Photos of the Day: Oct. 4, 2015

Originally published October 4, 2015 at 2:40 pm

Elizabeta Samara of Romania serves to Polina Mikhaylova of Russia during their women’s singles semifinal match of the Table Tennis European Championships in Ekaterinburg, Russia on October 4, 2015. (SERGEI ILNITSKY / EPA)

David Linnen takes a yard rake to clear drains in front of Winyah Apartments in Georgetown, S.C., Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015. Much of South Carolina has experienced historic rain totals coupled with an unusually high lunar tide causing wide spread flooding. The apartment complex has been evacuated. (Mic Smith / The Associated Press)

Emirati officials arrive for the launch of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives project in a ballroom at the Emirates Towers, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Sunday, October 4, 2015. The ruler of Dubai is launching the new foundation to consolidate a range of charitable and human development initiatives that aims to support more than $270 million in projects annually. The project hopes to reach more than 130 million people in at least 116 countries in the coming years, though much of its work will target the Arab world. (Kamran Jebreili / The Associated Press)

Afghan refugees warm themselves around a fire after arriving at the coast near Skala Sikaminias, Lesbos island, Greece on October 4, 2015. (FILIP SINGER / EPA)

Dewdrops are seen on a leaf of grass in Debrecen, 221 kms east from Budapest, Hungary on October 4, 2015. (ZSOLT CZEGLEDI / EPA)

Floodwaters rush over a dam on Forest Lake in Columbia, S.C., Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015. The rainstorm drenching the U.S. East Coast brought more misery Sunday to South Carolina, cutting power to thousands, forcing hundreds of water rescues and closing many roads because of floodwaters. (Chuck Burton / The Associated Press)

Families have gathered at the Seafarers Union Hall Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015, in Jacksonville, Fla., waiting for news on the crew of 33 aboard the missing cargo ship El Faro. The ship has not been heard from since it lost power and was taking on water in seas churned up by Hurricane Joaquin. (Bruce Lipsky/Florida Times-Union via AP)

Jacksonville Jaguars’ Allen Hurns (88) makes an eight-yard touchdown reception against Indianapolis Colts’ Darius Butler during the first half of an NFL football game Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015 in Indianapolis. (Michael Conroy / The Associated Press)

Relatives weep during the burial of Amilcar Estrada and his 10-year-old niece Maria Jose, who died in a mudslide, in the Santa Catarina Pinula cemetery on the outskirts of Guatemala City, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015. Rescue workers recovered more bodies Saturday after a hillside collapsed on homes late Thursday, while more are feared still buried in the rubble. (Moises Castillo / The Associated Press)

Team Russia celebrates winning the gold medal in the final of the European Championship Volleyball Women between Netherlands and Russia at the Ahoy arena in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015. (Peter Dejong / The Associated Press)

Competitors take part in the International BMX Cycling Challenge at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games BMX cycling track which is part of the X-Park at the Deodoro Sports Complex on October 4, 2015 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The International BMX Cycling Challenge is a test event for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. (Buda Mendes / Getty Images)

Members of the Libyan Red Crescent wash their hands at the shore after they put bodies in the bags as they were found washed up in the eastern shore of Tripoli, Libya on Oct. 3, 2015. A spokesman for the Red Crescent said the bodies of at least 95 migrants have been found washed ashore over the past five days. (Mohamed Ben Khalifa / The Associated Press)

In this Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015 photo, an Iraqi federal policeman takes cover as security forces, backed by Sunni and Shiite volunteers, clash with Islamic State group militants at the front line in the eastern suburbs of Ramadi, Anbar province, Iraq. (Associated Press)

A boy falls into the water as he and other migrants arrive on a dinghy from the Turkish coast to the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, Sunday, Oct. 4 , 2015. The U.N. refugee agency is reporting a ???noticeable drop??? this week in arrivals of refugees by sea into Greece – as the total figure for the year nears the 400,000 mark. Overall, the UNHCR estimates 396,500 people have entered Greece via the Mediterranean this year with seventy percent of them are from war-torn Syria. (Muhammed Muheisen / The Associated Press)

Participants compete in the swim leg of the race during Ironman Barcelona on October 04, 2015 in Barcelona, Spain. (Charlie Crowhurst / Gety Images)

An Iranian mourner weeps during a funeral ceremony, attended by thousands of mourners, for some of the pilgrims who were killed in a stampede during the hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia last month, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015. Iran has blamed Saudi authorities for the disaster, which heightened tensions between the two regional rivals. Saudi authorities say 769 pilgrims died in the stampede near Mecca in the worst disaster to strike the annual pilgrimage in a quarter-century. Iran appears to have lost the largest number of pilgrims, with at least 464 reported dead. (Vahid Salemi / The Associated Press)

Pope Francis holds the Gospel book as he celebrates the opening Mass of the Synod of bishops, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015. (Alessandra Tarantino / The Associated Press)

A family member of Aharon Banita mourns over his shrouded body during his funeral in Jerusalem, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015. Banita, 21, was killed by a Palestinian man who fatally stabbed two Israelis as they walked in Jerusalem’s Old City and seriously injured a woman and a toddler, before he was shot and killed by an officer on duty. (Ariel Schalit / The Associated Press)

Indian fishermen arrested by the Pakistani authorities are seen in a lock up in Karachi, Pakistan, on October 4, 2015. Pakistani authorities on 04 October arrested some 71 Indian fishermen in Pakistan’s territorial waters. The two countries’ maritime security forces often arrest each other’s impoverished fishermen for violating the territorial waters as demarcation is often unclear. (SHAHZAIB AKBER / EPA)

Participants prepare their hot air balloon prior to the start of the XXVI. International Balloon Meeting in Ocseny, 150 kms south of Budapest, Hungary on October 4, 2015. (TAMAS SOKI / EPA)

Buddhist monks attend a Ma Ba Tha ceremony to mark the approval of race and religious laws at Thuwana indoor stadium in Yangon, Myanmar, on October 4, 2015. Thousands of Buddhist monks and their lay people from Ma Ba Tha celebrated the approval of laws recently passed by Myanmar’s parliament. (LYNN BO BO / EPA)

A view of a zone affected by a landslide that have left at least 44 dead and 450 missing people, at the cemetery of the municipality of Santa Catarina Pinula, Guatemala, on October 3, 2015. (ESTEBAN BIBA / EPA)

Flooding in South Carolina and more in Photos of the Day.

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Colin Diltz

Seattle Times staff

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