A girl washes her feet with standing water on August 1, 2014 next to a watering point at the UN Protection of Civilians (PoC) site in Upper Nile State capital Malakal, South Sudan (AFP Photo/Charles Lomodong )
A lorry overturned on Redheugh Bridge in Newcastle and landed on a car
Submerged cars are seen on a flooded street in San Gavino Monreale on Sardina island November 18, 2013. REUTERS/Rosaspress
A taxi negociates on a flooded coastal road at Ha Long city in the north-eastern coastal province of Quang Ninh after the passage of the typhoon Haiyan, in this Nov. 11, 2013 photo. (AFP)
A man walks with two dogs through floodwaters on Quicksilver Boulevard in Austin, Texas, on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013, after heavy overnight rains brought flooding to the area. The National Weather Service said more than a foot of rain fell in Central Texas, including up to 14 inches in nearby Wimberley, since rainstorms began Wednesday. (AP Photo/The Austin American-Statesman, Deborah Cannon)
Indians wade through a flooded street in Hyderabad, India, Friday, Oct. 25, 2013. Heavy rains triggered by northeast monsoon have lashed several parts of Andhra Pradesh state for the fourth consecutive day Friday prompting authorities to evacuate many residents from low-lying areas, according to local reports. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
The Weather Channel producer Shawn Reynolds passed along this photo of a home flooded in Louisville’s tony Highlands neighborhood:
INCREDIBLE PIC: floodwater entering homes in Highlands area of Louisville (via @TWalkerRivals) | #KYwx |
(TWC) When Superstorm Sandy slammed into New York and New Jersey last fall, it sent massive floods through the streets of coastal towns and cities across the Northeast, turning areas like Toms River, N.J., into something like a war zone.
But nearly a year later, residents there and in many other coastal communities across the U.S. face a potentially far more devastating menace: a nationwide revamp of flood insurance rates, forcing premiums that were once around $500 per year into the $5,000-, $10,000- and even $20,000-a-year range and higher.
“The adverse effect of [this] would be more devastating than Hurricane Katrina,” Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon said in an interview with weather.com, noting the crippling economic damage the historic 2005 storm left behind on the Gulf coast. “Because it will render literally thousands of properties in my state worthless.”
Buses stand stranded as people wade through a flooded road after heavy rains in Ahmadabad, India, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
AHMADABAD, India — Officials say monsoon flooding has left 13 people dead in the west Indian state of Gujarat where thousands of people took shelter in state-run camps this week.
Nitin Patel, a state government spokesman, says the deaths were caused by house collapses, electrocution and swirling flood waters sweeping people away.
With heavy rains and flooding abating, nearly 12,000 of 17,000 people left state-run relief camps for their homes in one the worst-hit districts of Bharuch, district official Avantika Singh said Friday.
An Indian motorist tries to balance himself as a bus drives past him on a flooded road following heavy rains in Ahmadabad, India, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
Roads and railway links are also being restored in the districts of Bharuch, Vadodara and Surat, said Patel.
In June, India experienced some of its worst monsoon flooding in the northern state of Uttarakhand, where more than 6,000 people died, including Hindu pilgrims visiting temples.
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