Students leave school via a bamboo bridge after the area was hit by floods in Gazipur, Bangladesh on September 12, 2021. (Photo by Harun-Or-Rashid/Eyepix Group/Rex Features/Shutterstock)
A woman runs through a sea foam, as a seasonal cold front moved over the Cape Peninsula, following a week of severe weather and flooding in Cape Town, South Africa on June 19, 2023. (Photo by Nic Bothma/Reuters)
A woman wades through floodwaters next to rescue workers after remnants of Typhoon Doksuri brought rains and floods in Beijing, China on August 2, 2023. (Photo by Tingshu Wang/Reuters)
A man carries a child as he wades trough a flooded road following heavy rains in Strand, Western Cape, South Africa on September 25, 2023. (Photo by Esa Alexander/Reuters)
Allison Crane walks out of her flooded neighborhood after Hurricane Beryl passed in Galveston, Texas, U.S. July 8, 2024. (Photo by Rich Matthews/Reuters)
Sally Gomez drives to rescue of friend Michele Moore in flooded parking lot at Hyannis, Mass., September 9, 1969, after torrential rains of Hurricane Gerda flooded low areas of Cape Cod. Ann Davis of Osterville stands up in roof opening to lend a hand. Sally and Michele are from Centerville on the Cape. (Photo by Frank C. Curtin/AP Photo)
A flood affected family moves on a banana raft past a fishing net in Morigaon district, east of Gauhati, northeastern Assam state, India, Sunday, July 31, 2016. A week of heavy rain has killed dozens of people and uprooted tens of thousands of others from their homes. Floods are an annual occurrence in Assam and many parts of India during the June-September monsoon season. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)
A man rides a bike on a submerged road alongside a boat at Demra area in Dhaka on July 24, 2020. As many as 20 districts including the latest additions Chandpur, Brahmanbaria, and Naogaon have so far been hit with the worsening flood situation across Bangladesh and many more areas might be inundated if the situation does not improve soon, said Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC). (Photo by Sultan Mahmud Mukut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)