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Images show a road damaged by flooding in Cathedral City, California, where the police department announced an outage of the emergency 911 call line on Sunday night, advising people to head to the nearest fire or police station in person. Tropical Storm Hilary drenched Southern California with record rainfall, shutting down schools, roads and businesses before edging in on Nevada on Monday. IMAGES
Images show the extent of the damage caused by the floods in Schuld, Germany. The death toll from the devastating floods in Germany has reached 103, bringing the total number of deaths in Europe to at least 118. IMAGES
Siberia is known for its extremely cold winters and harsh climates, but when summer rolls around, all that snow has to go somewhere. Like a scene straight out of the Kevin Kostner film Waterworld, this drone footage captured the surreal spectacle on the tarmac of the DOSAAF aviation sports club, near Ishim city, located in the heart of Siberia, after severe flooding submerged the airfield under water on Monday, May 15.
Climate change has had some devastating effects in California and northern Mexico. Some water reservoirs have shrunk to extreme levels due to prolonged periods of drought. However, one unlikely silver lining has literally emerged from the city of Oaxaca in Mexico's south. Drone footage captured the ruins of a 16th century Dominican church, normally covered by water, that emerged from underneath the waves due to severe drought in the Benito Juarez Dam in Jalapa del Marquez.
Heavy rain in southern Brazil has caused a huge landslide along the RS-446 national highway. The rivers of southern Brazil are once again in flood as rescue operations intensify and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva admits that the authorities were "unprepared" for a disaster of this scale. More than 600,000 people have been displaced by the heavy rain, flooding and mudslides that have ravaged the south of the state of Rio Grande do Sul for around two weeks. IMAGES