New Orleans braces for severe tropical storm

Thursday, 28 Aug, 2012 0

Huge storms and heavy rain are threatening communities across the world.

A state of emergency has been declared in Louisiana, as Tropical Storm Isaac threatens to hit the US as a category two hurricane.

Isaac is heading for New Orleans, nearly seven years to the day after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city.

Isaac killed at least 24 people in Haiti and the Dominican Republic and caused significant flooding and damage in the Caribbean.

In India monsoons rains have killed at least 36 people in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan in the heaviest rainfall in more than 30 years.

In Pakistan, flash floods triggered by the rainfall destroyed more than 50 homes in the north-western province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. At least 22 people died in the rains.

And NASA satellites are tracking two typhoons in the Yellow Sea which have the potential to cause havoc over a wide area of China, Korea, Japan and the Philippines.

Rescuers searched typhoon-swept waters off South Korea’s Jeju Island on Tuesday for 28 Chinese fishermen missing in the wake of Typhoon Bolaven, a ferocious storm that headed for the Korean Peninsula after making landfall on Okinawa.



 

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