"‘Water Is Coming.’ Floods Devastate West and Central Africa"

"Flooding caused by heavy rains has left more than 1,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed."

"Aishatu Bunu, an elementary schoolteacher in Maiduguri, a city in Nigeria’s northeast, woke up at 5 a.m. to the sound of her neighbors shouting.

When she opened her front door, she was greeted by the sight of rising waters outside. “We saw — water is coming,” Ms. Bunu said.

In a panic, she and her three young children grabbed some clothes and her educational certificates and fled their home into waters that quickly became chest high, eventually finding temporary shelter at a gas station."

Ruth Maclean and Ismail Alfa report for the New York Times September 15, 2024.

SEE ALSO:

"6 Killed, Thousands Evacuated As Storm Batters Central And Eastern Europe" (Washington Post)

"Death Toll Rises As Torrential Rain And Flooding Force Mass Evacuations Across Central Europe" (AP)

"Tropical Storm Ileana Forms In Pacific Off Mexico, Heads Toward Los Cabos Resorts" (AP)

"Vietnam Typhoon Death Toll Rises To 233 As More Bodies Found In Areas Hit By Landslides And Floods" (AP)

"Tropical Storm Gordon Embarks On A Slow Atlantic Crossing" (Yale Climate Connections)