How The World Is Grappling With Natural Disasters In The Middle Of A Full-Blown Pandemic

Car damaged by a fallen tree after cyclone Nisarga hit the coast of Maharashtra today.?The India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted the landfall process to last for three whole hours between 1 pm and 4 pm.

A woman walks in flooded water during heavy rainfall in Miami on May 26, 2020. Residents of South Florida couldn't enjoy the recent reopening of restaurants, businesses, and beaches after almost two months of quarantine due to the pandemic. Three consecutive days of heavy rain meant six inches of standing water and severe floods in Miami and other coastal cities.

Flood damage?to?Michigan Highway 30 is seen at Wixom Lake?in?Michigan, after?floodwaters?took out the bridge.

School buses in Sanford rammed into each other on May 21, 2020, Michigan, after the area saw heavy flooding. More than 10,000 residents evacuated their homes in Michigan after two dams failed. Governor Gretchen Whitmer declared a state of emergency in Midland County, the site of the breached dams, in the towns of Edenville and Sanford.

An aerial view shows flooded houses and buildings in Shyamnagar after a dam broke following the landfall of cyclone Amphan in West Bengal.?Many were rendered homeless as the cyclone cut through half-a-dozen districts of West Bengal, including state capital?Kolkata?on May 20, blowing away shanties, uprooting thousands of trees and swamping low-lying areas.?

A boy sits on a chair in a flooded residential area caused by heavy rain in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Floods triggered by incessant rain have damaged 292 houses in Setia Bakti and Darul Hikmah Sub-districts, Aceh Jaya District, Aceh Province.

Heavy rains and strong winds along with lightning on Sunday night damaged crops in rural Nagpur areas. The roofs of many houses in the Gaothan area of ??Banwadi village fell away.

A family collects their belongings from the rubble of a damaged house in the aftermath of cyclone Amphan, in South 24 Parganas district in the eastern state of West Bengal, India.

Police officers carry a disabled man to a safer place following his evacuation from a slum area before cyclone Amphan made landfall, in Kolkata.

The volunteers of Indian Red Cross Society organisation fix the homes of villagers after cyclone Amphan, the equivalent of a category-3 hurricane, hit the area in Bhadrak district of Odisha state, India.