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Landscapers locate a small alligator in a creek

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122105) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 5 Aug 23

Landscapers in Exeter Township Pennsylvania located a two and a half foot alligator in the Burks County Creek on Wednesday. The landscapers then contacted the Exeter Police Department to report the incident. The police officers...

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Homeless

Jo Ann @akalinus (44366) • United States 31 Jan 23

We had no place to lay our heads and call it home after my dad got hit by lightning and the company no longer needed him. My dad was smart. He heard about a traveling circus over in the next town. He went there and bought a...

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Twice overnight

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169448) • United States 27 May 21

Twice overnight I was awakened by a flash flood warning on my phone. The area is in danger, not me specifically. Even before they built the dam around the town to protect it in the 1950's my property did not flood. It is "on top...

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Raining all day long

Yanzalong @yanzalong (19091) • Indonesia 21 Dec 17

It is a problem for low-lying areas. Some have already been submerged with water overflown from rivers. Roads in the areas were cut off and traffic had to be diverted to those in higher areas. Track only passable by two-wheel...

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Seeing is Believing

Alice Henry @IreneVincent (15960) • United States 8 Aug 17

Have you ever seen something that you wouldn’t have believed could happen, if you hadn’t seen it with your own eyes? One thing that I saw that I wouldn’t have believed, was mud in trees 20 feet up, following a flash flood, after...

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Floods in the United States: Part Two

Alice Henry @IreneVincent (15960) • United States 11 Jun 17

Rapid City, South Dakota, June 9, 1972 The Mayor, Donald V. Barnett phoned the fire departments and the police and instructed them to start alerting the people of the danger of a flash flood. A few minutes late, he changed his...

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Floods in the United States: Part One

Alice Henry @IreneVincent (15960) • United States 11 Jun 17

What happened forty-five years ago on June 9? The morning weather forecast on Friday, June 9, 1972 in Rapid City, South Dakota was “variable cloudiness with a chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms through Saturday.”...

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Flash flood warning, Earl has past!

JAMTECH @JAMTECH (570) 3 Aug 16

For the past week my Island was under flash flood alert, I have been busy making preparations in case it turns out into a hurricane, we had some flood in some areas like one of our major city, but so far I haven't heard of any...

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Hit by a big storm last night

maezee @maezee (41985) • United States 6 Jul 16

This doesn't seem to happen much in my neck of the woods, Minnesota, but last night we were hit with a huge storm that knocked down trees, knocked down power lines, caused some fires, some flooding on freeways and tons of...

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Flash Flood...And No Rain in Sight!

Jeff Moffitt @moffittjc (128831) • Gainesville, Florida 29 Apr 16

The workers had blocked off the flow of the creek a few hundred yards upstream from where they were working, right next to the bridge where the creek flows under the road. Years of sediment build-up on the upstream side of the...

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Bad Weather Disturbances

nicanorr @nicanorr (1789) • Philippines 20 Aug 12

Certain areas of the world are subjected to disastrous weather disturbances or calamities, like flash floods, hurricane, typhoons, storms, earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, wildfires, ice storms, heat waves. tornados, volcano...

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Flash Flood

canetecheeryl @canetecheeryl (78) • Philippines 6 Feb 12

Last December 17, 2011 midnight, a storm Sendong slashing through southern Philippines. It triggered flash floods and landslides that have killed thousand plus of people and forced about hundred thousand from their homes. On the...

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When calamity strikes..

Jean Tutor @itsme_chin (44) • Philippines 17 Dec 11

Last night our city was attacked by tropical storm Sendong. Hundreds were killed and many houses were swept away when raging flood-waters from rivers and mountain slopes tore through their homes. Most of them were asleep when it...

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flash floods last night

tigeraunt @tigeraunt (6326) • Philippines 29 Jun 11

something that i have not experienced so severe - due to continuous rain last night which started to intensify around 11pm last night and stayed on for nearly 2 hours and a half without letup, i experienced the worst calamity.....

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Another Typhoon Bewring

aylim14 @aylim14 (501) • Philippines 4 Oct 09

Well, Parma (local name Pepeng) has already past the Philippines. A week before was Ketsana (local name Ondoy) which devastated a lot of lives and flooded, according to a newspaper, 80% of Metro Manila. Ondoy brought about rain in...

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Signal Number 5

aylim14 @aylim14 (501) • Philippines 1 Oct 09

I just got this text message from a friend of mine. "Dearest friends and family, this just in from CNN. The coming storm is now a category 5 super typhoon. Expected landfall is late Friday or Early Saturday. Path is through...

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