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In Buckhead, a man, woman, a very small baby, and two dogs were trapped on top of a car trying to avoid the floodwaters.

More than 400,000 households have been left without power and around 14 million people are living under flood alerts as Tropical Storm Francine batters Louisiana, southern Mississippi, Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle, NBC News reported.

Severe flooding in northeastern Nigeria, which is plagued by constant attacks from the jihadis of Boko Haram, has killed at least 30 people.

A Good Samaritan put himself in danger to rescue a driver on Wednesday in New Orleans, Louisiana, during Hurricane Francine’s flash floods.

China’s eastern heartland is facing massive floods affecting hundreds of thousands of people and triggering an emergency declaration in Jiangxi.

The Trinity River Authority announced a “potential failure watch” for the dam located at the base of one of Texas’ largest man-made lakes. The alert says there is no “immediate danger of either failure or breach of the dam.”

Three people were missing on Saturday after massive thunderstorms and rainfall in southeastern Switzerland caused a landslide, authorities said.

MOSCOW (AP) – Russia’s government has declared the situation in flood-hit areas in the Orenburg region a federal emergency, state media reported. The floods, caused by rising water levels in the Ural River, forced over 4,000 people, including 885 children,

Floods from the Ural River broke a dam in a city near Russia’s border with Kazakhstan, forcing some 2,000 people to flee.

Spring rains washed away part of California’s famous Highway 1 near Big Sur on Saturday, stranding 1,600 people who had to be moved past the collapsed portion in convoys.

The rescue effort for a six-year-old Pennsylvania girl who was swept away by a rushing creek is now a recovery mission, officials announced.

Rainfall from one of the wettest storms in Southern California history is easing off but forecasters say floods are still possible and saturated ground raises the threat of potentially deadly landslides.

Widespread areas of Los Angeles experienced flooding and heavy rainfall on Sunday as a winter storm moved through the area, breaking a 97-year-old record for rainfall in one day.

California faces a “life-threatening” storm this week that will begin Sunday, intensify Sunday through Monday, and continue to pour rain over the Golden State sporadically through Friday.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) declared a state of emergency in San Diego and Ventura counties after heavy rainfall Monday caused flooding in San Diego.

Brutal winter weather sweeping across the U.S. is expected to impact voter turnout at the Iowa Republican caucuses as several areas of the nation experience deathly low temperatures.

Eurostar services to and from London were canceled Saturday after a tunnel under the River Thames became flooded due to heavy rain.

A slow-moving rainstorm that moved south from Northern California triggered a rare tornado warning in Southern California on Thursday, and Ventura County, north of Los Angeles, experienced historic flooding.

The UK-based Guardian newspaper has made the remarkable assertion that rainstorms are now 20 percent “wetter,” thanks to climate change.

Severe flooding on Friday in New York City allowed a sea lion to escape from its enclosure at the Central Park Zoo.

At least 2,000 fatalities have been reported in Libya’s eastern city of Derna after dams burst in a torrential rainstorm.

Rescue teams in eastern Libya have retrieved hundreds of bodies from the rubble in a coastal city that was hit by devastating floods.

When an elderly homeless man in Las Vegas, Nevada, recently found himself trapped in floodwaters, a stranger knew exactly what to do.

Videos show the deteriorating conditions in the eyewall of Hurricane Idalia, which made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend Wednesday morning.

Videos showcase Hurricane Idalia’s impact on the Sunshine State as it has made its way up to Florida’s Big Bend and now moves into Georgia.

Heavy rains from Typhoon Doksuri flooded western Beijing on Monday, forcing more than 30,000 people to evacuate. At least two fatalities were reported in the district of Mentougou, where the worst flooding occurred.

Residents of Montpelier, Vermont, were warned early Tuesday as a local dam filled close to capacity amid catastrophic flooding.

Chinese Communist Party authorities scrambled to respond to devastating floods in southwest Chongqing and Sichuan, China.

A Florida sheriff’s deputy put his life at risk to save a man trapped in floodwaters and was sucked into a drainage pipe.

Lake Tulare, a lake that dried up in the last century due to water diversion projects, has returned due to heavy winter rain and snow, and now exceeds 160 square miles in area, making it almost as large as Lake Tahoe.

Marine Corps veteran Curtis Sollars and his wife Connie have been living out of a suitcase in a motel for six months in Mannford, Oklahoma — a rural town along the Arkansas River Basin — because their home was destroyed in the 2019 Arkansas River Floods.

The ongoing return of California’s Tulare Lake threatens to inundate the city of Corcoran and the state prison nearby, as residents fret that a nearby levee may fail to hold back the rising waters in the spring thaw.

California is about to begin the “big melt” — the thawing of trillions of gallons of frozen water, currently sitting atop the Sierra Nevada mountains and about to make its way down into the Central Valley floodplain.

A winter of heavy rain and a spring of heavy erosion has attracted a small gold rush of fortune-seekers eager to find nuggets in California’s burgeoning rivers.

A couple in Breathitt County, Kentucky, lost their home in last year’s floods, but a special gift has remedied the situation.

Former President Donald Trump ripped Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, saying he should be in Fort Lauderdale helping oversee response to the flooding in one of his state’s biggest cities instead of touring the nation “campaigning.”