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Chinese Communist Party authorities scrambled to respond to devastating floods in southwest Chongqing and Sichuan, China.

Lake Tulare, a lake that dried up in the last century due to water diversion projects, has returned due to heavy winter rain and snow, and now exceeds 160 square miles in area, making it almost as large as Lake Tahoe.

Marine Corps veteran Curtis Sollars and his wife Connie have been living out of a suitcase in a motel for six months in Mannford, Oklahoma — a rural town along the Arkansas River Basin — because their home was destroyed in the 2019 Arkansas River Floods.

The ongoing return of California’s Tulare Lake threatens to inundate the city of Corcoran and the state prison nearby, as residents fret that a nearby levee may fail to hold back the rising waters in the spring thaw.

A winter of heavy rain and a spring of heavy erosion has attracted a small gold rush of fortune-seekers eager to find nuggets in California’s burgeoning rivers.

A couple in Breathitt County, Kentucky, lost their home in last year’s floods, but a special gift has remedied the situation.

Former President Donald Trump ripped Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, saying he should be in Fort Lauderdale helping oversee response to the flooding in one of his state’s biggest cities instead of touring the nation “campaigning.”

Severe flooding has struck south Florida, shutting down the Fort Lauderdale airport until at least 5 a.m. on Friday and prompting a State of Emergency declaration for Broward County.

California’s winter is officially one of the snowiest ever recorded, with the snowpack measured at 221% of normal on Monday by the California Department of Water Resources in its annual beginning of April survey.

Tulare Lake, a historic freshwater lake that dried up due to water diversions for agriculture, is set to return — perhaps for the long term — as a result of recent heavy rains and flooding, and anticipated spring snowmelt.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) finally requested a federal disaster declaration and relief aid from President Joe Biden for residents of the town of Pajaro on Tuesday — three weeks after a levee broke and flooded the area.

Residents of Pajaro, California, a flooded community in Monterey County, are furious at Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and President Joe Biden for failing to deliver the federal disaster aid that was promised earlier this month.

Residents of the Golden State spent the first full day of spring dealing with the twelfth “atmospheric river” storm of the season.

Neighbors in some California communities threatened by floodwaters are feuding over whose land floodwater will fill, as more rain and snow are on the way and the spring snowmelt threatens to inundate low-lying areas.

Some relief workers in the Pajaro, California, area flooded by recent rains are furious after Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) promised $42 million of aid — but only $300,000 is, in fact, available.

Four apartment buildings in San Clemente, California, were evacuated on Wednesday after the seaside cliff on which they stand began collapsing in a landslide caused by recent heavy rains.

A levee burst on the Pajaro River in Monterey County, California, on Friday, flooding the town of Pajaro and forcing evacuations as California endured another “atmospheric river” — with more rain and flooding to come.

California’s dams are filling up, thanks to the winter’s heavy storms — but soon the state’s dams will be opening their floodgates to prevent overflowing.

The California town of Bridgeport, the county seat of Mono County near the Nevada border, dropped to -27º F on Saturday, as the entire state experienced colder temperature in the wake of unexpected winter rainstorms.

President Joe Biden blamed the latest storms in California on climate change while visiting the damaged Golden State on Thursday.

The rain that fell on California in recent weeks could have supplied the state’s water needs for 10 years — if it had been captured and stored. Unfortunately, most of the water is being left to drain to the Pacific Ocean.

The San Francisco Bay Area has experienced the wettest three-week period since Abraham Lincoln was president during the Great Flood of 1862 — and the winter isn’t over yet.

Californians are asking where the state’s new reservoirs are — the ones voters approved nearly a decade ago to mitigate drought, which have yet to be built — as trillions of gallons of water from recent rains wash out to

Lightning struck the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on Saturday as heavy rains continued to pound California, bringing flooding, landslides, and evacuations to many residents — with threats of more to come.

Prince Harry, his wife Meghan, and celebrity neighbors such as Oprah Winfrey have been ordered to evacuate their homes in wealthy Montecito, California, as ongoing rains and flooding threaten widespread destruction.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) asked the Biden administration to make federal aid available to California for flood relief, just months after billions of dollars in federal spending compounded the state’s budget surplus.

California residents in river towns are bracing for flooding as another “atmospheric river” is set to arrive in the state, bringing several more inches of rain to residents still struggling with drought and now facing a deluge.

Californians are bracing for flooding as another “atmospheric river” is set to arrive by Tuesday, following storms this week and last week that brought record rainfall to the San Francisco Bay Area.

The City of San Francisco is attempting to blame the National Weather Service (NWS) for the poor local response to last week’s rains, which saw “sewer geysers” in some neighborhoods, and extensive flooding.

Historic, heavy rainfall in the San Francisco area has caused “sewer geysers” to explode on city streets, sending jets of water high into the air as the city’s overwhelmed drains cannot contain the high volume of rainwater.

It was difficult for Libby Sanders to recall the moment she almost lost her child last year during extreme weather in Tennessee.

The New Zealand Herald, the former British colony’s newspaper of record and most-circulated daily, appeared keen to blame the disaster on climate change — despite explicitly stating that “this specific weather event had not been analysed regarding the influence of climate change”.

Joe Biden visited Kentucky on Monday to reassure flood victims in the state that the government would be there to help them recover.

Intense rainfall caused flash flooding at Death Valley National Park, leaving around 1,000 people stranded over the weekend due to damaged roadways.

Country music star and Kentucky native Chris Stapleton was recently seen helping out with the flood relief efforts that have devastated the eastern portion of the state.

Incredible images show a 17-year-old girl and her dog stranded on a rooftop surrounded by flood waters as they waited for hours to be rescued amid the eastern Kentucky flooding.