China floods kill 536 this year, worse to come

I watched the news yesterday on Channel 8 and they reported about the China floods and the heat wave around the world. I shall talk about the China floods first. I went to check out Reuters this morning and it reported : "flooding and landslides across China have killed 536 people and caused nearly 20.4 billion yuan ($2.5 billion) in losses this year, scores in the last week alone, and worse is expected on Friday(which is today). In the past few days, at least 97 people had been killed and 41 were missing in southern China, where days of torrential rain had pushed rivers past their breaking points and sparked mudslides, Xinhua news agency said.
Some 1.4 million people have been evacuated in six provinces, with floodwaters climbing up to four stories tall in the industrial city of Wuzhou in the Guangxi region, one of the worst-hit areas(Yesterday is was three stories high). State television showed pictures of rushing, turbid waters crashing through villages and cities alike and rescuers pulling children to safety. With floods peaking in some areas, worse is to come in others. "More than 100,000 people and soldiers are now bracing themselves for the worst peak of the floods on the river as it passes Guangxi," the China Daily quoted an official from the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters as saying, referring to the Xijiang River that runs through Wuzhou. " I didn't put in the whole report but most of it is here. Not only that..I forgot to mention that the main reason why the fatalities due to the floods in 1998 in China is the highest should be because that year, 1998 was the warmest year in record as well and the 1990s was the warmest decade. Just look at what Global warming can do to us.