Daily review 16/09/2024

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1. adam 1

   16 September 2024 at 7:17 pm

   No global boiling, no heavy weather, just not happening…
   • joe90 1.1

     16 September 2024 at 8:17 pm

     just not happening…

     In NW Africa…

     Enormous floods have once again engulfed much of South Sudan, as record water levels in Lake Victoria flow downstream through the Nile. More than 700,000 people have been affected. Hundreds of thousands of people there were already forced from their homes by huge floods a few years ago and were yet to return before this new threat emerged.

     Now, there are concerns that these displaced communities may never be able to return to their lands. While weather extremes regularly displace whole communities in other parts of the world, this could be the first permanent mass displacement due to climate change.

     https://www.wired.com/story/south-sudan-floods-the-first-example-of-a-mass-population-permanently-displaced-by-climate-change/
     • joe90 1.1.1

       16 September 2024 at 8:23 pm

       …SE Asia…

       Myanmar’s junta chief made a rare request on Saturday for foreign aid to cope with deadly floods that have displaced hundreds of thousands of people who have already endured three years of war

       https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/myanmar-junta-makes-rare-request-for-foreign-aid-to-cope-with-deadly-floods/

       Nhat Tan Peach Blossom Village, located along the Red River at the foot of Nhat Tan Bridge in Hanoi's Tay Ho District, remains desolate one week after typhoon Yagi, the most powerful storm to hit Vietnam in three decades.

       The peach blossom trees, which were expected to be ready for sale in time for the Lunar New Year, which is coming in four months, now lie submerged under 3 to 4 meters of floodwaters.

       Farmers are deeply concerned, as even though a few taller peach trees have survived, their roots have been waterlogged for a week, making recovery highly unlikely.

       https://e.vnexpress.net/photo/environment/record-floods-from-typhoon-yagi-devastate-hanois-peach-blossom-hub-4793364.html

       The repair bill for flood-damaged houses in Chiang Rai's Mae Sai district alone is estimated at 500 million baht and the crisis is not over, with many areas of the border town still under water, a senior provincial official said on Monday.

       Kanchit Chumpoodaeng, director of the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation office in Chiang Rai, said the damage estimate was based on the number of houses and shops savaged by the huge flood in the district and the official rate set for repairs in the state budget, which is 49,500 baht for each house.

       He said at least 10,000 houses and shops in Mae Sai were confirmed flood-damaged and he expected the number would rise as the water drained off and officials were able to make a thorough survey.

       https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2866327/flood-damage-bill-in-mae-sai-already-tops-b500-million
     • joe90 1.1.2

       16 September 2024 at 8:33 pm

       In NW Africa…NE
   • joe90 1.2

     16 September 2024 at 8:31 pm

     …India, West Africa and Eastern Europe….

     At least 14 people have died in Uttar Pradesh due to heavy rainfall and subsequent flooding since Saturday. The victims include 10 people who were killed when a three-story house collapsed in the Zakir Nagar area of Meerut following torrential rains. "The death toll stands at 10 while five persons are alive. The rescue operations will continue till the entire debris is removed," District Magistrate Deepak Meena said after the accident in Meerut.

     https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/india/heavy-rainfall-claims-14-lives-in-uttar-pradesh/story

     The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has warned residents of Riv­ers of an impending flood within the next four weeks.

     The South-South Zonal Coordinator of NEMA, Mr. Adebiyi Razak, issued the warning during an interview with the News Agency of Ni­geria (NAN) in Port Harcourt on Sunday.

     Razak stated that NEMA had already begun prepar­ing residents to mitigate the impact of the flood as the in­tensity of rainfall increases in the South-South, particularly in Rivers.

     “In the next four weeks, the intensity of the rain will be high in Rivers, and we have already sensitised people in ar­eas prone to flash floods.

     “We have visited Ahoada West, Ahoada East, Andoni, Ndoni, Obio/Akpor, Oyigbo, and Tai local government ar­eas, as well as coastal areas that are likely to be impacted.

     “Tai has experienced flash floods, and two internally dis­placed persons (IDP) camps have been identified in the area,” he said.

     https://independent.ng/nema-warns-of-imminent-flood-in-rivers-in-weeks/

     YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 16, ARMENPRESS. The death toll from flooding in central Europe rose to eight on Sunday as thousands of people were evacuated from their homes in the Czech Republic following days of torrential rain that caused rivers to burst their banks in several parts of the region, Reuters reports.

     Storm Boris has triggered downpours from Austria to Romania, leading to some of the worst flooding in nearly three decades in hard-hit areas in the Czech Republic and Poland.

     More rain and strong winds are forecast until at least Monday, though the rain eased on Sunday in Romania, which bore the brunt of flooding a day earlier.

     Thousands of homes have been damaged over the weekend, bridges swept away and at least 250,000 households – mainly in the Czech Republic – were affected by power cuts.

     One person drowned in southwestern Poland on Sunday, a firefighter taking part in rescue efforts was killed in Austria and two more people were killed in Romania, where the floods claimed four lives on Saturday.

     .

     https://armenpress.am/en/article/1199913

     Meanwhile…

     Zimbabwe will cull 200 elephants as it faces an unprecedented drought that has led to food shortages, a move that will also allow it to tackle a ballooning population of the animals, the country's wildlife authority said this week.

     https://allafrica.com/stories/202409160021.html
2. joe90 2

   16 September 2024 at 8:06 pm

   lol

   

   @ClintVSmith

   Problem with picking such an obviously strapped statistic as 'serious assaults, in the Akl CBD, in a 7 month period', is it's clear the broader numbers are bad, or you would have used them. Why not all assaults, or all crimes? Why not all Akl or all NZ? Why only those months?

   @Aotearoa_Elbow

   ·National celebrating serious assaults being down in the CBD Auckland is a joke. Serious assaults January 1st – July 31st 2024 in Auckland are up. They have just shifted where in Auckland it's happening. Over all Auckland had 2000 more crimes compared to the same period last year.

   

   https://x.com/ClintVSmith/status/1835446519274860702

   Internal police data has revealed retail crime has continued to surge under the National-led Government, with a 17% increase in the first five months of 2024 compared to the same period last year.

   The data, released by the Dairy and Business Owners’ Group sourced from policedata.nz, showed there had been 8207 more theft and related offences such as shoplifting, 66 more cases of acts intended to cause injury like assaults and 17 more cases of sexual assaults and related offences over the period in question.

   Over the five months, shoplifting and theft spiked to 49,505 cases, up from 41,298 last year, and 1670 assault cases were attended by police, an increase from 1604.

   There was also a total of 106 sexual assaults, up from 89, according to the data.

   The data paints a unflattering picture ot the Government’s key policy pledge to crack down on retail crime with the introduction of new police initiatives to curb violence and anti-social behaviour.

   https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/police-data-reveals-2024-retail-crime-spike-business-group-says-situation-continues-to-worsen-despite-govt-promises/O5Q57T6R4NAWVICFI2CK45NCRI/

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