Flood News

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra kicked off her five-day flood-inspection tour yesterday with several water-management proposals, including the controversial one on Kaeng Sua Ten Dam, in her hand.

Last Monday the Ivanovo reservoir flooded Biser and surrounding villages, killing ten people.

Trying time volunteers help Patricia Budd as she returns to her home in Mitchell, about 500 kilometres west of Brisbane, to survey flood damage.

National Grant in Aid funding towards the scheme in 2012/13 has been confirmed by the Environment Agency Board, with further allocations earmarked over the following two years.

As stated in the February 5, 2012 Sunday Stabroek editorial, after two decades in office inclusive of a major disaster seven years ago, the PPP/C government has run out of excuses where it relates to viable solutions and a comprehensive plan to confront flooding.

South Dakota's Governor is asking for $14-million in appropriations for the state's emergency fund, which was depleted by last year's flood along the Missouri River.

A 30-year-old woman was washed from the roof of her car in flash flooding in Queensland's Sunshine Coast Hinterland overnight.

Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva is calling on the government to address his concerns about the prime minister's planned five-day flood tour.

Water cascades onto Hoyt and Berry Streets SE in January. Neighbors say culverts were clogged, contributing to the problems, and they want the city of Salem to help pay for repairs.

Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults Beauty Salons The southern Bulgarian village of Biser was hit by a flood wave on Monday following a dam failure.

AN evacuation order has been issued for residents of Walgett, as more than 5000 people remain isolated by floodwaters across northern New South Wales.

WORK has begun on a 300,000 project which will restore deteriorating river banks in Billinghay reducing the chance of flooding.

Work is expected to begin next week on a bridge that will replace a culvert washed out by last June's flooding in the Peace on the dangerous goods route that bypasses Dawson Creek.

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's five-day flood trip is likely to be futile as it is aimed at boosting the government's popularity rather than seriously looking into flood problems, critics say.

A decision taken by councillors will see existing weirs at Knostrop and Crown Point removed and replaced with moveable weirs while Knostrop Cut would be removed to widen the river by merging the canal and the River Aire.

Well, cry me a river at flood stage. It seems we haven't heard the last of former Great Pink Satan executive Karen Handel.

The documents were missing from a final report compiled by four flood engineers on the operation of Wivenhoe Dam during the days leading up to last January's floods in Brisbane and Ipswich.

Jennifer Chamberlain knocks on the front door of the Mapleton Evangelical Church and calls out, "We're from the county and the state doing a preliminary damage assessment.

An urban flood advisory was issued by the National Weather Service in Miami after radar indicated 2 to 3 inches of rain fell within an hour.

The southern Bulgarian village of Biser was hit by a flood wave on Monday following a dam failure.