Imagine being told you have 20 minutes to leave your home before a glacier crashes down and buries it. Or watching helplessly as your car floats down your street, your only way out disappearing in the torrent.
Over the last two weeks, the floodgates have well and truly opened across five continents at the same time, with mass flooding events in Maryland, Argentina, Australia and Algeria and a glacial landslide in Switzerland that consumed a picturesque village.
