GenevaLunch » heavy rains http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 07:51:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Colombia’s floodwater rage through streetshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/08/colombias-floodwater-rage-through-streets/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/08/colombias-floodwater-rage-through-streets/#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:45:09 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=44608 GenevaLunch.com Colombia is suffering severe storms with heavy rains, particularly in Cali and Barraquilla. Several thousand people have been evacuated from their homes and material damage appears to be extensive. Link to Columbia News Reuters video

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/08/colombias-floodwater-rage-through-streets/feed/ 0 Mudslides in southern Chinese cities kill at least 30http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/03/mudslides-in-southern-chinese-cities-kill-at-least-30/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/03/mudslides-in-southern-chinese-cities-kill-at-least-30/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:03:29 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=42818 GenevaLunch.com Heavy rains in southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region have led to mudslides in Wuzhou and Yulin that killed at least 30 people, with 18 missing and 80,000 people evacuated from their homes. The area has been pounded by rain since Monday, according to Xinhua news agency, and a state of emergency has been declared.

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/03/mudslides-in-southern-chinese-cities-kill-at-least-30/feed/ 0 Last tourists airlifted out of Machu Picchu in Peruhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/01/30/last-tourists-airlifted-out-of-machu-picchu-in-peru/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/01/30/last-tourists-airlifted-out-of-machu-picchu-in-peru/#comments Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:44:39 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=36171 GenevaLunch.com Update February 2010  (CBS video) The last of the 4,000 tourists stranded by landslides and flooding in Aguas Calientes, at the foot of the ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru, have now left the area. Some 1,400 people were airlifted out Friday, when a week-long airlift operation ended. Up to 40 mudslides in the region [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/01/30/last-tourists-airlifted-out-of-machu-picchu-in-peru/feed/ 0 El Salvador floods claim at least 124 liveshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/09/el-salvador-floods-claim-at-least-124-lives/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/09/el-salvador-floods-claim-at-least-124-lives/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:48:27 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=31203 GenevaLunch.com Massive flooding in five regions in El Salvador has taken the lives of 124 people, with reports of deaths still coming in as the country struggles to cope. Some 7,000 homes have been damaged. The hardest hit areas appear to be San Salvador, the capital, and San Vicente province in the centre of the country. [...]

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