Water, Oceans & Ice

HEFEI, China, Nov. 19 (UPI) — More than 640,000 people in east China’s Anqing City have suffered power outages due to unexpectedly heavy snow this week, the local power company said.
Almost 115,600 people still had no power by Thursday afternoon, Hu Xiaoyan, press officer with the Anqing Municipal Electric Power Company, told the official [...]

GREENBELT, Md., Nov. 19 (UPI) — NASA says its Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite measured last week’s heavy rainfall that drenched the U.S. east coast.
Space agency meteorologists said the precipitation was caused by Tropical Storm Ida, which moved ashore early Nov. 10 and then quickly weakened to a tropical depression. NASA said a strong [...]

BRUSH, Colo., Nov. 18 (UPI) — Aviation officials say they’re investigating why a piece of ice fell from the sky and into the kitchen of a Brush, Colo., woman.
DaNelle Hagan says she was lucky she wasn’t sitting in the wrong place in her home Saturday morning when the bowling ball-sized ice chunk came crashing [...]

SAN SALAVADOR, El Salvador, Nov. 18 (UPI) — More than 15,000 people in El Salvador have been displaced by recent flooding caused by heavy rainfall and Hurricane Ida, Oxfam International said.
The international organization dedicated to fighting poverty worldwide said in a release Tuesday thousands of El Salvador residents are living in shelters in the [...]

COLUMBIA, S.C., Nov. 17 (UPI) — It’s safe again to swim and fish in South Carolina’s Saluda, Congaree and Broad rivers, state officials monitoring sewage overflow from recent storms say.
A ban on use of the rivers was lifted Monday, nearly a week after the tail end of Tropical Storm Ida drenched pollution control facilities [...]