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known to have died in nigeria as a result of severe flooding and meteorologists say the torrential rain is likely to continue until at least the end of november. the government is urging the state authorities to evacuate those living in vulnerable areas as soon as possible. wendy urquhart reports. others are stocked up on sandbags to keep the water out, but the sheer brute force of the floods made that impossible. flash flooding has displaced at least 1.3 million people in nigeria and some 200,000 homes have been completely washed away. the water released from several dams which were supposed to
that water out, and as it approaches closer, all that water comes with it, right? and there you go. it empties out first. then behind it a rising wall of water. what do folks do in that situation? if they re experiencing it, and that water is rising so quickly, it looks like the prepass to a tsunami there. well, in this particular scenario you described, we have called for evacuations for zone a and zone b. folks should be gone right n nowp people are being warned that
it s because it won t stay on my head. really, officials don t want people out on the streets here anymore, for obvious reasons. we ve seen a lot of police cars, not much else besides that. the reason, you can see a kind of twisted big piece of metal siding that ripped off something on the streets here as the wind just tears through this entire area. and, again, it s the duration here because, erin, as you can imagine, the storm moving up the peninsula. tampa will be in this for many, many hours. again, not like punta gorda, but the concern here is the sustained winds and the driving rain could knock out power, could affect services. you re talking about hundreds of thousands of people in a city like this that could be affected over the next 24 hours. those images we saw of the bay, that it had gone out. it s usually many feet deep at that point. it s like a tsunami, it pulls all that water out, and then it s going to come back in with full force.