Clean-up begins after floods misery
MSN UK News
A clean-up operation is under way after heavy rain and strong winds caused flooding across the UK. Scotland was worst hit by the weather with communities in Huntly in Aberdeenshire and the coastal town of Stonehaven counting the cost of the...
Residents clean up after Scottish floods
Daily Telegraph
Houses across the country were flooded after rivers burst their banks, while closed roads and cancelled train services caused chaos for commuters. Alex Salmond, the First Minister, visited the flood-hit area of Huntly in Aberdeenshire, wher...
Threatened Maldives urges joint action at climate talks
Reuters UK
... climate change including desertification, drought, floods and storm surges. "We are vulnerable because we have modest means with which to protect ourselves from the coming disaster," Maldivian President Mohammed Nasheed told the confere...
National Hurricane Center; Ida Weakens After Killing 124
Post Chronicle
Hurricane Ida weakened to a Category 1 hurricane on Monday as it headed toward oil and gas facilities in the central Gulf of Mexico after killing 124 people in El Salvador following floods and mudslides. Ida's top sustained winds fell to 90...
130 killed in El Salvador floods, mudslides
SamayLive
San Salvador: At least 130 people have been killed in floods and mudslides caused by Hurricane Ida in El Salvador, officials said Monday. Interior Minister Humberto Centeno said 49 children were among the dead. The hurricane wrecked havoc a...
Floods, mudslides kill 124 in El Salvador
YAHOO!
A hurricane warning has been issued for the northern Gulf coast from Pascagoula, Mississippi , to Indian Pass, Florida. Forecasters at the Miami-based US National Hurricane Center said Ida packed top wind speeds of 105 miles (165 kilometers...
Floods, Mudslides Kill Scores In El Salvador
WIBW
(CNN) -- At least 124 people have died and dozens are missing after heavy rains triggered flooding and mudslides that buried communities and left a swath of destruction in El Salvador, officials said. President Mauricio Funes declared a nat...
'This whole area was flooded out'
BBC Americas
Scott Elberger is a US paediatrician volunteering in El Salvador who is now giving medical aid to refugees from the floods that have devastated the country. About 7,000 people in El Salvador are living in shelters after floods and mudslides...
Natural Disasters 101 - Information resources
Examiner
Every single day dozens if not hundreds of events that could be classified as natural disasters occur across the globe. These events can be relatively small such as a hailstorm that destroys a crop to a tsunami that floods hundreds of miles...
Hurricane Ida death toll rises in El Salvador as heavy rain causes ...
Daily Telegraph
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Ida slips to tropical storm, aims at U.S. Gulf Coast
Town Hall
At its earlier hurricane strength, Ida triggered floods and mudslides that killed 124 people in El Salvador. Ida's top sustained winds dropped to 70 miles per hour, and the storm is unlikely to regain hurricane strength before it makes land...
Floods and landslides in El Salvador
Reuters AlertNet
Caritas is sending staff to support parts of El Salvador hit by floods and mudslides after days of heavy rains have left over 120 people dead and thousands of people homeless. El Salvador has been on a state of alert since Thursday after be...
Scores killed in El Salvador floods
BBC Americas
Over one hundred people in Nicaragua and El Salvador have lost their lives by flooding and landslides following days of heavy rain. The heavy rains hit central America as Hurricane Ida, which has now been downgraded to a category one storm,...
