Great Britain, Too, Getting Hit By Huge Floods AGAIN. South America, Too.

Hebdon Bridge, England on Saturday. 

The United States is not the only region of the world beset by extreme, sometimes record breaking storms this weekend.

England, reeling from severe flooding earlier this month,  is getting walloped again, and the latest round of flooding looks at least as bad as the destruction a couple weeks ago, if not worse.

Parts of Argentina and Paragua are also struggling with record flooding.

BRITAIN:

In Britain, every river in Lancashire experienced record flooding during this most recent episode of British flooding, says the BBC.

Lancashire and West Yorkshire had as much rain in 24 hours as they normally do during the entire month of December.

Images on social media today showed villages like Hebden Bridge in Croston under feet of water.

Floodinb collapsed this 200 year old pub
in Greater Manchester, England. 

Flooding was halfway up first floor shop windows in Hebden Bridge, A 200 year old abandoned pub collapsed in Greater Manchester.

Greater Manchester and Leeds had particularly severe flooding, with major roads closed and thousands without power, says the BBC. 

Police said 2,000 homes in Calderdale and 1,000 in Leeds were flooded, the BBC reported. North Yorkshire Police said they ran out of "road closed" signs since so many highways and lanes were under water.  

The severe flooding comes less than two weeks after devastating floods hit parts of Great Britain, especially the area around Cumbria.

British soldiers who evacuated residents from the severe flooding in Cumbria a couple weeks ago were back at it, pulling people from flooded homes in Lancashire, the BBC said.

Severe flooding in Great Britain over the weekend. 

The Telegraph UK says the flooding in Britain has been so bad, and the damage so extensive, that the entire country will take an economic hit.

Early estimates are the flooding will take 0.2 percent of Britain's GDP. That doesn't sound like much, but it involves millions or billions of dollars in lost business.

The British insurance industry alone could face loses of a billion dollars.  

SOUTH AMERICA:

Severe flooding also hit Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay and parts of Brazil in recent days.

At least 150,000 people had to flee their homes because of the rising water in the region. That includes 90,000 or so people forced from their homes in the Paraguayan capitol of Asuncion.

The flooding there can be directly tied to El Nino, the patch of unusually warm water that forms periodically off the west coast of South American. The current El Nino is likely the strongest on record.