A Durban NGO has its hands full following this weekend's storm. AbaKrestu Foundation has seen an influx of street children to its shelter in the city centre.Spokesperson Larry Crampton says nearly 100 children came to the foundation, with nothing but w...

Australian authorities on Tuesday told more than 2,000 residents who had left a town at the mercy of record-breaking flood waters to stay away until the danger had passed.

By Jim Andrews, Senior Meteorologist Feb 6, 2012; 11:28 AM ET St George, Queensland, has seen thousands of residents evacuated as record-high flood waters invade their town, the Australian ABC said on Monday. The flooding Balonne River was one of...

By Vickie Frantz, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer Feb 4, 2012; 3:33 PM ET People wade through flood waters in the town of Moree, Northern New South Wales, Australia Friday, Feb. 3, 2012. Helicopters and rescue crews are on standby to evacuate people...

AIM (Maputo)-Flood waters of the Incomati River swept across Mozambique’s main north-south highway on 21 January, cutting Maputo off from the north and centre of the country for three days. The Incomati was swollen by the torrential rains dumped on s...

Image: In scenes reminiscent of the floods that struck Mozambique in 2000, when mothers and children were rescued from tree and roof tops, Warrant Officer N Klopper went to the aid of a mother and her young child in a flood-hit area. Photo: Piet Paxton...

(Click on images for larger view.)Flood waters continued receding in Thailand’s historic city of Ayutthaya in December 2011 and January 2012. The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite captured the top image on Janu...

Typhoon Sendong victims, their families, and friends, in the Philippines are using social media to look for missing victims, coordinate and document relief efforts, and record images and accounts of the destruction.

PRINT EMAIL Photo: Vincent Macisaac/IRIN Soy Chet- orphaned and now out of school also PHNOM PENH, 24 November 2011 (IRIN) - Schools damaged in Cambodia's worst monsoons in more than a decade may take up to a year to recover after flooding d...

By Kristina Pydynowski, Senior Meteorologist Nov 24, 2011; 7:51 AM ET Following several deadly incidents in the past month, residents of Italy may be thinking that the nation has become a magnet for flooding rainfall. The most recent flooding ev...

Many parts of Thailand are still flooded as the country continues to face the worst flooding disaster in the past half century. But some bloggers believe the flooding disaster has been exaggerated by the media. Adding to the confusion is also the wrong information flooding the social media

By Jim Andrews, Senior Meteorologist Oct 18, 2011; 10:45 AM ET The swollen Chao Phraya River spills out of its banks in Pathum Thani province, north of Bangkok, Thailand, on Oct. 17, 2011. The province, lying upstream of Bangkok, has already suff...

(Click on images for larger view.) Flood waters lingered in southern Pakistan in late September 2011, where heavy rains inundated Balochistan and Sindh Provinces. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite ...

By Heather Buchman, Meteorologist Sep 16, 2011; 2:18 PM ET Video by AccuWeather.com Producer Grace Muller Meet Janey, a rambunctious, yet sweet, young pit bull mix who was rescued from the flood waters that engulfed Bloomsburg, Pa., last week. He...

The U.S. had its hottest summer in 75 years, and Texas smashed the record for hottest summer ever experienced by a U.S. state since record keeping began in 1895, NOAA's National Climatic Data Center said yesterday. The June - August average temperature...

PRINT EMAIL Vumilia IDP camp chairlady Agnes Wairimu shows books that have been destroyed by recent floods GILGIL, 9 September 2011 (IRIN) - More than three years after being chased from their homes into squalid camps, hundreds of families ...

By Jim Andrews, Senior Meteorologist Sep 5, 2011; 12:10 PM ET Surfer waits for one of Typhoon Talas' waves at Nishihara Beach, near Tokyo, Sep 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara) In Japan, the death toll has topped 30 in the aftermath of Typhoon T...

By Grace Muller, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer Jun 29, 2011; 10:35 AM ET In this June 14, 2011, file photo, the Fort Calhoun nuclear power station, in Fort Calhoun, Neb., is surrounded by flood waters from the Missouri River. The pictures of a Neb...