Cyclone winds and floods swept across southeastern Africa affecting more than 2.6 million people and could rank as one of the worst weather-related disasters recorded in the southern hemisphere, U.N. officials said.

Rescue crews are still struggling to reach victims five days after Cyclone Idai raced in at speeds of up to 170 kph (105 mph) from the Indian Ocean into Mozambique, then its inland neighbors Zimbabwe and Malawi.

Aid groups said many survivors were trapped in remote areas, surrounded by wrecked roads, flattened buildings and submerged villages.

As flights were flown over some of the worst-hit zones, bodies were seen floating in rivers and it’s now estimated more than 1,000 people may have died there.

A spokesman for the Red Cross said, “There’s a sense from people on the ground that the world still really hasn’t caught on to how severe this disaster is.”

“The full horror, the full impact is only going to emerge over coming days,” he added. “This is a major humanitarian emergency that is getting bigger by the hour,” saying the flooding had created “inland oceans extending for miles and miles in all directions.”

Studies of satellite images suggested 1.7 million people were in the path of the cyclone in Mozambique and another 920,000 affected in Malawi, a spokesman at the U.N World Food Program said.

The Biblical prophecies (Luke 21, Revelation 16) foretell that earth’s weather cycles will intensify and bring distress of nations on the earth signaling we are nearing the end of this age and the coming of Jesus Christ.

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