21.   Flooding typically hits Accra and other Ghanaian coastal cities each year during June and July, when the rainy season is at its peak.

22.   Mishra is also tourism minister in Uttar Pradesh, one of the Indian states hardest hit by flooding over the past few months.

23.   More flooding hit North Korea in July.

24.   That region, near the swollen Mississippi River, has been hit by flooding in recent days.

25.   The Palestinian-run Gaza Strip in the south was hit by flooding.

26.   The separatist republic of Chechnya was also badly hit by flooding, with nearly all bridges over the Argun river swept away and many districts cut off from aid.

27.   Vietnam is hit by flooding every year.

28.   Valparaiso was hit by flooding, while landslides were reported outside that city.

29.   White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta and about a dozen other federal and state officials toured the areas hard hit by flooding.

30.   In the southern coastal province of Guangdong, about a million people have been hit by flooding, although the authorities have so far not issued a casualty toll.