing disease outbreaks killing 89 others, the government said Monday.The latest National Disaster Coordinating Council toll is up from 818 on Sunday.It said Tropical Storm Ketsana left 420 dead and 37 missing when it flooded 80 percent of Manila on September 26, a disaster the government said affected 4.35 million people.Some areas are still flooded three weeks later and 189,000 people remain in evacuation centres, it added.Typhoon Parma hit the northern Philippines on October 3 and lingered as a tropical storm for a week, triggering landslides that killed 438 people and leaving 51 missing mostly in mountain communities.The government agency said Parma affected 4.16 million people, including more than 32,000 who remain at evacuation centres.The health department said leptospirosis, a bacterial disease that can lead to kidney failure and is caused by exposure to animal urine in flood waters, later killed at least 89 people."October 18, 2009: "Massive floods brought by powerful storms have caused an outbreak of the deadly disease leptospirosis that has claimed 89 lives in the Philippine capital alone, the health secretary said Saturday.The incidence of the disease in the Philippine capital and surrounding areas rose to 1,027 with 89 fatalities from October 1-15 this year compared to 769 cases and only 39 deaths in the same period last year, Secretary Francis Duque said."It is largely attributable to the floods," Duque told AFP.Huge floods covered parts of Manila and its surrounding areas after tropical storm Ketsana hit the country on September 26.This was compounded by typhoon Parma which hit a few days later, again bringing heavy rains. In some areas, the floodwaters have not receded.This has caused many people to fall ill of leptospirosis, an infectious disease caused by exposure to dirty, stagnant water.To lessen the incidence of the disease, Duque said authorities had declared an outbreak of the disease in three districts of the capital and were administering antibiotics to some 1.3 million people."It will provide substantial protection," he said. However he warned that people should still avoid exposure to dirty water.October 12, 2009: "A total of 41 areas - 38 towns and three cities - in the Ilocos Region remain flooded as of Sunday night, the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) said Monday.In its 6 a.m. report, the NDCC said that still flooded are 23 towns and three cities in Pangasinan; nine towns in La Union; one in Ilocos Sur; and five in Ilocos Norte.The NDCC said tropical cyclone "Pepeng" (Parma), which entered the country as a typhoon and subsequently weakened into a tropical depression, affected at least 521,531 families or 2,414,108 people in 3,929 villages in 351 towns and 34 cities in 27 provinces in Luzon, Western Visayas, Cordillera, and Metro Manila.On the other hand, the death toll stayed at 199, including 53 from the Ilocos Region, 137 from Cordillera, four from Central Luzon, one from Quezon province, and four from Bicol.Around 154 were injured while 50 remained missing.The casualty figures, however, exclude those from tropical storm "Ondoy" (Ketsana).The NDCC said some 2,968 houses were destroyed while 22,857 were damaged.Damage to property was estimated at P5.083 billion, including P1.09 billion in infrastructure and P3.991 billion in agriculture.It also said that 56 road sections and nine bridges in Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, La Union, and Pangasinan remained impassable or hardly passable due to landslides and mudslides.Typhoon Pepeng lashed Northern Luzon last week after making its third landfall, bringing heavy rains that caused floods and landslides" October 9, 2009: "MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Rescuers struggled through mud and pounding rain Friday to clear mountain roads and retrieve more than 160 bodies from dozens of landslides that buried villages and cut off towns in the rain-soaked northern Philippines.The latest calamity brought the death toll to more than 450 from the Philippines' worst flooding in 40 years after back-to-back storms started pounding the country's north on Sept. 26.More than 160 people were killed in landslides in Benguet and Mountain Province along the Cordillera mountain range, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) north of Manila, officials in the two provinces said.The fatalities included 120 in Benguet, Gov. Nestor Fongwan said, while 23 died in Mountain Province, according to Gov. Max Dalog. Another 25 people died in Baguio, city relief administrator Peter Fianza said.Landslides blocked the roads to the mountain city of Baguio in the heart of the Cordillera region. The only way to reach the isolated, mountain communities was by foot, and military helicopters could not fly yet because of the storms, said Lt. Col. Ernesto Torres, spokesman for the government's disaster relief agency."We are focused on rescue at this time," he said. "It is raining nonstop in the Cordilleras."About 100 landslides have struck the region since the weekend, said Rex Manuel, another relief official.Seventeen bodies have been recovered so far from Kibungan village in Benguet's La Trinidad township, which was almost entirely buried in mud and debris late Thursday, Manuel said. Up to 40 villagers were estimated to have died, while more than 100 were moved to safety, he said.Rescuers in the hillside villages used pulleys to transport the dead they retrieved from a pile of rubble and mud."October 4, 2009: " Large parts of the northern Philippines were flooded and without power on Sunday after Typhoon Parma killed at least 15 people, as authorities warned of another storm looming to the east.Exactly one week after storm Ketsana dumped the heaviest rains in more than 40 years that devastated Manila, killing nearly 300 people, Parma ripped through the north of the Philippines' main Luzon island on Saturday.Many areas in the north remained blacked out and cut off from communication on Sunday as Parma left the country and hovered over the South China Sea. Roads were submerged or littered with fallen trees and toppled power lines.Two separate landslides buried homes in the province of Benguet, killing 12 people on Saturday, provincial police director Chief Superintendent Loreto Espinili said. Related article: Joyful reunions and despairThe fatalities were on top of three casualties earlier reported by other authorities elsewhere.The state weather bureau warned of more misery as Typhoon Melor, monitored about 600 kilometres (370 miles) to the east, was expected to enter Philippine maritime territory by Monday afternoon before blowing north to eastern China or Japan.
3551	120	FL-2009-000217-IND	India				Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh states		25-Sep-09	12-Oct-09	18	303			Heavy Rain	2	309700	7.0	78.23	15.71		1	25	1	115	25-Sep-2009	842	3026	October 11, 2009: "Alampur town in Mehbubnagar district, not far from the flood-ravaged Kurnool city, is yet to recover from the devastating natural calamity, even though 11 days have passed since the floods submerged this historic temple city.Till Saturday the town of 20,000 population was renowned for its ancient temples dedicated to Lord Siva and was called as 'Dakhsihna Kashi' (Or the Kashi of south) but today nobody even wants to enter the village as the streets and houses in Alampur are covered with two feet of slush and an unbearable stench was pervading the town making it difficult to breath.The few families who had waded through three or four feet of stinking and stagnated flood water to return to their homes and tried to clean them of the slush have given up in frustration after making all the possible efforts."It is not possible to get rid of the black soil which is deposited in our homes by the floods," said 25-year-old Srikant, who had rushed from Kurnool to help his family on hearing about the floods.Balaji, a 37-year-old government employee, said that the floods in Tungabhadra and the backwater from Srissailam dam together had pushed as much as 10 to 15 feet of flood water in to the town leaving not a single house safe or unaffected."We have lost each and every item of our house. Nothing is left," said Mukhtar Basha who ran a building material yard. "My family has suffered losses to the tune of Rs 4 lakh and do not know how to recover," Basha added.Manikantamma, a 50-year-old lady trying to return to her home, pointing towards Gandhiji's statue in the middle of a square said, "Water was higher than his head. If we had not escaped in time, we would have all died," she said.Mumtaz Khatoon, who was staying with 30 members of her extended family in a makeshift relief camp in a school outside the town, refused to go back".October 7, 2009: "Relief workers and soldiers rushed relief goods to thousands of marooned villagers and moved them to safer places as the death toll from floods in India's southern and western states reached 303, news reports said Wednesday.Water-levels in the flood-devastated southern states of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka continued to recede with the rains subsiding as the local administration distributed food rations and other relief material.The floods, described as the worst in the region in 60 years, left at least 2.5 million homeless and caused a loss of 320 billion rupees (6.7 billion dollars), government officials said.At least 206 people have been killed in Karnataka alone, the PTI news agency reported, adding that the death toll in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh state had reached 63.The western Maharashtra state registered 34 deaths in the floods driven by days of torrential rains around last weekend. October 5, 2009:  "The heaviest flood in over a 100 years hit the Prakasam Barrage on Krishna River threatening several villages downstream even as the toll due to heavy rains and rampaging floods in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka climbed to 205. Andhra Pradesh & Karnatka are under the grip of flash floods. Several towns and villages in the state, particularly in Kurnool, Mahabubnagar and Krishna districts in Andhra Pradesh, have been inundated with the mighty Krishna river and its tributaries in spate for the past four days" October 2, 2009: " MORE THAN 200 people have died in torrential rain in southern India over the past five days and nearly a million people have been displaced in the worst downpour in a over a century.Officials yesterday said 170 had died in Karnataka state and another 37 in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh as incessant showers lashed the region, submerging towns and villages, snapping transport and communications links and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless.With thousands still trapped in remote flood-hit areas, the death toll could significantly increase, officials say.There is also the prospect of disease spreading in relief camps crowded mostly with poor people, forced to flee their poorly constructed mud and stone homes and now facing shortages of clean drinking water and protection from mosquitoes.Television reports showed thousands of people waving from rooftops at air force helicopters carrying relief materials while others were clinging precariously to tree branches in areas that remained largely inaccessible after four days of flooding.“Most of the deaths were largely due to houses collapsing in the flash floods,” H V Parashwanath of Karnataka’s disaster monitoring agency in the provincial capital Bangalore said.“There is death and destruction all around us,” senior provincial minister Basavaraj Bommai said, adding that large tracts of agricultural land including sugar cane and paddy fields were inundated, likely to cause hardship for poor farmers when the water recedes.Scores of military helicopters dropped food and drinking water to thousands of marooned villages and hundreds of naval divers rescued people trapped in swirling floodwaters.Army soldiers used boats to ferry villagers stranded on rooftops to government schools or relief camps on higher ground but facilities there were poor and overcrowded.More than 700 relief centres had been set up in the contiguous states to accommodate nearly 500,000 homeless people, a number barely enough to accommodate the numbers flocking to them.Personnel from India’s National Disaster Response Force were also deployed and officials said hundreds of doctors were labouring to halt the outbreak of disease.“We are deploying medical teams in the affected areas to prevent the occurrence of epidemics,” S Subramanyam, special commissioner for disaster management in Andhra Pradesh’s capital Hyderabad, said.And though the rain lessened somewhat yesterday, flooding worsened after authorities released water from rain-swollen reservoirs and dams in both states to prevent them from bursting their banks and wreaking further havoc.Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa, who ordered an aerial survey of the flooded region, has asked the federal administration for $2 billion dollars in aid to help rebuild homes and provide basic relief to those affected.Ironically, a fortnight earlier parts of the flood-ravaged regions were suffering severe drought following insufficient monsoon rains.Weather officials said an area of low pressure over the Bay of Bengal had triggered the devastating downpour.However, environmentalists said global warming and climate change were responsible for both the drought and the unseasonal rain, and they urged the government and the international community to implement remedial measures swiftly.
3550	119	FL-2009-000216-ITA	Italy				Messina, Sicily		1-Oct-09	2-Oct-09	2	22			Torrential Rain	2	1227	3.7	15.73	38.11		0	24	0	114	1-Oct-2009	841	3025	Italian government declared a state of emergency after flash floods and mudslides hit the southern town of Messina in Sicily leaving at least 20 dead and 35 missing
3549	118	TS-2009-000209-ASM, TS-2009-000210-TON	American Samoa	Samoa	Tonga				29-Sep-09	29-Sep-09	1	100			Tsunami	2	207300	5.6	-173.45	-13.8		0	24	1	114	29-Sep-2009	841	3025	Tonga: Initial assessments indicate that 800 people have been displaced 76 homes have been destroyed There have been 9 confirmed deaths and a further 5 people in critical condition have been flown to Nuku?alofa
3548	117	TC-2009-000205-VNM TC-2009-000205-KHM	Viet Nam	Cambodia	Laos		Central Coastal Vietnam, Kambong Thom province, Cambodia		28-Sep-09	1-Oct-09	4	182	357,000		Tropical storm Ketsana	2	49030	5.6	107.98	14.9		0	24	1	113	28-Sep-2009	841	3024	October 21, 2009: "VIENTIANE, 26 October 2009 (IRIN) - Farmers in southern Laos who lost their harvests to floods caused by Typhoon Ketsana face a year of hunger if they do not receive rice seeds soon to replant their crops, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warns.Serge Verniau, the FAO's representative in Laos, said Ketsana had destroyed the harvest intended to feed families for the next six months, as well as seed stocks for the next cropping season in November, and the harvest from March to April 2010."The timeframe is extremely limited to plant. We have November," Verniau told IRIN, adding that with funding, the agency would be able dispatch rice seeds from national seed centres to farmers within 10 days."We do know that the families that we plan to reach could grow rice immediately, and could prepare their soil and immediately have nurseries and transplant the rice. So that's why there is urgency," he said.The FAO has asked for US$1,780,000 as part of a $10 million flash appeal launched last week to help victims of Ketsana, which on 29 September damaged an estimated 28,500ha of rice and crop fields". October 1, 2009: "At least nine people have died in Kampong Thom province in central Cambodia due to Typhoon Ketsana on 30 September 2009".September 30, 2009: "The biggest floods in decades threatened Vietnam's central provinces on Wednesday following a powerful typhoon that swept into the country after wreaking havoc in the Philippines.The government said 38 people had died and 10 were missing in floods and landslides in eight coastal and central highland provinces. River waters in Quang Nam province could reach a level last seen in 1964 by Wednesday evening, weather reports said."From the air, one can see many areas around Danang being isolated by floods," a Reuters witness said. "Sea waves pounded the road along Danang's beach and threw several ships onshore."Typhoon Ketsana slammed into Vietnam late on Tuesday dumping torrential rain across central Vietnam that left 294,000 homes destroyed, damaged or submerged by floods. Around 357,000 people in 10 provinces were evacuated.The region hit by Ketsana lies far north of Vietnam's Mekong Delta rice basket. Rain dumped on the Central Highlands coffee belt could delay the start of the next coffee harvest by up to 10 days, but exports would not be affected, traders said.Ketsana had weakened to a tropical storm after moving into Laos and Cambodia on Tuesday night, weather forecasters said.Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai urged authorities to quickly resume power supplies to the typhoon-hit region, including Quang Ngai province where Vietnam's first oil refinery, Dung Quat, was due to reopen on Wednesday after an outage shut the plant's test runs last month.The 140,000-bpd Dung Quat plant will resume operations later on Wednesday as scheduled after repairs, with typhoon Ketsana doing no damage to the facility, a Petrovietnam official said.Ketsana hit the Philippines at the weekend, killing 246 people, leaving another 42 missing, and causing damages totaling more than $100 million, officials said. The Asian Development Bank pledged $3 million for emergency relief efforts, and other countries including Japan, Australia, Spain and Malaysia have also pledged aid.
3547	116	TC-2009-000205-PHL	Philippines				Mindanao, Manilla and surrounding provinces		25-Sep-09	1-Oct-09	7	420	200,000		Tropical storm Ketsana/Ondoy	2	25300	5.5	120.75	14.87		0	24	1	112	25-Sep-2009	841	3023	Sep 29, 2009:   "Associated Press Writer Teresa Cerojano. The toll from floods in the northern Philippines rose to at least 284 dead or missing Tuesday as bedraggled victims queued up for aid and Typhoon Ketsana roared into Vietnam.The storm, which struck Manila and surrounding provinces on Saturday, gathered strength across the South China Sea, and claimed at least 23 lives as it made landfall Tuesday in central Vietnam, where 170,000 were evacuated from its path. It was weakening as it headed west into Laos.Two new storms were brewing in the Pacific and threatened to complicate relief efforts in the Philippines, officials said.The homes of nearly 1.9 million people in Manila and surrounding areas were inundated in the weekend flooding, the National Disaster Coordinating Council said. Nearly 380,000 people have sought shelter in schools, churches and other evacuation centers.The council said 246 were confirmed dead late Tuesday, with 38 missing" September 28, 2009: (Bloomberg) -- "The death toll in the Philippines mounted as the government said that it’s struggling to cope with the effects of flooding brought on by the heaviest rains in four decades. Two more storms formed east of the country.At least 140 are confirmed dead, Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro told reporters in Manila today. The tally doesn’t include deaths that haven’t yet been reported to his department by local government agencies, he said. Waters have been receding since Tropical Storm Ketsana passed two days ago, though many people remain in areas that are still flooded.“We really feel their anger and pain, but it is physically impossible to reach each and every one with the conditions that we face,” Teodoro said.Ketsana, called Ondoy in the Philippines, was over the South China Sea heading toward Vietnam today, according to the U.S. Navy Joint Typhoon Warning center. The storm strengthened to a typhoon with winds of 148 kilometers (92 miles) per hour and was 470 kilometers east of Hue at 1 p.m. Vietnamese time.In the Philippines, as many as 116,000 people are being sheltered in 205 evacuation centers, the National Disaster Coordinating Council agency said. More than 400,000 people were affected in Manila, a city of almost 12 million people, and surrounding areas." "A massive relief operation is underway in the northern Philippines to help those affected by the most severe flooding in more than 40 years. The death toll from the disaster continues to rise. But the Philippine government is overwhelmed by the scale of the disaster.Government agencies are scrambling to find shelter, food and basic supplies for hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the floods. Television stations, schools, churches and private groups have appealed nationwide for donations as the country struggles to deal with the aftermath of Tropical Storm Ketsana.The storm brought heavy rains to the northern Philippines Saturday, inundating most of the capital Manila and surrounding provinces. Surging water washed away buildings and cars. Scores of people were killed and many are still missing.Authorities say they are overwhelmed by the scale of the disaster. Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro says the government is doing everything it can to help."Those who are still in their homes and do not want to leave we would push basic necessities to them as fast as possible," Teodoro said.But the government has yet to officially appeal for international assistance, relying on help from relief agencies in the country.Vilma Cabrera is assistant secretary of the Philippine Social Welfare Department, the agency in charge of relief operations."Right now we need mats, blankets, mosquito nets, cooking utensils. We need hygiene kits and we need flashlights and lighting equipments," Cabrera said.Two days after the flooding, rescue and relief operations continue to be hampered by the lack of rubber boats and helicopters.Many victims are demanding answers from local authorities for the lack of advance warning and the slow response to the emergency. Victims said they were stranded on their rooftops for hours before help arrived.The disaster comes at a sensitive time in the Philippines, less than a year before national elections. The defense secretary has been nominated by the ruling coalition as its presidential candidate.Flood waters in some areas subsided Monday but thousands of homes are still without power. People have been warned of water-borne diseases. Schools are closed until Tuesday and many offices remain shut."  Tropical Cyclone,Philippines: At least 54 people were killed as tropical storm Ketsana battered a wide area in the Philippines
3546	115		Spain				Cartegena		27-Sep-09	28-Sep-09	2				Heavy Rain	1	2459	3.7	-0.14	38.77		0	24	0	111	27-Sep-2009	841	3022	September 28, 2009: " Madrid - Heavy rains Monday practically cut off the coastal city of Cartagena in south-eastern Spain, radio reports said.Most roads into the city of 200,000 residents were inundated. The flooding left streets under water and disrupted traffic in the city.Rains also sparked flooding in other places in the region, leaving a number of motorists stuck in their vehicles. ."
3545	114	FL-2009-000207-VNM	Viet Nam						25-Sep-09	28-Sep-09	4	17	40,000		Heavy Rain	1.5	47600	5.5	108.02	15.19		0	24	1	111	25-Sep-2009	841	3022	September 28: "Hanoi - Four days of floods killed at least 17 people and left six missing in central Vietnam, the country's Central Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Control said Monday.Heavy rains destroyed more than 9,600 homes and flooded some 2,500 hectares of rice and 5,800 hectares of vegetables, officials said. Twenty three fishing boats were reported sunk. The Central Hydro-Meteorological Forecast Center said a low pressure zone over the South China Sea caused rainfall of 300-400 millimetres since Thursday in the five central provinces. It warned Monday that those provinces are also likely to be hit by tropical storm Ketsana on Wednesday, with wind speeds of over 120 kilometres per hour, likely causing more floods.In the Philippines, Ketsana caused the heaviest rains since 1967, killing at least 73 people and displacing more than 330,000" Flood,Viet Nam: The heavy rain beginning from September 25 caused flood making 23 people dead and lost
3544	113	FL-2009-000203-USA	USA				Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee		21-Sep-09	28-Sep-09	8	8	220		Heavy Rain	1.5	225400	6.4	-84.84	34.46		1	24	1	110	21-Sep-2009	841	3021	Flood,United States: Floods in US Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama and Tennessee have claimed at least 8 lives, more than 220 have taken refuge in shelters.
3543	112		Mexico				Veracruz State, Xalapa		10-Sep-09	19-Sep-09	10				Heavy Rain	2	33560	5.8	-95.31	18.52		0	23	1	109	10-Sep-2009	840	3020	September 20, 2009: "Mexico's east coastal state Veracruz Friday asked army soldiers for help, after 2,450 buildings were flooded in Xalapa, capital of the state."We have had an unprecedented rainy season in Xalapa. There have been nine days and nine nights of intense rain, a great deluge," State Governor Fidel Herrera told media on Friday during a tour in the affected areas.Around 40 localities have been hit in the city and some now have water 1.5 meters deep. Five houses have collapsed due to weak foundations and 15 schools have been closed due to flood damage.On Thursday, authorities reported that some 18,000 people in Veracruz had lost contact with the outside world due to strong rains while 17 areas in the state reported landslides, which blocked highways and stranded 35 towns.In sharp contrast to July's drought, strong rain in August and September, which was around 20 percent more than normal level, destroyed crops that would have produced up to 1.5 million tons of corn.Mexican authorities have attributed the extreme weather to El Nino, a periodic change in the atmosphere and ocean of the tropical Pacific region."
3542	111		Ghana				Northern  Region		17-Sep-09	21-Sep-09	5		5,000		Heavy Rain, Dam Release	2	73810	5.9	-0.99	8.85		0	23	1	108	17-Sep-2009	840	3019	September 19, 2009: Tamale,GNA - More than 991 houses and 11,295 farms have been destroyed in the Northern Region, following persistent rainfall and spillage from Bagre and Kompienga dams in Burkina Faso. The worst affected communities are West Mamprusi and West Gonja Districts popularly known as the "overseas" which are partly covered by water and cut of from the rest of the region.Mr. Stephen Sumani Nayina, Northern Regional Minister, disclosed this at a press briefing on the flood situation in Tamale on Friday. He said the main road through Nawuni and Daboya in the Northern Region and Sandema in the Upper East Region were cut off as a result of the over flooding of the Kulpawn, Sisili and White Volta rivers. Mr. Nayina said: "A helicopter is urgently needed to enable us ascertain the condition of the over 80,000 people living within that area".He said the floods had seriously affected the Tolon/Kumbungu, Saboba, Zabzugu/Tatale, Nanumba South, Yendi and Kpandi Districts along the Oti River.Mr Nayina said 214 communities and 63,030 persons had been affected by the floods, five schools had collapsed, four deaths were recorded and two people injured.He said roads and bridges were damaged and most of the communities could only be reached by boat or canoe.Mr Nayina said water sources including more than 500 hand dug wells and boreholes had been contaminated and expressed fear that this could result in diarrhoea and other diseases. He said the region urgently needed relief items such as maize, rice, beans, cooking oil and utensils, salt, sugar, mats, lanterns, used clothing and medical supplies like drugs and detergents. Mr Nayina appealed to individuals, organisations, development partners and countries to assist the victims to relocate, reconstruct their houses and to rehabilitate destroyed infrastructure...
3541	110	FF-2009-000196-IDN	Indonesia				North Sumatra		15-Sep-09	16-Sep-09	2	38			Torrential Rain	2	47760	5.3	98.59	2.89		0	23	1	107	15-Sep-2009	840	3018	September 16, 2009: "FF-2009-000196-IDN Flash Flood,Indonesia: At least 38 people were killed in flash floods in a remote region of Indonesia's North Sumatra province Tuesday, a spokesman for the provincial government said..
3540	109		Nigeria				Zamfara State, Gusau		10-Sep-09	18-Sep-09	9		3,000		Heavy Rain	2	64200	6.1	5.68	12.26		1	23	1	106	10-Sep-2009	840	3017	September 21, 2009: "After the floods that destroyed crops and made thousands homeless in Zamfara State recently, the State governor, Alhaji Mahmuda Aliyu Shinkafi has sought assistance of the Federal Government over the disaster.The flood did not only damage houses in Gusau, the capital city of the State, it also affected adjoining towns where more than ten-thousand hectares of farmland were destroyed.It also exumed over 100 dead bodies from their graves and destroyed more than 5,000 houses across all the affected local government areas in the State.Other areas affected by the flood include Kaura-Namoda, Birnin Magaji, Anka and Bukkuyum local governments.While lamenting the effects of the flooding, Gov. Shinkafi said in a statement that, “flooding is the most common natural disaster all over the world and it could be really expensive in financial terms. In the case of Zamfara state, Shinkafi disclosed that, “so many people have been made homeless apart from the fact that it has caused damage to roads, electricity and water supplies. The damage is so enormous that we cannot but call for the assistance of the Federal Government in order to help provide funding to encourage forestry, which would go a long way in arresting flooding now and in the future.”The governor expressed sadness that, there was no doubt that the next harvesting season would not give less than the anticipated result, pointing out that, rice plantains, animals as well as other crops were badly affected.He therefore called on both the Federal Ministries of Environment and Water Resources, “to come to our rescue by encouraging dredging, digging channels, and building dams. We appeal to the Federal Government to come to our aid to help in flood prevention and defense schemes as well as in the provision of centers for people evacuated from their homes and arrange temporary accommodation for them. He also sympathised with those, whose lives were negatively affected by the flood. .
3539	108		India						6-Sep-09	10-Sep-09	5		37,000		Dam release	2	25500	5.4	88.06	25.53		0	22	1	105	6-Sep-2009	839	3016	September 11, 2009: "The situation in six flood-hit West Bengal districts - which claimed six lives and affected 1.7 million people - was still grim though there were signs of some improvement after the rains slackened off, officials said.However, the Kangsabati river continued to flow above the danger mark in East Midnapore.With the rains easing up, there was no release of extra water from the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) reservoir in the past two days, a state government official said here Friday.'The situation in both worst affected districts, Kolkata's adjoining Howrah and Hooghly, is now under control. We've sent an adequate number of boats and other relief materials to the flood affected pockets,' said Dinesh Majumdar, an official of state Civil Defence.District administration officials in East Midnapore's Moyna block said several villages were inundated after the Kangsabati river breached embankments, while food and relief materials were air-dropped at Khanakul and Pursura of Hooghly district.According to state Finance Minister Asim Dasgupta, three people have died in Bankura, and one each in Udainaraynpur of Howrah district, and in Khanakul in West Midnapore district in the floods.So far, 37,000 people have been evacuated from the inundated areas.The floods were caused by a heavy discharge of water from the reservoirs of the DVC following heavy rains in the catchment areas. However, after requests from the state government, the outflow had been brought down to 1.1 lakh cusecs over the past two-three days..
3538	107	FL-2009-000192-MEX	Mexico						1-Sep-09	10-Sep-09	10				Heavy Rain	1	34560	5.5	-99.25	19.5		0	22	1	104	1-Sep-2009	839	3015	Flood,Mexico: Mexican Govt declared state of calamity for Tlalnepantla de Baz and Atizapen de Zaragoza in the Estado de Mexico, due to heavy rains and floods.
3537	106	TC-2009-000193-PHL	Philippines						1-Sep-09	10-Sep-09	10	9			Tropical Storm	2	36440	5.9	121.37	17.23		0	22	1	103	1-Sep-2009	839	3014	Tropical Cyclone,Philippines: Nine have died or have gone missing due to tropical depression Maring that spawned rains and landslides in northern Philippines while the number of affected people doubled to over 300,000
3536	105		Turkey				Istanbul		7-Sep-09	10-Sep-09	4	31			Torrential Rain	3	3167	4.6	28.95	41.09		0	22	1	102	7-Sep-2009	839	3013	10-Septembert-2009: "Record floods left at least 31 people dead and large parts of Istanbul under water on Wednesday as desperate motorists caught in flash floods clambered up trees to save themselves from drowning.Turkey's Interior Minister Besir Atalay expressed fear that the death toll may rise as the waters began receding from large swathes of the city after several hours of flash flooding triggered by record rainfall overnight."Twenty-four people have died in Istanbul and seven others" in the province of Tekirdag, to the west of Istanbul, Atalay told a press conference here.The biggest loss of life occurred in Istanbul on Wednesday where 21 people died in the European quarter of the city straddling the Bosphorus Strait, a day after three people lost their lives in outlying western suburbs.Istanbul governor Muammer Guler had earlier in the day that eight people were still unaccounted for.Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was expected to fly to Istanbul to observe the damage of the disaster which officials and experts blamed on both record rainfall and the unplanned urbanization of the city which saw buildings constructed on river beds.After hours of pounding rain described by Environment Minister Veysel Eroglu as the "worst in 500 years," the flood waters gushed through streets of Istanbul, washing away parked vehicles and swamping houses.Several motorists were stranded as a major highway connecting the city to the international airport was inundated, with water levels rising to two meters (six feet) in some sections.Motorists could be seen clambering on to the roof of their stalled vehicles waiting to be rescued, while others climbed up trees.Rescuers recovered 13 bodies at a truck park in the district of Basaksehir, one of the worst affected areas, the NTV news channel reported.Anatolia quoted survivors as saying that the flood waters came while the truck drivers were asleep in their vehicles, raising the water level to 5 meters in 10 minutes and giving them little chance to run to higher ground.Once the flood waters receded, the park was left under a thick layer of mud with trucks toppled over on the sides or piled on on top of each other.In the neighbouring district of Halkali, seven women drowned when they were swept away by the flood as they tried to get out of their stranded minibus taking them to work at a textile factory, Guler explained."The minibus was right at the front of the factory. It was hit by water coming from both sides. Those at the front managed to get out, but those at the back could not," the governor said.Istanbul authorities launched a major rescue operation, deploying 900 fire fighters and rescuers, six military helicopters and 30 inflatable dinghies.Television footage showed helicopters winching people stranded on vehicles or trees to safety.The Istanbul mayor's office said more than 1,000 people had been rescued since Tuesday.Anatolia said there were incidents of looting in some shops in areas affected by the flood where people were walking away with dinner sets, irons and electric kettles.Officials said it was too early to say how much damage the flooding had caused in Istanbul, but insurers put the damage between 70 to 150 million dollars (48 to 103 million euros).. ."
3535	104		Mauritania	Guinea	Chad	Burkino Faso			10-Aug-09	2-Sep-09	24	42	300,000		Heavy Rain	1	4814000	8.1	2.94	16.45		1	22	1	101	10-Aug-2009	839	3012	2-September-2009: "Officials say that torrential rains have killed at least five people in Burkina Faso's capital and forced nearly 110,000 from their homes.Minister of Social Welfare Pascaline Tamini said on state radio Wednesday that she expects the number of people affected to grow significantly in the coming hours. President Blaise Compaore appealed to the international community for help.The rains, which began early Tuesday morning, are among the worst to have hit the capital in recent memory. Two years ago, heavy rains caused flooding throughout the country, killing 84 people and displacing 146,000.Among the many building that flooded Tuesday was the capital's main hospital, forcing the evacuation of patients, including some with infectious diseases.1-Septembert-2009: "Across West Africa residents are crossing streets in canoes, carrying babies overhead in suitcases and navigating waist-high water to find shelter.This rainy season as of 27 August at least 37 people are dead from flooding across West and parts of Central Africa, more than 20,000 displaced living in shelters or with relatives and some 3,600 families homeless, according to the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) West and Central Africa office.The figures change daily as heavy rains continue. Two children were reported drowned in Mauritania from 28 to 29 August flooding that affected some 3,500 families, according to local authorities."I don't even know what to say," a woman in the Coronthie neighbourhood of the Guinea capital Conakry told IRIN on 28 August, a day after the area flooded. "We are trapped by water."Mohamed Diaby, 19, of Coronthie said: "We put my brother's nine-month-old twins in a suitcase to bring them to a safer area. That was something you saw all over the neighbourhood."August 2009 flooding in the Chad capital N'djamenaHe said people were in tears as sacks of rice lay saturated in some homes. A 50-kilogram sack of rice generally costs 160.000 Guinean francs (US$32) – about half of some civil servants' monthly pay. Prices commonly rise during Ramadan, the Muslim month of dawn-to-dusk fasting, which much of the region's population is observing.IFRC, which is working with governments and local volunteers to provide emergency aid to stricken families, said in a 28 August statement that the agency must urgently restock relief supplies to face needs in the region. Red Cross volunteers are distributing mosquito nets, tarpaulins, jerry cans, blankets, water purification tablets and soap. ."
3534	103		China				Sichuan		28-Aug-09	1-Sep-09	5	12	118,000		Heavy Rain	1	81300	5.6	105.15	26.62		0	21	1	100	28-Aug-2009	838	3011	1-Septembert-2009: "CHENGDU: Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rain on Sunday has left seven people dead and two missing in Southwest China's Sichuan province, an official with the emergency office of the provincial government said.Changning county in Yibin city was flooded in the deluge. Water, electricity supplies, communications and roads were cut off but resumed Sunday.More than 118,000 people have been evacuated and 5,900 houses have collapsed since Friday, said Yang Jingping, deputy director of the emergency office.Changning county in Yibin city was flooded in the deluge. Water, electricity supplies, communications and roads were cut off but resumed Sunday.Helicopters are sent to rescue the stranded victims of the floods and to distribute food, Yang said.. ."
3533	102	FL-2009-000166-SDN	Sudan				Khartoum, Omdurman		16-Aug-09	22-Aug-09	7	5	80,000		Heavy Rain	1	59850	5.6	15.98	27.01		0	21	1	99	16-Aug-2009	838	3010	1-Septembert-2009: FL-2009-000166-SDN Flood,Sudan: Due to Khartoum's heavy rains and flooding, five brothers died following a house collapse in Omdurman, the authorities have confirmed that over 20,000 houses have been destroyed by the rains. ."
3532	101		Nepal						16-Aug-09	22-Aug-09	7	7	6,265		Heavy Rain	1	13720	5.0	88.13	27.01		0	21	1	98	16-Aug-2009	838	3009	27-August-2009: ".At least seven persons died, one went missing due to the floods that lashed the district of Jhapa in eastern Nepal last week, The Rising Nepal reported on Wednesday.According to the daily, more than 180 families have been displaced after the gushing floods destructed many houses in the district, some 320 km east of Kathmandu.The number of people displaced by floods was recorded at 6,265, who have been living in 50 camps temporarily. The floods also damaged 415 houses, Lekha Nath Pokharel, Assistant Chief District Officer was quoted by the daily as saying. ."
3531	100	FL-2009-000164-SEN	Senegal				Dakar		24-Aug-09	26-Aug-09	3				Heavy Rain	1	8511	4.4	-16.81	14.58		0	21	1	97	24-Aug-2009	838	3008	1-September-2009: "FL-2009-000164-SEN Flood,Senegal: Recent heavy rains in Senegal have caused severe floods in almost all suburbs of Dakar. Dozens of volunteers from the Senegalese Red Cross were dispatched to help disaster victims save their belongings and evacuate their flooded homes. 194 affected families received immediate assistance."27-August-2009: ".DAKAR (AFP) - Senegal's prime minister said he has authorised emergency relief measures to help tackle flooding that has caused major damage in the capital Dakar and other parts of the country."The government is going to activate the emergency plan to relieve the people," Souleymane Ndene Ndiaye said on public television Wednesday night.A sum of two billion Central African francs (three million euros) has been released by the government to cope with the flooding, said Ndiaye, who was speaking after a meeting with the mayors of communities that have been affected.The emergency plan will allow the authorities to release financial assistance and mobilise equipment throughout the country.Several parts of Dakar and its suburbs as well as towns such as Mbour in the west and Kaffrine in the centre are under water after heavy rain on Monday and Tuesday. In Dakar, many people are unable to get to work and the main Highway One, the only way out of the capital, has been cut off in places.Each summer parts of the capital suffer from repeated flooding, leaving many people homeless."
3530	99		India				Assam		18-Aug-09	27-Aug-09	10		300,000		Monsoon Rain	1	72240	5.9	94.14	26.82		0	21	1	96	18-Aug-2009	838	3007	24-August-2009: "..In the past one week, flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains have displaced at least 300,000 people in Assam. The Brahmaputra river has been flowing above the danger mark in at least eight different places in the state.“Floodwaters have entered some fringe areas inside the park. Already small herds of elephants have started moving out of the park by crossing the highway to take shelter in an adjoining hill,” Boro said.."
3529	98		India				Uttar Predesh, Bihar, Shrawasti, Sitapur, Sant Kabir Nagar, Kushinagar, Maharajganj and Bahraich districts		15-Aug-09	27-Aug-09	27	14	1,000,000		Dam release and Heavy  Rain	1	84900	6.4	80.75	27.63		1	21	1	95	15-Aug-2009	838	3006	28-August-2009:"New Delhi - At least 27 people have died and a million left homeless due to monsoon-driven floods in India's eastern state of Bihar as this year's rain-related death toll in the country nears 900, officials said Friday.'The deaths have been reported from 12 northern and eastern districts including Katihar, Purnia Supaul, Samastipur and Madhubani since Wednesday,' Bhim Thakur, an official at the flood control room in the state capital Patna said over the telephone.'The fatalities were caused by collapsing houses, flooding and a boat capsize,' Thakur said.Due to incessant rains over the past 10 days, an estimated 1 million people have been displaced in the northern regions of the state, the NDTV network reported.The Mahananda river in Katihar is in spate with its embankment broken and the floods submerging 70 villages and destroying the homes of 60,000 people. The stranded villagers were living under open skies without food and drinking water, waiting to be rescued.The heavy rains in certain areas in the state come at a time when most of the state is reeling under a drought. 'It is nature at its ironic best. While 12 districts are inundated, the state's remaining 26 districts are witnessing severe drought,' Thakur said. Almost every year, monsoon-driven floods cause numerous deaths as overflowing rivers submerge villages and farmland. The monsoon season in India lasts from June to October.According to the federal home ministry, 890 people have died during the monsoon season across India this year. Nearly 5 million people, most of them living in rural areas, have been affected across 12 states.  24-August-2009: "Bihar flood: Fresh areas inundate, death toll rises to 14.The flood situation in seven northern districts of Bihar further worsened today with swollen rivers inundating fresh areas, even as the death toll mounted to 14. Three more people, two in Purnia and one in Darbhanga, drowned yesterday taking the toll in the current spell of floods to 14, official sources said.According to an official report, swirling waters affected scores of villages under Bahadurganj, Terhagachhi, Dighalbank, Kochadhaman, Bahadurganj, and Potahi in Kishanganj district.More than 50 villages were affected by floods under Palasi, Jokihat, Araria, Forbesganj and Kursakata block in Araria district. Many villages were submerged in Banmankhi and Krityanandnagar blocks in Western Purnia by turbulent Kosi which was steadily eroding its embankment, the report said.Swirling waters of the Adhwara group of rivers inundated the national highway near Khirma village in Keoti block, causing temporary suspension of vehicular traffic. Meanwhile, around 7.5 lakh people continue to reel under flood with several rivers, including Mahananda, Kankai, Donk, Mecchi, Ratua, and Bakra, besides, Bagmati, Kamala Balan and Adhwara, submerging hundreds of villages in the districts of Purnia, Araria, Kishanganj, Saharsa, Supaul, Madhepura, Sitamarhi and Darbhanga, the sources said" 19-August-2009: "Release of water from barrages in Nepal and heavy rain have flooded hundreds of villages and affected hundreds of thousands of people in several parts of Uttar Pradesh, officials said Wednesday.According to officials, in the past two days, over 500,000 cusecs of water have been released from Banbasa and other barrages situated near the India-Nepal border, flooding villages in Shrawasti, Sitapur, Sant Kabir Nagar, Kushinagar, Maharajganj and Bahraich districts.In Bahraich district, rivers flowing in spate have inundated as many as 185 villages affecting nearly 300,000 people. Taking into account the rising trend of water in Saryu, Ghagra and Sharda rivers, the district administration in Bahraich, 270 km from Lucknow, have started evacuating villagers.'It seems the (flood) situation will not improve in near future...The water level in rivers is rising continuously and has now even crossed the danger mark. On an average, we are witnessing 2 cm water level rising every hour,' Bahraich district magistrate Subhash Sharma told IANS over phone.Heavy rain in the last few days, after a prolonged drought, has made the situation worse.'For carrying out rescue operations in the district and its adjoining areas, we have pressed into service a company of PAC (Provincial Armed Constabulary) and nearly 80 boats and motorboats,' added Sharma.The rivers in the affected districts have either crossed the danger mark or are flowing near it.According to officials, in Shrawasti district, Rapti and Saryu rivers were flowing above the danger mark. The situation was more of less similar for Ghagra river in Sitapur district, Rapti in Sant Kabir Nagar, Gandak in Kushinagar and Rohni in Maharajganj.With the erratic monsoon, the state is also facing drought in 58 out of its 71 districts.
3528	97	FF-2009-000160-LKA	Sri Lanka				Vavuniya District and Menik Farm		15-Aug-09	16-Aug-09	2				Torrential Rain	1	4744	4.0	80.63	8.38		0	20	0	94	15-Aug-2009	837	3005	Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Refugee camps in northern Sri Lanka are swamped by flooding, endangering Tamils displaced by the country's recently ended civil war, the United Nations said.The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said three days of heavy rains and flash flooding damaged or destroyed nearly 2,000 shelters and sanitation facilities in the camps, CNN reported Tuesday.An internal U.N. memo obtained by CNN indicated more than 300 families marched to the main access gate at one camp to protest the conditions."Though ... not violent, they seemed disgruntled and agitated due to the sufferings and expressed their resentment by hooting and making noises," the memo read.The camps, strung across northern Sri Lanka, house about 280,000 people displaced in the final months of the 20-year-long civil war, CNN said. The flooding was ahead of Sri Lanka's monsoon season, typically from October until January     Flash Flood,Sri Lanka: Flash floods were experienced in several areas of Vavuniya District and in Menik Farm due to heavy rains over the weekend. Zone 4 in Menik Farm is the most seriously affected with initial estimates of up to 1,925 shelters being damaged or destroyed.
3527	96	FL-2009-000155-LAO	Laos				Sebangfai, Nongbok, and Mahaxay districts of Khammoune Province		10-Aug-09	11-Aug-09	2	10			Heavy Rain	1	24950	4.7	104.79	17.83		0	20	1	94	10-Aug-2009	837	3005	On Monday, 10 August 2009, heavy rain occurred in the country made water in the tributary river increased and flooded in 3 districts manly:Sebangfai, Nongbok, and Mahaxay of Khammoune Province. based the first report from provincial disaster management office in Khammoune province, there are 1950 ha of rice areas affected, 1400 meters of irrigation Chanel damage ,600meter of road were cut off, around fishponds damaged..
3526	95	F-2009-000159-PAK	Pakistan				NW Pakistan, Mardan and Swabi districts		15-Aug-09	17-Aug-09	3	27	1,200		Torrential Rain	1.5	30560	5.1	72.25	33.92		0	20	1	93	15-Aug-2009	837	3004	16-Aug-09:" "A government official says at least 13 people have died in floods caused by heavy monsoon rains in northwest Pakistan.Khalid Khan Omarzai, the top government official in the Mardan and Swabi districts, says the rains flooded drains passing through villages, sweeping away scores of mud houses and damaging hundreds more.Mardan and Swabi hosted the majority of about two million people who were displaced by an army offensive against the Taliban in the nearby Swat Valley and its neighbouring districts. That offensive has been winding down, and many of the displaced have returned home" "Heavy rainfall on 16 August caused flash floods originating from the Karamar Mountains in Swabi and Mardan Districts in North West Frontier Province (NWFP), Pakistan. According to various sources, there are reports of 27 deaths, nine people missing, an estimated 400-450 houses destroyed along with massive losses to crops and livestock.
3525	94		USA				Kentucky, Louisville		4-Aug-09	5-Aug-09	2				Torrential Rain	1	6535	4.1	-85.69	37.07		0	20	1	92	4-Aug-2009	837	3003	17-Aug-09: "Louisville metro government says it suffered $4.9 million in uninsured damage and other costs in responding to the Aug. 4 flash flooding — which happened when 6½ inches of rain fell on downtown and surrounding neighborhoods in just over an hour.That claim, submitted to Gov. Steve Beshear's office, combined with a $1.4 million claim from Trimble County, should qualify metro government for federal disaster assistance — meaning that the federal government will pick up 75 percent of its costs and the state will cover 12.5 percent.In addition, more than 1,000 people have submitted applications for personal assistance after President Barack Obama declared a “major disaster” Friday in Jefferson County.The declaration, related to the number of homes made permanently uninhabitable by the flood, makes low-interest loans, grants and other assistance available to homeowners and renters.The Federal Emergency Management Agency will open two “disaster recovery centers” Tuesday in Louisville, where people can get information about the application process, agency spokesman Marvin Davis said.About two dozen FEMA inspectors are in town to process those claims.The inspectors are similar to insurance adjusters. After an application is made, the inspectors look at the house and determine how much it has been damaged and whether that damage is related to the Aug. 4 flood.15-Aug-09:LOUISVILLE, KY (NBC) - The massive clean-up continues Saturday night in Louisville after much of the city flooded last week.Some of the victims said they're still struggling and need help.What was once inside their homes is now going in the trash one pick-up at a time.Damaged furniture and carpeting is being hauled away.While some people have gotten help throwing away their flood debris, others living on Maple Street are still dealing with issues."I really didn't come home until we had, 'til night cause it was too hot," Louisville resident Sam Wilson said.Wilson has owned his home for two years. Flood waters have left him without power, and a house that'll have to be rebuilt from the inside out with no help from his insurance."We gutted out most of the stuff that was affected by the flood, by the water - the dry wall," Wilson said. "We pulled all the carpet."His neighbor, Lenora Sullivan, also got rid of the carpet she had.She's staying with her daughter until she gets things back in order."I'm ready to go," Sullivan said. The power is back up, but mold is invading her space."There's nothing left but bad memories and I want to put that behind," Sullivan said. "I don't have anything. Everything is gone not only for me, but all these people around us. We work hard and we try to do the right thing, and this, it's just no help."Federal help might be on the way. Individuals may be eligible for grants up to $30,000, or low interest loans.
3524	93	LS-2009-000158-SLE	Sierra Leone				Freetown, other areas		9-Aug-09	10-Aug-09	2	7	300		Heavy Rain	1	11890	4.4	-12.73	8.57		0	20	1	91	9-Aug-2009	837	3002	13-Aug-09:"At least seven people were killed and 15 injured when homes collapsed in a landslide in heavy rain in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown.Rescue teams were searching for bodies beneath mud, stones and rubble from three hillside houses that collapsed, police official Ibrahima Samura said."The victims were asleep when they were trapped by the landslide," he said.Flooding has left at least 300 people homeless, police said.Since the start of the rainy season in June, floods and landslides have killed dozens of people in west Africa, including 19 in Ivory Coast, 16 in Ghana and seven in Benin, where the government declared a state of emergency.The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) estimates that the lives of about 150,000 people have been disrupted by floods in the region in the past two months.On Monday, IFRC launched a pre-emptive emergency appeal for US$850,000 to help 25,000 people threatened by floods and landslides in 16 West and Central African countries, including Sierra Leone, in the coming months."There is going to be more heavy rain in the next three months and people should at all cost vacate dangerous areas especially those living along seaside areas around the city," said John Kaamara, a geologist at the University of Sierra Leone.A forecast for July to September by the African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development predicts heavy rainfall in countries along the Gulf of Guinea, which experts say is likely to cause floods and landslides..
3523	92		Japan				Hyogo and Okayama in western Japan		9-Aug-09	10-Aug-09	2	12	2,000		Tropical Cyclone, Etau	1.5	18370	4.7	136.23	35.16		0	20	1	90	9-Aug-2009	837	3001	10-Aug-09:"Tokyo - At least 10 people, among them several small children, have been killed in torrential rains in Japan, local media reported Monday.Typhoon Etau has brought heavy rainfalls to Japan, causing flooding and landslides that have destroyed homes.In the hardest-hit prefectures, Hyogo and Okayama in western Japan, several people remained missing. At least 2,000 people sought shelter in schools and other public buildings. Houses were destroyed by mudslides and the authorities had to close some roads. In the capital Tokyo, Monday morning traffic was obstructed by the rains.
3522	91	TC-2009-000150-TWN	Taiwan	China					9-Aug-09	12-Aug-09	4	500	2,000,000		Tropical Cyclone, Morakot	2	24910	5.3	121.01	24.29		0	20	1	89	9-Aug-2009	837	3000	8/13/09: "Four days after Taiwan’s worst floods in half a century — just as the residents of Taoyuan believed Typhoon Morakot’s violence was finally over — a terrifying order came through from the military: run — you’ve got minutes to live.Grabbing whatever food and possessions they could, the 500 villagers began a panicked scramble to the higher ground, heaving themselves over jagged rocks and clambering over walls of mud.Within moments of the last stragglers reaching safety, a giant flood lake formed by Sunday’s mudslides broke its banks, unleashing what eye-witnesses called “a mountain tsunami”.The incident in Taoyuan was just one of many chaotic scenes played out across southern Taiwan today amid more torrential rain and fears of a dramatic rise in the death toll.Many villages and small mountain communities remain inaccessible — a series of medicine and food airdrops today suggested that it may be days before many of those left homeless by Morakot are reconnected with the outside world. Some had scrawled giant SOS messages on bits of broken timber — one or two with estimates of the number of dead beneath the mudslides.Added to the misery has been mounting condemnation of the handling of the disaster by the authorities. Newspaper editorials accused Taiwan’s president, Ma Ying-jeou of being incompetent, and carried reports of survivors digging, unaided, in search of loved ones. One survivor said: “We are forgotten.”Much of the anger is directed at the Government’s failure to seek foreign assistance from countries such as Japan or the United States, a reluctance thought to be born of stubborn pride.Mr Ma's inspection of the relief efforts was interrupted when he was surrounded by a group of enraged survivors. “What is your Government doing?” one man shouted at the President. “It’s too late, they cannot be saved.”Thousands have been found alive in remote mountain villages — including another group of 300 discovered stranded this morning — but reaching them is difficult. Even helicopter airlifts have been hampered by the bad weather, with the number of evacuations lower than expected.Estimates vary wildly over how many people might still be alive, and, more grimly, how many may lie crushed under thousands of tonnes of collapsed mountainside. The official toll stands at 108, though there is a strong suspicion among rescue workers that the figure could triple as the search goes on.The Government sent another 4,000 troops to join the 16,000 already deployed throughout the flood-stricken disaster zone. Liao Liao-yi, the Interior Minister, spent the day denying suggestions that the relief effort had been lacklustre, assuring reporters that the pace had picked up from yesterday.To those waiting at the heliports on the edge of the disaster zone, however, progress again felt painfully slow. Bridges have been obliterated and many roads have either been buried under landslides or smashed off the mountains. In the area around Taoyuan, the authorities warned that other flood-lakes could burst at any moment.None of this has calmed the anger of the villagers waiting impatiently for news of their families. Many in the worst-hit area of Kaohsiung county believe that the south, which is the main stronghold of the opposition party, is being deliberately starved of assistance.“It’s too slow. They don’t care about the south. They just care about the north,” Chen Fu-rong, a funeral director, told reporters. "8/12/09: "Taiwan scrambles to rescue 700 in landslide villages as death toll hits 66CHISHAN, Taiwan: Taiwan Wednesday began airlifting to safety more than 700 people found alive in a trio of villages flattened by muddy landslides, as the island's death toll from Typhoon Morakot hit 66.The military launched the helicopter operation in the battered island's south after the region was hit by its worst flooding in half a century, inundating  entire villages in water and mud and cutting off all access by road.We have found around 700 people alive in three villages last night and 26 more this morning. We are deploying 25 helicopters to evacuate them," Major-General Richard Hu said.Hu said he was unable to confirm how many people had been buried or killed by the landslide in Hsiaolin and in two other remote villages nearby.Some media reports had speculated that up to 600 people had been killed just in Hsiaolin, which vanished under a tidal wave of mud at the weekend.Rescuers had said Tuesday that around 100 people in Hsiaolin were feared to have been buried alive."We believed that some were buried but it's not possible to estimate how many at this moment as almost 90 per cent of the houses were buried," Hu said.Feelings were running high at a nearby school where relatives of missing people had gathered. Police and soldiers had to push back some who tried to storm their way onto the departing helicopters."I cannot wait any more. I want to look for my family," a man in his 40s shouted as he argued with soldiers.He said he had not heard anything from his family since the typhoon dumped a record three metres (120 inches) of rainfall on southern Taiwan over the weekend.Chu Chia-jung, 21, said she was desperate for news with only one of her many relatives in Hsiaolin accounted for."I've been really, really worried about my close relatives there," she said. "I hope the military can speed up their search and rescue."Authorities Wednesday said Typhoon Morakot, which also killed eight people in eastern China, had left at least 66 people dead in Taiwan.The toll included three rescuers who died when their helicopter crashed into a river in heavy fog in the southern county of Pingtung on Tuesday.“Their bodies have been found and we are working to transport the bodies from the crash site," a policeman told reporters.Another 61 people are missing in Taiwan and 35 others injured." 11-Aug-09: "Rescuers descended on a mountain village struck by a typhoon-spawned mudslide that killed at least 38 people and led to fears that many more could be unaccounted for, in a fifth day of deadly storm devastation across eastern Asia.The mudslide brought to more than 70 the number of confirmed deaths in recent days as typhoons ravaged Taiwan, mainland China, Japan and the Philippines. The toll was expected to climb as rescuers descend on stricken parts of Taiwan and China. The Japan Meteorological Agency said a storm could hit central Japan on An elderly man is carried after being rescued by military helicopter from a village covered in a landslide from Typhoon Morakot in southern Taiwan. China's state-run Xinhua news agency said Tuesday morning that a landslide triggered by Typhoon Morakot toppled at least six apartment buildings in eastern China, burying an unknown number of residents, the Associated Press reported.Morakot dumped as much as seven feet of rain on some communities in Taiwan over the weekend before moving on to China, where it forced the evacuation of nearly one million people along the east coast and left at least six dead. The typhoon, now downgraded to a tropical storm, earlier struck the Philippines, leaving at least 22 dead. A separate typhoon, Etau, slammed into Japan's west coast on Monday. At least 12 people were killed in raging floodwaters and landslides, and 10 others were missing, police said. Officials in Japan warned of the potential for weakened ground and mudslides from the combination of heavy rains and two earthquakes since Sunday.Taiwan officials said early Tuesday that 38 people were confirmed dead and 62 missing following the mudslide at the southern village of Shiao Lin. News reports and witnesses said hundreds may have disappeared, though estimates differed and authorities wouldn't confirm a higher number. The AP quoted a Taiwan police official as saying 400 people remained unaccounted for after the mudslide.Lee Yuan-yi, deputy director-general of the Fire Bureau of Kaohsiung County, said that 82 villagers were rescued by military helicopters Monday. The rescue team hasn't found any buried bodies in the past 36 hours, he said."10-Aug-09: "Torrential downpours brought by Typhoon Morakot in the past couple of days have smashed one-day precipitation records in many parts of Taiwan, Central Weather Bureau (CWB) officials said Sunday.Premier Liu Chao-shiuan stayed overnight at Pingtung to direct rescue operations and evacuation of flood victims around the clock, as Morakot's death toll rose to four, with 19 injured and at least 8 other people reported missing.
3521	90		China				At least 14 villages in Lingao and Changjiang counties of Hainan		7-Aug-09	10-Aug-09	4		7,250		Heavy Rain	1.5	30540	5.3	109.77	19.12	x	0	20	1	88	7-Aug-2009	837	2999	8-Aug-09: "Floods caused by a major typhoon surging toward south China's Hainan Province have trapped at least 7,250 people, said the provincial flood control and drought relief headquarters on Saturday.Floods of 1.3 meters to 1.7 meters in depth deluged at least 14 villages in Lingao and Changjiang counties of Hainan where the people were trapped, said the headquarters.Flood also swept seven towns where 500,000 people live in Danzhou county, said the headquarters.Rescue work is under way.
3520	89		Philippines				Luzon		7-Aug-09	8-Aug-09	2	20	173,000		Tropical Cyclone, Morakot	1.5	24550	4.9	121.44	17.87	x	0	20	1	87	7-Aug-2009	837	2998	8-Aug-09:"Flood overwhelms Philippines...Rescuers are struggling to evacuate hundreds of villagers trapped by rampaging flash floods in the northern Philippines as the death toll rose to 20, officials said.On Saturday police said the bodies of eight miners were recovered on Friday after a landslide hit a mining area near the city of Baguio on the island of Luzon. Six other miners were still being sought.Disaster relief officials said 173,171 people in seven Luzon provinces had been displaced by flooding and landslides in the wake of Typhoon Morakot, which grazed the island before making landfall in Taiwan overnight.Among those also killed were two French tourists and a Belgian who went hiking on Mount Pinatubo on Thursday despite warnings from local officials of powerful torrents on its volcanic slopes.Rescuers in the town of Botolan in Zambales province were battling strong currents on Saturday to evacuate hundreds of residents marooned in their homes after rainwater and mud from the slopes of Pinatubo breached a dike.
3519	88		India				Bihar, Bagmati River, Tilaktajpur under Runnisaidpur block in Sitamarhi		1-Aug-09	4-Aug-09	4		3,000		Levee failure	1.5	21200	5.1	85.5	26.5		0	20	1	86	1-Aug-2009	837	2997	4-Aug-09:"Around 50,000 people are still stranded in flood-hit Bihar though the Bagmati river, which breached its embankment and inundated nearly 200 villages in Sitamarhi and Muzaffarpur districts, has started to recede. Officials have intensified rescue work to help the 200,000 people affected by the flood.'With water levels in the Bagmati river showing a receding trend and plugging of the breach near completion, the overall situation is improving,' Bihar Disaster Management Minister Deveshchandra Thakur told IANS over telephone from Sitamarhi. Also: "ilakrajpur (Bihar), Aug 4 (ANI): Flood situation worsened in Bihar as some more villages were submerged, leaving thousands of people in need of immediate help. The swollen Bagmati River breached its embankment in Sitamarhi district, in a stretch of 40-50 metres at Tilakrajpur area, on Saturday, inundating vast tracts across a number of villages." The water has submerged many villages. People are living on roadsides and our children have fallen ill and we have not received any medical help," said Ram Kirpal Singh, a villager." Chief Minister Nitish Kumar came and gave a speech, but we did not get any relief. There is no fodder for our cattle. There is water everywhere," said Srinath Singh, another villager.Though relief work has started, the situation is yet to be brought under control.People have been marooned and numerous villages are cut off.Nitish Kumar had made an aerial survey of the district on Sunday and assured immediate relief. 2-Aug-09:"Patna, Aug 2 (IANS) Thousands of people have been rendered homeless in Bihar’s Sitamarhi district after the Bagmati river breached its embankment, flooding nearly 200 villages.Those stranded in villages are living under the open skies without food and drinking water, waiting to be rescued.“We are hungry and our children are crying for food and milk, but nothing has been provided by the government though it is over 24 hours since the Bagmati river breached its embankment,” Narayain Singh, one of the thousands of villagers taking shelter on embankments, told IANS via his mobile phone, which he feares might run out of charge soon.“Till now, we have not been given any relief. We are without food and water,” said Shyam Singh, another villager.The swollen river breached over a 100-feet stretch of the embankment at Tilaktajpur under Runnisaidpur block in Sitamarhi Saturday, inundating several villages and affecting over 100,000 people. More villages are likely to be flooded, a district official said.According to officials, a team of the National Disaster Response Force began rescue operations Sunday morning. They had reached Saturday night but couldn’t begin rescue work in the dark.At least half a dozen people were feared drowned but district officials confirmed that only a woman had been killed.Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is likely to visit the breach site and take stock of the situation later Sunday.Till Friday, the district administration and engineers had claimed that there was no threat to the embankment from the rising level of water in the Bagmati river. According to official sources, the embankment was repaired and strengthened last year.However, villagers claim they had informed officials about a six-inch wide hole in the embankment. But no move was initiated to repair it.Nitish Kumar has ordered a probe and promised stern action against erring officials. "
3518	87		Philippines				Midanao, 144 villages in Cotabato City and in the provinces of Maguindanao, North Cotabato, South Cotabato and Sarangani		25-Jul-09	4-Aug-09	11	10	200,000		Torrential Rain	1.5	36980	5.8	125.37	7.65		0	20	1	85	25-Jul-2009	837	2996	31-Jul-09:" - Ten people were killed in flashfloods and a landslide triggered by two days of heavy rains in the Philippines, police and local officials said Friday.Two people were killed before dawn Friday in a landslide caused by heavy rains in Antipolo City in Rizal province, 45 kilometres south-east of Manila, Police Senior Superintedent Ireneo Dordas said. Dordas, the provincial police chief of Rizal, said the victims were sleeping when the landslide buried their house in the village of San Isidro.In the southern province of Sarangani, six people were killed in flashfloods that hit at least two towns, Governor Miguel Dominguez said.Dominguez said an estimated 4,500 people have fled their homes because of floods in the towns of Kiamba and Malapatan in Sarangani". 31-Jul-09: "Floods, slides displace 200,000 in Mindanao. Close to 200,000 people have been affected by flashfloods and landslides triggered by incessant rains in Mindanao over the past three weeks, the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) said Friday.In a consolidated situation report, the NDCC said 38,835 families or 193,872 persons were affected in 144 villages in Cotabato City and in the provinces of Maguindanao, North Cotabato, South Cotabato and Sarangani.Several incidents of flashfloods in the provinces were reported due to overflowing waterways caused by continuous rains since July 4 until July 30, the NDCC said.Currently, Maguindanao, North Cotabato and Cotabato City continue to experience moderate to heavy rains, the national disaster body reported.Initial assessments indicate that in South Cotabato alone, some 330 hectares of farm land, roads and 106 houses have been damaged. The cost of damage was placed at about P28 million.In Cotabato province, 2,486 hectares of farmlands were damaged by the flashfloods in six villages, while in Sarangani and Maguindanao many homes and some bridges were destroyed.In an interview, Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) weather forecaster Chris Perez said that the continuous rains in the region was caused by the southwest monsoon which was enhanced by tropical storm “Jolina.”The western Mindanao section will continue to experience rains for the next 24 hours, he said."30-Jul-09: "Heavy rains across the southern Philippines have resulted in massive flooding in many low-lying areas of Mindanao Island, with villagers either marooned inside their houses by waist-deep waters or forced to evacuate, according to disaster relief officials on 30 July.Large swathes of farmland covering more than 2,486ha in the central Mindanao towns of Pigcawayan, Alamada, Libungan, Midsayap, Aleosan, Pikit and Tamontaka have also been damaged by floods, according to the Office of Civil Defence in Manila.Some 40 houses were destroyed in the town of Sultan Mastura in Maguindanao province, where tens of thousands have already been displaced by almost a year of fighting between government forces and separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels.Some 159,775 people in central Mindanao or about 31,955 families have been affected so far, and while flooding in some areas has subsided, large parts remain inundated, the Department of Social Welfare and Development, said. ."
3517	86		Turkey				Black Sea province of Giresun		28-Jul-09	29-Jul-09	2				Torrential Rain	1	9641	4.3	38.11	40.7		0	20	1	84	28-Jul-2009	837	2995	29-Jul-09: "Turkish officials and news reports say flash floods have inundated more than 100 homes and workplaces, and damaged several roads in the Black Sea province of Giresun. (July 28)."
3516	85		Nepal				Takdoo village, 200 km ne of Kathmandu		26-Jul-09	28-Jul-09	3	22			Monsoon Rains	1	18730	4.7	85.71	28		0	20	1	83	26-Jul-2009	837	2994	27-Jul-09: "Flooding and landslides brought on by two days of heavy monsoon rains in Nepal have killed 22 people and several more are missing, officials say.Home Ministry official Iswor Regmi said the death toll could rise from the rains that began over the weekend as reports pour in from remote villages, some of them several days' walk from the nearest town or telephone.In the worst incident, at least 13 people were killed in a landslide in Takdoo village early on Monday, chief government administrator Talasi Gautam said. He said rescuers were still digging through mud and debris searching for victims.The village, about 200km northeast of Kathmandu, is at least two days' trek from the district capital, and the continuing rain was making rescue efforts difficult.Separately, six Hindu pilgrims were swept away while trying to cross the swollen Kamal river in the country's southeast, Regmi said.He said the other three confirmed deaths were in separate floods or landslides.Every year, hundreds of people are killed by landslides and flooding during this Himalayan nation's monsoon season."
3515	84		Japan				Fukuoka Prefecture		26-Jul-09	27-Jul-09	2	28			Torrential Rain	1	9647	4.3	130.57	33.29		0	20	1	82	26-Jul-2009	837	2993	28-Jul-09:Flood, slide toll now at 28FUKUOKA (Kyodo) The body of 5-year-old boy was found Monday in Chikugo, Fukuoka Prefecture, after he was swept away by a river swollen from torrential rain, bringing the total of weather-related deaths in western Japan in the past week to Before and after: Kiyoshi Ihara surveys his house Sunday in Hofu, Yamaguchi Prefecture, following a rain-induced landslide last week (lower photo). Ihara, whose family has lived in the neighborhood since the Meiji Era, says he will probably have to move. Koji Koide was last seen at around 4 p.m. Sunday while being carried away in the Kurame River. He was playing with three other children, including his two brothers, at the time, according to police.Normally the river at 2 meters wide is not even a decent stream and is sometimes dry. But the recent downpours in northern Kyushu left the stream swollen and strong enough to sweep people away, the police said"."27-Jul-09: " TOKYO (AFP) – Rescue crews recovered three more bodies from landslides and a river in southern Japan on Monday, raising to 10 the death toll from disasters brought by heavy weekend rains, police said.The bodies of a man and a woman were pulled from a car buried when a mudslide hit a road on Kyushu island, a police official in Fukuoka prefecture said.Police also recovered the body of a five-year-old boy who was swept away in a swollen river on Sunday, the official said.Search operations resumed Monday in Fukuoka for a 61-year-old woman and her daughter, 34, feared buried under mud after their home was hit by a landslide.Earlier last week, landslides and floods triggered by heavy rains killed at least 16 people in Yamaguchi prefecture on western Honshu island.The latest victim found was a woman whose remains were recovered Monday from a nursing home for the elderly that was hit by a large landslide last week. Two people were still listed as missing in Yamaguchi"
3514	83		China				Southwestern Sichuan		26-Jul-09	4-Aug-09	10	22			Torrential Rain	1	201100	6.3	101.18	30.86	x	1	20	1	81	26-Jul-2009	837	2992	27-Jul-09: "The Associated PressBEIJING -- Heavy flooding hit China's southwestern Sichuan province, leaving at least 22 dead and another seven missing, state media said Monday.The official Xinhua News Agency said rainstorms pummeled a mountainous area in Panzhihua city late Sunday and early Monday. It cited the Sichuan provincial emergency office for the numbers of dead and missing in the flooding there.Xinhua said provincial Vice Governor Zhang Zuoha was leading a delegation to assess damage and oversee the relief operation.No other details were immediately available. Over the weekend, a landslide in the same province killed at least six people and damaged a bridge that is a link for reconstruction in areas hit by a devastating earthquake last year.The heavy rains also triggered mud-rock flows that blocked the main highway between Sichuan and Tibet, Xinhua said in a separate report.The landslide occurred Monday morning in Powo County, leaving more than 100 vehicles stranded by rocks and mud extending more than 70 yards (meters) on the road, police officer Chen Jun was quoted as saying. A bridge was also destroyed, he said.A rescue team was dispatched but members had a hard time accessing the area where giant boulders had fallen. Xinhua said the team had plans to use explosives to break up the rocks.Heavy rains and floods have hit several areas of China in the last month, with 15 hikers killed three weeks ago when they were trapped in a canyon near Chongqing, also in southwestern China. "
3513	82		Turkey				NorthernTukey, Giresun		20-Jul-09	22-Jul-09	3		3,000		Torrential Rain	1	13170	4.6	38.16	40.69		0	19	1	80	20-Jul-2009	836	2991	21-Jul-09: " Heavy rain in the northern Turksih city of Giresun has forced thousands from their homes"
3512	81		Japan				Southern Japan, Yamaguchi Prefecture, 110 landslides near Hofu, 620 miles southwest of Tokyo		20-Jul-09	22-Jul-09	3	16	400		Torrential Rain	1.5	11850	4.7	131.88	34.56		0	19	1	79	20-Jul-2009	836	2990	22-Jul-09: " Torrential rains triggered floods and landslides in southern Japan, leaving at least six people dead and 10 others missing, including elderly residents at a nursing home, officials said Wednesday.A mudslide hit a nursing home in Hofu City in Yamaguchi Prefecture on Tuesday, killing three people and injuring another, as the ground floor of the two-story building was inundated. Rescue workers and dogs searched Wednesday for four residents who were still missing, prefectural police official Fumio Kurokawa said.Most of the 90 residents evacuated to the roof and were safely lifted out by helicopter" .."More than 400 people evacuated in eight cities in Yamaguchi, the prefecture said in a statement. Rivers and canals flooded at more than 100 locations. At least 110 landslides were reported in Hofu, which lies about 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) southwest of Tokyo.A seasonal rain front has brought torrential downpours in southwestern Japan since the weekend. Yamaguchi has seen record rainfall for July.The Meteorological Agency said the peak of the rain has passed in southern Japan, where more than 10 inches (25 centimeters) of rainfall was reported in 24 hours through Tuesday evening, but it warned of a possibility of more landslide
3511	80	FL-2009-000140-MNG	Mongolia				Ulaan Bataar and Gobi-Alta province		16-Jul-09	19-Jul-09	4	26	300		Torrential Rain	2	138900	6.0	101.93	47.82		1	19	1	78	16-Jul-2009	836	2989	26-Jul-09: "25 July 2009 – The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) is helping Mongolian authorities respond to flash flooding that has killed at least 26 people, damaged infrastructure and raised the risk of outbreaks of infectious diseases.WHO reported yesterday that it would provide funds to the Mongolian health ministry and helped coordinate the emergency response in the wake of the floods, considered among the worst to strike the sparsely populated, landlocked country in decades.Eight children are among the people reported killed, while about 130 families have been left homeless and some 2,000 people have been evacuated from areas considered to be at risk of flooding.The floods have been particularly severe in and around the capital, Ulaanbaatar, and provinces to the immediate west.WHO said it is concerned that the overflow of sewage pits and lavatories following the floods could lead to major health problems, include outbreaks of diarrhoea and acute respiratory infections. Response efforts will focus on ensuring safe water supplies and promoting personal hygiene." 21-Jul-09: " (CNN) -- At least 24 people have been killed and hundreds rendered homeless in the worst floods to hit land-locked Mongolia in 40 years, emergency officials said Tuesday.The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said it was working with local authorities to distribute emergency goods to the flood-ravaged victims.Workers fear that without adequate food and shelter, the situation would worsen when winter arrives in three months, said Francis Markus of the Red Cross.The floods struck last week in the Asian nation's capital, Ulaanbaatar, and a province in the west. It was the worst to hit the country since 1966, Markus said. The government issued televised broadcasts ahead of the rainstorms but many children and elderly could not be evacuated in time. ..On 17 July, a severe flood occurred Bayanzurkh, Khan-Uul districts of Ulaanbaatar city; Tseel, Togrog soums of Gobi-Altai province, some areas of Dundgobi and Tov provinces"
3510	79		United Kingdom				Durham		18-Jul-09	19-Jul-09	2				Torrential Rain	1	3359	3.8	-1.82	54.36		0	18	0	77	18-Jul-2009	835	2988	19-Jul-09: "Huge downpours left parts of Britain flooded yesterday with some areas having a month's rain in just 24 hours.Worst affected was the North East, where the River Wear in Durham rose 6ft, sending water flowing down streets and into homes. Houses were evacuated and dozens of residents were taken to safety.The city's Radisson Hotel had to be evacuated, the Passport Office was flooded and the Boat House pub had water lapping at the doors.Guests at the Honest Lawyer Hotel in nearby Croxdale were given a dramatic wake-up call when they had to be evacuated by boat as the building became cut off at around 5am...."Homes have been evacuated and streets flooded after north-east England suffered heavy downpours.Part of Durham city centre was left under water after the River Wear burst its banks.Morpeth and Rothbury in Northumberland, which were devastated by flooding last September, were also affected, with a number of homes evacuated. .
3509	78		Austria				Graz		16-Jul-09	19-Jul-09	4				Torrential Rain	1	2765	4.0	15.71	47.4		0	18	1	77	16-Jul-2009	835	2988	19-Jul-09: "Austrian city declared disaster zone due to flooding Officials declared the city of Graz, Austria a disaster area Officials in southern Austria have declared the city of Graz a disaster zone after torrential rains caused flooding.Officials told citizens to keep children and animals inside as temperatures dropped to 15 degrees Celsius (59 degrees Fahrenheit) and the snow line came down to 1,500 meters (4,900 feet).Heavy rains in recent days had saturated the ground and streams burst their banks flooding streets and cellars in the southern city of 250,000.Wolfgang Uebel, an official in the disaster prevention department said that the emergency declaration was a formality which would allow officials to evacuate residents if necessary.The rain had stopped by Saturday but Uebel said the alert would remain in place until Sunday
3508	77	FL-2009-000139-PAK	Pakistan				Karachi		17-Jul-09	19-Jul-09	3	26			Torrential Rain	1	10370	4.5	67.19	24.99		0	18	1	76	17-Jul-2009	835	2987	19-Jul-09: "26 killed in Karachi floodsTorrential monsoon rain in the Pakistani city of Karachi has killed 26 people and cut power to most of the city.The rain flooded low-lying parts of the city, damaging hundreds of homes, downing power lines and inundating power grid stations.The victims were either electrocuted, drowned, or had roofs collapse on top of them, Karachi mayor Mustafa Kamal said.Most of the city was left without electricity last night, but power was gradually being restored.We have 26 deaths but these figures could go up, as now reports have started pouring in from different areas,' Mr Kamal said.Efforts were under way to restore traffic and electricity and to pump floodwaters out of streets and homes, he said.Karachi, a city with a population of over 16m, has an outdated drainage system that leaves parts of the city vulnerable to flooding, though officials have said they have made improvements.Pakistan's chief meteorologist, Qamar-uz-Zaman, said the country's commercial hub had received 14.7cm of rain between Friday evening and this morning. .
3507	76	FL-2009-000136-BIH	Bosnia-Hercegovenia				Northern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina		7-Jul-09	15-Jul-09	9				Heavy Rain	1	6061	4.7	17.48	44.87		0	18	1	75	7-Jul-2009	835	2986	17-Jul-09: "Flood,Bosnia-Hercegovenia: Heavy rainfall on 5-12 July has caused flooding in Tesanj municipality in the northern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina destroying the food reserves and damaging the houses of local communities.
3506	75	TC-2009-000137-PHL	Philippines				Northerrn Philippines, northern Ilocos Norte province,Manila		16-Jul-09	18-Jul-09	3	5			Tropical Cyclone	1	47240	5.2	121.35	17.12		0	18	1	74	16-Jul-2009	835	2985	17-Jul-09: "Tropical Cyclone,Philippines: NDCC reports Tropical Storm Molave (Isang) affects over 70,000 in northern Philippines". 19-Jul-09: "A TROPICAL storm that brought heavy rain and severe flooding to the northern and central Philippines headed out into the South China Sea yesterday, leaving at least two dead and two missing. Tropical storm Molave was moving towards Hong Kong, with winds gusting up to 120 km/h. Philippines chief weather forecaster Nathaniel Cruz said Molave dumped up to 500 millimetres of rain in northern Ilocos Norte province and more than 100 millimetres in Manila over a 24-hour period.The floodwaters, waist-deep in some areas, forced the evacuation of more than 10,000 people on Friday
3505	74		Myanmar				Kayin state and Tanintharyi division		12-Jul-09	17-Jul-09	6		300		Heavy Rain	1	542100	6.5	101.83	4.55		1	18	1	73	12-Jul-2009	835	2984	17-Jul-09: " Flood, tornado hits Myanmar, causing big losses. Flood, triggered by torrential rains, struck Myanmar’s Kayin state and Tanintharyi division, and a tornado also swept Ayeyawaddy division early this week, both causing great losses, the state newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported Friday.Some highways and railways in Kayin state were flooded and some households displaced as a result of the torrential rains on Mondayand Tuesday.The torrential rains also caused landslide in some areas of Kawkareik-Myawaddy road and banks erosion at some bridges on Dawei-Mawlamyine road in Tanintharyi division.Meanwhile, a tornado hit Ngaputaw, Haigyigyun, Ngwesaung, Bogale and Pyapon in Ayeyawaddy division on Tuesday, destroying some houses and blowing off roofs and walls of some buildings. Six people were injured in the disaster.Ayeyawaddy division, along with four other states and divisions, was once struck by deadly tropical cyclone Nargis on May 2-3 last year, inflicting the heaviest casualties and massive infrastructure damage.Moreover, heavy rain caused overflow in Maesai Creek in Tachilek, in eastern part of Shan state.According to earlier official report, a landslide occurred on July 5 on the right bank of Phakant-Lonkhin road, leading the collapse of some small huts on the bank, killing 24 people and injuring another."Some houses in Phakant were flooded and the villagers were evacuated.The continuous torrential rain has overflowed the Uru Creek, washing away 24 houses with 90 others remaining in water.Meanwhile, two days’ continuous rainfall last month had also caused a landslide in Kawthoung, southern Myanmar’s Tanintharyi division, leaving four people dead.The four people, a mother and three children, were killed asleep when a large stone rolling down from a nearby mountain.In May, heavy rainfall also flooded the northern Mandalay division, leaving one person missing and many other villagers displaced
3504	73		India				Kodagu, Bhagamandala		11-Jul-09	17-Jul-09	7				Heavy Rain	1	63620	5.6	74.73	15.31		0	17	1	72	11-Jul-2009	834	2983	17-Jul-09: "Rain slackens in Kodagu, flood situation grim Bhagamandala remains cut off from the rest of the district Vast areas, including paddy fields, at Nittur have been submerged Janaspandana meetings in the district on Saturday cancelled Madikeri: Heavy rain, which has been lashing Kodagu for the past three days, slackened on Friday, but the flood threat remains in Bhagamandala, Karadigodu, Balamuri, Nellihudikeri, Gonicoppa and Nittur areas.Vast areas, including paddy fields, at Nittur have been submerged as the Lakshmanateerta is in spate. It may take a few weeks for flood waters to recede to enable farmers to take up paddy transplantation. Balele-Nittur road still remains submerged. The Cauvery is flowing above the Betri bridge, 21 km from here, disrupting vehicular traffic. Bhagamandala remained cut off for the third day in a row from the rest of the district even as Home Guards operated mechanised boats to ferry people. Paddy fields have been submerged in and around Bhagamandala. Cauvery water has entered the Bolibane area on Napoklu-Murnad road. The old bridge at Balamuri remains submerged. However, the movement of vehicles has not been affected as there is a new bridge a little distance away.In view of heavy rain, Janaspandana meeting to be held in the three taluks of the district on Saturday and next week have been cancelled.Talacauvery received the highest rainfall of 329.60 mm from 8 a.m. on Thursday to 8 a.m. on Friday. Shantalli recorded 180.20 mm, Bhagamandala 162 mm, Madikeri 112.20 mm, Ammathi 110.20 mm, Sampaje and Napoklu 80.80 mm each, Hudikeri 77.50 mm, Somwarpet 75.20 mm, Virajpet 72.60 mm, Ponnampet 70.20mm, Srimangala 52.40 mm, Gonicoppa 49.50 mm, Kodlipet 49.30 mm, Siddapura 48.26 mm, Balele 45 mm, and Shanivarasante 43.20 mm.The water-level in the Harangi reservoir has increased to 2852.58 ft as against the maximum level of 2859 ft. The water level in the corresponding period last year was 2850.09 ft.The inflow on Friday was 15,562 cusec..
3503	72	FL-2009-000133-ZAF	South Africa				Acoss Cape Town		12-Jul-09	16-Jul-09	5	11	20,000		Heavy Rain	1	32700	5.2	18.92	-33.07		0	17	1	71	12-Jul-2009	834	2982	16-Jul-09: " Flood,South Africa: Heavy rains across Cape Town have affected some 20,000 people whose shacks have been flooded over the past few days, disaster management spokeswoman said Wednesday..
3502	71	FL-2009-000135-MEX	Mexico