ORANGE ALERT A rubber glove, used as a marker, bobs in floodwaters in Fox Lake, Illinois. More snow and rain threaten to exacerbate flooding conditions in the Midwest from Oklahoma through Michigan, which has led to at least three deaths. (Photo: Jim Young / Reuters via The Telegraph)
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QUACKED UP A duck swam past a window, viewed from inside an eye-care center, in a building in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan. The National Weather Service reported Monday that the Grand River peaked at around 21.85 feet, topping the 1985 record of 19.64 feet. Previous days’ water levels are marked on the wall. (Photo: Cory Morse / The Grand Rapids Press via The AP / The Wall Street Journal)
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UH-QUARIUM A fish is seen in floodwaters outside an office window in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Residents and officials are expecting rivers in the Midwest, including the Mississippi, to surge following record rainfall; some towns have already been inundated. (Photo: Lynn Clay via WOOD TV / NBC News)
An aerial view shows a car and boat navigating a flooded street in La Plata, Argentina. At least 54 people have died — 48 in La Plata alone — after record floods inundated parts of the country. (Photo: Reuters via The Guardian)
…OR NOT TV A man uses the cover of a hot tub to move a television set through floodwaters at Cornubia, Queensland, on Jan. 29. Massive summer floods have killed four people and forced thousands to evacuate their homes across the Australian states of Queensland and New South Wales, according to local authorities. (Photo: Reuters via NBC News)
The Guardian’s gallery of photos from Venice underwater is positively fascinating. For one, keeping all that electrical work above the waterline so that residents don’t get electrocuted is amazing. And I know the deluge is a regular event, but this year’s floods are the worst seen in years, and… climate change, anyone?
The casket of Nelida Gregorio, 89, who died of a heart attack, gets lifted up into a gravesite in a flooded cemetery next to the swollen Pampanga River in Bulakan, the Philippines on Wednesday. A tropical storm hit northern Luzon island, bringing days of wet weather to a region still recovering from massive flooding. According to the Office of Civil Defense the floods have left at least 96 people dead with the flooding affecting almost 2.7 million people, including more than 440,000 fleeing to evacuation centers, in Manila and surrounding provinces. (Photo: Paula Bronstein / Getty Images via NBC News)
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Homes are submerged in the northern Philippines city of Baguio after tropical storm Kai-Tak, known locally as Helen, struck the country on Wednesday. This monsoon season has been particularly devastating, with the capital city of Manila about 80 percent submerged at one point; hundreds of thousands of families remain displaced and at least 97 people have died. (Photo: Reuters via The Guardian)
Residents use pedicabs to cross floodwaters in a street in Valenzuela, on the outskirts of Manila, on August 13. Philippine authorities rushed relief supplies to the country’s remote north on Tuesday in preparation for a new storm, which was also expected to dump heavy rain on parts of central and southern Luzon. More than 300,000 Filipinos remain in shelters; the death toll from recent storms and flooding reached 95. (Photo: AFP via Yahoo News)
People displaced by rising river levels after torrential rain return to their home in San Mateo, outside Manila, the Philippines. At least 60 people have died and 2.4 million residents affected; cleanup efforts have begun with floodwaters beginning to recede. (Photo: Noel Celis / AFP-Getty via The Guardian)
A child sits atop a traffic post on a flooded street in suburban Manila. More than 900,000 residents have been displaced and up to two million people affected throughout a wide swath of Metro Manila and surrounding provinces on the island of Luzon; at least 23 people have died. (Photo: Jay Directo / AFP-Getty via The Telegraph)
Heartbreaking.
Rescuers carry residents on a boat along flooded areas in Marikina, east of Manila, Philippines. (Photo: Aaron Favila / AP via The Telegraph)
A man carried a monitor through a flooded road in Marikina, east of Manila, Philippines. Widespread flooding that killed at least 23 people, battered a million others and paralyzed the Philippine capital briefly eased on Wednesday. (Photo: Aaron Favila / AP via The Wall Street Journal)
DELUGE Residents swam through floodwaters as others waited for help on their roofs after torrential rains caused a river to overflow in Manila Tuesday. Approximately one-third of the city is underwater; more than 50 people have been killed and 250,000 evacuated in the worst flooding since 2009. (Photo: Noel Celis / AFP-Getty via The Wall Street Journal)
