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At least 100 people have died in devastating floods across parts of western Germany and Belgium, officials said Friday.

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

A state trooper, police sergeant, and a couple are being praised for saving a woman who found herself stranded in her truck during a flood in Columbia, Connecticut.

Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms ripped through central Mississippi, causing widespread damage to the area, according to videos and photos of the incident.

With record flooding through southeastern Australia, all manner of creatures are invading neighborhoods as they flee the rising water.

China’s Minister of Agriculture Tang Renjian told journalists in a press conference Monday that the nation’s grain supplies “at times come under pressure” and Beijing needs to act to “stabilize” its food supply.

An Arizona man inspired to do good went to Texas, which has been storm-ravaged in recent days, to repair water-damaged 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.

Hurricane Sally has been downgraded to a tropical storm, but it is battering the Gulf Coast with high winds and torrential rain, making it still a “catastrophic and life-threatening” flood event, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Venezuelans in the city of Maracay must sleep on the street, with socialist officials failing to provide shelter after devastating flooding led to hundreds of people losing their homes last week, NTN24 reported Monday.

Panicked locals in towns on the banks of the Rio Limón in Aragua state, Venezuela, fled for their lives as the river overflowed on Wednesday, flooding entire highways and sweeping away anything in its path.

China’s official manufacturing data, released on Monday, showed a decline in manufacturing linked to widespread flooding in August.

A natural gas pipeline exploded in China’s north-central city of Yulin on Wednesday. Authorities blame the blast on recent flooding in the region and have issued a warning to area citizens to expect more heavy rains in the coming days.

Australia’s Spectator revealed on Thursday that police received nearly 100 corruption complaints during the construction of the world’s largest hydroelectric dam, the Three Gorges Dam, currently straining under the pressure of once-in-a-century floods.

Torrential rains in China continued this week, threatening even worse floods after almost 24 million people have been impacted by 433 overflowing rivers, with millions evacuated and at least 142 dead as of Tuesday. 

Chinese state media is taking some heat – even from within the tightly-controlled Chinese Internet – for minimizing the danger of a flood disaster that has already ruined millions of lives, and threatens to unleash an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe if the massive Three Gorges hydroelectric dam fails.

Chinese state media announced on Sunday that it blasted holes in the Chuhe River dam in order to “alleviate the pressure of flood control” at the massive Three Gorges Dam, which is straining under the pressure from flooding of the mighty Yangtze River.

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.

An investigation by a local news station in Detroit, Michigan, found Wednesday that the state government bears some of the responsibility for the poor oversight that contributed to the failure of the Edenville and Sanford Dams.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to lift the draconian coronavirus lockdowns in her state after two dams burst due to flooding.

A local mayor from the Canadian state of Alberta has pleaded with the state’s Premier Jason Kenney to deploy jets to bomb a 15-mile ice jam that has led to left much of his town being left underwater.

Severe thunderstorms hit parts of the Deep South with hail, high winds, and torrential rain on Sunday as forecasters warned residents to brace themselves for overnight tornadoes and flooding across a region that was just hit with a deadly twister the week before.

A family of five and their dog were rescued Saturday after their vehicle became caught in a flash flood in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest.

The Guardian has reasserted its role as flagship publication of climate alarmism, warning Monday that entire cities in the UK could be under water by the end of the century.

Tanzania mourned at least 20 people killed in a stampede at a Pentecostal church on Saturday, plus another 20 killed by floods caused by torrential rains.

Venice is flooded – again – and the mayor Luigi Brugnaro is blaming climate change.

Hurricane Dorian has hit the Carolinas with 110 mph winds, flooding, and tornadoes, according to recent reports. 

Florida Governor Ron De Santis set a state of emergency for all 67 counties as Hurricane Dorian could reach the state as a Category 4 storm.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended his administration’s response to the hurricane disaster in Puerto Rico, accusing local officials of wasting billions of dollars.

Pope Francis sent a telegram to the people of Iran Wednesday, offering condolences for the casualties and destruction caused by extreme flooding in the country.

Vice President Mike Pence traveled on behalf of President Trump to flooding disaster areas in Nebraska on Tuesday.

Louisiana’s Cajun Navy headed to Tennessee on Tuesday to assist areas of the state ravaged by flooding after a strong storm pummeled the area.

Heavy flooding triggered by torrential rain washed out several bridges in the Indonesian province of West Sumatra.

A summer storm soaked the nation’s capital on Tuesday, closing the Cannon House Office Building tunnel and stranding drivers.

The Trump Administration saved taxpayers $774 million last by beginning to privatize FEMA flood insurance risk and intends to go further in privatizing risk this year

From the world of science – as opposed to grant-troughing junk science – two more studies confirming that the man-made global warming scare is a myth.