Sentences with phrase «displaced by the floods»

Six months after being displaced by floods, some residents of Dunkwa - on - Offin in the Upper Dankyira East Municipality of the Central Region, on Friday received relief items from the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO).

No fewer than 10 people have died, while 7, 342 others were reported displaced by flooding in Plateau between May and July this year.

The situation was so serious that thousands of residents of Glefe and Opetekwei who had been displaced by the flood waters were compelled to pack their belongings to safety.

On top of the everyday challenges of living in poverty in one of the most expensive places on earth, several thousand of our neighbors were displaced by the floods.

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TNR was a vital part of our disaster relief efforts because many community cats were displaced by flooding, and consequently, joined other colonies.

When Harvey struck, shelters in the hurricane belt needed to make room for animals actually displaced by floods.

Best Friends Emergency Response team has been on the ground in South Dakota to help pets displaced by flood - related evacuations since late May.

Because she had spent some time in the shelter prior to the Hurricane and her owners never claimed her, the shelter staff chose her and another couple hundred of her friends to send to shelters in Santa Barbara, California in order to make room for owned pets displaced by the flood waters.

Gov. Matt Blunt commended the Humane Society of Missouri and other animal service organizations for assisting pet owners displaced by the flooding by caring for their pets.

Family members, displaced by floods, use a tarp to escape a monsoon downpour while taking shelter at a make - shift camp for flood victims in Badin district in Pakistan's Sindh province on September 14, 2011.

Had my discussion focused on the more than 20 million people displaced by this flood, your criticism would have been valid.

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In May, Anheuser - Busch completely halted beer production at its Georgia brewery in order to produce drinking water for those displaced by heavy storms and flooding in Texas and Oklahoma.

Hundreds of thousands are still displaced by last week's flooding, many still living in shelters.

From donating desperately - needed supplies and funds, to pitching in with hands - on debris clean - up, to offering up space as emergency shelter and beyond, businesses heeded the call to help thousands of individuals displaced and otherwise affected by the devastating massive recent hurricanes and the floods they precipitated.

The four - story, 77 - year - old brick building, previously a traditional high school, was vacant when flooded by Katrina and had slouched into a rotting, mold - choked shelter for displaced residents.

«I sympathise with the government and people of Benue State over the loss caused by the floods that ravaged their homes, farmlands, businesses and displaced over 100,000 people from their homes.

Residents of Underwood Estates in Plattsburgh recently displaced by the devastating flooding can apply for emergency rental assistance.

If the world keeps burning fossil fuels and does little else to prevent climate change — the trajectory we are on — weather events now considered extreme, like the one in 1997 which led to floods so severe that hundreds of thousands of people in Africa were displaced, and the one in 2009 that led to the worst droughts and bushfires in Australia's history, will become average by 2050.

In the face of historic rainfall and flooding, numerous rescues and shelters in Texas are doing all they can to help pets displaced by Hurricane Harvey.

In support of the Houston SPCA, the ASPCA has deployed our disaster response team to assist in the transport and relocation of animals displaced by the severe flooding following Hurricane Harvey.

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which had been involved in rescuing animals from flooded neighborhoods, and then boarding hundreds of displaced animals, said donors had given it $ 1.3 million by the end of November.

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Millions of people and their animals have been displaced or affected by the flooding from Hurricane Harvey and the winds and flooding from Hurricanes Irma and Maria.

If burning coal causes the flooding of coastal fishing villiges or, as I believe, the flooding of entire coastal regions by violent storm and encroaching seas — ala New Orleans and Bangladesh — people are not only displaced, they die.

In June 2008, a record flood event exceeded the once - in -500-year flood level by more than 5 feet, causing $ 5 to $ 6 billion in damages from flooding, or more than $ 40,000 per resident of the city of Cedar Rapids.85 The flood inundated much of the downtown, damaging more than 4,000 structures, including 80 % of government offices, and displacing 25,000 people.86 The record flood at Cedar Rapids was the result of low reservoir capacity and extreme rainfall on soil already saturated from unusually wet conditions.

The June — July 2016 flooding in China that killed more than 833 people, destroyed upwards of 400,000 houses and displaced more than 6 million people was made significantly worse by human - caused climate change.

Slopes by angle can expose more or less volume of water to evaporation or flooding depending on degree of the slope to the height of water being displaced.

Rural populations have been displaced from their land by conflict, drought and flooding, and coupled with economic decline this has caused pressures on food security and resultant hunger.

Already, 26 million people across the world have been displaced by catastrophic floods, droughts, cyclones and heat waves.

Millions of people will suffer, die and be displaced as a result of extreme heat waves, sea - level rise as much as 100 cm by 2100 with continuing large rates of rise, and by more severe storms, droughts and floods.

It is estimated by the IPCC that by 2050, 150 million people could become climate refugees, being displaced by sea level rise, desertification, increasing water scarcity, floods and storms.

The first meter of sea level rise would flood 17 % of Bangladesh, displacing tens of millions of people, and reducing its rice - farming land by 50 percent.

The IPCC report states that by 2100, millions of people in Asia will be displaced by coastal flooding.

According to the IPCC, «hundreds of millions of people» will be affected by coastal flooding and displaced by loss of their land, most of then in East, Southeast and South Asia.

Extreme weather events and disasters are undercutting food security for millions around the world, especially among poor developing nations, the WRO wrote, adding that 23.5 million people were displaced in 2016 by weather - related disaster, creating a flood of climate refugees throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.

The unfortunate reality is that many people that rent their homes are displaced by such disasters as floods, fires, earthquakes and hurricanes.

Real estate agent Barb Maxon with Century 21 ProLink in Sioux City, Iowa, told the Des Moines Register that she's made six sales in one week alone to Iowa families who have been displaced by the Missouri River floods.

The Houston Association of REALTORS ® launched a new program enabling members, property owners, landlords, and property managers to post homes that they agree to make available on a temporary basis to those displaced by storm damage and flooding.

In fact, the first van has become a symbol of more than low interest rates: In more than one instance, it became a temporary home for families displaced by heavy flooding and other natural disasters.

Residents of Underwood Estates in Plattsburgh recently displaced by the devastating flooding can apply for emergency rental assistance.