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Floods in Kuttanad of Kerala
2008-09-11 14:10:00 The paddy is cultivated in the Kuttanad Taluk of (Alappuzha Dist) Kerala state India below sea level areas. During the rainy seasons the low lying paddy fields of Kuttanad Taluk get flooded due to the breakage of bunds around them.These areas were connected to sea via the backwaters of V
Midwest Floods Shrink the Food Supply
2008-06-25 00:01:00 The recent floods that devastated parts of the American Midwest will affect more than just the people who live there. In recent years, the price of corn used for food has risen due to increased demand for ethanol. Not only has the cost of food for human consumption gone up, so has the price of
Iowa Floods - Police "Strike Teams" Invade Homes, Harass Flood Victims
2008-06-18 15:23:00 I just saw this on YouTube and had to post it. Here's the description from the video itself:Cops break down doors, threaten residents who question them as part of martial law conditioning, authorities prevent people from re-entering their homesShocking footage out of Cedar Rapids Iowa shows cops and government employee "strike teams" breaking into houses of flood victims and threatening anyone who questions their actions in complete violation of the 4th amendment right that protects against unlawful search and seizure.No warrant, no knock home invasions are being carried out on the flimsy pretext of "checking for structural damage" as cops harass and threaten with arrest people who refuse to have their homes ransacked by thugs in uniforms.Cedar Rapids police chief Greg Graham promised residents over the weekend that "Law enforcement officers are not entering homes," and that firefighters would only enter homes through unlocked doors and windows yet the video clearly shows locked h...
Bad start to the week: Penampang floods for second time in 3 days
2008-06-10 16:49:00 Oh no, not again! Talk about Monday blues and the the amazing speed at which Penampang gets flooded these days. I was at the office when my son called around 4pm saying water from the river has reached downstairs. Never mind I thought - relatively, it’s usually a mere puddle the 2nd time. How wrong I was. When I finally left the office at 5.20pm after receiving a frantic phonecall from the wife a few minutes earlier saying the flood has returned, it was already raining … you guessed it right … cats and dogs. It was a big mistake leaving the office at that time - I should left the office much earlier - it took me 90 minutes to reach my wife’s office on the other side of the city, where it should’ve taken 30 minutes at most, and during the best of times, less than 10 minutes. Another tip is to switch on the radio to the local channel - they usually give updates on flood situations - I was in front of Sutera Harbour when the police went on the radio sayi...
By: Chronicles
Floods wash away Midwest homes
2008-06-09 19:39:00 with homes being washed away in Wisconsin when water from a swollen lake spilled over a dam and soldiers helping residents in sandbag as rivers rose fast in Indiana and Iowa.
By: Get rich
7th June 2008: Bad weekend: working, Penampang floods again, skipped: compa
2008-06-07 13:40:00 If I have ever done live blogging when floodwaters downstairs are rising, now would be it. In Penampang, not-so-heavy rain started 4 something pm, but by 6pm the Moyog river was already threateningly swollen. So, it’s 25th April all over again. Thank God, it was not as bad as the last time. The meter-high barrier around the ...
By: Chronicles
Sri Lanka: Death toll in floods reaches 20 in south
2008-06-04 15:52:00 Sri Lanka: Death toll in floods reaches 20 in south
Heavy Floods On Small Rain
2008-05-30 04:20:00 My family is planning to live south due to heavy flooding on our place even on small heavy rains. I just don’t know what happen to the flood way that I thought GMA opened some two weeks ago in our place. Now I am looking through pages of the Sunday classified ads and saw so many ...
By: joanjoyce
Fearing floods, China evacuates 80,000 more from quake zone
2008-05-27 18:25:00 Aftershocks continued to rattle the region. Two temblors in Qingchuan county Tuesday afternoon caused more than 420,000 houses to collapse, Xinhua, the official China news agency, reported.
By: Get rich
Floods Threaten Quake Zone
2008-05-27 14:38:00 MIANYANG, China -- Chinese officials rushed Tuesday to evacuate another 80,000 people in the path of potential floodwaters building up behind a quake-spawned dam as soldiers carved a channel to try to drain away the threat.
By: Get rich
After Quake, China Worries About Floods
2008-05-27 11:18:00 Soldiers used large, earth-moving equipment Tuesday to dig a channel and try to prevent a swelling lake formed by China's huge earthquake earlier this month from bursting.
By: Get rich
News: Bangladesh trees to stop cyclones and floods
2008-05-25 22:15:00 Over 49.8% of Bangladesh's 144 million people live below the poverty line. 84% live off less than US$2/day. 41.3% live off less than 1 US$1/day. With those demographic poverty figures, not much is needed to push Bangladesh's poor over the edge.Natural calamities, such as floods, tropical cyclones, and tidal bores occur almost every year. Most parts of Bangladesh are less than 12 metres (39 ft) above sea level. If the sea level would rise by one metre (3ft), it is believed 50% of the land would be flooded. No wonder the yearly cyclone season is a season of despair and disaster for many Bangladeshis.Last summer the country was hit by two major floods while Cyclone Sidr tore through its coastal districts in November, killing at least 5,000 people and leaving tens of millions homeless and desperately short of food. Environmentalists said the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, stood as a "green bastion" against the cyclone. If it were not for the Sundarbans, the death to...
Landslides Cause Fear of Floods
2008-05-23 08:21:00 BEIJING, May 22 -- Landslides caused by last week's earthquake in central China have backed up rivers into more than 30 new lakes, threatening to flood downstream communities if the mud gives way under building pressure, Chinese officials warned
By: Get rich
Country still unprepared for floods
2008-05-07 15:00:00 The country is still unprepared for flooding, despite the havoc caused by heavy rains last summer, MPs have warned.
By: FWi - All News
In pictures: Floods in Penampang,25th April 2008
2008-04-26 11:21:00 There are usually two major floods here in a year - by major I mean floodwaters would be at least knee-high downstairs. Floods here are most unpredictable. Where most people would sleep soundly at night when it’s raining heavily, it’s the total opposite here. We’d look out for the 3-step alarm; if it’s the 3rd alarm, ...
By: Chronicles
Jakarta on track to end floods: Governor
2008-04-24 02:00:00 The construction of a new $560m canal in the Indonesian capital should help end crippling floods that regularly hit Jakarta by 2012, the city?s governor Fauzi Bowo said yesterday.Authorities have so far failed to tackle the floods, which killed 50 people during the wet season in 2006 and triggered more chaos in February this year, swamping huge swathes of the teeming city and shutting Jakarta?s main airport for hours.Bowo, who took over as governor in October, said that the floods should be controlled by the end of his five-year term, but was less optimistic on the capital?s notorious traffic woes.?For the floods it?s much easier, because there?s a light at the end of the tunnel,? he told foreign correspondents. Land purchase problems have hampered building of the city?s new 5.2 trillion rupiah ($564.6 million) East Flood Canal, but Bowo said that land acquisition had now reached 80 percent.Bowo said a ?three-in-one? scheme in the city centre, which restricts use of the fast lanes t...
[Asinine] It?s time to move when you live on a road that floods so often yo
2008-04-08 00:43:00 (WPSDTV)
Blessing Against Floods
2008-04-06 08:05:00 (Approved by the Sacred Congregation of Rites, December 1, 1886.)(Vested in surplice and stole, the priest accompanied by the people,carries a relic of the Holy Cross with which to bless the stream or river.There he devoutly reads, facing in turn the four directions, the beginningsof the four Gospels, and after each Gospel adds the following versicles andprayer:)V. Help us, God, our salvation.R. And free us because of the glory name.V. Save Your servants.R. Those who hope in You, my God.V. Lord, do not act with us as our sins would demand.R. Nor repay us according to the measure of our evils.V. Send us help, Lord, from the holy place.R. And from Sion protect us.V. Lord, hear my prayer.R. And let my cry reach up to You.V. The Lord be with you.R. And with your spirit.Let us pray.O God, You make the wicked man just,and You do not desire the death of the sinner.Your servants have confidence in Your mercy.We humbly beg Your majesty that You will,by Your heavenly aid,kindly shield us from...
By: Catholic Prayers
Volunteers hold back floods
2008-03-26 13:26:00 SAND HILL, Arkansas (AP) -- Volunteers armed with sandbags held back water springing up from under a rural levee Tuesday as the White River continued its highest surge in a quarter-century through eastern Arkansas.
By: Get rich
Sandbags help slow floods
2008-03-26 12:24:00 SAND HILL, Ark. (AP) -- Volunteers armed with sandbags held back water springing up from under a rural levee Tuesday as the White River continued its highest surge in a quarter-century through eastern Arkansas.
By: Get rich
IRS Tax Relief Available For Those Affected By January Floods
2008-03-26 00:00:00 The IRS will postpone certain deadlines for taxpayers who reside or have a business in the disaster area until May 6. The postponement applies to return filing, tax payment and certain other time-sensitive acts otherwise due between Jan. 7 and May 6. In addition, the IRS will waive failure to deposit penalties for employment and excise deposits due on or after Jan. 7 and on or before Jan. 22, as long as the deposits were made by Jan. 22.
More floods expected as rivers rage
2008-03-24 14:27:00 LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP) -- Forecasters warned that communities in the Arkansas prairie along the White River could suffer their worst flooding in more than a quarter-century under clear skies and sunshine.
By: Get rich
Midwest Floods
2008-03-21 16:30:00 This pretty much happens every year,but this year we had some torrential rains and we haven't even gotten to the snow melt yet. It will be interesting if we will have another 500 year flood, because up north they hav...
By: Stix Blog
Floods force hundreds to flee in US, 13 deaths linked to storm
2008-03-21 13:16:00 Residents of low-lying towns stacked sandbags or grabbed belongings and evacuated after afoot of rain pushed rivers out of their banks in the nation’s midsection since 13 deaths have been linked to the weather and three people were missing.
By: Latest News
Raging floods leave deadly mark on Midwest
2008-03-20 08:45:00 PIEDMONT, Missouri (AP) -- Residents of low-lying towns stacked sandbags or grabbed belongings and evacuated Wednesday as a foot of rain pushed rivers over their banks in the nation's midsection.
By: Get rich
13 dead as floods rage from Ohio to Texas
2008-03-20 00:22:00 PIEDMONT, Missouri (AP) -- Residents of low-lying towns stacked sandbags or grabbed belongings and evacuated Wednesday as a foot of rain pushed rivers over their banks in the nation's midsection.
By: Get rich
Floods kill 73 in Bolivia
2008-03-15 14:49:00 Heavy rains and floods have killed 73 people since last November in Bolivia, while more than 95,000 families have been rendered homeless, a government official has said.
By: Latest News
FLOODS LYRICS Fightstar
2008-03-10 06:44:00 Fightstar Lyrics FLOODS You can’t all pretend That you don’t know enough Enough to make sense All this will be gone And you can sink beneath The rapture we’ve spawned What have we become You know we don’t have all the entire world To make the floods seem still You know we don’t have all the entire world To make the most of this Blood will bleed ...
Fightstar - Floods (Promo CD 2008)
2008-03-09 01:51:00 Genre: Alternative / Post HardcoreURL: MyspaceDownloadYou know TheSceneRelease.com is the way.
By: TheSceneRelease
Anne Ahira Belu and Floods Refugee Is Hit By Disease
2008-03-07 00:00:00 Anne Ahira Belu and Hundreds of floods victim refugee in Kabupaten Belu, East Nusa Tenggara starts attacked by various contagion types eperti infection of exhalation channel, malaria, diarrhoea, skin disease and even something starts stres and experiences nerve trouble. The internet refugees marketing which since Tuesday then is accomodated in ...
Floods hits tens of village in Lamongan, E. Java
2008-03-03 01:27:00 Floods inundated a number of villages in Lamongan district, East Java, in the past two days after a 150-meter long dike built to withstand flood water from Bengawan Solo River, collapsed.No villagers had been evacuated although the flood waters inundated about one thousand houses and school buildings to a height of 10-50 cm, Laren subdistrict head Rusgiyanto said on Sunday."Flood water from Bengawan Solo River has four times inundated our subdistrict since the large flood hit the area some time ago. The flood water entered the area through the dike at Tegalrejo village, Widang subdistrict," he said.In Tuban subdistrict, 40-cm high flood water inundated a number of villages.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com-
News: Zambezi Floods in Mozambique
2008-02-28 15:09:00 At work, a team just came back from Mozambique where we provide assistance with the floods, caused by the Zambezi river, due to excessive rain.They brought these pictures with them. They show clearly the size of the devestation, the amount of farm land that was flooded, and the isolation of the villages in the Zambezi flood water.(click on the collage to see the slide show)Pictures courtesy Francesca Erdelmann and Jeronimo Tovela, with thanks to Eva-Kristin Urestad Pedersen.
Death toll from floods, landslides in Philippines rises to 20
2008-02-22 03:59:00 MANILA (AP) - Soldiers and aid workers rushed relief supplies Friday to tens of thousands of people forced from their homes by a week of flash floods and landslides lashing the eastern Philippines, as the death toll rose to 20, officials said.
By: Get rich
Last summer's floods will not prompt change in Environment Agency policy
2008-02-19 17:00:00 Last summer's unprecedented flooding is not going to prompt any significant change in Environment Agency policy with farmland.
By: FWi - All News
MAP: Intense Seasonal Floods in Southern Africa (satellite image)
2008-02-13 12:25:00 Source: AlertNet MAP: Intense Seasonal Floods in Southern Africa (satellite image) 12 Feb 2008 <!– 12 Feb 2008 ## for search indexer, do not remove –> NASA Reuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the content of this article or for any external internet sites. The views expressed are the author’s alone. ...
Flash floods kill 14 in Indonesia
2008-02-10 14:37:00 The toll in a flash flood in Indonesia’s densely populated East Java province reached 14, with dozens of houses destroyed, a health official and local media reports said Sunday.
By: Latest News
Floods get worse in Bolivia
2008-02-07 05:36:00 The ?Niña? effects are growing in Bolivia, the latest estimates state that more than 41,000 families have been affected by the phenomena, a quarter of these in Cochabamba alone. There are 50 dead persons reported. In Cochabamba estimates talk about 10.5000 families in 30 municipalities and 14 people reported dead.People all over the country are fighting alone to save their belongings and to remove the mud which has invaded their homes, help is totally insufficient. People push the mud out of their homes by any means they have, while many houses now shelter several families.Losses in the milk industry in Cochabamba are very large, animals, crops and grasslands have been lost to the floods. This will have a heavy impact on the prices to the consumers in the coming months. Most main roads are in very bad shape difficulting the normal transport of any product.In the tropical provinces of Cochabamba around 70% of all the familias have been affected by the floods. In the lower valleys of ...
By: Bolivia Today
Bolivian floods toll rises to 48
2008-02-05 09:24:00 At least 48 people have been killed in the floods in the wake of heavy rainfall across Bolivia and more than 32,000 families rendered homeless, a defence ministry report has said.
By: Latest News
Welcome back Floods
2008-02-03 15:51:00 I was in Semarang when Dewi called me at about 3 pm, Friday February 1. She told me that heavy rain was pouring Jakarta since early morning and had caused floods in many parts of the city, including the main thoroughfare and toll road towards Soekarno-Hatta airport. Jakarta was again in complete... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Indonesia floods kill 12, cause travel chaos
2008-02-02 12:43:00 By Mita Valina Liem JAKARTA (Reuters) - Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 12 people across Indonesia and the capital's main airport was briefly shut on Friday as more than 40 flights were delayed due to low visibility. Scores of cars were stranded and people had to wade through murky knee-high water in many parts of Jakarta, a city of 14 million that is regularly hit by floods at this time of year. Jakarta's main airport had been forced to close on Monday morning, after rain and fog slashed visibility to less than 300 metres, Hariyanto, an official at Soekarno Hatta airport, said. More than 40 flights had been delayed, with some planes diverted to Jakarta's smaller Halim airport, while several flights coming to the capital were forced to return to Singapore. "The airport has reopened since three o'clock (0800 GMT)", Hariyanto, who uses only one name, said later by telephone. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was fo...
By: B4U India
Hope Floats in Queensland Floods
2008-02-01 07:23:00 Nothing brings out community spirit more than a natural disaster. Torrential flooding in the south-east, north, far-north and central Queensland over the past week has resulted in some 65 per cent of the state being affected by rising water. But the floods have failed to dampen community spirits as residents, volunteers and recovery personnel worked together to rescue those stranded ... SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title: "Hope Floats in Queensland Floods", url: "http://www.australianwomenonli-ne.com/?p=201" } );
Death toll due to floods increases in Bolivia
2008-01-30 05:50:00 40 people have already been reported dead due to the recent floods throughout the country since last November, was stated by the bolivian ministry of defense.During the last hours, a boy died in La Paz due to a mud wall which fell on him, a lightning hit a lady with her daughter and a 11 year old girl was taken by river in the valleys of Cochabamba.Four other people are missing according to the report. This year the "Niña" has affected around 31000 families in all the country.For more information on the "Niña" you can go here:http://www.ciifen-int.org/-
By: Bolivia Today
Woolley Bridge Floods
2008-01-26 22:56:00 This week's floods in the Glossop area have again been big news, with articles in both the Advertiser & Chronicle.But the only hint of a wider view of this problem came in the Advertiser, with a quote from a resident of Woolley Lane:"We told the council when a new house was built next door two years ago that this area was a flood plain"Indeed. There's a new housing development being built not far from the flooded area, as well as a Hotel/Travelodge as we reported previously (and whose previously blocked planning proposal is being resurrected - a report will come soon).So it'll be really interesting to see what happens if the Glossop Spur is built, because the river Etherow tends to burst its banks all along the area where the roundabout from the A57 will be. The picture above gives a projected view of what the possible road signs will need to indicate, because this is the third time major flooding has occurred here this century...
Woolley Bridge Floods
2008-01-26 22:56:00 This week's floods in the Glossop area have again been big news, with articles in both the Advertiser & Chronicle.But the only hint of a wider view of this problem came in the Advertiser, with a quote from a resident of Woolley Lane:"We told the council when a new house was built next door two years ago that this area was a flood plain"Indeed. There's a new housing development being built not far from the flooded area, as well as a Hotel/Travelodge as we reported previously (and whose previously blocked planning proposal is being resurrected - a report will come soon).So it'll be really interesting to see what happens if the Glossop Spur is built, because the river Etherow tends to burst its banks all along the area where the roundabout from the A57 will be. The picture above gives a projected view of what the possible road signs will need to indicate, because this is the third time major flooding has occurred here this century...
Heath Ledger?s Death Floods Blogosphere
2008-01-25 07:32:00 I wanted to blog about Heath’s death but as I was blog hopping, almost every blog I’ve been has a post about the Brokeback Mountain and Casanova’s star, Heath Ledger. Different views and questions, but all in one topic. What’s about his death anyway that it suddenly crawled the blogosphere? Is it for the sake of ...
By: My Own Universe
Floods in most of Bolivia - effects of "la niña"
2008-01-25 06:25:00 The effects of the climate phenomena called "la niña" have been devasting this year in Bolivia. Specially in the east, north and central part of the country, paradogically the highlands and south-west part of the country are instead in a drought.30 people have died and more than 22000 people have been affected by the floods and intense rains.A couple of months ago the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel for climate change issued a study which you can find in their website here:http://www.ipcc.ch/index.h-tmWhich talked about "la niña" and other climatic phenomena which will affect Bolivia this coming years. A serious drought has also been forseen in the highlands, which would produce massive migrations from the countryside to El Alto, increasing the 850000 thousand people population dramatically and accelerating the poverty time bomb which this city represents. What is worse is the fact that nothing is being done to prepare for these phenomena, we will only have to deal with it lik...
By: Bolivia Today
Rockhampton Braces For Major Floods
2008-01-24 08:04:00 Rockhampton is bracing itself for major flooding early next week. Local news sources have just confirmed that the threat of floods in Rockhampton is real and should be taken serious. Rockhampton's town hall will become the center for emergencies if this would eventuate. The local Fitzroy river is fed by the huge Fairburn Da6 Zoom(s)
US Floods Middle East with Weapons-Undermines Peace Talks
2008-01-15 02:03:00 Live by the gun, die by the gun. These seem to be the words the Bush administration continues to live by as today they prepare to announce the proposed sale of $20 Billion in weapons to Saudi Arabia.Another brilliant move by this administration.read more | digg storyLiberty Central- Conservatism's Blog of Choice
50 dead in Mozambique floods: UN
2008-01-14 14:06:00 Floods in Mozambique have killed about 50 people and displaced tens of thousands in the southern African nation, a UN humanitarian agency said on Monday.
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