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Coyotes killing pets in Seal Beach, California

Harold Pierce
voiceofoc.org
Thu, 14 Aug 2014 18:54 UTC

Dave Pincek was gone for only a couple of hours when he left his dogs, Buddy and Swiffer, in the backyard of his Seal Beach home to attend his daughter's elementary school talent show.

When he came back, he heard yelping, whimpering and muffled barks. Pincek thought that one of the dogs fell into the pool.

Instead, he found two coyotes attacking his 15-year old bichon and two-year old maltipoo, which were writhing in pain and covered in blood. When the coyotes saw Pincek, they leaped over his 13-foot fence, escaping into Gum Grove Park.

"I don't want to co-exist with the coyote here in Seal Beach," Pincek told the Seal Beach City Council Aug. 11. "I want my daughters ... and my wife to walk the dog through the neighborhood and feel safe - and we don't."

Pincek's dogs are just two of almost two-dozen Seal Beach pets that have been mauled to death since 2013 as the city struggles to find a solution to a growing coyote problem.

The predator animals have become a regional issue that Seal Beach City Council members say requires a town hall meeting involving multiple cities and agencies. A date has not yet been set.

Tourist bitten by black bear near Canmore, Alberta

cbc.ca
Sun, 20 Jul 2014 03:19 UTC

Denmark visitor was bitten by bear near Quarry Lake

A visitor from Denmark got a scare from a bear near Canmore this weekend.

The man was bird watching on the power line above Quarry Lake when a bear approached him Saturday night.

Kim Titchener works with Wild Smart, an organization that works to reduce conflicts between people and wildlife in the Bow Valley and Kananaskis Country. She says the man was surprised by the bear.

"The bear did make contact with him," Titchener said.

"He has superficial injuries. He was bit in the arm and he has some bruising, a torn jacket. but did not require hospitalization so he's doing okay."

Titchener says there is a cinnamon coloured bear with two cubs in the area and it might have been a defensive attack by the mom.

A bear trap has been set in the area.

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.2 - 122km SE of Modayag, Indonesia

US Geological Survey
Tue, 09 Sep 2014 22:19 UTC

Event Time
2014-09-10 02:46:06 UTC
2014-09-10 10:46:06 UTC+08:00 at epicenter

Location
0.143°S 125.092°E depth=20.5km (12.8mi)

Nearby Cities
122km (76mi) SE of Modayag, Indonesia
161km (100mi) S of Tondano, Indonesia
165km (103mi) S of Tomohon, Indonesia
175km (109mi) S of Bitung, Indonesia
932km (579mi) N of Dili, East Timor

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Raging monsoon floods inundate Pakistan and India: 700,000 people told to evacuate

Miami Herald
Tue, 09 Sep 2014 19:46 UTC

Kashmiris hang on to a tree to prevent being swept away by floodwaters in Srinagar, India, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014. The death toll from floods in Pakistan and India reached 400 on Tuesday and have put more than half a million people in peril and rendered thousands homeless in the two neighboring states.

Raging monsoon floods sweeping across India and Pakistan have killed more than 440 people, authorities said Tuesday, warning hundreds of thousands more to be prepared to flee their homes as helicopters and boats raced to save marooned victims.

Authorities in Pakistan say the floods, which began Sept. 3, are the worst since massive flooding killed 1,700 people in 2010. Pakistan's minister for water and power, Khwaja Mohammad Asif, warned parliament that some 700,000 people have been told to leave their homes, which could be inundated in the next four days.

Pakistani and Indian troops have been using boats and helicopters to drop food supplies for stranded families and evacuate victims. However, the challenge of the situation grows as more than 1.5 million people are now affected as the rushing waters have destroyed the homes of thousands of families.

U.S. Plains could see winter-like temperatures as cold front sweeps down from Canada

Brian K. Sullivan
Bloomberg
Tue, 09 Sep 2014 04:00 UTC

Cold is about to sweep into the northern U.S. Plains from Canada and drop temperatures to winter-like levels.

Readings in Calgary were forecast to drop to 27 Fahrenheit (minus 3 Celsius) later this week and snow was flying there yesterday, according to Environment Canada.

That will be a welcome change for energy traders after a mild summer, although it's just a glimpse of what may come.

While the temperatures will drop, they won't be falling too far where it counts.

Chicago, for instance, will end this week with highs in the 60s and lows in the 50s, according to the U.S. National Weather Service. New York will reach into the 80s during the day and 60s at night.

The big cities of Canada also won't see much of the cold. Overnight temperatures in Toronto and Montreal will drop into the 40s by the end of the week.

In New England, conditions like that are called "good sleeping weather."

Animal fights back: Hunter mauled by black bear near Smoky Lake, Alberta

cbc.ca
Mon, 04 Aug 2014 16:23 UTC

© Alberta Fish and Wildlife
After the hunter shot the bear, it struck back, mauling the man before he finally fired a fatal shot.

A 56-year-old man was attacked by a black bear while hunting for it in the Smoky Lake area Sunday night.

Wildlife officials said the man was on private property hunting when he caught sight of a 110-kilogram male black bear. The hunter first shot the bear in the chest then followed him into the bush.

That's when the bear struck back, mauling the man before he managed to pull the trigger again to fire the fatal shot.

"The bear was on top of him and with basically a hold of him," said Mike Ewald, an investigator with Alberta Fish and Wildlife. "He managed to somehow get his rifle prepared and shoot the bear while he was on him."

After the hunter killed the bear, he staggered out of the woods and his friends rushed him to a nearby farmers' home. Local emergency crews were called to the scene.

Rick Cross, missing Kananaskis hunter, killed in bear attack, Alberta

cbc.ca
Mon, 08 Sep 2014 15:34 UTC

Rick Cross was killed in a bear attack in Kananaskis west of Calgary over the weekend. (Submitted by Cross family)

RCMP say a hunter who went missing in Kananaskis on Saturday was killed when he accidentally got between a mother bear and her cub.

Rick Cross died of severe trauma from a bear attack and his body was found near his backpack. RCMP have also recovered his rifle.

RCMP say it looks like he wandered into the area where the mother and cub were feeding on a dead deer.

Although Cross was mauled, the bears left after the incident so officials believe it was a defensive attack. Conservation officers are now trying to determine what to do about the animals.

The Picklejar day use area remains closed.

A bear closure has been issued for all areas south of the Mist Ridge trail between the Mist Ridge trail and Lantern Creek north of Highway 40. The closure does not include Mist Creek trail or Mist Ridge trail.

Family's terror as ferocious black bear spent hours trying to tear open RV in Utah

Zoe Szathmary
Daily Mail, UK
Wed, 03 Sep 2014 15:07 UTC

A bear hunt is going on near where the incident occurred (file photo)

* Sami Graham was with her children when the bear approached the RV, which was parked in Book Cliffs

* The family tried to shoo the bear away and frighten it

* The bear tried to getting inside two and a half hours and left heavy scratch marks in its wake on the trailer's exterior

* It finally left after her husband arrived and fired a warning shots into the sky

A bear terrified a Utah family inside their RV on Saturday as the animal scratched and pawed at their mobile home in an attempt to gain entry.

KSL reported that Sami Graham was inside with her two young children when the bear approached the RV, which was parked in Book Cliffs.

'This bear is standing straight up on his hind legs looking at me straight in the eye [through a window],' she told the affiliate station. 'I wasn't expecting to be nose-to-nose with this bear. I just hurried and closed my blinds.'

First snowfall of the season in Grande Cache, Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta

Robert Felix
iceagenow.info
Mon, 08 Sep 2014 13:52 UTC

In Grande Cache, the snow was so heavy and thick, it cut power to many homes.
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"Fall is still two weeks away, but Mother Nature clearly has different weather plans for Alberta," says this article in the Huffington Post.

People around the province woke up to snow Monday morning, after an "unseasonably cold Arctic airmass" descended over the province.

Environment Canada issued snowfall warnings for Airdire, Cochrane, Hinton, Grande Cache, Kananaskis, Canmore, Nordegg and area, Okotoks, High River, Rocky Mountain House, Whitecourt, and Edson.

Grande Cache so far got the worst of it, recording 15 cm (5.9″) by Noon MDT.

People in Alberta's major cities took to Twitter Monday morning, to lament the early snowfall.

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1 dead and 1 missing after flash floods hits Puglia, Italy

Richard Davies
floodlist.com
Sun, 07 Sep 2014 08:09 UTC

Severe flooding caused by several days of heavy rain in the southern Italian region of Puglia left one person dead and another missing.

The victim was in his car which was swept away by flood water near Varano Lake, in the Gargano area. The body of the victim - a 24 year old man - was found on Saturday 06 September although it is understood that the victim had disappeared on Wednesday 03 September. An elderly man was swept away by flood water in Peschici, in the province of Foggia, also in Puglia and remains missing.

Several areas in Gargano saw severe flooding after 2 to 3 days of heavy rain last week. Some reports claim the rainfall is the heaviest in 80 years, with 60cm (two feet) or rain falling in the last few days.

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Earth Changes

Coyotes killing pets in Seal Beach, California

Tourist bitten by black bear near Canmore, Alberta

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.2 - 122km SE of Modayag, Indonesia

Raging monsoon floods inundate Pakistan and India: 700,000 people told to evacuate

U.S. Plains could see winter-like temperatures as cold front sweeps down from Canada

Animal fights back: Hunter mauled by black bear near Smoky Lake, Alberta

Rick Cross, missing Kananaskis hunter, killed in bear attack, Alberta

Family's terror as ferocious black bear spent hours trying to tear open RV in Utah

First snowfall of the season in Grande Cache, Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta

1 dead and 1 missing after flash floods hits Puglia, Italy

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