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Huge sinkhole opens up in Sturgeon Creek, Canada

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Brent Mackie stands by a large sinkhole open on Ness Avenue at Sturgeon Creek on Monday Sept. 07, 2015. The sinkhole opened during heavy rains last Friday.
Forgive neighbours in the area if they had a sinking feeling over the Labour Day Weekend.

Thanks to Friday's storm, a sinkhole on Ness Avenue near Sturgeon Creek expanded so much that it could have sucked in vehicles in one gulp.

"I heard a loud boom and the sinkhole that was already there quadrupled in size," said Brent Mackie, who lives on Alcott Street. "It's about 35-40 feet long, 15 feet wide and 15 feet deep.

"It's about 35 yards from my front door. It's like I've got a swimming pool in my front yard."

The original sinkhole, which was formed during the last monsoon about three weeks ago, was about 10 feet long, 12 feet wide and 10 feet deep, Mackie said.

"Holy smokes! It's turned into a psycho-sinkhole," said Barny Haines, who lives on Kirby Drive. "It's serious and the reality is, uncovered (like) it was when it first happened, it was fortunate that a car didn't go into it."

Attention

Massive Great White shark dies following beaching on Cape Cod

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© Wellfleet, Massachusetts Police DepartmentA stranded Great White shark on Whitecrest Beach in Mass. on Sept. 6, 2015.
Dozens of holiday beach-goers formed a bucket brigade to try to save a mammoth great white shark that beached itself over the weekend on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, but the beast died, authorities said.

At least 100 people at White Crest Beach for the Labor Day weekend rushed to help the 1-ton, 14-foot-long shark, which was reported beached at 8:09 a.m. Sunday, Wellfleet police said. Many of them relayed buckets of water to splash on the shark while specialists from the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy and the National Park Service were called.

Police said the shark was helped out to deeper water by a Shark Conservancy boat. The animal appeared to be injured, they said, and NBC station WJAR of Providence, Rhode Island, reported that the animal later died.

"It was gasping for air on the shore," a witness, Bill Bellrose, told WJAR. "It was big — it was a big shark."


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Rare deadly dust storm engulfs the Middle East, halting NATO-Israeli war ops

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© Mohamed Azakir / ReutersA general view shows the public beach on Ramlet al Bayda seaside during a sandstorm in Beirut, Lebanon September 8, 2015.
An unseasonal dust storm has swept through the Middle East, blanketing Beirut and Damascus, killing at least two and hospitalizing hundreds in Lebanon, and halting airstrikes in neighboring Syria where five people have reportedly died due to the freak weather.

People across the region have posted stunning pictures online of huge clouds of dust that speak for themselves. The deadly sandstorm is so large it can be seen from space. NASA has shared an image of the raging dust and sand, which caused breathing problems, reduced visibility in parts of Lebanon, Syria, Cyprus, Israel and Iraq and even forced school closures.

Comment: Mother nature can stop wars if humans can't.


Fire

Large fire sparked in Yosemite National Park

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© National Park Service
A 100-acre fire sparked in Yosemite National Park floats above mountain ranges Tuesday afternoon.

The smoke visible Tuesday in the Yosemite Valley is coming from the Tenaya Fire, which is located in Indian Canyon above the north rim of the Valley on both sides of the Lehamite trail, between the Valley and Tioga Road.

The fire was discovered last night and is currently estimated at 100 acres. The fire is spotting among dead trees creating much of the large smoke plume we are seeing in Yosemite Valley.

Full suppression efforts are underway, with two 20-person Type-1 hand crews on scene. Four air tankers and two helicopters are also assisting. Temperatures are expected to drop tonight which should help firefighting efforts. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Smoky conditions are likely to persist over the next few days.

Trails on the north rim of Yosemite Valley south of the Tioga Road and east of Yosemite Creek, to near Olmsted Point, are closed.

No estimate on a containment date was given.

Details: Here.

Attention

Tourist attacked by elephant in Zimbabwe

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A shot from the video of the elephant attacking Stephen Montague
This is the terrifying moment when an elephant attacks a Northern Ireland man on holiday in Africa.

Stephen Montague was sitting with relatives in a restaurant in Zimbabwe when the animal swung its massive trunk at them, throwing them off their chairs.

Stephen's brother-in-law was wounded when the elephant's tusks cut into him. The family, who are on a photographic safari, seem to have had a lucky escape.

The animal went away when guards in the complex intervened. While elephants are generally not aggressive, males can be volatile and attack humans. Around 500 people a year are killed by elephants.


Attention

Surfer bitten by shark at North Shelly Beach, Australia

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© Shaun HiltonJustin Daniels, 42, was bitten on the hand and shaken from his board during the shark attack.
A surfer who was bitten by a shark on the New South Wales Central Coast says it was like re-watching the Mick Fanning attack and he is lucky to have escaped with only minor injuries.

Justin Daniels, 42, from Berkeley Vale suffered minor puncture wounds to his left hand after being bitten close to shore about 6:15am at North Shelly Beach, north of Gosford.

"It easily could have taken my hand or arm or come back for me. I am lucky. It was frightening," Mr Daniels said.

"You are being attacked by a live animal ... It is survival, I was in a zone and I just wanted to get out of there."


Windsock

Unseasonal sandstorm blankets Beirut, Damascus; hits Jordan, Israel and Egypt

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© AP/Mahmoud IlleanThe Dome of the Rock Mosque in the Al Aqsa Mosque compound is seen during a sandstorm in Jerusalem's Old City,Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. The unseasonal sandstorm has hit the Middle East, reducing visibility and sending hundreds to hospitals with breathing difficulties.
An unseasonal sandstorm swept across the Mideast on Tuesday, blanketing Beirut and Damascus, causing the deaths of at least five people and sending hundreds of others to hospitals with breathing difficulties, officials said.

Reduced visibility prompted the Syrian government to call off airstrikes against rebel fighters, local media reported, and threatened planned protests by Lebanese activists over the government's inability to deal with the country's rampant trash crisis.

The storm also hit Jordan, Israel and Egypt. In Jordan, schools shut down or cut their days short.

Syria's state-run news agency SANA said three people in the central Hama province died from the sandstorm, without elaborating, and said there were more than 3,500 cases of people with breathing difficulties across several provinces.

The sandstorm reached Beirut on Tuesday, a day after it engulfed eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. People, especially those with health issues, were advised to stay indoors while many of those who ventured onto the streets donned surgical masks.

The Lebanese Health Ministry said 750 people suffered breathing problems across the country, and that two women died because of the sandstorm, without providing details. Two boats set adrift were rescued by coast guard, the National News Agency said. Airport officials reported some flight delays.

Cloud Precipitation

Large hailstones pound Pierre, South Dakota

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The Pierre-Ft. Pierre Area was hit by a Thunderstorm early last evening that deposited a lot of rain in a short time. It also had pea to golf ball size hail in the Pierre Area.

One public report from Ft. Pierre near the Dunes Golf Course had hail the size of baseball's reported.

There was some short time minor flooding on Sioux Avenue during the course of the storm but damage was listed as minor although vehicles and windshields were the worst hit.

There is at least one report of a back windshield of a vehicle in Pierre broken out. Pierre officially received .18 hundreths of an inch of rain although amounts vary throughout the City.

Attention

Grizzly bear attacks 2 hunters near Fort Nelson, Canada

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© Canadian PressA mother grizzly attacked two sheep hunters south of Fort Nelson, B.C. on Sunday.
Two injured hunters spent the night on a remote mountainside in the B.C. Peace Region after being mauled by a mother grizzly bear with two cubs on Sunday.

The men had been hunting sheep south of Fort Nelson and were packing out the meat and head of their kill when they heard the bear, said Insp. Mark West of the B.C. Conservation Officer Service.

"[The] hunter hears a crack in bush, and a short — a very, very short distance away — is a sow grizzly bear accompanied by two cubs," he said.

The sow attacked one man, then the other intervened and she turned on him as well, said West. The second hunter fired a couple of shots, but officers don't know if the mother grizzly was hit.

The men have injuries to their heads and necks, said West. Their conditions have been described as serious and critical.

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SOTT Focus: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - August 2015: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs


Comment: Please note that due to planetary/climate chaos increasing month by month, we are now inundated with video footage and must therefore be selective about which events to include. Going forward, please consider these video summaries mere snapshots of the global picture. Considering that these 'localized' events, multiplied many times over, are occurring simultaneously all over the planet, the scale of destruction and impact on people's lives becomes almost unimaginable.


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August 2015 saw apocalyptic deluges of rain and hail inundating cities from China to the US, intense electrical storms frying power grids and damaging infrastructure, and unusually powerful storms destroying crops and inundating vast areas of inhabited regions.

The most memorable event of the month was the series of massive explosions at Tianjin port in northeastern China. Although it's assumed that human error was to blame, the unusual scale of the event suggests that something 'out-of-the-ordinary' was involved. With 'Earth opening up' in so many ways - enormous sinkholes, multiple volcanic eruptions, increased seismic activity, pockets of gas exploding on beaches, geysers of methane and steam erupting on golf courses and in streets - we strongly suspect the Tianjin event was 'more of the same', only BIGGER.

Last month, meteor fireballs turned night into day in Scandinavia, the UK, the US, Chile, and the Caribbean. Sinkholes swallowed people and streets in China, and portions of highways in the UK and US. Wildfires raged across southern Siberia. Hailstorms added two more passenger aircraft to their hit-list. Italy saw cars swept down streets in 'biblical' deluges, while three typhoons lined up in the Pacific for the first time in recorded history.

The exponential increase in all phenomena - volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, meteors, sinkholes, floods, lightning strikes, exploding transformers and chemical plants - is well illustrated by US wildfire statistics. There are only 6 other years when more than 8 million acres burned in the US - 2012, 2011, 2007, 2006, 2005, and 2004. As of September 1st, 2015 is set to beat the record set of 9.8 million acres consumed in 2006...

These were the signs of the times in August 2015...