Storm Daniel is deadliest cyclone since 2008, causing over 11.000 casualties and still counting

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https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/11/africa/libya-flooding-storm-daniel-climate-intl/index.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/11/libya-derna-flooding-storm-daniel/







https://twitter.com/AttentiveCEE/status/1701495663564128488

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Over 200mm reported in Derna, Over 400mm reported in neighbouring Bayda city. Which is about the rainfall they usually get over 1 year, perhaps even 2 years. I've read some unconfirmed reports of 500 mm / 20 inches.

Two dams are reported to have collapsed.

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This was the same storm that was responsible for floods in Greece, Turkey & Bulgaria earlier this weak, now the storm is heading to western Egypt.



https://twitter.com/powerwil96/status/1701296244176417083

https://twitter.com/AttentiveCEE/status/1701271970967695790

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/12/libya-floods-death-toll-dams-burst

Libya: 10,000 missing after unprecedented floods, says Red Cross

The health minister in the administration that controls the east of Libya said more than 3,000 people had been confirmed dead. “The number of missing people is in the thousands, and the number of dead is expected to reach 10,000,” Othman Abdel Jalil told Al-Massar TV channel.

[CumbrianLefty]

Another country that can't catch a break.

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3500 now reported dead, over 10.000 missing

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Same storm btw that earlier last week struck Greece and that apparently has gotten no thread here.

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

North Africa's worst flood in nearly a century - appalling scale. Almost certainly the worst loss of life in Libya since the 2011 revolution, and that was over months.

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[CumbrianLefty]

Same storm btw that earlier last week struck Greece and that apparently has gotten no thread here.

To state the obvious, there was nothing stopping you from starting one.

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Same storm btw that earlier last week struck Greece and that apparently has gotten no thread here.

To state the obvious, there was nothing stopping you from starting one.

A week after it happened?

I'm not a frequent international general discussion poster.

But instead we get threads like "Has Rishi Sunak Governed to the Right of Giorgia Meloni so far", which actually should've been posted in individual politics, and not here.

[CumbrianLefty]

Same storm btw that earlier last week struck Greece and that apparently has gotten no thread here.

To state the obvious, there was nothing stopping you from starting one.

A week after it happened.

I'm not a frequent international general discussion poster.

You will note I used a past tense. And you do seem to post here a fair bit tbph

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Daniel#Libya

We're just gonna merge it since it's the same storm.

Storm Daniel, also known as Cyclone Daniel, was the deadliest and costliest Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone ever recorded as well as the deadliest cyclone worldwide since Cyclone Nargis in 2008. It was also the deadliest weather event of 2023 to date.

[It’s so Joever]

Truly horrifying. I doubt this helps with the goal of eventual unification of what is a de facto split country.

[TheReckoning]

Stormy Daniels caused a lot more than $6800 in losses.

Wait, what’s this thread about again?

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

This storm saw the damage the Sea People's are said to have done and said "nah, not enough".

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Stormy Daniels caused a lot more than $6800 in losses.

Wait, what’s this thread about again?

"deaths"

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The city of Derna hasn’t even recovered from the brutal shelling of the city for several years when it was under a civil war, the city is practically gone.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Same storm btw that earlier last week struck Greece and that apparently has gotten no thread here.

It was the worst storm we have experienced as long as I live and it devastated Thesally which is our country's breadbasket. According to our experts it will be at least two years before we return to some semblance of normalcy.
Fortunately we only had only a handful of dead and missings, 15-20.

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“Essentially there is a military presence that is creating bottlenecks rather than being conducive to the provision of relief,” said Emadeddin Badi, an analyst on Libya with the Atlantic Council. “The main thrust of relief efforts was not facilitated by the military leadership, which had a vested interest in appearing in control while skirting responsibility and victim-blaming, but instead by volunteers, medical teams, Red Crescent, boy scouts and foreign search and rescue teams.”

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Jalel Harchaoui, a specialist on Libya and associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, pointed to Saddam Haftar’s efforts to demonstrate control over international aid teams arriving in Derna and how this has slowed vital disaster response in a time of crisis: “Everything is concentrated in the hands of the Haftar family. I wish I could tell you that there are other power centres in eastern Libya, but there’s no such thing.”

https://theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/17/ibya-floods-derna-warlord-khalifa-haftar-libyan-national-army

Also TIL Haftar literally has a son named Saddam.

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Same storm btw that earlier last week struck Greece and that apparently has gotten no thread here.

It was the worst storm we have experienced as long as I live and it devastated Thesally which is our country's breadbasket. According to our experts it will be at least two years before we return to some semblance of normalcy.
Fortunately we only had only a handful of dead and missings, 15-20.

I've seen coverage from that and I agree. It seemed very bad and apocalyptic.