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2 Dams Fail in Michigan, Forcing Thousands to Evacuate
The New York Times   20 May 2020   USA   Michigan  
A dam on Wixom Lake in Edenville, Mich., on Tuesday.Credit...Kaytie Boomer/The Bay City Times, via Associated Press
<p>Two dams in Michigan were breached on Tuesday after days of heavy rainfall, forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents and bringing what officials warned would be life-threatening flooding to homes and businesses.<br />The failures of the Edenville ...
Historic Floods, Landslides Devastate The Hawaiian Island Of Kauai
The Huffington Post   19 April 2018   Hawaii   Kauai  
U.S. COAST GUARD HAWAII PACIFIC At least 350 people have been evacuated from Kauai’s north shore due to heavy rain, flooding and landslides.
<p>HONOLULU ― Hundreds of people have been evacuated from homes and hiking trails as historic levels of rain pummeled the Hawaiian island of Kauai last weekend, causing multiple landslides and flooding.</p> <p>The rains have forced families and travelers to ...
Filed under: Natural Hazards
Landslide in central Croatia destroys houses amid floods
The Washington Post   13 March 2018   Croatia   Kostajnica  
This aerial photo shows buildings damaged by a landslide caused by melting snow in Kostajnica, central Croatia, Tuesday, March 13, 2018.(Associated Press)
<p>ZAGREB, Croatia &mdash; A landslide caused by melting snow destroyed several houses Tuesday in central Croatia, sending people fleeing from their homes in panic. No serious injuries were reported.</p> <p>The landslide in the town of Hrvatska Kostajnica ...
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Emergency operation centre opened in Nanaimo after flooding, landslide
CBC News   29 January 2018   Canada   Vancouver Island  
A massive hole on Melrose Road in Whiskey Creek, a community located north of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. (Oliver Watson)
<p>An emergency operation centre has opened in the Regional District of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island after a landslide occurred in Lantzville and flooding hit Parksville and Whiskey Creek.</p> <p>On Sunday night Nanaimo Search and Rescue responded to several ...
Chile: Landslide destroys village and kills at least five
BBC NEWS   17 December 2017   Chile  
The area in Chile's lake district is sparsely populated
<p>A landslide caused by torrential rain has killed at least five people in southern Chile and has destroyed dozens of houses.<br />Fifteen people are missing in the remote village of Villa Santa Luc&iacute;a in the country's lake region, popular with tourists.<br ...
Pathetic! 40 years, Rs 389-crore later, dam wall collapses in Bihar before inauguration by Nitish Kumar
The Financial Express   20 September 2017   India   Bihar  
dam wall collapses in Bihar
<p>Ahead of its scheduled inauguration by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the wall of a Rs 389-crore dam collapsed during the trial run and inundated nearby areas of a township in Bhagalpur on Tuesday. Newspapers in the state had today published advertisements ...
For years, engineers have warned that Houston was a flood disaster in the making. Why didn't somebody do something?
Los Angeles Times   29 August 2017   USA   Texas  
Huston flooding incidents
<p>Houston is built on what amounts to a massive flood plain, pitted against the tempestuous Gulf of Mexico and routinely hammered by the biggest rainstorms in the nation.</p> <p><br />It is a combination of malicious climate and unforgiving geology, along ...
Northern California residents face new evacuation warning after Oroville threat
The Guardian   20 February 2017   United States   Americas  
Trucks that hauled rocks drive off the Lake Oroville dam after an evacuation order was lifted for communities downstream. Photograph: Jim Urquhart/Reuters
<p>San Joaquin river approaches flood stage as water level decreases at Lake Oroville dam after evacuations of 188,000 people last weekend.</p> <p>Residents returning to homes damaged by flooding should be prepared to evacuate again as yet another powerful ...