Homes charred to the ground, pine trees once standing tall now collapsed and cars completely burned: images shared in a recent video of a Ruidoso neighborhood reduced to rubble by destructive wildfires. The Facebook video posted by the village of Ruidoso on Thursday, June 27, illustrates the devastation left behind by the South Fork Fire […]
At least two people have been reported dead in South Florida this week after staggering amounts of rain fell in the region — and forecasters are warning that the storms, and with it flash flooding, aren’t over. The Florida Highway Patrol said two people died in a weather-related crash in Immokalee, about two hours west […]
MOORE — There was much on people’s minds on Friday — it was the 25th anniversary of the deadly tornado that left dozens dead and survivors scarred, but also the day a funeral was held for beloved, long-time Mayor Glenn Lewis who shepherded the community through the 1999 storm and another, even deadlier tornado that […]
Months of relentless Russian artillery pounding have devastated a strategic city in eastern Ukraine, new drone footage obtained by the Associated Press has shown. Barely a building in Chasiv Yar has been left intact – homes and municipal offices are charred, and a city that once had a population of 12,000 is now deserted. The […]
BEIJING (AP) — Aerial photos posted by Chinese state media on Sunday showed wide devastation in part of the southern city of Guangzhou after a tornado swept through the day before, killing five people, injuring dozens others and damaging more than 140 buildings. As businesses and residents began cleaning debris, the images showed block upon […]
Aerial photos have revealed wide devastation in part of the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou after a tornado swept through the area, killing five people and injuring dozens of others. As businesses and residents began cleaning up the debris, the images, posted by Chinese state media on Sunday, show street after street of flattened buildings […]
Roads have turned into rivers in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, as a top official said flooding had “escalated to extreme levels”. Heavy rain has pounded Kenya in recent days, causing widespread devastation. The UN says that at least 32 people have lost their lives and more than 40,000 have been forced from their homes because […]
This embedded content is not available in your region. The devastated landscape of their city feels unreal to the thousands of Palestinians who have been returning to Khan Younis in Gaza. Through the rubble of the streets, they have been filing back on bicycles, donkey carts and by foot, looking for their homes or what […]
Apr. 2—ROCIADA — Geri Herrera calls her 36-acre property Rancho Castor, the Spanish name for beaver. She might as well have dubbed it Fort Castor. The property is walled with flood barriers, stacked two high to a height of about 8 feet. These fortress walls are bolstered by 4,000 sandbags, all strategically placed to prevent […]
There is increasing alarm about West Texas oil fields that continue to produce toxic water leaks. What’s happening The latest event was detected in Crane County in early December, when brine water poured out of the earth and over ranchland, Marfa Public Radio reported. The well wasn’t plugged until Jan. 29, and the remediation project […]
(COLORADO SPRINGS) — A house fire on Vista Del Tierra Drive near Dublin Boulevard in Northeast Colorado Springs has displaced six people. The Colorado Springs Fire Department (CSFD) received the call at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, Mar. 24, and arrived on the scene at 12:35 p.m. The fire broke out in a duplex and spread […]
DENVILLE — Still shaken after a recent spate of heavy rains that produced the worst flooding in town since Tropical Storm Ida in 2011, residents and local officials are awaiting the release of a final federal report that could authorize a $19 million project to raise or floodproof 38 structures along the Rockaway River basin. […]