Water droplets fall from a glacier in Ecuador
A woman walks past a huge paper globe set up by Greenpeace at the venue of the UN conference in Bali
Rachmat Witoelar
Storms hit the Pacific Northwest killing fiveBy Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles (click here)
Last Updated: 7:09pm GMT 05/12/2007
Severe storms lashed the Pacific Northwest with hurricane-force winds and torrential rain, causing extensive flooding, power cuts, mass evacuations and killing at least five people.
The extreme weather system slammed into Oregon and Washington with 120 mph winds, dumping 13 inches of rain in 30 hours.
Trees were flattened and roads submerged, including a 20-mile stretch of the critical Interstate 5 highway linking Portland and Seattle, which was awash with more than 10 feet of muddy floodwater.
Hundreds of homes were submerged including one flooded Oregon town that was cut off by landslides.
The governors of the two states declared states of emergency after the two-day storm left tens of thousands without power and caused mudslides that halted train services between Portland and Vancouver, in British Columbia....
