Not exact matches
Mexico suffered its worst
floods on record in mid-September when tropical storms Manuel and Ingrid converged
from the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico, killing more than 150 people and causing
damage estimated at around $ 6 billion.
Total
estimated damage: 750 mln $ (
flooded agricultural lands with loss of crops and the
damage from the hailstorm).
Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice
from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more
damaging and intense drought and
floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than
estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,
The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice
from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more
damaging and intense drought and
floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...&
floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst
Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...&
Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than
estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»
The UN has
estimated that if oceans rise at least one meter, islands like Antigua in the Caribbean will sustain «149 multi-million dollar tourism resorts
damaged or lost»
from coastal
flooding fueled by sea level rise, the UK newspaper The Independent reported.
Gábor Figeczky, acting CEO of WWF - Hungary (who is
from one of the villages hit by the toxic
flood, Kolontar), says its currently impossible to
estimate the full magnitude of
damage done to the environment.
Water
damage claims grew
from 20 to 50 percent of all property - related claims over the past nine years.Basement
flooding alone is
estimated to be approximately $ 140 million per year.
The report noted information
from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) that there have been 16
floods in Lake County since 1993 resulting in an «
estimated $ 14 Million in property
damages.»
While experts
estimate that
flood damage from Harvey could total $ 35 billion — about the same as Katrina — one big difference is the more limited number of homes covered by
flood insurance in Houston.
Preliminary property loss
estimates in Florida
from Hurricane Irma, total insured and uninsured loss for both residential and commercial properties, including
damage from both
flood and wind, is
estimated to be between $ 42.5 billion and $ 65 billion.