Bad weather
Typhoon kills 9 in Japan, boats move tourists from flooded airport
About 3,000 tourists stayed overnight at Kansai airport in the heavily populated south-central area of Japan’s main island, Honshu.
A girl in Oklahoma City found it hard to make it up her driveway with her wheelie bin after ice covered it. CNN reports.
In the days since the storm, the island’s residents have awakened to an altered reality. Food is in short supply.
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.
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.
Floods typically cause a rise in nuisance mosquitoes, such as the Culex variety, and these, too, can carry disease.
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.
On Friday night, an unidentified victim died in a house fire in the town of Rockport, 48 km north of Corpus Christi.
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.
Tens of thousands more people on the mainland remained without power and many regions were cut off by flooding.
No deaths were reported a day after Debbie smashed tourist resorts, flattened canefields and shut down coal mines in tropical Queensland.
19 homes have been destroyed in Mpumalanga & five in Limpopo and authorities say more could still be affected.
The weather service says despite the downgrade, residents in parts of the country can still expect flooding and heavy rains.
Emergency services say they will be on high alert on Friday and over the weekend as forecasters warn of persistent wet weather.
A cold front is heading towards the Cape, bringing with it strong winds, rain and possibly even snow.
Five peolpe have been confirrmed dead as a result of the stormy weather.
The weather service is warning of rainfall in Gauteng, the Western Cape & Northern Cape later this week.
The order and requires social services and police to move homeless persons into shelters.
Since 1995, weather disasters have killed millions of people & left billions injured & homeless.