PHOTOS: Dam failure floods Michigan city, displacing thousands amid pandemic
Floodwaters surging through Central Michigan on Wednesday were also mixing with containment ponds at a Dow Chemical Co. plant and could displace sediment from a downstream Superfund site.
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In the Bahamas, ‘slow’ government response leaves residents turning to strangers for help
Hurricane Dorian came ashore at Cape Hatteras in North Carolina Friday, still packing winds of 90 miles per hour and threatening a storm surge of four to seven feet. More than 330,000 homes and businesses across the Carolinas and southern…
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News Wrap: Typhoon kills 45, strands residents in eastern China
In our news wrap Monday, the death toll from a weekend typhoon in eastern China has risen to 45 people. Rescue workers are still evacuating residents stranded in buildings after their streets were submerged by floodwaters. Also, in southern India,…
Midwest floods foreshadow national security threat posed by climate change
The Missouri River floodwater surging on to the air base housing the U.S. military's Strategic Command overwhelmed round-the-clock sandbagging by airmen and others. They had to scramble to save sensitive equipment, munitions and dozens of aircraft.
In our news wrap Tuesday, flooding in the Midwest has claimed three lives and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. Scores of cities and counties have declared emergencies as the Missouri and Platte Rivers flow beyond their banks.
Some 800,000 people have been displaced and over 350 have died in the worst flooding in a century in southern India's Kerala state, officials said Sunday.
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