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Mexican officials say a concrete barrier constructed by the U.S. Border Patrol in a storm-water tunnel beneath Nogales appears to be on Mexican soil and was the main cause of serious flooding July 12 in Nogales, Sonora. The flooding caused about $8 million in damage in Nogales, Sonora, the officials say. The 5-foot-high wall on the floor of the tunnel in front of a gate was put in without notifying the International Boundary and Water Commission, said Sally Spener, spokeswoman for the U.S. section of the commission. The commission requests that any agency doing work on the border that could...

A young man got caught in the river's rage while trying to recover more of his folks belongings. He died in those merciless waters. At the rate the river was moving, it boggles the mind that his body could be recovered. Yet instead of being swept away, he was found relatively close by. God was hanging onto him for his family's sake. Perfect strangers were driving up to people's houses and would just start loading belongings. No questions asked, just pitching in. Getting people and parts of their life to safety. God was the matchmaker, giving people that could help...

Chabad Flood Relief 1,000 pounds of meat donated by Agriprocessors distributed by Chabad through the Red Cross more photos hereIts been called the greatest flood in Iowa history, a "500 year flood". Cities have been submerged, lives lost, homes washed away in torrents of rain, thunder and tornadoes. It seems like daily a new story of a levy on the verge of collapse or giving way to the rush of out of control rivers, stills the hearts of Americans. People await the answers to their prayerful calls for help. In response, Americans have donated money and volunteered for relief operations....

The President presented medal of freedoms and then toured the flood ravaged areas in Iowa. This evening he and and the First Lady hosted a social dinner in honor of American jazz Secretary of State Condelezza Rice was at the UN today. . Pray for President Bush -- Day 2836

WINFIELD, Mo. -- Floodwaters punched a 150-foot hole in a Winfield levee last night, and firefighters spent hours in the dark going door-to-door to warn residents in one subdivision that water was coming faster than expected. Bill Byram, assistant chief and fire marshal of the Winfield-Foley Fire Protection District, said the levee just east of Winfield along Pillsbury Road broke about 8:15 p.m. Wednesday. Water was quickly flowing toward a second levee, and the National Guard was fortifying that with sandbags.

Maybe I missed it because I have been doing my best to not watch CNN, but I don't think Anderson Cooper has rented a rowboat and paddled around Cedar Rapids or Des Moines with a concerned look on his face. If it wasn't Cooper who paddled around New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina, I apologize; but even if he didn't go out in a boat, he was at the edge of the water with a concerned look on his face. CNN has been on in our house far too much lately, what with the prolonged presidential campaigns and what...

DES MOINES, Iowa - The American Red Cross said on Monday that its Disaster Relief Fund is wiped out and it's being forced to borrow money to help flood victims throughout the Midwest. Jeff Towers, the organization's chief development officer, said the balance for domestic disaster relief efforts is zero. He said the American Red Cross would borrow to keep workers and volunteers in the field helping flood victims. "The Red Cross remains committed to providing the scale of services that people expect of the Red Cross when disaster strikes, and the way that we are doing that right now...

Hey "School-Bus" Nagin, Has anyone told you the water is coming! No, it's not a hurricane. It's weird, all that flood water from your neighbors to the north just happens to run south, right down the middle of your city! You're been warned! ...for what good that will do.

Flooding in the Midwest has swelled rivers and submerged roads and rails, halting or delaying shipments of food, fuel and other goods. Manufacturers also have been forced to suspend production of everything from oatmeal to pork products. At the earliest, barge, road and rail traffic will get back to normal next week. But companies are focused on getting through the weekend, when at least one river is expected to crest at nearly 32 feet, making it possible that the transportation snags could drag on. Union Pacific Corp., the nation's biggest freight railroad, currently has six mainline tracks out of service...

CEDAR RAPIDS - In preparation for the immense recovery and rebuilding efforts our community will face, The Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation today opened the Flood 2008 Fund for flood relief and recovery donation. This fund will support nonprofit organizations in Linn County who are providing first-response efforts and ongoing recovery and rebuilding throughout Linn County. The Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation encourages donors to support first-responders like the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army and the United Way of East Central Iowa. The Flood 2008 Fund will support these organizations immediately as well as funding recovery and rebuilding efforts...

The flooding in eastern Iowa has reached the point of catastrophe. Towns are overwhelmed, businesses destroyed, and crops are gone. A fifth of the corn and soybeans are gone. Fox News is calling it "Iowa's Katrina." Here is a gallery of aerial phtographs at the web site of the newspaper I used to deliver every afternoon, the Iowa City Press-Citizen. The thing is, though, the people of eastern Iowa seem to be stepping up in the Iowa stubborn way. I have seen any number of man-on-the-street interviews, and nobody is complaining. They all seem to be working to solve their...

DES MOINES — Officials on Friday issued a voluntary evacuation order for much of downtown Des Moines and other areas bordering the river. Officials recommended that downtown residents and businesses evacuate parts of downtown on either side of the Des Moines River by 6 p.m. Friday. Included are all areas in Des Moines' 500 year floodplain. The alert was prompted by rising river levels expected to peak at 8 p.m. Friday. Des Moines Mayor Frank Cownie said they are asking for the evacuations "to err on the side of citizens and residents." The evacuation should begin immediately, Cownie said, and...

It was discovered that during the height of the recent flooding in Wisconsin Democratic Governor Doyle spent the whole day a personal campaign fund raiser golfing and banqueting with big money donors and not on the job. Apparently, someone directly involved in supporting the banquet thought it was shocking that Doyle would be spending the day on the golf course while Wisconsinites were fighting and struggling with the state's worst flooding in history. This golf course whistleblower contacted a few media outlets and the only one interested in covering this news was radio host Mark Belling on Milwaukee. Doyle's fund...

LAKE DELTON, WI - A 245-acre lake in this resort town overflowed Monday, virtually emptying the lake basin and washing away lakefront homes along with a chunk of the local tourism industry.Lake Delton, a key part of the Wisconsin Dells tourism area, overflowed about 10 a.m. on Monday morning after two days of rain and was dry by Monday afternoon, said Thomas Diehl, a Lake Delton village trustee. Water in the manmade lake rose until it was too much for a highway enbankment that was holding it back. The highway washed away as water drained into the nearby Wisconsin River....

Lake Delton, a 254-acre water playland for thousands of tourists each summer, has been drained after a portion of the lakeshore was breached. At least four houses fell into empty basin, and work crews were frantically trying to plug the breach with tons of stone and concrete. Meanwhile, a couple thousand of people in Columbia County about 30 miles north of Madison were urged to evacuate below the Wyocena and Pardeeville dams, said Pat Beghin, a spokesman for the county's emergency management. The Wyocena Dam's spillway had washed out, and workers were sandbagging to try to save it, Beghin said....

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC 1226 AM EDT FRI MAY 9 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STERLING VIRGINIA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA IN DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ARLINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA CITY OF ALEXANDRIA IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA * UNTIL 415 AM EDT * AT 1218 AM EDT...RADAR IMAGERY INDICATE A LARGE AREA OF RAIN COVERING THE WASHINGTON METRO AREA. RECENT OBSERVATIONS ACROSS THE REGION SHOW THAT INCH AND HALF OF RAIN ARE LIKELY IN JUST A MATTER OF AN HOUR OR TWO. THESE...

Excerpt - PIEDMONT, Mo. | Torrential rains that hammered southern Missouri from Springfield to Cape Girardeau caused widespread flooding Tuesday. One man drowned and hundreds of people were left homeless. The flooding closed nearly 200 roads and sent propane tanks and debris spiraling down lowlands turned into raging rivers. Heavy rain began falling Monday and just kept coming. Forecasters said some parts of the state could see 10 inches of rain or more before the storms stop today. An 81-year-old man was found dead around noon Tuesday in Ellington, about 120 miles southwest of St. Louis, said Lt. Nicholas Humphrey,...

An unusual experiment is taking place today at the Grand Canyon. Water will be released from the Glen Canyon Dam as officials create a manmade flood to help flush sediment down river into the canyon. The controversial move is an attempt to rebalance the eco-system. Three hundred gallons of water came rushing through the bypass valves per second. The Department of the Interior authorized this high tech experiment because it says that it wants to restore some of the habitat. It essentially wants to scour the Colorado River and restore some of the sediment on the river's banks and also...

PHOENIX - For the third time since 1996, officials plan to unleash a manmade flood in the Grand Canyon next month in an effort to restore an ecosystem that was altered by a dam constructed on the Colorado River decades ago. The Glen Canyon Dam, completed in 1963 upstream from the Grand Canyon, permanently changed the Colorado River, transforming it from a warm, muddy, unpredictable force of nature into a cooler, clearer, tightly controlled water-delivery system. Without spring floods to flush the system and help rebuild beaches and fish habitat, native species suffered even as non-native fish thrived. The shift...

Slowly Strangling America's Golden Goose© 2006 J. Marvin HerndonTransdyne Corporation   Imagine: You wake up tomorrow and find that America’s judicial system has changed. Now, prosecutors can present secret witness testimony and only provide their own brief excerpts or summaries to the defense; judges are no longer independent, they have been replaced by the prosecutor’s boss. Your first thought, “Now, we will get much needed criminal convictions.” Then, “Ohmygosh! Are we in deep yogurt! We have seen all that before, in the Spanish Inquisition and in virtually every totalitarian regime on Earth, so we know what will happen. Soon...

An estimated 1.5 billion gallons of water is straining on blockage in the Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel, leading Lake County Commissioners to declare a state of emergency Wednesday. Commissioners issued the declaration because of lack of response to historic water levels accumulated in the mine pool east of Leadville. And, with a 168 percent of average snowpack, officials fear spring runoff could increase water level and pressure in the blocked drainage tunnel, leading to a catastrophic blowout. "At this blockage, there is a head of water almost 200 feet high pressing against a possible rock and rubble 'dam.' No engineers...

DENVER - More than 1 billion gallons of contaminated water — enough to fill 1,500 Olympic-sized swimming pools — is trapped in a tunnel in the mountains above the historic town of Leadville and threatening to blow. Lake County Commissioners have declared a local state of emergency for fear that this winter's above-average snowpack will melt and cause a catastrophic tidal wave. The water is backed up in abandoned mine shafts and a 2.1-mile drainage tunnel that is partially collapsed, creating the pooling of water contaminated with heavy metals. County officials have been nervously monitoring the rising water pressure inside...

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Maureen Tabata was used to flooding when she lived in Washington state. She never expected it in the high desert of northern Nevada. "I woke up, looked outside and I couldn't believe it. There was water everywhere," she said after an irrigation canal's earthen levee ruptured early Saturday, flooding hundreds of homes in Fernley about 30 miles east of Reno. Tabata, a retiree, and her husband were among dozens of people who had to be rescued by helicopters and boats across about a square mile of the rural town. "We did our best to block the water but it came...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CBS) ― A broken levee has caused a flooding which stranded as many as 4,000 residents in Truckee, Calif., a community on I-80 northwest of Lake Tahoe. Some of the people on the Nevada side of the state line were trying to evacuate, reports CBS affiliate KTVN-TV in Reno. The storm that pummeled California with gale-force winds and heavy rains was forecast to drop a thick blanket of snow on the Sierra Nevada on Saturday and keep thousands of people from their homes in mudslide-prone areas. A major highway crossing the Sierra Nevada between Nevada and Northern California...

Monday Dec. 3. 2007 - Sheridan Oregon. Many Sheridan residents were effected by a flood that hit the city. Streets and homes were flooded. There was mandatory evacuations for some residents. The National Guard was called in to provide sand bags, and fire departments from surrounding communities came to help with mutual aid. The city was also hit by a flood back in 1996. View AlbumGet your own

A Chum Salmon In the photo above, a large male chum salmon is attempting to cross a flooded roadway in the lower Skokomish valley. Behind it, a dozen or so other salmon are awaiting their chance at a crossing. Many of these chum salmon will be successful in reaching their upstream spawning grounds, but others will be stranded by the receding flood waters and may die before spawning.

Ancient flood brought Gulf Stream to a halt 19:00 06 December 2007 NewScientist.com news service Fred Pearce It was the biggest climate event of the last 10,000 years and caused the most dramatic change in the weather since humans began farming. And it may yet hold important lessons about climate change in the 21st century. Just over 8000 years ago, a huge glacial lake in Canada burst, and an estimated 100,000 cubic kilometres of fresh water rushed into the North Atlantic. Researchers now say they know for sure that this catastrophic event shut down the Gulf Stream and cooled parts...

Did a Comet Cause the Great Flood?The universal human myth may be the first example of disaster reporting. by Scott Carney11-15-2007 The Fenambosy chevrons at the tip of Madagascar. Image courtesy of Dallas Abbott The serpent’s tails coil together menacingly. A horn juts sharply from its head. The creature looks as if it might be swimming through a sea of stars. Or is it making its way up a sheer basalt cliff? For Bruce Masse, an environmental archaeologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, there is no confusion as he looks at this ancient petroglyph, scratched into a rock by a...

An ancient flood some say could be the origin of the story of Noah's Ark may have helped the spread of agriculture in Europe 8,300 years ago by scattering the continent's earliest farmers, researchers said on Sunday. Using radiocarbon dating and archaeological evidence, a British team showed the collapse of the North American ice sheet, which raised global sea levels by as much as 1.4 meters, displaced tens of thousands of people in southeastern Europe who carried farming skills to their new homes. The researchers said in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews their study provides direct evidence linking the flood...

AUTHORITIES in Mexico's Chiapas state today nabbed 164 Central American migrants jammed into a single truck pretending to be carrying aid to flood-stricken Tabasco state. "The migrant traffickers used surprising methods to try to evade detection by immigration authorities,"....... The five Honduran and 159 Guatemalan migrants were crammed into a false-bottom of the trailer, on the front of which the traffickers draped a sign that read: "For our brothers in Tabasco". The neighbouring southern Mexican state has just suffered its worst flooding on record, with one million people left homeless and 80 per cent of its territory under water.

Mexican Flood Victims Scramble for Food Monday November 5, 2007 9:16 PM By IOAN GRILLO Associated Press Writer VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AP) - Hungry and dehydrated victims of one of the worst floods in Mexico's history scrambled for government packages of food and medicine, while at least 20,000 people remained trapped Monday on the rooftops of homes swallowed by water. Residents were running dangerously short of food and water after nearly a week of floods left 80 percent of the Gulf Coast state of Tabasco under water and destroyed or damaged the homes of about half a million people. Gov. Andres...

North Korea on brink of famine after floods: study Thu Oct 18, 10:23 AM ET Destitute North Korea will likely be pushed into famine due to devastating floods this year that wiped out crops and ruined farm land, a South Korean state-run think-tank said on Thursday. "The North's food inventory has almost hit the bottom, so unless there's an extraordinary measure to stabilize supply, there may be a situation next year similar to the late 1990s," a study by the Korea Rural Economic Institute (KREI) said. Famine in the late 1990s brought about by flooding, drought and years of mismanagement...

North Korea reports heavy losses, disease after floods 19 minutes ago North Korea has been pummelled by heavy rains for a second time in a month, state media said Friday, as the communist nation struggles to contain disease outbreaks from earlier floods. Rice and other crops were lost as rains spawned by Typhoon Wipha inundated western provinces and the capital Pyongyang in the past three days, according to the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). It said the new downpours had caused "heavy losses in many sectors" of the economy and some areas damaged by last month's floods had again...

WACO -- Not far from modest suburban homes in the middle of some thick Texas woods lies a secret boneyard.Surrounded by a tall chain-link fence and covered by what looks like a red-and-white circus tent, the site contains the remains of towering monsters. Remains of at least 25 mammoths, signs of a big saber-toothed cat and a long extinct camel have been found at the site.This is the Waco Mammoth Site, a collection of prehistoric fossils embedded in the dirt not far from the Bosque River. The site could be a potent educational resource if it were not off-limits to...

N Korea flood damage understated By Anna Fifield in Seoul Published: September 6 2007 10:57 | Last updated: September 6 2007 10:57 The floods that struck North Korea last month have had a much more devastating effect than Pyongyang’s state media have reported, with livestock deaths and a disrupted ration system adding to widespread food shortages, according to the United Nations’ World Food Programme. North Korea has a history of exaggerating damage from natural disasters in order to win more aid from the outside world – which many analysts suspect is then diverted to the military – but this does...

Second Thames flood barrier planned By Melissa Kite, Deputy Political Editor, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 1:42am BST 26/08/2007 A new £20 billion Thames barrier to save London from a potentially disastrous flooding threat is the centrepiece of a series of measures planned by the Government. The existing Thames barrier was completed in 1983 Phil Woolas, the minister for climate change, told The Sunday Telegraph that a feasibility study into a second Thames barrier, potentially required within 25 years, was due to report in a matter of weeks. In addition, new flood defences are being planned for all major police, fire...

Flood-Stricken North Korea on Brink of Health Crisis By Lisa Schlein Geneva 22 August 2007 Schlein report (mp3) - Download 491k Listen to Schlein report (mp3) The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is appealing for $5.5 million to head-off a potential health crisis in flood-stricken North Korea. The Swiss agency reports North Korea's health infrastructure in the affected areas has been practically wiped out. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from Red Cross headquarters in Geneva. In this photo taken by Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), people wade through a flooded street in Pyongyang, North Korea, 11...

Relentless storms pounded southwest Wisconsin over the weekend, causing widespread flooding that drove people from their homes, destroyed roads and prompted states of emergency to be declared in three counties. Almost a foot of rain fell in some areas, causing the worst flooding in the region in nearly 30 years.

XINTAI, China — Pumps began working Sunday to drain a flooded coal mine where 172 miners have been trapped underground for two days in shafts filled with water estimated at more than 60 feet deep. Nine more miners were trapped in a second flooded shaft in the area. Access to the main flooded mine was blocked, and there was no indication whether the miners were still alive or how long it would take to pump out the water. About 60 angry relatives crowded the gates of a company compound, complaining no information had been released — not even a list...

North Korea says floods devastate agriculture, destroy 11 percent of nation's farmland Wednesday, August 15, 2007 SEOUL, South Korea (AP) Floods caused by rains have destroyed more than one-tenth of North Korea's farmland at the height of the impoverished country's growing season, official media reported Wednesday. "It is hard to expect a high-grain output owing to the uninterrupted rainstorms at the most important time for the growth of crops in the country," the North's official Korean Central News Agency said. The damage has submerged, buried or washed away more than 11 percent of rice and corn fields in the country,...

Excerpt - SEOUL, Aug 15 (Reuters) - North Korean authorities have indicated flooding may have left up to 300,000 people homeless, a U.N. aid agency spokesman said on Wednesday, and crop losses may be severe in the impoverished state that has battled famine. North Korea, which has suffered chronic food shortages for years, said flooding over the past several days has killed or left hundreds missing, washed away thousands of structures and ruined cropland in the country's agricultural bread basket. ~ snip ~

A bogus firefighter left a town without emergency cover when he diverted its only available fire appliance to pump out a flooded pub. Peter Jennings claimed to be a senior fire officer from Liverpool, who had driven 200 miles (320 km) from his home to help out during the recent floods in Gloucestershire. In fact, Jennings was a serial hoaxer with a history of turning up at incidents dressed as a firefighter. Magistrates in Stroud, Gloucestershire, were told yesterday that Jennings, 49, had ordered the fire appliance from Cheltenham to pump out The Canterbury pub in Tewkesbury, leaving the town...

Two children were rescued after they were trapped in an overturned pickup truck in a flooded Avondale wash early Thursday evening. News Hawk 5 was over the scene as the children were pulled from the vehicle near Indian Springs Road and El Mirage Road. News Hawk 5 images showed several people in swirling knee-deep waters frantically trying to get the two children out of the back seat. Two other people in the pickup managed to get out safely. One man was using all of his strength to break the window with his hand -- hit after hit -- with no...

The website at the Talk Origins URL contains at least every conceivable account worldwide regarding "Noah's Flood", including the Genesis account. The website is linked to another via the UC Berekely Classics Dept. Hope you enjoy this: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html

BEIJING, July 24 (Reuters) - Hundreds of sections of embankments along China's third-longest river have become loose, threatening the homes of millions of people after three weeks of deadly floods across the country, state media said on Tuesday. Torrential rain has wrought havoc across large parts of China this summer, most recently in the southwest and the east, killing more than 500 people and causing billions of dollars in damage. More rain is forecast. ~ snip ~

Food and drinking water shortages, panic buying and the threat of looting have followed the worst flooding to hit England in 60 years. Amid concerns that the government-run Environment Agency acted far too slowly in responding to serious flood alerts from the Met Office, parts of the West Country woke up this morning to another day under water and the Thames Valley now faces being inundated.

CNN Just interview a passenger who has been on a stranded Amtrak since 9:30 a.m. More calls are coming in from passengers on the train. Seems this lady wants off and Amtrak is saying to the passengers they don't know when that will happen. Rumors are the tracks are washed out at both ends. Food, water, air, toilets still in good shape. Just seems to be very frustrated passengers due to lack on info. So they wanted to reach a live national news show to let them know they are stuck. The Anchor on CNN said well sounds like they...

Study: Megaflood Separated U.K., France Jul 18, 4:22 PM (ET) By THOMAS WAGNER LONDON (AP) - One of Earth's largest-ever megafloods broke apart a strip of land connecting what is now Britain and France, permanently separating them, a new study says. The flood unleashed about 35 million cubic feet of water per second, 100 times greater than the water discharge of the Mississippi River. The natural disaster, which occurred about 400,000 years ago during a glacial period, was later followed by rising sea levels that created what is now the English Channel, the study says. It is not known if...

China officials deny flood rats on the menu Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:16AM BST BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese officials have denied media reports that truckloads of live rats rounded up near a flooded lake in eastern China were ending up in local markets and on restaurant menus in the south. Newspapers reported that rats had been selling fast over the last two weeks in Guangzhou, capital of the southern province of Guangdong, coinciding with a 2 billion strong plague of rats fleeing rising waters in Dongting Lake in eastern Hunan province. Since late June, local governments in Hunan have been...