Mexico Floods Update
Update 25/09/13 Interior Secretary Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong said total fatalities as a result if the floods, storms and landslides is now 130. 8 bodies buried in a landslide were…
Author: Richard Davies
Flash Floods Kill 20 in Vietnam
At least 20 people have been killed in flash floods in central Vietnam on Tuesday 24th September. A further 6 people are reported as missing, with more fatalities a possibility.…
Laos – Further Flooding in Southern Provinces
Southern Laos was badly hit by floods between 16h and 19 September, 2013, after heavy rainfall that lasted several days. The rainfall was the result of a tropical depression in…
Storms and Floods in Santa Catarina, Brazil
A storm on Monday 23rd September caused severe flooding in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. The government has since declared a state of emergency after flooding displaced more…
Flooding in 15 Provinces in Thailand
Update: Around 8cm of rain fell in Khlong Yai in Trat Province, eastern Thailand, in a 24 hour period from 22nd September to 23rd September. A disaster zone has been…
4,000 evacuated after floods in Taiwan
Typhoon Usagi, which made landfall in China at around midday local time on 22nd September near the city of Shanwei in Guangdong, which is about 150km northeast of Hong Kong,…
Colorado Flood Facts and Figures
Since the floods first struck in north east Colorado on 12th September: 17 counties have been affected: Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Boulder, Clear Creek, Denver, El Paso, Fremont, Jefferson, Larimer, Logan,…
Photos of the Colorado Floods
The flooding first struck in north east Colorado on September 12th 2013. So far 15 different counties in Colorado have been affected. A Federal State of Emergency has been declared…
Floods Hit Japan after Typhoon Man-yi
Typhoon Man-yi brought torrential rainfall and flooding to parts of Japan on Monday 16th September. Japan’s public broadcaster NHK say that in total 18 western and central prefectures have been…
Widespread Floods Across Indonesia
Floods have struck in various regions of Indonesia on Borneo, Sulawesi and Sumatra . The areas suffering are widespread and include the Indonesian provinces of East Kalimantan, West Kalimantan, Gorontalo…
Flash Floods in Northern Vietnam
Vietnam’s National Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention announced on 7th September that flash floods had struck in numerous northern provinces. Further flooding and landslides have been predicted for…
Floods in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan
Heavy rainfall on 9th September resulted in flooding in villages in the Zebak district of Badakhshan province, in north east Afghanistan. Askitol was reported as the worst affected of the…
Colorado Floods Update
After the drought, parts of Colorado around the Boulder region have seen as much as 7 inches (17cm) of rain in just 3 hours on the morning of Thursday September…
Flooding in North East Colorado, USA
Three days of heavy rain brought floods to parts of Boulder and northern Jefferson counties, Colorado, late on Wednesday 11th September. Flash flood warnings have also been issued for surrounding…
Floods in Nigeria
Nigeria has suffered severe flooding in 3 separate incidents in Plateau, Kebbii and Cross River states over the last few days. There have also been flood warnings, issued by SEMA…
New Orleans Makes Room for the River
I have written about “making room for the river” on a few occasions. It is a flood defence policy – or rather more of a philosophy and way of thinking…
