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Ellen DeGeneres’s UK home floods weeks after her move to the UK following Donald Trump’s victory

Ellen DeGeneres’s UK home floods weeks after her move to the UK following Donald Trump’s victory

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Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Ellen DeGeneres’s new home in England has flooded. The former talk show host and her wife, Portia de Rossi, recently bought a house in the Cotswolds, which is around a two-hour drive from London. She moved to England after Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidental election. The flood was caused by Storm Bert in the U.K., which featured days of torrential rain and wind speeds of up to 80mph. During the storm, the River Thames broke its banks, which happened to be right next to DeGeneres’s and de Rossi’s 43-acre property. “The flood waters are rising by the hour. This is the worst I have seen it in years,” a local resident told The Mail about the aftermath of the storm. The couple’s …

Storm Bert: Father rescues son from sinking car as floods wreak havoc | UK News

Storm Bert: Father rescues son from sinking car as floods wreak havoc | UK News

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Tragedy almost struck a family in West Yorkshire after a father had to suddenly rescue his 11-month-old son from their flooded car. Andre Randles, 22, was driving with baby Luca from Hebden Bridge to his father’s home in Todmorden to watch a football match on Saturday afternoon. He was diverted away from his main route when he hit a dip and went “straight into a puddle of water”. Speaking to Sky’s Shingi Mararike, Mr Randles said he thought it was a shallow puddle that he could drive through but soon his car began to float. Storm Bert live: Follow latest updates Image: Andre with his 11-month-old son Luca Image: Andre Randles’ partner Paige Newsome said the incident was ‘really scary’ He called emergency services but soon “water started seeping in”. “I thought I’m going to have to get out, I’m going to have to smash a window,” Mr Randles said. He wound down his and his son’s windows, and climbed out before rescuing his son. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player …

Real Madrid’s LaLiga match against Valencia postponed due to deadly floods | Football News

Real Madrid’s LaLiga match against Valencia postponed due to deadly floods | Football News

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The Spanish Football Federation adjusted this week’s LaLiga schedule in response to the disaster. Real Madrid’s away match at Valencia this weekend has been postponed by the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) due to floods that have killed more than 95 people. Villarreal’s home match against Rayo Vallecano was also suspended after the flash floods in eastern Spain. LaLiga asked the RFEF to postpone Valencia’s and Villarreal’s matches on Saturday as well as three second-division games involving teams from affected areas. “It has been agreed to postpone matches that were to be played in professional and non-professional competitions, both in 11-a-side football and in indoor football [in the Valencia region],” the RFEF said in a statement on Thursday. The federation had already postponed several midweek Copa del Rey first-round matches, including Valencia’s game against Parla Escuela. A moment of silence for the flood victims will be held at matches this weekend in Spain, including league leaders Barcelona’s Catalan derby against Espanyol on Sunday. Source link

At least 11 killed and dozens missing as Chinese bridge collapses amid floods | China

At least 11 killed and dozens missing as Chinese bridge collapses amid floods | China

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Torrential rain has caused a bridge to collapse in northern China, killing 11 people and leaving more than 30 missing, state media has said. The bridge over a river in Shangluo, Shaanxi province, buckled at about 8.40pm on Friday “due to a sudden downpour and flash floods”, the Xinhua agency said, citing the provincial public relations department. The state broadcaster CCTV said nearly 20 vehicles and more than 30 people remained missing. The 11 confirmed victims were found inside five vehicles that had been recovered from the water, CCTV said. Images on state TV showed a partially submerged section of the bridge with the river rushing over it. One witness told local media he had approached the bridge but other drivers started “yelling at me to brake and stop the car”. “A truck in front of me didn’t stop and fell into the water,” said the witness. The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, has called for “all-out efforts” to find those still missing, CCTV said. Large portions of northern and central China have been battered since …

Brazil’s devastating floods hit ‘Black population on the periphery’ hardest | Brazil

Brazil’s devastating floods hit ‘Black population on the periphery’ hardest | Brazil

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It had been raining for nearly a week when the floodwaters first reached Marcelo Moreira Ferreira’s home in Porto Alegre, the capital of Brazil’s southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul. His wife and their four children left to seek shelter with relatives, but Ferreira, 51, wanted to stay: his father had built the modest one-storey structure and he had lived there his entire life. By morning, however, the muddy water was up to his chest, and he knew he had no choice but to flee. The house spent nearly a month under the stinking water, polluted by sewage, dead animals, food waste and the fuel from thousands of submerged vehicles. Marcelo Moreira Ferreira. Photograph: Supplied When Ferreira returned on a recent morning to start cleaning up, a brown stain about 1.8 metrefs (6ft) up the walls still marked the high water mark. To help mask the stench, he lit some incense. Then he surveyed the ruin: everything his family once owned was in an immense pile of debris in front of the house, waiting for …

After Floods, Brazil Has a Surge in Homeless Pets

After Floods, Brazil Has a Surge in Homeless Pets

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When the two puppies arrived at a makeshift shelter in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, their rail-thin legs buckled from exhaustion. They had treaded water for hours, fighting to survive as floods submerged the city, turning streets into rivers. “We tried to get them to walk, but they couldn’t,” said Dr. Daniel Guimarães Gerardi, a veterinarian volunteering at the shelter. “Your heart aches at times like these, for these poor animals suffering.” Two days after being rescued, the 6-month-old mutts — one tiger-striped, the other jet black — mostly dozed on donated blankets amid chew toys, still drained from their ordeal. When awake, they wobbled around the shelter on unsteady legs, tails wagging and ears pinned back tightly. They wore no name tags, and since they were found on May 21 nobody had come looking for them. “We hope that, if they have caregivers, they will be found,” Dr. Guimarães said. If not, he added, the aim will be to find them a good, safe home. More than a month after catastrophic floods …

Brazil is reeling from catastrophic floods. What went wrong – and what does the future hold? | Brazil

Brazil is reeling from catastrophic floods. What went wrong – and what does the future hold? | Brazil

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When the torrential rain began to swallow her city block, Cristiane Batista, 34, grabbed her three children, a couple of backpacks and her smartphone and waited at the door, hoping to be picked up by the municipal trucks preparing to evacuate the population of Muçum, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. “I was terrified. The house was about to flood. We had to get out of there,” she says. Batista, her husband, Jeferson, 34, and their children – who range in age from one to eight – had already been victims of the extreme weather of Brazil’s southernmost state twice last year. In September 2023, Muçum and its nearly 5,000 inhabitants were at the centre of the devastation caused by floods, which left scores of people – including 15 people in a single Muçum house. “We lost everything,” she says. Two months later, the city was hit by another fierce bout of rain. The storm destroyed furniture and appliances and left walls stained with mud. After losing everything for the third time, …

Disease and hunger soar in Latin America after floods and drought, study finds | Climate crisis

Disease and hunger soar in Latin America after floods and drought, study finds | Climate crisis

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Hunger and disease are rising in Latin America after a year of record heat, floods and drought, a report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has shown. The continent, which is trapped between the freakishly hot Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, probably suffered tens of thousands of climate-related deaths in 2023, at least $21bn (£17bn) of economic damage and “the greatest calorific loss” of any region, the study found. The climate chaos, caused by a combination of human-driven global heating and a natural El Niño effect, is continuing with devastating floods in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, which have killed at least 95 people and deluged swathes of farmland after the world’s hottest April in human history. Global heat records have now been broken for 11 months in a row, causing death and destruction across many parts of the planet. Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced some of the worst effects. In a summary of last year’s toll in this region, the WMO said disasters and climate change, along with socioeconomic shocks, are …