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Lake Bluff to address street flooding after 3-inch downpour
2014-06-15 05:43:13| Railroads - Topix.net
The intense storm that dumped nearly three inches of rain on Lake Bluff in a 90-minute span May 12 has prompted village officials to take a hard look at how to avoid the resulting street flooding in the future.
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More than 50 dead in Afghan flooding
2014-06-07 08:49:44| Telecom - Topix.net
Celebrated activist and civil rights lawyer Karen DeCrow, who led the National Organization for Women in the 1970s, died Friday at her home near Syracuse.
Satellite Images Reveal Scope of Massive Balkans Flooding
2014-05-27 22:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The full, devastating scale of the downpour-driven flooding that tore across the Balkans in mid-May is evident in newly released images from a NASA satellite. This image, taken by the Advanced Land Imager on NASA's Earth Observing-1 satellie, shows a close-up of the town of Vidovice, Bosnia and Herzegovina, surrounded by and inundated with water from the Sava River. Torrential rains fell across parts of Croatia, Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina beginning on May 13, with some spots recording...
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The Climate Context for Unprecedented Balkans Flooding
2014-05-20 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The torrential rains and catastrophic floods that raged through parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Croatia were unprecedented in the historical record of the region, going back 120 years. But extreme weather events like this one are something communities may have to contend with more and more as the planet warms, experts say. The flooding event began on May 13 when an area of low pressure developed as warm, moist air from over the Mediterranean Sea clashed with colder air from the north....
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Lethal Flooding in Balkans Brings EU to the Rescue
2014-05-16 17:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: European countries formerly divided by the Bosnian war are today united by catastrophic flooding and the European Union is rushing to their rescue. The European Union Civil Protection Mechanism was activated late Thursday at the requests of Serbia and of Bosnia and Herzegovina due to severe flooding that has inundated large areas of both countries. The flooded Drina River, which forms the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, May 15, 2014. (Photo by Jelena) On Thursday, the government...
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