Month: April 2021

By Amanda Lamb, WRAL reporter Cary, N.C. — A Cary woman was glad rain was all they had to deal with while visiting her daughter in Nashville, Tennessee last month. While thousands of people across the deep south were dealing with damage left behind from devastating tornadoes, she felt relieved to be in Nashville. But on the night of March 27, water from those rains began to rise, forcing Lois Peterson, her pregnant daughter and…

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Landslides and flash floods from torrential rains in eastern Indonesia killed at least 41 people and displaced thousands, the country’s disaster relief agency said Sunday. More than two dozen others were still missing. Mud tumbled down from surrounding hills onto dozens of homes in Lamenele village shortly after midnight on Adonara island in East Nusa Tenggara province. Rescuers recovered 35 bodies and at least five injured, said Lenny Ola, who heads the…

By REBECCA SANTANA, Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Delta, which made landfall about 11 miles (about 18 kilometers) from where the devastating Hurricane Laura hit a little more than a month earlier, cost $2.9 billion in the United States and was linked to six deaths in the U.S. and Mexico, according to a report from the National Hurricane Center. The report released Tuesday details the hurricane’s origins, trajectory and things such as wind speed…