Category State Of Emergency Alert

Historic flooding strikes Louisiana, USA

(Photo: Douglas Collier, The Times) The Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness continues to coordinate the state’s response to the current historic flood event.   The initial reports from parishes indicate more than 4,958 homes received flood damage.…

Suspected tornadoes, associated with a big storm system causes mayhem in Florida, USA

55,000 cattle dead during past 6 months, due to drought throughout Colombia

“El Niño is a true rural catastrophe,” said Jose Felix Lafaurie, president of the Colombian Federation of Cattle (Fedegan) a week , while indicating that the animals have died of thirst and, therefore, the sector’s losses are more 850 billion.…

Apocalyptic Drought Strikes Haiti

Haiti’s third consecutive year of drought, exacerbated by the global El Niño weather phenomenon, has driven people deeper into poverty and hunger, and doubled the severely food-insecure population, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said yesterday.   Some 3.6…

Apocalyptic Drought Strikes Ethiopia, Africa

The international community has just three weeks to provide $245 million in emergency food aid to help prevent a potentially catastrophic escalation in severe acute malnutrition (SAM) cases in drought-afflicted parts of Ethiopia from the end of April when the…

Hurricane-Force Winds Of 144mph Winds Causes Devastation Across Scotland

Gertrude batters Britain with hurricane-force winds – felling trees, closing bridges and leaving thousands without power Thousands of homes and businesses were left without power after being battered by Storm Gertrude, with savage winds of up to 144mph recorded in…

Severe Blizzard Has Begun To Hit The US East Coast

A huge blizzard has begun to hit the US east coast and is expected to dump near-record levels of snow from Washington to New York.   More than 50 million people have been warned a “potentially paralysing storm” will drop…