Category Severe Flood Alert

Yellow Alert issued in Malaga, Spain

MALAGA is on yellow alert, with heavy rains and storms forecast. The warning from the website Aemet, says the alert will remain active until Monday morning.   There is precipitated to be 20 mm of rain per hour in Ronda,…

Emergency evacuation alert sparks panic as Tropical Storm Fung-Wong heads for Taiwan

Taiwan evacuated almost 1,000 people from endangered areas as Typhoon Fung-Wong, which left at least 10 dead in the Philippines and caused Manila’s worst flooding in two years, approached packing wind gusts as strong as 120kph.   Fung-Wong, Phoenix in…

Landslides trap hundreds of motorists on mountainous Costa Rica highway

A harrowing Thursday evening continued into early Friday morning for hundreds of motorists trapped on the Braulio Carrillo Highway that connects San José to the Caribbean port city of Limón. Heavy rains triggered multiple landslides that stranded 380 2,000 people…

Extreme hailstorm unleashes complete havoc in Florence, Italy

The Italian city of Florence has been hit by a violent hail storm which destroyed terrace bars in a central square and injured five people when a primary school collapsed in an outlying village.   It also flooded the market…

Apocalyptic floods affect 2.3 million in Pakistan

Sher Muhammad, 85, looked on with a sense of bewilderment: “I have not seen such a flood, not since around the time of partition [1947].” As the flood emergency deepens in Pakistan, now affecting nearly 2.3 million people, humanitarian teams…

Severe floods leave thousands without power; sheriff’s deputy missing in Austin, Texas, USA

Heavy rainfall in Austin early Thursday morning left parts of the city underwater, thousands without power and a Central Texas sheriff’s deputy missing.   The Travis County Sheriff’s Office said the deputy was patrolling low water crossings before radioing in…

Tropical storm Fung-wong is forecast to strike the Philippines as a typhoon at about 12:00 GMT on 19th September 2014

  Tropical storm Fung-wong is forecast to strike the Philippines as a typhoon at about 12:00 GMT on 19 September. Data supplied by the US Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Center suggest that the point of landfall will…