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Tara Hollis couldn’t see any floodwaters when she first peered out the window at 5 a.m. on the morning of March 14. Cars still were driving by on the road, Hollis said. Half an hour later, water from the Loup River, which runs along the south side of the city into the Platte River, had crept up to the house she shared with her son, her boyfriend and her brother in Columbus, Neb., a city of about 22,000 people west of Omaha. By 9:30 a.m., the 27-year-old and her family were trapped on the second floor of the rental house as the water reached up to four feet on the first floor and the power went out, she said.

Dangerously high levels of water have forced hundreds of people in the American Midwest to evacuate their homes.

Joel and Victoria Osteen, leaders of Houston’s Lakewood Church, are offering a Hebrew “happy new year” greeting to a displaced Jewish congregation.

The death toll from Hurricane Irma, which devastated the state of Florida, has now risen to 11 people.

Irma is now a tropical storm, but cities in northeast Florida are still bracing for the storm’s winds and rains.

There’s no evidence hurricanes happen more frequently now than 100 years ago.

A little girl has been saved through the heroic last efforts of her mother, as the two of them were stranded in the floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey.

At least 21 people died and dozens more are still trapped after a monsoon storm devastated and collapsed a building in Mumbai.

Many amazing stories of bravery and heroism have been emerging in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. One such story is of a pregnant woman in labor who was rescued by people who formed a human chain.

Hurricane Harvey— now downgraded to Tropical Storm Harvey— made landfall again Wednesdayat the Texas-Louisiana border, bringing more rain after already flooding the city of Houston.