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[WATCH] Slippery slope: Girl struggles to make it up icy driveway
A girl in Oklahoma City found it hard to make it up her driveway with her wheelie bin after ice covered it. CNN reports.
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Battered Puerto Rico hospitals on life support after Hurricane Maria
In the days since the storm, the island’s residents have awakened to an altered reality. Food is in short supply.
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Hurricane Irma kills 5 as it sweeps through island of Saint Martin
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on Thursday said four bodies had been recovered on the French side of the island, revising down an earlier death toll.
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Harvey moves into Louisiana with at least 25 dead, 17 missing
The storm has forced 32,000 people into shelters since coming ashore on Friday as the most powerful hurricane to hit Texas in half a century.
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Texas floodwaters pose unique health risks, US experts say
Floods typically cause a rise in nuisance mosquitoes, such as the Culex variety, and these, too, can carry disease.
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Houston devastated by flooding from Harvey as residents brace for more rain
Harvey came ashore late on Friday as the most powerful hurricane to hit Texas in more than 50 years and has killed at least two people.
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Harvey claims second fatality, threatens catastrophic floods
On Friday night, an unidentified victim died in a house fire in the town of Rockport, 48 km north of Corpus Christi.
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Storm wreaks havoc in Cape Peninsula
The City of Cape Town’s disaster risk management says two people have been injured in Lavender Hill when the roof of a house was blown off.
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Australia to begin evacuating cyclone-hit island resorts
Tens of thousands more people on the mainland remained without power and many regions were cut off by flooding.
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Army assesses damage after storm ‘absolutely smashes’ north Australia
No deaths were reported a day after Debbie smashed tourist resorts, flattened canefields and shut down coal mines in tropical Queensland.
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Clean-up operations underway in areas hit by storm Dineo
19 homes have been destroyed in Mpumalanga & five in Limpopo and authorities say more could still be affected.
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Heavy rains & floods coming despite Dineo downgrade
The weather service says despite the downgrade, residents in parts of the country can still expect flooding and heavy rains.
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Gauteng motorists urged to be alert on wet roads
Emergency services say they will be on high alert on Friday and over the weekend as forecasters warn of persistent wet weather.
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City of CT issues warning to residents ahead of stormy weather
A cold front is heading towards the Cape, bringing with it strong winds, rain and possibly even snow.
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Search continues for missing woman along Durban coastline
Five peolpe have been confirrmed dead as a result of the stormy weather.
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GP residents warned to brace for a cold, wet weekend
The weather service is warning of rainfall in Gauteng, the Western Cape & Northern Cape later this week.
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New York governor orders homeless off streets in freezing weather
The order and requires social services and police to move homeless persons into shelters.
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Major increase in weather disasters over last 2 decades
Since 1995, weather disasters have killed millions of people & left billions injured & homeless.
