00:00Heavy rains and flash floods across Kenya have killed at least 81 people,
00:04with authorities warning Sunday the toll could rise as dawn pours continue.
00:09In the west, entire villages in Kisomo County have been submerged
00:13with floodwaters destroying farmland and sweeping away crops.
00:17Since the last few days, we've had the raging waters of Sondomiru River
00:22that overflooded its banks, and the river has really displaced over 3,000 families.
00:29We've lost quite a number of farmland with massive erosion,
00:33and the farm plants that we had planted, maize, beans, millet, vegetables, watermelon, bananas, and many others.
00:45As we are speaking now, I'm having people who have been moved to more than eight evacuation centers.
00:53Residents are fleeing with what little they can carry, many forced into overcrowded evacuations.
00:59centers, while others say they have nowhere left to go.
01:02We are migrating because the place where we were staying is badly flooded.
01:07We still don't know where we are going to get shelter with our animals
01:11because there is no house or home that is not flooded that we can say we can shelter in.
01:17All homes are flooded, and so for now we still don't know where to run for shelter with our animals.
01:25In Nyakachi, the West, children walked through Nihai water, residents scooped water from the inundated houses.
01:33We are still stuck here. We still don't know where we are going to stay.
01:39We still don't have an idea of where we are going.
01:43We are still stuck inside these waters with the school-edged children.
01:47Scientists say climate change is increasing the intensity of extreme weather,
01:52with East Africa facing more frequent floods and droughts.
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