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The Derna dam collapses were the catastrophic failures of two dams in Derna, Libya, on the night of 10–11 September 2023, in the aftermath of Storm Daniel.The collapse of the Derna Dam and the Abu Mansour Dam released an estimated 30 million cubic meters (39 million cubic yards) of water, [6] [7] causing flooding downstream as the Wadi Derna overflowed its banks.
Flooding caused by heavy rainfall in January displaced thousands of refugees living in Beqaa, Lebanon.A storm, dubbed Norma, affected Lebanon between January 6 and 7, bringing floods and snow to ...
The Wadi Derna is a river valley in Libya which leads down from the Jebel Akhdar mountains to the port city of Derna. Like many other wadis in North Africa, it is an intermittent riverbed that for much of its length contains water only when heavy rain occurs. [1] It is 75 kilometres (47 mi) long [2] and drains a drainage basin of 575 km 2.
Mar. 24—Residents of the MarLee addition had angry words for Lebanon Mayor Matt Gentry over continual flooding issues in their neighborhood. Patrick Osbon said heavy rains and flooding cause a ...
Floods in Libya, most of the additional rainfall from the storm fell outside Wadi Derna's basin. The two dams sustained major damage in a storm in 1986, [54] and cracks were reported in both structures in 1998. [84] Derna's deputy mayor said that the dams had not been maintained since 2002 and were not built to withstand such volumes of water. [85]
Get the Mar Mikha'Il, Mount Lebanon local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
In 1999, during the South Lebanon conflict a clash broke out between Israel Defense Forces troops and Hezbollah fighters in Wadi Saluki in which two IDF soldiers and three Hezbollah fighters were killed in the fighting. Hezbollah announced that the incident was revenge for the assassination of their commander Ali Hassan Deeb.
The strike on Wadi al-Kfour in Nabatieh province is among the deadliest in Lebanon since the Hezbollah militant group and Israeli military started trading strikes on Oct. 8, a day after Hamas ...