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‘Life-threatening’ flood warning as heavy rain set to continue across far north and southeast
Heavy rain is set to continue across Australia's far north and southeast, bringing potentially life-threatening floods.Multiple flood warnings have been issued across NSW, the Northern Territory's northwest, Victoria and southern Queensland.Sydney's outer west was part of a severe thunderstorm alert issued on Wednesday afternoon covering a swathe of northern and central NSW, including Katoomba, Orange
FEMA is being sued for making flood insurance too expensive — and too cheap
The National Flood Insurance Program isn’t doing too well. The program, which offers public flood insurance to almost 5 million households nationwide, is about $20 billion in debt, and it lost tens of thousands of customers last year after debuting a new system for calculating risk. To make matters worse, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s
Instant flood fill with HTML Canvas
TLDR: Demo is at https://shaneosullivan.github.io/example-canvas-fill/ , code is at https://github.com/shaneosullivan/example-canvas-fill . The Problem When building a website or app using HTML Canvas, it’s often a requirement to support a flood fill. That is, when the user chooses a colour and clicks on a pixel, fill all the surrounding pixels that match the colour of the
UN flood aid appeal jumps amid disease surge in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Alarmed by a surge in disease, the United Nations is asking for five times’ more international aid after deadly floods in Pakistan left millions of survivors homeless and at rising risk of waterborne diseases and other ailments.The U.N. on Tuesday raised its request to $816 million from $160 million, saying recent assessments
These Flood Safety Tips Can Help You Prepare for an Emergency
If you’ve tuned into the news lately, you’ve likely seen at least some coverage of the floods that are impacting various parts of the world. Over the summer, the devastating floods in Pakistan—which have killed more than 1,500 people in the area, including more than 500 children—have highlighted just how dangerous this type of natural
As other states flood, Tasmania endures driest summer in 40 years
While thousands of people across Queensland and New South Wales are grappling with catastrophic floods, the country's smallest state has just endured its driest summer in four decades.Key points:There has been up to 400 millimetres less rain in some parts of Tasmania's south-westNorth-west farmers are running low on feed as grass dries outHobart's water restrictions are set…
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Climate change is raising flood risks in neighborhoods across the U.S. much faster than many people realize. Over the next three decades, the cost of flood damage is on pace to rise 26% due to climate change alone, an…
Flood survivors urge Congress to change inadequate insurance
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With towns and cities across the United States increasingly deluged by ferocious storms and rising sea levels, a group of disaster survivors has pleaded with the federal government to overhaul a flood insurance system they say is ill-equipped for an era of…
Number of flood victims drops in Melaka, Pahang and Johor
Taman Gembira residents are seen during the flood in Segamat, Johor January 2, 2022. — Bernama pic KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 9 — The flood situation in Melaka, Pahang and Johor is improving this evening with less evacuees at the relief centres (PPS). In Melaka, state Civil Defence Force director, Lt Col (PA) Cuthbert John Martin…