Jesus Hernandez guides his granddaughter Angelina via a container through a street flooded in the passing of Hurricane Helene, in Batabano, Mayabeque province, Cuba, Thursday, Sept 26, 2024. – AP
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia is dealing with floods in the north of the peninsula but this is not a problem endemic to one country.
Many countries around the world, from the United States to Japan, are grappling with serious floods.
One thing remains constant – local authorities have to deal with the fallout as the people pick up the storm-battered pieces and rebuild their lives.
Jesus Hernandez guides his granddaughter Angelina via a container through a street flooded in the passing of Hurricane Helene, in Batabano, Mayabeque province, Cuba, Thursday, Sept 26, 2024. – AP
People clean up after major flooding in the Kalaw township in Myanmar's southern Shan state on Sept 19, 2024, following heavy rains in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi. – AFP
People remove mud to dislodge a car following flooding in Wajima city, Ishikawa prefecture on Sept 22, 2024. Heavy rain lashed central Japan with floods and landslides leaving one dead and at least six missing in an area already devastated by a major earthquake this year. – AFP
Volunteers rescue people from a flooded locality after heavy monsoon rains, in Vijayawada, India on Sept 2, 2024. Intense monsoon rains and floods in India's southern states have killed at least 25 people, with thousands rescued and taken to relief camps. – AFP
People carrying relief materials wade through flood waters in Feni, in south-eastern Bangladesh, on Aug 24, 2024. Nearly 300,000 Bangladeshis were taking refuge in emergency shelters from floods that inundated vast areas of the low-lying South Asian country, disaster officials said. The floods were triggered by heavy monsoon rains and have killed at least 42 people in Bangladesh and India since the start of the week, many in landslides. – AFP
A man looks on as debris washed away from flooding is seen piled by houses along the Tsukada river following heavy rain in Wajima city, Ishikawa prefecture Japan on Sept 23, 2024. Heavy rain that triggered floods and landslides on a Japanese peninsula recovering from an earthquake this year killed at least six people, local media reported. – AFP
People commute through a waterlogged road after heavy rainfall in Gurgaon, India on Aug 11, 2024. – AFP
Commuters wade through a flooded street in Sylhet, Bangladesh on June 20, 2024. Torrential rains in Bangladesh have triggered landslides burying alive at least nine people and forcing thousands to flee to higher ground, police and government officials in the low-lying nation said on June 19. In Sylhet, lashing rain and rivers swollen by flooding upstream in India also swamped heavily populated areas. – AFP
A father searches for his missing 14-year-old daughter among debris washed away from flooding along the Tsukada river following heavy rain in Wajima city, Ishikawa prefecture on Sept 23, 2024. – AFP
Residents of Kampung Sungai Kechil in Nibong Tebal, Penang after flash floods hit on Sept 17. – Bernama
A man inspects damage to his house after Hurricane Helene made landfall in Horseshoe Beach, Florida, on Sept 28, 2024. At least 44 people died across five US states battered by powerful storm Helene, authorities said. – AFP
An his image from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Helene on Sept 26, 2024. Residents heeded mass evacuation orders and fled ahead of the incoming hurricane, projected to be one of the largest Gulf of Mexico storms in decades. – AFP/NOAA/GOES
An aerial view of the flooded Arena GNP tennis court following Hurricane John in Acapulco, Guerrero State, Mexico, on Sept 27, 2024. Mexican troops scrambled Friday to help victims of a hurricane that battered the Pacific coast, including the beach resort of Acapulco, which is still recovering from a devastating storm last year. – AFP
A man carrying a sack of flour wades through flood waters after the Bagmati River overflowed following heavy monsoon rains in Kathmandu, Nepal on Sept 28, 2024. – AFP
In this aerial image of the Kathmandu valley, Bagmati River is seen flooded due to heavy rains in Kathmandu, Nepal, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. – AP
An American flag sits in floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in the Shore Acres neighborhood on Sept 27, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Florida. – AP
The Rocky Broad River flows into Lake Lure and overflows the town with debris from Chimney Rock, North Carolina after heavy rains from Hurricane Helene on Sept 28, 2024, in Lake Lure, North Carolina. Approximately six feet of debris piled on the bridge from Lake Lure to Chimney Rock, blocking access. – Getty Images/AFP
