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  • 24
    Oct
    2011
    8:37am, EDT

    Thailand residents paddle through Bangkok as flooding worsens

    Apichart Weerawong / AP

    A man pushes his boat with a passenger past a shop selling Buddha images in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Oct. 24. Bangkok Gov. Sukhumbhand Paribatra issued a dramatic warning to residents of the Thai capital to prepare for floodwaters to roll deeper into the city from suburban areas already choking under the deluge.

    Bazuki Muhammad / Reuters

    A general view of highways partially submerged in the floodwaters in Bangkok Oct. 24. More districts of Thailand's capital were on high alert on Monday with floods bearing down from northern Bangkok and authorities faced a race against time to pump water towards the sea and defend the business district.

    Narong Sangnak / EPA

    Thai volunteers set the place for flood affected people residing at Sports Science Centre inside The Rajamangala National Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand, Oct. 24. Some 3,500 flood affected people will be moved from Thammasat University Rangsit campus to Ratchamangkala Stadium, as the university is under water and power and tap water supplies have been cut. Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra warned people in parts of Bangkok to expect floods as water from northern provinces had reached the capital.

    The governor of Bangkok issued a dramatic warning to residents of the Thai capital to prepare for floodwaters to roll deeper into the city from suburban areas already choking under the deluge. In live televised remarks late Sunday, Gov. Sukhumbhand Paribatra said a massive amount of water has moved faster than anticipated. Full story.

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    it s so sad to see on the first photo, even their own Gods in a form of human could not even save themselves! Any God created by human is not a God and should not be worship at all!

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  • 5
    Oct
    2011
    6:49am, EDT

    Cheryl Ravelo / Reuters

    A coffin loaded onto a boat is pushed through floodwaters during a funeral in Calumpit, Bulacan, a Filipino province north of Manila, on October 5.

    Coffin carried by boat through flooded Filipino town after typhoon

    The AP reports:

    Scores of people living in flood-hit towns north of Manila continue to struggle having not seen dry land for nearly a week. Floods from rains brought by Typhoons Nesat and Nalgae are only beginning to recede and houses, buildings and fields remain submerged.

    See more images of the recent typhoons on PhotoBlog.

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    Too bad for these people they live on a storm alley, At one time they got 6 storms in 1 month.

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  • 4
    Oct
    2011
    5:29am, EDT

    Filipino typhoon victims rest in evacuation center, church

    Francis R. Malasig / EPA

    Typhoon victims rest inside a gymnasium turned into a temporary evacuation center in Navotas city, north of Manila, Philippines, on October 4. President Benigno Aquino III and his cabinet have created rehabilitation plans for the areas affected by the recent typhoons Nesat and Nalgae. According to the Office of Civil Defense, typhoon Nalgae has so far left one person dead, while 57 people died and 30 were missing in typhoon Nesat's onslaught, which also flooded central Manila.

    Cheryl Ravelo / Reuters

    Evacuees take temporary shelter inside the Mother of Perpetual Help Church in Hagonoy, Bulacan province, the Philippines, on October 4. Rescue helicopters and boats distributed food, water and medicine to thousands of Filipinos marooned in flooded towns north of the capital on Monday and authorities said water levels were starting to recede. Wide areas of rice-producing Bulacan and Pampanga provinces have been submerged since late last week after the Philippines was hit by two typhoons. A third storm may develop this week.

    See more images of the recent typhoons on PhotoBlog.

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  • 3
    Oct
    2011
    11:07am, EDT

    Residents continue their struggle against floodwaters in the Philippines

    Bullit Marquez / AP

    Residents wade through floodwaters while boats queue up to ferry others at Calumpit township, Bulacan province, Oct. 3, 2011.

    Jay Directo / AFP - Getty Images

    A child carries a wet puppy on a flooded road in the farming town of Calumpit on October 3, 2011, north of Manila in Bulacan province, a flat farming region hit particularly hard by the heavy rains of Typhoons Nesat and Nalgae.

    Bullit Marquez / AP

    Residents use an improvised raft for transport as floodwaters continue to inundate their homes at Calumpit township, Bulacan province, north of Manila, Philippines, Monday, Oct. 3, 2011.

    Dondi Tawatao / Getty Images Contributor

    Army rescue teams and volunteers carry a dead body on a stretcher through floodwaters in Calumpit town on October 3, 2011 in Bulacan, Philippines. Destruction and flooding in the wake of the powerful typhoons Nalgae and Nesat have left nearly 60 dead and millions affected as disaster management teams and aid agencies scramble to provide much needed food and assistance.

    By Phaedra Singelis, NBC News

    Floodwater are now starting to recede following two typhoons that killed nearly 60 people, but more boats are needed to bring food and water to residents who refuse to abandon their inundated homes.  Full story.  And our video report below:

    Relief workers are struggling to help residents in the Philippines who are trapped by rising flood waters. TODAY.com's Dara Brown reports.

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  • 29
    Sep
    2011
    2:20pm, EDT

    Pretty photo of bad monsoon flooding in India

    Kevin Frayer / AP

    Flood-affected boys row a makeshift banana raft on their way to a marooned community near Patamundi, about 75 miles north of Bhubaneshwar, India, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011.

    By Phaedra Singelis, NBC News

    Sometimes natural disasters make pretty pictures.

    More news about the flooding that had killed more than 350 people so far.  Watch NBC's Amna Nawaz's report below.

    NBC's Amna Nawaz toured Pakistan's flooded southern province of Sindh in a helicopter.  The area is still reeling from last year's epic floods, and has been swamped by monsoon rains.        

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  • 29
    Sep
    2011
    1:00pm, EDT

    Pervez Masih / AP

    Displaced Pakistani villagers try to handover their identity cards to get permits for relief at an office in Tando Mohammad Khan near Hyderabad, Pakistan on Thursday, Sept, 29, 2011. The latest flooding has killed hundreds, destroyed thousands of homes and displaced nearly 1.8 million people in Sindh province.

    Pakistanis desperate for relief aid show their identity cards

    By Phaedra Singelis, NBC News

    Reuters reports:

    Pakistan's image of a haven for Islamist militants is making it a "bad brand" to sell to global donors, despite an urgent need for money to help millions of people who are struggling to survive after devastating floods, aid agencies said on Thursday. Continue reading....

    More images from Pakistan in our slideshow.

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  • 27
    Apr
    2011
    4:20pm, EDT

    Miguel Sierra / EPA

    Residents of rural communities in La Ifigenia and Santa Rita in La Marta mountain, which naturally divides the Mexican states of Coahuila and Nuevo Leon, remain in their houses as large forest fire approaches their community, on 27 April 2011. More than 1,500 brigade members are still trying to extinguish the fire which began a month ago in the mountains of Chihuahua, Mexico.

    Wildfire heads for communities in northern Mexico

    See more weather photos from around the world here.

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  • 22
    Apr
    2011
    8:16pm, EDT

    Flooding in Colombia brings life to a standstill as La Nina continues its wrath

    By Carissa Ray

    According to Reuters photographer Felipe Caicedo, La Nina rains have led to the displacement of 2.8 million people and hundreds of deaths in the last year.

    See more weather images from around the world here

    Luis Robayo / AFP - Getty Images

    A woman wades through the flooded inside of her home in Cali, department of Valle del Cauca, Colombia, on April 22, 2011. Strong rains battering Colombia have already left 86 dead, and 2,8 million people affected during the last twelve months.

    Felipe Caicedo / Reuters

    A man carrying a girl and a dog wades down a flooded street in La Dorada April 22, 2011. Downpours due to La Nina have rocked the Andean nation since last year, displacing 2.8 million people and killing almost 400, according to the government.

    Felipe Caicedo / Reuters

    Residents push a car down a flooded street in La Dorada April 22, 2011. Downpours due to La Nina have rocked the Andean nation since last year, displacing 2.8 million people and killing almost 400, according to the government.

    Luis Robayo / AFP - Getty Images

    A man collects belongings inside his flooded house in Cali, department of Valle del Cauca, Colombia, on April 22, 2011. Strong rains battering Colombia have already left 86 dead, and 2.8 million people affected during the last twelve months.

    Jaime Saldarriaga / Reuters

    A man is seen inside a flooded house in Cali April 22, 2011. Rains due to La Nina have rocked the Andean nation since last year, displacing 2.8 million people and killing nearly 400, according to the government.

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  • 6
    Apr
    2011
    10:44am, EDT

    'The gods may have punished us,' Japanese woman worries

     

    Kuni Takahashi

    Fukuko Hatakeyama, whose house was washed away in the tsunami, talks about her loss as she stands in debris in Miyagi prefecture on March 29.

    Kuni Takahashi, a photojournalist based in Mumbai, returned to his native Japan after the earthquake and tsunami. He was born in Sendai, one of the most devastated towns on the northern coast.

    "Did you find anything?” I ask the woman when I see her digging through the debris with her cane in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture.  

    “I had 4,500,000 yen (US$53,000) wrapped in special cloth but it’s gone," says 80-year-old Fukuko Hatakeyama, clearly upset.

    She'd been saving the money, wrapped in fire-proof material, for years to leave it to her son.  

    Her house, flattened by the massive tsunami and the remains ravaged by fire, is gone. Debris is piled and scattered for more than half-a-mile. Her son and daughter-in-law, who live in a nearby evacuation center, tell her not to go back to the area because it is dangerous with debris.  But she sneaks out anyway.

    “I come here every day to look for it but I can’t find anything. Now there is nothing I can leave to my son when I die," she says.

    She adds quietly: “There are too many people on the earth messing with nature…the gods may have punished us.”

     

    More photos from Kuni Takahashi on photoblog.

    ‘I come here every day trying to spend time with my wife who I couldn't save'

    'I still keep calling my sister's phone, hoping she may pick it up'

     

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    Poor woman. Supernatural beings didn't do this and she surely shouldn't think that she deserved to be punished. I hope she finds the strength to rebuild her life and be happy.

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  • 5
    Apr
    2011
    10:10am, EDT

    '...I come here every day trying to spend time with my wife who I couldn't save'

    Kuni Takahashi

    Shiro Yuyama, 69, looks for his belongings where his house used to be in Onagawa, Miyagi prefecture on April 2. His wife, Takako, was in the house at the time the earthquake and tsunami struck on March 11 and died.

    Kuni Takahashi, a photojournalist based in Mumbai, returned to his native Japan after the earthquake and tsunami. He was born in Sendai, one of the most devastated towns on the northern coast.

    “When I realized the ship was only several meters away, I was chased by the water and debris up the hill. My wife was still in the house," Shiro Yuyama, 69, told me in a very gentle voice. I saw him digging through the debris where his house used to be in Onagawa, Miyagi prefecture, trying to find any of their belongings. He was outside the house working in the garden when he saw the massive tsunami moving toward him, pushing with it a ship and debris from the port, almost one kilometer (0.6 miles) away. He knew his wife, Tamako, 67, was in the kitchen, but the wave was rolling so fast that he couldn’t do anything but run up the hill next to his house.

    Now he sleeps on the floor in a space just wide enough for himself at the evacuation center in town. On both sides of him are families that survived the tsunami intact.

    “It’s very difficult for me to see the families laughing and eating together. So I come here every day trying to spend time with my wife who I couldn’t save.”

     

    More photos from Kuni Takahashi on photoblog.

    'The Gods may have punished us,' Japanese woman worries

    'I still keep calling my sister's phone, hoping she may pick it up'

     

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    God help us.

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  • 14
    Mar
    2011
    11:09am, EDT

    More unreal scenes in Japan

    Alex Hofford / EPA

    Search and rescue workers look for survivors in an earthquake and tsunami ravaged house in Natori, Miyagi prefecture, Japan, March 14. Four bodies were pulled from the wreckage.

    Atsushi Taketazu / The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP

    A ferry and other vessels get stuck at an intersection in Kesennuma, northern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011.

    Jiji Press via AFP - Getty Images

    A man comforts a woman as she cries in front of her damaged home in the town of Watari in Miyagi prefecture on March 14.

    Kimimasa Mayama / EPA

    A view of a vast area of tsunami devastated Shizugawa district in Minami Sanriku of Miyagi prefecture, March 14.

    By Phaedra Singelis, NBC News

     See more images from Japan in our slideshow.

    4 comments

     They paid for Pearl Harbor in 1945.  Let it rest. Its Over.

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  • 12
    Mar
    2011
    8:22am, EST

    Family finds body of daughter in earthquake debris

    By Rich Shulman

    The search for survivors is just beginning. Slideshow.

    Kimimasa Mayama / EPA

    Eiji Kanno (L) and his wife Matsuko (white coat) are grief-stricken as it is officially confirmed that their 18-year-old daughter Mizuki is dead inside the tsunami-destroyed car in Yamamoto, south of Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan.

    Jo Yong-hak / Reuters

    A vehicle is half submerged at a crossroad after an earthquake and tsunami in Sendai, northeastern Japan Saturday. Japan confronted devastation along its northeastern coast on Saturday, with fires raging and parts of some cities under water after a massive earthquake and tsunami that likely killed at least 1,000 people. Japan scaled back its tsunami warning for much of the country on Saturday, nearly 24 hours after a massive earthquake struck and set off a succession of tsunami, NHK television said.

     

     

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    Please don't give up hope. God is still there and will comfort you.

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