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Flooding

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Cyclone Fytia kills at least three and floods homes in Madagascar — I.guim.co.uk

Cyclone Fytia kills at least three and floods homes in Madagascar

At least three people have died and nearly 30,000 people have been affected by flooding after Tropical Cyclone Fytia, Madagascar’s first tropical storm of the season, hit over the weekend. Fytia formed to the north-west of Madagascar over the northern Mozambique Channel on Thursday and was forecast to

Heavy rain inundates north-eastern South Africa and neighbouring Mozambique — I.guim.co.uk

Heavy rain inundates north-eastern South Africa and neighbouring Mozambique

Large areas of north-eastern South Africa and neighbouring Mozambique have been inundated for several days by exceptionally heavy rainfall, authorities and reports said. Some locations in South Africa recorded hundreds of millimetres over the weekend, with Graskop in Mpumalanga receiving 113mm in 24 hours and Phalaborwa recording about 85mm. The

New Jersey’s Blue Acres program has bought and cleared about 1,200 flood-prone homes — Cdn.arstechnica.net

New Jersey’s Blue Acres program has bought and cleared about 1,200 flood-prone homes

New Jersey’s Blue Acres program has acquired and demolished roughly 1,200 properties in flood-prone areas, using more than $234 million in federal and state funds to pay fair market value and return land to permanent open space. Started in 1995, the program is widely cited as a national