Heavy Floods Inundate Britain, Texas and China

[BurtWorm]

It's the end of the world!

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/23/world/23cnd-flood.html?ei=5088&en=02a75160d2d23adf&ex=1342843200&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print



Graham Barclay/Bloomberg News

A resident canoeing through floodwater today in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England.


By JOHN HOLUSHA

Flood waters caused misery, cut essential services and forced evacuations in widely spaced parts of the globe today, including southwest England, Texas and Asia.

Thousands of people were forced from their homes in Gloucestershire and Herefordshire in western England after a month of heavy rain forced the rivers Thames and Severn out of their banks and into neighborhoods. More than 48,000 homes in those areas were without electricity as the flooding closed a power plant.

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In south and central Texas, the floods began receding after 17 inches of rain fell in some areas over the weekend. Helicopters were used to rescue dozens of people isolated by flooded roads. An Amtrak train was stopped about 75 miles west of San Antonio after rising water covered the tracks.

As many as 300 people were evacuated in the San Antonio region and housed in emergency shelters set up in school buildings in nearby cities.

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In Asia, the monsoon rains produced the usual floods, landslides, evacuations and loss of life. In China alone, more than 150 people were reported to have died in the last week and 3 million were displaced across vast tracts because of the heavy rain.

[aquart]

1. We're gonna be building on stilts.

It's really time to start examining all of that.

[donsu]

2. lot more newly poor people due to climate change this mo. so far

nt