Three provinces in Thailand’s 14-province southern region have been hard hit by floods as a seasonal monsoon is creating havoc in the region, especially Narathiwat, Phattalung, and Yala where Thai Army units have been pressed into service to help evacuate communities that are cut off.
About 1,000 houses have been flooded in the southern province of Narathiwat, hard hit by heavy rain for almost a week.
HANOI - UNSEASONAL floods in central Vietnam have killed at least five people and left three others missing and feared dead in recent days, national emergency services and state media reports said on Sunday.
Four men were swept away in floods and one woman drowned when her small fishing boat sank in a swollen river as heavy rains hit Quang Nam and Quang Ngai provinces, said the National Flood and Storm Control Committee in Hanoi.
More than 5,000 houses were destroyed or damaged, and almost 75,000 hectares of crops were under water, it said in an online report.
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The floods that hit three cities in Northern Mindanao have now affected at least 67,000 people, or more than 17,000 families, with seven persons reported missing and at least one dead, disaster councils reported late yesterday afternoon.
At least 5,480 families or about 27,375 persons in Cagayan de Oro City alone were affected by flash floods that hit the region’s capital city since Friday, the City Disaster Coordinating Council (CDCC) and the military reported.
The villages severely affected in Cagayan de Oro were Barangays 6, 7, 13, 15, 17 and Barangays Carmen, Balulang, Consolacion, Gusa, Taguanao, Kauswagan, Macasandig and Tablon, authorities said.
DETROIT – Wind gusting more than 60 mph knocked out power to about 413,000 Michigan homes and businesses on Sunday as temperatures dipped back into the 20s and 30s.
Meanwhile, flood warnings were posted throughout the Midwest as temperatures rose after a week of heavy snowfall. Forecasters said flooding was possible in areas of Wisconsin, Ohio, Iowa, Michigan and Indiana.
In Michigan, high wind knocked down tree limbs and power lines. Parts of the state also got about 4 inches of snow.
Torrential rain caused flash floods across much of the UK over the weekend, inundating hundreds of homes and claiming the life of an elderly motorist whose car was swamped by nearly three feet of water.
At one point, there were more than 300 flood warnings in place, with south-western England accounting for about a third of incidents. The Midlands, South Coast and parts of Wales and Scotland were also affected.
A swollen river has left more than 20,000 people homeless in Colombia’s northern province of Magdalena, officials said on Sunday.
No flood-related death was registered yet, despite the record-high water level of the Magdalena river, the longest river in Colombia, said Omar Diaz, governor of the Magdalena province.
Heavy rain has left hundreds of homes flooded in parts of Britain and is being blamed for a road accident which left a woman dead.
Dual carriageways in both Devon and Somerset were under up to 18in (46cm) of water, trees down and people trapped in their cars.
A Dorset Police spokesman said officers were investigating whether the weather was a factor in an accident on the A35 at Upton, Poole, which left a 22-year-old Poole woman dead.
MANILA, Philippines - Flash floods and landslides loom over the eastern section of southern Luzon due to the tail-end of a cold front, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Sunday.
Pagasa said the tail-end of a cold front is affecting Luzon while an inter-tropical convergence zone (ITCZ) is affecting Mindanao.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Floods caused by days of heavy rains killed at least seven people, left four soldiers missing and displaced tens of thousands in insurgency-ravaged northern Sri Lanka, officials said Saturday.
Keerthi Ekanayake of the Disaster Management Center said the northern Jaffna peninsula and the Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu districts were inundated and nearly 8,000 houses have been destroyed.
Seven people were confirmed dead and more than 88,000 were displaced in the north alone, Ekanayake said.
The military said four soldiers stationed in Jaffna were missing after being caught in the flooding.
Hundreds of thousands of people in the northern region had already been displaced by fighting between government troops and separatist Tamil Tiger rebels and are living in temporary huts.
An additional 10,000 people have become homeless because of the floods in the rest of Sri Lanka, Ekanayake said.
The government plans to send emergency aid and shelter materials, Disaster Management Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said.
Aid agencies were evicted from rebel-held territory in September by the government, which said it could not guarantee their security amid the fighting.
KOTA BARU, MALAYSIA - The floods have started to hit Kelantan and Terengganu. As of 3pm yesterday, 794 people from Jeli district in Kelantan were evacuated to six relief centres when their houses were flooded with 0.5 to 1.5m of water.
The floods also shut down the main road from Kota Baru to Kuala Lumpur at Kampung Sungai Durian, Kuala Krai, which came under 0.7m of water.
Another road section closed was the Km15 Jeli-Jelawang stretch near Kampung Reka, which was hit by 1.5m of floodwaters.
