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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Thursday said the state was hit with a “500-year flood event” one day after Hurricane Ian made landfall in southwest Florida.

Torrential rain hammered southern China’s Sichuan province over the weekend after several weeks of drought causing the region’s landscape to suffer flash flooding that forced the evacuation of nearly 50,000 people as of Sunday, China’s state-run Global Times reported.

Seoul’s government announced plans on Wednesday to ban basement apartments in the South Korean national capital — a style of subterranean home depicted in the Oscar-winning film Parasite — after four people drowned to death in such apartments in recent days during record floods, the BBC reported.

Country music star and Kentucky native Chris Stapleton was recently seen helping out with the flood relief efforts that have devastated the eastern portion of the state.

Australian government officials ordered roughly 50,000 residents of Sydney to evacuate their homes on Tuesday after local waterways swelled beyond danger levels amid heavy rains, Reuters reported.

Roughly one-quarter of the world’s population is currently at risk from “once-in-a-century” floods, with nearly 70 percent of this demographic living across South and East Asia, the South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday citing a new assessment published by the journal Nature Communications.

China’s state-run Global Times reported on Monday that 13 Chinese regions were “devastated” Sunday by floods that are projected to last through the coming days. Southern China’s annual rainy season began in recent weeks and has caused record flooding nationwide.

A lettuce shortage in Australia recently forced some Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) restaurants to replace iceberg lettuce on their sandwiches with cabbage, Australia’s Seven News network reported on Tuesday.

The Environment Agency is taking legal action against a farmer who removed trees and bushes on a bank and dredged a river bed with a digger.

At least 117 people died this week in floods and landslides that swept through the historic mountain city of Petropolis north of Rio de Janeiro, the Associated Press (AP) reported Thursday.

Chinese Communist Party officials in China’s Henan province “either concealed or delayed” the documentation of 139 deaths from floods that devastated the east-central region in July 2021, Bloomberg reported Sunday.

Video footage caught the moment a Sacramento man rescued a kitten that was caught in floodwaters on October 24 after a northern California storm.

Severe storms caused floods and landslides across southwestern Japan this week, killing at least one person as of Friday and forcing tens of thousands to evacuate, Japan’s Mainichi Shimbun newspaper reported.

North Korea’s communist regime claimed Tuesday to be rebuilding roads, residences, and public buildings across its eastern provinces days after rainy season flooding forced at least 5,000 people to evacuate.

Record floods across China’s Henan province in July killed 302 people — three times the number originally reported — Henan Communist Party Officials announced Monday.

Chinese national government officials are blaming local authorities in Zhengzhou and shaming them to act more decisively after at least 14 people died in the city’s subway system during torrential rains last week, China’s state-run Global Times reported Tuesday.

The Chinese government relocated 1.65 million people from areas at high risk of floods in eastern China’s Zhejiang province as of Sunday night, China’s state-run Global Times reported Monday.

Chinese citizens reportedly harassed foreign journalists on the streets of Zhengzhou over the weekend while covering the central Chinese city’s recent flooding, the Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) reported on Monday.

Londoners were cleaning up Monday after torrential rain left homes, roads and several subway stations flooded.

Record floods in China’s central Henan province have killed at least 25 people as of Wednesday and forced a the evacuation of an additional 200,000 people in the provincial capital, Zhengzhou, local government officials said.

Flooding in southwest China’s Sichuan province in recent days displaced about 110,000 people as of Sunday, Chinese government officials said.

A man in Michigan recently won $2 million with a scratch-off lottery ticket after losing all of his belongings during a flood in 2020.

Pope Francis has warned of the possibility of a second great flood, like that of Noah’s time, if humanity fails to address global warming.

Authorities in India are looking for survivors Sunday after a portion of a Himalayan glacier broke, sending a flood of water and debris into two dams and damaging numerous homes.

Flood victims in the Kenyan region of Tana River County will receive a beating before their rescue in future calamities as they have ignored the government’s safety instructions, the regional governor, Dhahdo Godhana, warned on Monday.

In response to deadly flooding in recent days, Wuhan, China, upgraded its emergency response for flood control to the second-highest level on Monday, China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.

A blind man living in the Bahamas carried his disabled son through high floodwaters to safety during Hurricane Dorian, reports said. 

Addy Tritt bought every shoe in a Kansas Payless ShoeSource liquidation sale for $100.

Climate change zealots said on Saturday that Houston practiced “environmental racism” in its response to last year’s hurricane Harvey.

A shocking video shows the moment drivers plowed through a flooded desert highway in Oman hit by a massive cyclone this week.

One person is missing in flash flooding that struck Maryland’s Ellicott City on Sunday, says Howard County executive Allan Kittleman.

The Baltimore Metropolitan area is experiencing flash flooding Sunday, prompting U.S. officials to advise residents to seek higher ground. 

A liberal Texas activist group asked the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to hold Hurricane Harvey relief funds and other grant monies from Houston until the City fully addresses policies that promote “racial discrimination and perpetuation of segregation.”

The Kiewit Corporation contractor poured the final smooth layer of cement on the Oroville Dam spillway chute Wednesday and the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) is set to certify that the massive repair job was completed by the November 1 deadline.

A relative of a Texas family that perished in the floods resulting from Hurricane Harvey tried to comfort his surviving brother after six of their family members drowned in Houston’s flood waters.

President Donald Trump traveled to Texas on Tuesday to get an update on the ongoing rescue efforts after Hurricane Harvey devastated the state.