Derna, Libya/Istanbul, Turkey — In some places the water came on like a pack of cars, speeding more than 120 kilometers an hour over the tops of 30-meter-high palm trees.
As Hani Elbah, a 47-year-old government worker, saw the flood approach, he mentally prepared for death. It was September 11, the day Storm Daniel swept into his city, Derna, in eastern Libya.
A nearby building, seven stories high with 21 families inside, collapsed. “The families were all upstairs,” recalls Elbah. “The flood…
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