Calling it a “heart wrenching day” as his delegation saw firsthand flooding damage in Pakistan, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon called on countries of the world to bring relief to those impacted by the disaster.

“The scale of the disaster is so large, so many people, in so many places, in so much need,” Ki-Moon told reporters in Islamabad on August 15, 2010.

“People are marooned on tiny islands with flood waters all around them. They are drinking dirty water. They are living in the mud and ruins of their lives.”

The UN estimates that nearly one out of ten Pakistanis has been directly…

A rare Texas snow event on Thursday has produced accumulations ranging from 3 inches near Waco to as much as 9.5 near Decatur, according to the United States National Weather Service (NWS).

Dallas/Fort Worth Airport recorded 7.9 inches of snow today, which breaks the previous daily record of 1.4 inches set in 1988.

“Widespread precipitation continues to fall across much of north Texas,” NWS stated at 6:30 PM CST.

A potentially dangerous snowstorm headed for the nation’s Capitol on Friday closed schools, triggered winter warnings and placed an additional financial strain on local and state governments.

An urgent bulletin from the National Weather Service predicted record snowfall in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. region which could rival the January, 1922 “Knickerbocker Storm.”