Malaysia and Indonesia faced more suffering Friday, with Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim barring his cabinet members from going on leave after the displacement of over 90,000 people in a growing flood disaster that authorities fear could be the country’s worst in a decade.
The now-ending 2024 record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season is estimated to have cost the United States around $500 billion in total damage and economic loss, Accu Weather reports.
Christians in Indonesia, a minority in the world’s largest Muslim nation, appealed for prayers Wednesday as at least 20 people died after flash floods hit mountainside villages on Sumatra Island.
California and the Pacific Northwest are facing severe weather, power outages, and falling trees amid a “bomb cyclone” which began to bear down on the region on Tuesday and is expected to last until Friday, the Associated Press reports.
Christians in the Philippines said Tuesday they are thankful for prayers as the cleanup began after deadly Super Typhoon Man-yi.
Christians in the Philippines appealed for prayers Sunday after authorities warned of “life-threatening” surges as the sixth massive storm hitting the nation in the past month intensified.
Armed with mops, buckets, and brooms, thousands of volunteers have been trying to help rescuers deal with Spain’s deadliest flooding in decades that killed at least 217 people amid mounting anger over the government’s response.
Evangelical Christians in Valencia on the eastern coast of Spain have called for prayer support in the aftermath of last week’s catastrophic flooding that caused the deaths of at least 205 people, Christian Daily International (CDI) reports.
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has ordered the country’s largest-ever peacetime military deployment to help deal with massive flooding. Another 5,000 troops have been drafted to deal with the aftermath of a tragedy that officials say killed at least 211 people in eastern, southern, and central regions.
The Catholic archbishop of Spain’s flood-stricken Valencia region appealed to Christians on Friday to “maintain faith and hope” as authorities said the death toll from the nation’s worst flooding in recent memory rose to 205.
Infrastructure progress is significant in the fifth week of recovery from Hurricane Helene in the mountains of North Carolina.
Spanish King Felipe VI has expressed his condolences and sadness after officials said at least 95 people died in Spain’s deadliest flooding in three decades.
Hurricanes Helene and Milton are each expected to surpass $50 billion in damages, placing them among the most destructive storms in history alongside Katrina, Sandy, and Harvey.
Florida’s Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (DACS) announced last week that Hurricane Milton caused an estimated $1.5 billion to $2.5 billion in damages to the state’s crops and agricultural infrastructure, Reuters reports. Milton made landfall in Florida as a Category 3 hurricane on October 9, storming through 51 counties, 34 of which were declared disaster areas, wreaking devastation through fierce winds and flooding.
Cuba’s electrical grid collapsed for the fourth time in 48 hours, leaving the nation without power as Hurricane Oscar loomed, threatening to inflict even more damage on the island’s fragile infrastructure.
Florida has been hit by 11 major hurricanes (Category 3 or greater) since 2004, but the state’s exposure to tropical cyclones can wax and wane.
Hurricane Milton, described as America’s “storm of the century” by U.S. President Joe Biden, has slammed into Florida, killing at least four people, destroying homes, and knocking out power to more than 2 million customers.
Mobilization for hurricane is larger for Milton than any previous in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis said from Lake City on Wednesday.
Churches and Christian aid groups in the US are continuing the hard work of helping communities recover from the massive destruction wreaked by Hurricane Helene as it tore through south-eastern states two weeks ago, CBN News reports.
Joe Biden canceled a trip to Germany and his first visit to Africa as the U.S. president because Hurricane Milton was to hit Florida, where officials warned residents, “You are going to die” if they stayed behind.