Flood-stranded Texans in the Houston area took to social media on Sunday with desperate pleas to be rescued from their homes as Tropical Storm Harvey and its torrential rains slowly lumbered across the region.

Tropical Storm Harvey caused widespread flooding in Houston, America’s fourth largest city, inundating homes and submerging highways on Sunday as residents hunkered down in anticipation of several more days of “unprecedented” rainfall.

Benue Radio Station, Wurukum Market and seven other communities have being submerged following Saturday night heavy downpour in Makurdi.

THE Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation, NAIC, yesterday, assured flood affected farmers with valid documents of claims evidencing their insurance cover of succor.

AGGAH—A STORMINGflood has again overrun the agrarian Aggah community in Egbema, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area, Rivers State, constraining the sacked villagers to sleep on tables and slabs at accessible spaces in their swamped dwellings and shops.

Over 100 people in Jajimaji, Karasuwa Local Government Area of Yobe, have been rendered homeless by flood that took over the area after a heavy down pour, newsmen report.

Not less than I50 people were reported dead after a flood ravaged India.

At least 221 people have died and more than 1.5 million have been displaced by monsoon flooding across India, Nepal and Bangladesh, officials said Tuesday, as rescuers scoured submerged villages for the missing.

Two communities in Kogi, Okudigbo and Odochala in Ibaji Local Government have been submerged by flood which also destroyed property.

INSURED victims of floods that ravaged some parts of Lagos State recently are already filing their claims, even as insurance companies paid N168.44 million claims on flood mishaps in 2015. 

DETERMINED to address the perennial flooding problem in the state, Delta State Government has deployed swamp buggies and other heavy duty equipment to the Asaba capital territory  to clear blocked natural water canals and drainages.

WORRIED by the havoc flood was causing in parts of Delta State, the state government has, again, warned those leaving in flood-prone areas to move to higher and safer grounds.

Flood has wrecked havoc in over 30 communities in Ughelli North and Ughelli South Local Government areas of Delta State, destroying property and farmlands worth millions of naira.

Heavy rains, combined with poor drainage systems and blocked waterways, cause rainwater to flow through commercial and residential dwellings

Floods have destroyed many property and rendered thousands homeless in Benue and Katsina States, newsmen, report.