Flash floods in Arkansas killed three early Friday, including a sheriff attempting a water rescue.
June's flash floods there made 80, 000 people homeless and hit some farmers, especially vegetable-growers.
Flood water disturbed ground beneath Spencer Court, Newburn, Newcastle, damaging the foundations when a culvert collapsed during flash floods.
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Flash floods have wreaked havoc across Northern Ireland and parts of eastern Scotland.
In all three cases, vehicles were swept off the road in flash floods.
The flash floods struck in the early hours of Saturday as a passing tropical storm coincided with high tides.
The storm could cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides, the hurricane center warned.
Hills that offer cool respite have lost significant green cover to overzealous building, leading to mud slides and, recently, flash floods.
Near the nation's capital, emergency responders in Virginia's Loudoun County said they conducted water rescues early Thursday after some flash floods.
Dyfed-Powys Police received dozens of calls, including reports of roads becoming impassable due to flash floods and one of a stranded driver.
Flash floods hit the Lockyer valley area west of Brisbane on 10 January, before flood waters moved to Brisbane, Australia's third-largest city.
Scores more are still missing in Teluk Wondama district after flash floods and landslides that were triggered when a river burst its banks.
It says flash floods caused "chaos" on Tuesday in north-west England, "but despite the deluge the hosepipe ban remained firmly in place".
Buenos Aires and its suburbs have only three waste-water treatment plants for 10m residents, and often suffer flash floods that drench entire avenues.
The "Natural Mojave" galleries simulate flash floods and expose the variety of native wildlife that calls this desert home, from Gila monsters to big brown bats.
The problem was reportedly caused by flash floods in the Andes, which muddied the river Maipo and forced the closure of water processing plants.
Some residents have said the village has been affected more severely than during flash floods in 2007, when more than 150 homes were damaged.
In addition to water treatment and recycling, China has already initiated programs to limit the loss of human life and property damage caused by flash floods.
By Thursday, it had spread tens of thousands of power outages from Georgia to Connecticut, triggered flash floods and forced water rescues in areas outside Washington.
Residents of the Lockyer Valley, which was the scene of deadly flash floods in 2011, have also been told to evacuate as creeks and rivers rise.
Rainfall could cause "life-threatening" flash floods and mudslides, the center said, with some spots along the Oaxaca coast likely to get 12 to 15 inches of rain.
The Negev gets less than 100mm of rain per year, most of which is washed away in flash floods down mountainsides, so the use of irrigation is not necessarily new.
The heavy rain could trigger flash floods and additional mudslides.
Flash floods left as much as five inches of rain in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina, on Monday night, said Darin Figurskey, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Raleigh bureau.
There was also flooding around Kettering in Northamptonshire, and more than 20 people had to leave their homes after the village of Barley in Hertfordshire was hit by flash floods.
It has responded to tornadoes, flash floods and tropical storms around the United States, amassing a gallery of before-and-after images that span generations: a formal childhood portrait, rippled and flecked with dirt.
And then we had those very dangerous flash floods in Toowoomba and into the Lockyer Valley that cost people a lot of -- a lot of lives were lost because there was no warning.
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At one point Saturday, a storm and subsequent flash floods had knocked out power to about 12, 000 customers and spurred the closure of dozens of streets in San Antonio and the surrounding county, authorities said.
The 56km track is graded as a moderate hike, but involves some creek crossings and suffers frequent flash floods that can leave trekkers waiting it out en-route for several days until the trail becomes passable.
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