Intense Flooding Kills 800 People in South Asia, Displaces a Million More

One-third of Bangladesh, for example, is submerged under floodwaters, and more than 45,000 homes in the country have been destroyed. “This is not normal,” Reaz Ahmed, the director-general of the country’s Department of Disaster Management, told CNN. “Floods this year were bigger and more intense than previous years.”, The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, a humanitarian group, said the flooding in Bangladesh is the worst the country has ever seen. http://e360.yale.edu/digest/intense-flooding-kills-800-people-in-south-asia-displaces-a-million-more

Full extent of Harvey’s aftermath starts to come into chilling focus

The full extent of Harvey’s aftermath started to come into chilling focus Monday in Houston and across much of Central Texas, as rain measured in feet, not inches, overwhelmed lakes, rivers and bayous, leaving several people dead and thousands displaced in a weather disaster described as “beyond anything experienced.” “A flood of this magnitude is an 800-year event, and it exceeds the design specification of our levees,” said Fort Bend County County Judge Robert Herbert in a statement Monday. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/full-extent-of-harveys-aftermath-starts-to-come-into-chilling-focus/2017/08/27/1b2b184a-8b56-11e7-8df5-c2e5cf46c1e2_story.html?utm_term=.11495bc561db