"Flooding caused by heavy rains has left more than 1,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed."

"Aishatu Bunu, an elementary schoolteacher in Maiduguri, a city in Nigeria’s northeast, woke up at 5 a.m. to the sound of her neighbors shouting.

When she opened her front door, she was greeted by the sight of rising waters outside. “We saw — water is coming,” Ms. Bunu said.

In a panic, she and her three young children grabbed some clothes and her educational certificates and fled their home into waters that quickly became chest high, eventually finding temporary shelter at a gas station."

Ruth Maclean and Ismail Alfa report for the New York Times September 15, 2024. [2]

SEE ALSO:

"6 Killed, Thousands Evacuated As Storm Batters Central And Eastern Europe" (Washington Post) [3]

"Death Toll Rises As Torrential Rain And Flooding Force Mass Evacuations Across Central Europe" (AP) [4]

"Tropical Storm Ileana Forms In Pacific Off Mexico, Heads Toward Los Cabos Resorts" (AP) [5]

"Vietnam Typhoon Death Toll Rises To 233 As More Bodies Found In Areas Hit By Landslides And Floods" (AP) [6]

"Tropical Storm Gordon Embarks On A Slow Atlantic Crossing" (Yale Climate Connections) [7]