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The California town of Bridgeport, the county seat of Mono County near the Nevada border, dropped to -27º F on Saturday, as the entire state experienced colder temperature in the wake of unexpected winter rainstorms.

The rain that fell on California in recent weeks could have supplied the state’s water needs for 10 years — if it had been captured and stored. Unfortunately, most of the water is being left to drain to the Pacific Ocean.

The San Francisco Bay Area has experienced the wettest three-week period since Abraham Lincoln was president during the Great Flood of 1862 — and the winter isn’t over yet.

Californians are asking where the state’s new reservoirs are — the ones voters approved nearly a decade ago to mitigate drought, which have yet to be built — as trillions of gallons of water from recent rains wash out to

Prince Harry, his wife Meghan, and celebrity neighbors such as Oprah Winfrey have been ordered to evacuate their homes in wealthy Montecito, California, as ongoing rains and flooding threaten widespread destruction.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) asked the Biden administration to make federal aid available to California for flood relief, just months after billions of dollars in federal spending compounded the state’s budget surplus.

California residents in river towns are bracing for flooding as another “atmospheric river” is set to arrive in the state, bringing several more inches of rain to residents still struggling with drought and now facing a deluge.

The City of San Francisco is attempting to blame the National Weather Service (NWS) for the poor local response to last week’s rains, which saw “sewer geysers” in some neighborhoods, and extensive flooding.

Historic, heavy rainfall in the San Francisco area has caused “sewer geysers” to explode on city streets, sending jets of water high into the air as the city’s overwhelmed drains cannot contain the high volume of rainwater.

It was difficult for Libby Sanders to recall the moment she almost lost her child last year during extreme weather in Tennessee.

The New Zealand Herald, the former British colony’s newspaper of record and most-circulated daily, appeared keen to blame the disaster on climate change — despite explicitly stating that “this specific weather event had not been analysed regarding the influence of climate change”.

Joe Biden visited Kentucky on Monday to reassure flood victims in the state that the government would be there to help them recover.

Intense rainfall caused flash flooding at Death Valley National Park, leaving around 1,000 people stranded over the weekend due to damaged roadways.

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.

Incredible images show a 17-year-old girl and her dog stranded on a rooftop surrounded by flood waters as they waited for hours to be rescued amid the eastern Kentucky flooding.

The death toll in the eastern Kentucky flooding has risen to 25, Gov. Andy Beshear (D) announced in a press briefing on Saturday morning.

The European Union tsar in charge of the bloc’s 2050 net zero push has called to implement a national commemoration day for those allegedly killed by the “climate crisis”.

At least 17 people were killed across China’s neighboring provinces of Hunan and Guangxi as of Thursday after severe rainfall caused flooding and landslides that swept away entire villages and displaced hundreds of thousands of people in the southern region, the Associated Press reported.

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.

Parts of Nantucket, a small island off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, saw intense flooding as Winter Storm Keenan wreaked havoc on the northeast on Friday night and through Saturday, bringing heavy snowfall and high-speed winds, which resulted in power outages.

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.

An AI website introduced a project that shows horrific future scenarios from climate change that are fake but designed to “incide action.”

A Washington man and his coworkers used tractors to rescue people stranded in raging floodwaters after historic rains caused intense flooding in the town of Sumas in Whatcom County.

Country music star Dolly Parton and her businesses have raised $700,000 to help victims of the recent flooding in central Tennessee.

Tropical Storm Nicholas is set to be a major rainfall flood threat Monday night on the Texas and Louisiana coasts, bringing wind gusts and a storm surge.

Following the damage caused by remnants of Hurricane Ida in New Jersey, Hackensack Middle School Principal Anibal Galiana was concerned about his school building.

A mother is extremely grateful to her legally blind son who took action when their basement apartment in Queens began flooding due to Hurricane Ida.

The death toll due to Hurricane Ida reportedly reached at least four following a highway collapse in Mississippi while millions had no power and flooding continued to be a threat Tuesday, according to USA Today. 

It has been over a week since more than 17 inches of rain swept through Humphreys County, Tennessee, taking the lives of 20 residents and hurting many more.

A helicopter pilot from Nashville, Tennessee, named Joel Boyers had finished helping his fiancé get her own pilot’s license Saturday when the unexpected happened.

While looking out his kitchen window, 90 year old Buddy McNabb and his three pet dogs watched as water rose around his mobile home, Faithwire reported Tuesday.

German authorities said rescue teams are still searching for two people who were swept off a bridge by sudden floods the previous day.

Just a few weeks after they scrambled to score cheap political points against American disaster response from the condo collapse in Miami, Chinese state media organs are grudgingly admitting the deadly floods in Henan province show their government did a poor job of infrastructure planning and construction.

The mayor of the Belgian municipality of Esneux has called on the country’s armed forces for help after a wave of looting following the large-scale flooding that has rocked the country.

Germany’s national weather service said Thursday that regions hit by deadly floods last week could again see heavy rain at the weekend.

Officials are defending their preparations for flooding in the face of the raging torrents that left over 180 people dead in Western Europe.