Earth Changes

Flames from the Quail Fire burn an outbuilding near Winters (Yolo County), June 7, 2020
It destroyed 4 structures, threatened another 100 structures and prompted mandatory evacuations for Quail Canyon Road between Pleasants Valley Road and Highway 12, according to Cal Fire's Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit. Pleasants Valley Road was closed.
Cal Fire said on Sunday that 600 firefighters were battling the blaze. Thirty engines responded to the scene along with seven hand crews, nine dozers, and "numerous firefighting air tankers from throughout the state are flying fire suppression missions as conditions allow."
Satellite images showed that smoke was blowing into Sacramento, according to the National Weather Service.
One of the videos shows hailstones covering the green grass of a resident's backyard.
Other photos submitted to Morocco World News show hailstones all over the region's roads.
Youssef Belhaissi, a journalist for Morocco's Medi1 TV channel, also shared photos showing the damages the hailstorm inflicted upon the city.
Rain pounded the region on Sunday ahead of the arrival of Tropical Storm Cristobal, which has already spawned a tornado in Florida and threatened more twisters along with high winds and storm surge.
Roads flooded in coastal Louisiana and Mississippi, and thousands were without power even before the storm made landfall.
Forecasters warned the storm would affect a wide area stretching roughly 180 miles (290 kilometres) east into Florida and would arrive late on Sunday, but they do not expect it to grow into a hurricane.
La Plata County Coroner Jann Smith identified the woman as Pam Mount, 65, of Durango.
Mount was out for a walk in the subdivision with a friend when she was struck by lightning at about 8:37 a.m., said La Plata County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Steve Reiter.
The lightning bolt first struck a tree and moved laterally to strike Mount, Reiter said.
Jeanette Ambrose, 78, lives in the bush near Dubbo and regularly interacts with and cares for native animals.
She has been living on the property, known as Daybreak Wildlife Sanctuary, for 40 years and during that time she hand-reared some of the wombats that played the character Fatso on the long-running series A Country Practice.
Jeanette is no stranger to the iconic Aussie marsupial, which is why she was delighted when her daughter Kim, who was in a cabin on the property, called her one morning to tell her there was a wombat wandering around.
Police said the Queensland man, aged between 50 and 60, was surfing off South Kingscliff Beach, north of the Salt Surf Life Saving Club.
Surf Life Saving NSW said the shark attacked the Gold Coast man and bit the back of his thigh after 10am. Nearby surfers rushed to the aid of the man. The shark reportedly circled the three men and rammed one of their boards.
The man died from his wounds at 10.40am.
Of the victims, an elderly person is of Sayestaganj upazila, one of Chunarughat and two teenagers of Ajmeriganj under Habiganj district; one youth of Dharmapasha under Sunamganj district; two of Baralekha upazila and one of Kamalganj under Moulvibazar and one school-boy of Balaganj in Sylhet district, police and hospital sources said.
Comment: A day earlier 16 were killed by strikes while 24 hours prior to that at least 25 succumbed to hits.
A seismic event measuring 2.2 on the Richter scale was recorded near Comrie at around 3.20pm this afternoon.
Residents in Comrie reported hearing a "really loud bang" while one person said "it sounded like an explosion".
The BGS appealed on Twitter for residents to fill out a questionnaire on its website to give it "valuable data".
Hundreds of Perthshire residents took to social media to report feeling the earthquake.
On Facebook, one person said the thought a "massive truck just hit my building," while another said said "it was the biggest tremor I have ever felt having lived here my whole life".














Comment: The coronavirus crisis, in addition to earth changes affecting crop growth, and the losing value of currency which is set to get much worse in Western nations in particular, have made the production, availability, purchasing and distribution of food - a MAJOR global issue the likes of which we haven't seen in generations.
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