Floods

Seems to have been more floods than usual recently - worldwide. A google of "floods" brings up these news stories:

Residents of 15 provinces warned of flash floods
Nation Multimedia, Thailand
The Meteorological Department Wednesday issued a warning for residents of 15 provinces to brace themselves for heavy rains and possible flash floods. ...

Mexico City Faces Threat of Floods
Washington Post, United States
"A failure ... could cause severe floods reaching five meters in the city's historic center, the international airport" and other boroughs on the city's ...

Floods kill five in Texas
Gulf Times, Qatar
WASHINGTON: Floods killed five people in Texas including a five-year-old girl and her grandmother who were swept away after torrential rain lashed the north ...

Floods provide test of endurance
Hawkesbury Gazette, Australia
While the majority of sporting events over the Queen's Birthday long weekend were cancelled due to the intense rain, a small group of hardy endurance riders ...

Flash floods drown India's northeast
iAfrica.com, South Africa - 15 hours ago
Close to 150 000 people are sheltering in schools, government buildings and makeshift tents after being hit by flash floods in India's northeast, ...

Floods destroy wading birds' eggs
Cambridgeshire Times, UK - 16 hours ago
Floods in the nesting season have caused the washes' breeding population of black-tailed godwits, one of the UK's rarest breeding waders, to collapse. ...

Devastating floods hit six Chinese provinces
World Socialist Web Site, MI - 23 hours ago
By Dragan Stankovic Annual torrential rains, river overflows, floods and landslides are beginning to hit China, bringing devastation to millions of people. ...

Monsoonal floods hit Bangladesh, trapping thousands in villages
ReliefWeb (press release), Switzerland - 14 hours ago
Dhaka_(dpa) _ Monsoonal torrents touched off the summer's first floods in Bangladesh, wiping out scores of villages and trapping thousands of farming ...

Galileo Oman comes to the rescue as Cyclone Gonu floods local ...
AME Info (press release), United Arab Emirates - 21 hours ago
Galileo, a leading global distribution system (GDS) and subsidiary of Travelport, last week came to the rescue of Galileo agents in Oman when two local ...