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Detailed explanation-1: -In Philippines, nearly 46,000 people have been evacuated from their homes after severe flood inundated central and southern parts of the nation of 110 million people yesterday.

Detailed explanation-2: -The flooding in South Australia is caused by vast amounts of rain that have fallen in the eastern Australian states of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, over the past three years. Much of that water has slowly flowed into the Murray River in South Australia.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1927 the Mississippi’s levees could not hold back the water from record precipitation and 27,000 square miles flooded over seven states resulting in a death toll of 246.