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Philippines: Tropical Depression Verbena Causes Flooding Across Negros

Tropical Depression Verbena made its fourth landfall in Vallehermoso, Negros Oriental, on Tuesday, November 25, causing severe flooding across several areas of the Visayas.

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Typhoon Matmo Landfall - China

Typhoon Matmo Landfall - China

A rescue vehicle tows a stranded car in Qinzhou City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on October 6, 2025. Typhoon Matmo, the 21st named storm of the 2025 Pacific typhoon season, made landfall along the coast of Guangxi on Monday, bringing strong winds and heavy rainfall. Photo by Ao Shuaichang/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japan: Man Pushes Car Stranded in Floodwater in Kumamoto

Bands of heavy rain lashed Kumamoto in southwestern Japan from Sunday night, August 10, into Monday, August 11, triggering flash flooding across the prefecture. This video shows a man pushing a vehicle stranded in floodwater near downtown Kumamoto during the downpour.

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Japan: Record Rainfall Triggers Flooding Across Greater Tokyo Area 4

On July 10, 2025, record rainfall over 100 mm per hour caused severe flooding in Tokyo and surrounding regions. Roads were submerged, rivers reached flood levels, and emergency alerts were issued. This video shows vehicles driving through a flooded road in Shibuya, Tokyo.

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Japan: Record Rainfall Triggers Flooding Across Greater Tokyo Area 5

On July 10, 2025, record rainfall over 100 mm per hour caused severe flooding in Tokyo and surrounding regions. Roads were submerged, rivers reached flood levels, and emergency alerts were issued. The Meguro River reached flood-risk levels, prompting alerts temporarily for possible evacuations in Shinagawa and Meguro wards.

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Japan: Waterfall-Like Leak at Shinjuku Station as Record Rainfall Hits Tokyo

On July 10, 2025, record-breaking rainfall hit during the evening rush hour, and a waterfall-like leak was seen inside Shinjuku Station, one of Tokyo’s major transit hubs. Rainfall over 100 mm per hour caused severe flooding in Tokyo and surrounding regions. Roads were submerged, rivers reached flood levels, and emergency alerts were issued.

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Japan: Record Rainfall Triggers Flooding Across Greater Tokyo Area

On July 10, 2025, record rainfall over 100 mm per hour caused severe flooding in Tokyo and surrounding regions. Roads were submerged, rivers reached flood levels, and emergency alerts were issued. This video shows a submerged car in the parking lot of an apartment complex in Kawasaki City, south of Tokyo.

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China: Man Rescues Shivering Puppies From Rain-Swept Road

In heavy rain on June 19, 2025, in Enshi, Hubei, a man stopped his car to rescue two soaked puppies huddled on a flooded road. Nearly hitting them, Mr. Wu carefully placed the shivering dogs in a bucket and took them home to care for them.

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Japan: Expressway Closed Due To Snow And Multi-Car Accident In Niigata

Parts of the southbound lane of the Kan-Etsu Expressway were shut down due to an accident involving multiple cars on Monday, February 17, snarling traffic. The northbound lane was also closed due to heavy snowfall that required concentrated snow removal.

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Japan: Expressway Closed Due To Snow And Multi-Car Accident In Niigata 2

Parts of the southbound lane of the Kan-Etsu Expressway were shut down due to an accident involving multiple cars on Monday, February 17, snarling traffic. The northbound lane was also closed due to heavy snowfall that required concentrated snow removal.

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In The Wake Of Floods Disaster - Valencia

In The Wake Of Floods Disaster - Valencia

A car stranded in a field, on November 14, 2024, in Alfafar, Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain. On October 29, a DANA hit the province of Valencia. The country's worst cold drop in a century resulted in 216 fatalities. Yesterday, another DANA passed through Valencia, much milder than the previous one. Cullera has been the municipality that has registered more rainfall exceeding 90 liters per square meter. Although yesterday, the AEMET activated the red alert in Valencia, today it has lowered it to yellow after the passage of the DANA. Also, the mobility of private vehicles is restricted from yesterday until 18 hours today. Photo by Jorge Gil/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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CHINA-FUJIAN-TYPHOON-GAEMI-PRECAUTIONS (CN)

CHINA-FUJIAN-TYPHOON-GAEMI-PRECAUTIONS (CN)

(240725) -- NINGDE, July 25, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Emergency staff members guide a stranded car to a safe area as huge waves lash the shore in Sansha Township of Xiapu County, southeast China's Fujian Province, July 25, 2024. East China's Fujian Province had relocated 156,800 residents as of 7 a.m. Thursday as Typhoon Gaemi, the third typhoon of this year, approaches, said local authorities. Meanwhile, 73 passenger ferry routes along the province's coast were suspended and 97 flights canceled. Over 29,000 people working on fishing rafts along its coast have been evacuated to the shore, and 733 fishing boats have taken shelter at ports and some 3,200 people aboard have been evacuated ashore, according to the provincial flood control office. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Jiang Kehong)

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Toronto Reels From Floods After Severe Storms - Canada

Toronto Reels From Floods After Severe Storms - Canada

A car is partially submerged in flood waters in the Don Valley following heavy rain in Toronto, ON, Canada, on Tuesday, July 16 2024. Record rainfall from three huge storms has flooded parts of Toronto, cut power and left drivers stranded on the major motorway through the city. Environment Canada reported that almost 100mm (4in) of rain fell on Toronto on Tuesday, surpassing the city's daily record set in 1941. The storm left more than 167,000 customers without power, according to Toronto Hydro. Photo by Arlyn McAdorey/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cable car accident kills 1, wounds 17 in Türkiye's Antalya

STORY: Cable car accident kills 1, wounds 17 in Türkiye's Antalya SHOOTING TIME: April 13, 2024 DATELINE: April 14, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:51 LOCATION: ANTALYA, Türkiye CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the cable car accident site in Antalya and rescue efforts (courtesy of Ihlas news agency) STORYLINE: One person was killed and 17 others injured late Friday when a cable car smashed into a pole in Türkiye's southern resort province of Antalya, the country's Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said Saturday. The injured have been subsequently hospitalized, the health minister said on social media platform X. Dozens of people were stranded in mid-air in many other pods for hours because the entire system had to be shut down by local authorities. A total of 137 people have been rescued, the semi-official Anadolu Agency reported, noting the individual killed was a 54-year-old Turkish man and that among the injured were two children. Emergency service workers were still on-site on Saturday afternoon to rescue

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Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Authorities rescue all stranded passengers by helicopters after a cable car accident, left one dead and seven others wounded, in Antalya, Turkey, on April 13, 2024. Photo by Zulkif Yıldırım/Depo Photos/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Authorities rescue all stranded passengers by helicopters after a cable car accident, left one dead and seven others wounded, in Antalya, Turkey, on April 13, 2024. Photo by Zulkif Yıldırım/Depo Photos/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Authorities rescue all stranded passengers by helicopters after a cable car accident, left one dead and seven others wounded, in Antalya, Turkey, on April 13, 2024. Photo by Zulkif Yıldırım/Depo Photos/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Authorities rescue all stranded passengers by helicopters after a cable car accident, left one dead and seven others wounded, in Antalya, Turkey, on April 13, 2024. Photo by Zulkif Yıldırım/Depo Photos/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

The last of 174 people stranded in cable cars high above a mountain in Antalya, southern Turkey were brought to safety on Saturday, April 13, 2024. The rescue operation was completed nearly 23 hours after one pod of a cable car hit a pole and burst open on Friday, killing one and injuring seven others as they plummeted to the rocks below. Hundreds were left stranded, with more than 40 people still stuck high above the mountain 19 hours after the incident. A total of 607 search and rescue personnel and 10 helicopters were involved, some with night-vision capabilities. Photo by Zulkif Yildirim/Depo Photos/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Authorities have successfully rescues all stranded passengers after a cable car accident, left one dead and seven others wounded, in Antalya, Turkey, on April 13, 2024. Photo by Zulkif Yildirim/Depo Photos/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

The last of 174 people stranded in cable cars high above a mountain in Antalya, southern Turkey were brought to safety on Saturday, April 13, 2024. The rescue operation was completed nearly 23 hours after one pod of a cable car hit a pole and burst open on Friday, killing one and injuring seven others as they plummeted to the rocks below. Hundreds were left stranded, with more than 40 people still stuck high above the mountain 19 hours after the incident. A total of 607 search and rescue personnel and 10 helicopters were involved, some with night-vision capabilities. Photo by Zulkif Yildirim/Depo Photos/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Authorities have successfully rescues all stranded passengers after a cable car accident, left one dead and seven others wounded, in Antalya, Turkey, on April 13, 2024. Photo by Zulkif Yildirim/Depo Photos/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

The last of 174 people stranded in cable cars high above a mountain in Antalya, southern Turkey were brought to safety on Saturday, April 13, 2024. The rescue operation was completed nearly 23 hours after one pod of a cable car hit a pole and burst open on Friday, killing one and injuring seven others as they plummeted to the rocks below. Hundreds were left stranded, with more than 40 people still stuck high above the mountain 19 hours after the incident. A total of 607 search and rescue personnel and 10 helicopters were involved, some with night-vision capabilities. Photo by Zulkif Yildirim/Depo Photos/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Authorities rescue all stranded passengers by helicopters after a cable car accident, left one dead and seven others wounded, in Antalya, Turkey, on April 13, 2024. Photo by Zulkif Yıldırım/Depo Photos/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

The last of 174 people stranded in cable cars high above a mountain in Antalya, southern Turkey were brought to safety on Saturday, April 13, 2024. The rescue operation was completed nearly 23 hours after one pod of a cable car hit a pole and burst open on Friday, killing one and injuring seven others as they plummeted to the rocks below. Hundreds were left stranded, with more than 40 people still stuck high above the mountain 19 hours after the incident. A total of 607 search and rescue personnel and 10 helicopters were involved, some with night-vision capabilities. Photo by Zulkif Yildirim/Depo Photos/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Rescue efforts are ongoing for 184 people stranded on the cable car line, following an accident that left one dead and several wounded at Antalya in south of Turkey. April 12, 2024. Photo by Emre Can Yadoglu/Depo Photos/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Rescue efforts are ongoing for 184 people stranded on the cable car line, following an accident that left one dead and several wounded at Antalya in south of Turkey. April 12, 2024. Photo by Emre Can Yadoglu/Depo Photos/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Rescue efforts are ongoing for 184 people stranded on the cable car line, following an accident that left one dead and several wounded at Antalya in south of Turkey. April 12, 2024. Photo by Emre Can Yadoglu/Depo Photos/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Rescue efforts are ongoing for 184 people stranded on the cable car line, following an accident that left one dead and several wounded at Antalya in south of Turkey. April 12, 2024. Photo by Emre Can Yadoglu/Depo Photos/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Rescue efforts are ongoing for 184 people stranded on the cable car line, following an accident that left one dead and several wounded at Antalya in south of Turkey. April 12, 2024. Photo by Emre Can Yadoglu/Depo Photos/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Rescue efforts are ongoing for 184 people stranded on the cable car line, following an accident that left one dead and several wounded at Antalya in south of Turkey. April 12, 2024. Photo by Emre Can Yadoglu/Depo Photos/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Rescue efforts are ongoing for 184 people stranded on the cable car line, following an accident that left one dead and several wounded at Antalya in south of Turkey. April 12, 2024. Photo by Emre Can Yadoglu/Depo Photos/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Rescue efforts are ongoing for 184 people stranded on the cable car line, following an accident that left one dead and several wounded at Antalya in south of Turkey. April 12, 2024. Photo by Emre Can Yadoglu/Depo Photos/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Cable Car Accident In Antalya - Turkey

Rescue efforts are ongoing for 184 people stranded on the cable car line, following an accident that left one dead and several wounded at Antalya in south of Turkey. April 12, 2024. Photo by Emre Can Yadoglu/Depo Photos/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Xinhua Headlines: China implements effective measures to tackle blizzard-induced travel disruptions

Xinhua Headlines: China implements effective measures to tackle blizzard-induced travel disruptions

(240205) -- BEIJING, Feb. 5, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A police officer fixes snow chains to the tires of a stranded car amid snow fall in Yuan'an County of Yichang, central China's Hubei Province, Feb. 3, 2024. (Photo by Wang Yang/Xinhua)

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CHINA-GUANGDONG-ZHANJIANG-TYPHOON TALIM-LANDING (CN)

CHINA-GUANGDONG-ZHANJIANG-TYPHOON TALIM-LANDING (CN)

(230718) -- ZHANJIANG, July 18, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on July 17, 2023 shows a car stranded by flood water in a street in Zhanjiang, south China's Guangdong Province. Typhoon Talim, the fourth typhoon this year, made landfall in the coastal area of south China's Guangdong Province on Monday night, according to the National Meteorological Center (NMC). (Xinhua/Deng Hua)

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Downpour in Osaka

Downpour in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Firefighters rescue a man from a car stranded on a road flooded due to heavy rain in Osaka, western Japan, on Aug. 18, 2012.

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Stranded train recovered in tsunami-hit Miyagi

Stranded train recovered in tsunami-hit Miyagi

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - A train car is lifted by crane in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, in northeastern Japan, on Dec. 8, 2011, to be loaded onto a trailer. East Japan Railway Co. began work the same day to recover a four-car train, which has been stranded there for nearly nine months since the March earthquake and tsunami, which heavily damaged the rail track and other facilities of the JR Senseki Line connecting Sendai with Ishinomaki.

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Snow hits western Japan

Snow hits western Japan

DAISEN, Japan - A Ground Self-Defense Force member refuels a car stranded on a snowy road in Daisen, Tottori Prefecture, on Jan. 1, 2011. Heavy snow blanketed the western Japan region causing about 1,000 motor vehicles to get stuck in traffic.

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Train collides with dump truck in Hokkaido

Train collides with dump truck in Hokkaido

FUKAGAWA, Japan - Passengers walk out of the five-car Super Kamui limited express train on the JR Hakodate Line after it collided with a dump truck stranded at a crossing in Fukagawa, Hokkaido, on Jan. 29, 2010. Among 102 people on board the train, 41 people sustained slight injuries.

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Stranded tourists brought down peak by cable car with standby motor

Stranded tourists brought down peak by cable car with standby motor

MIYATA, Japan - More than 1,000 tourists stranded on the 2,956-meter Mt. Komagatake in Nagano Prefecture after lightning hit a cable car system July 25 were brought down by the early morning of July 26 on cable cars run by a standby motor. The last group turned up nearly 14 hours after the cable car system was paralyzed.

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(1)Stranded tourists brought down peak

(1)Stranded tourists brought down peak

MIYATA, Japan - More than 1,000 tourists stranded on the 2,956-meter Mt. Komagatake in Nagano Prefecture after lightning hit a cable car system July 25 were brought down by the early morning of July 26 on cable cars run by a standby motor. The last group was brought down nearly 14 hours after the cable car system was paralyzed.

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CHINA-HAINAN-HAIKOU-SERVICE TEAM-STRANDED TOURISTS-RETURN (CN)

CHINA-HAINAN-HAIKOU-SERVICE TEAM-STRANDED TOURISTS-RETURN (CN)

(220819) -- HAIKOU, Aug. 19, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A member of the service team guides a car carrying stranded tourists to board a ship at Xinhai Port in Haikou, south China's Hainan Province, Aug. 16, 2022. Hainan is continuing its efforts to facilitate the return of tourists stranded in the province during the latest COVID-19 resurgence. Local authorities organized a special service team, helping stranded tourists return to their homes in time. (Xinhua/Zhang Liyun)

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CHINA-HAINAN-HAIKOU-SERVICE TEAM-STRANDED TOURISTS-RETURN (CN)

CHINA-HAINAN-HAIKOU-SERVICE TEAM-STRANDED TOURISTS-RETURN (CN)

(220819) -- HAIKOU, Aug. 19, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A member of the service team guides a car carrying stranded tourists to board a ship at Xinhai Port in Haikou, south China's Hainan Province, Aug. 16, 2022. Hainan is continuing its efforts to facilitate the return of tourists stranded in the province during the latest COVID-19 resurgence. Local authorities organized a special service team, helping stranded tourists return to their homes in time. (Xinhua/Zhang Liyun)

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Ukrainians camp out at train station on Hungary-Ukraine border

STORY: Ukrainians camp out at train station on Hungary-Ukraine border DATELINE: March 1, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:54 LOCATION: ZAHONY, Hungary CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the train station 2. various of Ukrainian at the train station 3. SOUNDBITE (English): ANNA DOBRINA, Mother of a 13-year-old boy STORYLINE: The small local train station in Zahony, a town on the Hungary-Ukraine border, was filled with Ukrainians - mostly women and children -- fleeing their country on Monday. They were waiting for trains to take them to other parts of Hungary or Europe. At the station's main entrance, humanitarian organizations, such as the International Red Cross, have set up tents to provide food, hot or cold beverages, and blankets to the stranded crowds. The station's parking lot was filled with vans, buses and cars as it was also a rendezvous point for those with relatives or friends in Hungary. A group of young women with their children were waiting for a car to be sent by their employer, a Frenc

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MIDEAST-GAZA-RAFAH-HEAVY RAIN

MIDEAST-GAZA-RAFAH-HEAVY RAIN

(220116) -- RAFAH, Jan. 16, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A car is stranded on a flooded street following heavy rain, in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, on Jan. 16, 2022. (Photo by Khaled Omar/Xinhua)

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CHINA-SHAANXI-XI'AN-COVID-19-SHARED KITCHEN (CN)

CHINA-SHAANXI-XI'AN-COVID-19-SHARED KITCHEN (CN)

(220105) -- XI'AN, Jan. 5, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Volunteers transport foods onto a car for delivery in Yanta District of Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Jan. 4, 2022. Located in Yanta District of Xi'an, Deshan shared kitchen was run as an "anti-cancer kitchen", providing convenience for cancer patients and their families to cook meals. Xu Kai, founder of the shared kitchen, transformed this "anti-cancer kitchen" into a "fight-against-epidemic kitchen" after the city has been hit by the recent COVID-19 resurgence. Up to now, more than 30 volunteers have joined the food delivery activities of the kitchen to help not only cancer patients and their families who are stranded in Xi'an, but also some personnel who work for the prevention and control of the COVID-19 epidemic. (Xinhua/Zhang Bowen)

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THE HUMAN STAIN

THE HUMAN STAIN

THE HUMAN STAIN [US / GER / FR 2003] NICOLE KIDMAN Date: 2003

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Downpours cause massive floods in eastern Japan

Downpours cause massive floods in eastern Japan

A person awaits being rescued on top of a car while a helicopter hovers above cars stranded by flooding of the Kinugawa River in Joso, Ibaraki Prefecture, in eastern Japan, in a photo taken Sept. 10, 2015, from a Kyodo News helicopter. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Torrential rain causes floods, landslides in eastern Japan

Torrential rain causes floods, landslides in eastern Japan

A man is stranded on the roof of a car on a flooded road in Joso, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Sept. 10, 2015, as the Kinugawa River floods residential areas in torrential rain. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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