The high floodwaters and uncollected debris, especially in hard-to-reach areas, have resulted in higher numbers of illnesses like diarrhea, skin diseases, coughs and colds, government and relief officials say.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Hundreds of thousands more Pakistanis fled their homes as high floodwaters reached the southernmost region of the country and inundated several more districts, the United Nations said Friday.
With the New York Fire Department tending other fires on the peninsula, and also blocked from getting its trucks into Breezy Point by the high floodwaters, a small team of local residents and volunteer fire departments tried to fight the fire, even while stopping to rescue other residents seeking to flee the rising waters.
The deluge led to overflown rivers and streams, and left several roadways temporarily impassable from high floodwaters.
Police were forced to transport residents of Mount Holly to work via boat due to the high floodwaters.
New Jersey's Atlantic City was experiencing dangerously high floodwaters into Tuesday morning, and officials were calling it the worst storm in the city's history.
High floodwaters damaged 22 bridges and closed 2 indefinitely, while the flooding closed several roads, including a portion of U.S. Highway 1 in Chadds Ford.
More than 14,000 people are living in evacuation centres in Bangkok, and dozens of families forced out of their homes due to high floodwaters are now housed in the Bang Krai Nok temple's school library and classrooms.
A man who was stranded on a bus in chest-high floodwater has described his five-hour ordeal.
According to the government, more than 1.2 million residents still live in damaged villages in greater Manila, some of them with waist-high floodwater.
He had put up plywood across the front of his cafe and needed more sealant to keep some of the highest floodwater in five centuries from seeping in.
