GALVESTON, Texas – A ferocious storm that struck a cruise ship while in the Gulf of Mexico Friday left at least one cabin flooded as torrential rains poured down. Royal Caribbean’s Voyager of the Seas first encountered hail as the ship was heading back to its home port of Galveston, Texas. Video from a passenger … Read more
This is a flood-pocalypse New Yorkers shouldn’t ignore. Biblical downpours battered the Big Apple early Friday morning, inundating buses, swamping schools and turning streets into Venetian canals as NYC Mayor Eric Adams issued a state of emergency due to the potential for flash floods. “This is time for heightened alertness and extreme caution,” declared Hizzoner … Read more
BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nev. – Cutter Ray Palacios, a first-time Burning Man attendee, describes how fellow “burners” fostered a sense of community while being stranded at the Nevada festival by floodwaters. Monsoon rains Friday and over the weekend caused flash flooding at the annual Burning Man Festival, turning the usually dry, desert setting into a muddy mess that prevented … Read more
A-prawn-calypse now. As if the 2023 Burning Man Festival wasn’t apocalyptic enough, the event was recently crashed by a biblical plague of three-eyed “dinosaur shrimp,” which wriggled to the surface of the Nevada desert to join the party. Also known as tadpole shrimp, or triops, the prehistoric critters had been lying dormant in subterranean egg … Read more
Chris Rock and Diplo escaped the treacherous mud-filled Burning Man in the flooded Nevada desert festival Saturday with the help of a fan. The comedian, 57, and the 44-year-old DJ trekked through 6 miles of mud looking for someone to give them a ride as roughly 73,000 people were stuck at the festival due to … Read more
It looks a lot more like Flooding Man this year. Attendees headed to Burning Man, a community of tens of thousands of people who gather to build a temporary city called Black Rock City (BRC) in the Nevada desert, were warned by organizers that the gates may remain closed for several days due to flooding … Read more
Tropical Storm Harold made landfall on Padre Island in South Texas late Tuesday morning, and as the storm makes its way inland and weakens, it’s continuing to produce torrential rain, strong winds, and large waves that are battering the coast and increasing the risks of flash flooding and coastal flooding. Wind gusts so far have included a gust of 62 … Read more
BURLINGTON, Vt. – Flooding caused by torrential rains in Vermont devastated farm crops, leaving local farmers scrambling to clean up in hopes of replanting before it’s too late in the season. Pitchfork Farm co-owner Eric Seitz said he knew it wouldn’t be good when he saw the initial forecast calling for 3 inches the Friday before the rainfall started. “Three … Read more
ALEXANDER COUNTY, NC – One person was killed and another was rescued during flash flooding in North Carolina over the weekend, according to local officials. This death comes after more deadly flash flooding swamped parts of the Northeast over the weekend and nearly a week after deadly flooding soaked areas from the mid-Atlantic to New England. Just before midnight on July 15, the Alexander County Sheriff’s Office said it, … Read more
The FOX Forecast Center is tracking a series of disturbances that could make for a soggy and sometimes stormy weekend for communities in the Northeast. The highest rainfall totals are expected to occur over southern New England, where some communities could see upwards of 5″ of rain through Monday. Cities that experienced deadly flooding over the … Read more
China needs to call Rihanna for some umbrellas to weather this phenomenon of nature. Citizens of the Chinese city of Liaoning were told to find shelter after it looked like it started to rain worms. A viral clip showed the area apparently being showered with little worms, which were splattered all over cars. The video … Read more
Their car turned into a catamaran. A New Zealand mother is making waves online after filming herself driving through raging floodwaters with her family amid a cyclone. A video of the apocalyptic scene currently boasts 1 million views on TikTok. “I was only afraid for my kids,” Dayna Nuku told the New Zealand Herald of … Read more
A popular mommy blogger has been lashed online after complaining that her “dream trip” to New Zealand had been canceled as the nation battles devastating and deadly floods. Influencer Britnee Kent, who on social media says she is “living a simple island life with my boys”, posted a video over the weekend that left viewers … Read more
An Australian weather presenter has described the “sickening” moment he witnessed three men looting houses in Melbourne, which residents had fled during the floods. Tim Davies arrived in Maribyrnong, northwest of the CBD, to film live coverage on Monday morning when he saw the men “obviously up to no good”. It is alleged they fled … Read more