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Firefighters declare state of emergency as heavy floods submerge Berlin

RT
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 23:31 UTC

Berlin has been bashed by an extreme downpour which has left many of its streets flooded. Despite this major hurdle, people are still finding a way to travel around the German capital.

Houses have been evacuated and the Berlin fire brigade had been called to nearly 800 incidents as the city's infrastructure struggles to deal with the widespread floods, Die Welt reports.

Firefighters have declared a state of emergency in the German capital.

Traffic has been hugely affected as many roads have become impassable because of flood water or fallen trees. Sections of the city's A100 motorway have also been temporarily shut.

Public transport has been severely restricted with some subway stations forced to close because of the deluge.

Enormous sinkhole swallows car in St. Louis, Missouri

Associated Press
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 20:03 UTC

A man who scored what he thought was a prime parking spot in downtown St. Louis said he returned from a Thursday morning trip to the gym with his fiancee to find his car swallowed by a sinkhole.

Jordan Westerberg told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that when the couple came back to his Toyota Camry shortly before 7 a.m. and didn't see the car, they figured it had been towed.

Street workers were gathered at the parking space, a tipoff that something was amiss. That's when Westerberg, 25, found the vehicle in the gaping hole — about 20 feet (6 meters) deep and 8 to 10 feet (2.5 to 3 meters) across — that took up the entire southbound lane of the street, next to a vacant building expected to feature apartments, office space and retail.

Comment: These sinkholes are not an isolated event. See: Sinkholes: The groundbreaking truth

Tornado causes significant damage to eastern Iowa town

Linh Ta
Des Moines Register
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 19:21 UTC

Strong storms sprouted tornadoes Wednesday in Iowa as the system moved across the state. In eastern Iowa, a tornado caused significant damage Wednesday evening around Prairieburg, resulting in downed structures and an injury, according to the Linn County Sheriff's Office.

Ripped apart farm structures were littered around Prairieburg after the storm. Most damage occurred in the southern edge of town, the sheriff's office said. A Prairieburg woman was injured in her home after her roof collapsed, according to KWWL. She was transported to the hospital, but she is expected to recover.

Heavy rain leads to flooding, floating cows around Maryville, Missouri

Katie Bernard
KCUR
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:49 UTC

The National Weather Service in Pleasant Hill, Missouri, issued a Flash Flood Warning for counties in northwest and north-central Missouri Thursday morning after a string of severe storms dumped up to a foot of rain in the area, starting Wednesday night.

Video I took of what appears to be a tornado (unconfirmed) on the ground in far eastern Nodaway County, Missouri. #mowx pic.twitter.com/08fubJRMFJ

— Mark Zinn (@NPNowZinn) June 28, 2017

The heaviest flooding seemed to be focused around Maryville. There were reports from the Nodaway County Sheriff's Office of cows floating across highways east of Maryville. "There have been numerous road closures, we have heard of one water rescue, there have been reports of floating cows, floating livestock up by the Maryville area," said Scott Watson senior service hydrologist with the Kansas City National Weather Service.

Increased great white shark sightings off Cape Cod

Kelly McCarthy
ABC News
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 19:08 UTC

Great white shark

An influx of great white shark sightings has residents and tourists worried about potential encounters in the water, especially during the heart of summer.

Senior Fisheries Biologist Dr. Greg Skomal told ABC News the increase in the great white shark population off the Massachusetts coastline is correlated to the gray seal population and that numbers are expected to rise even further.

"We've been studying sharks off the coast of Massachusetts for 30 years and our work with white sharks off Cape Cod is relatively recent," Dr. Skomal said on "Good Morning America." "The numbers we're seeing on a relative scale are increasing, in 2014 we counted 80 individuals over the course of the summer and just last summer that went up to about 147. So there is a general increasing trend as more and more sharks recruit to the area."

This season at least six great white shark sightings have already been reported, including a recent sighting off Wellfleet on May 9.

Severe hailstorm brings winter to Barrhaven, Ontario

Blair Crawford
Ottawa Citizen
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 18:59 UTC

Sudden hail storm, June 28,2017. Shot in Manotick

Environment Canada has ended a severe thunderstorm warning for the Ottawa area.

The news release had also stated that hail of two to three centimetres in diameter was possible in Kanata, Ottawa North and Orléans.

The warning had been issued at 5 p.m., even though an brief, intense summer storm had already pelted parts of Barrhaven with hail on Wednesday afternoon.

The icy burst lasted about three minutes, but covered parts of the suburb in icy, pea-sized pellets.

Holy hail, it's icy out there! #barrhaven @weathernetwork pic.twitter.com/ZfXVP9CG49
— Steph (Kersey) Kelly (@KerseyKnowsBest) June 28, 2017

Snake bites, though rare, are on the rise in US

Susan Scutti
CNN
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 18:35 UTC

Meg Trammell, age 11, had just eaten suppera fter her first day of school at Advent Episcopal School in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. "My mom and I decided to take the dogs on a walk," recalled Meg, now 12 years old, as she described the late mid-August evening in the suburbs of Birmingham. "As we were walking out, I heard something jingle in the door, so I turned around and it was my mother's car keys from when we took in the groceries," said Meg. Ignoring the keys, she continued down the steps, pulled by dogs eager for a romp in the yard.

The front stoop is just two steps leading down from the front door, said her mother Suzanne Scott-Trammell. Azalea bushes bookend the steps of the house, which sits on a lawn in front of a creek that runs through the town, home to 33,000.

"I felt something sting my toe," said Meg, who was wearing sandals at the time. "I immediately started crying. I thought: 'A snake bit me and I'm gonna die!'"

'Crazy weather': Waterspout seen over Hudson, Florida

98.5 QYK
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 18:34 UTC

Wow... weather got pretty crazy tonight around Tampa Bay. Check out this video Steve Garner got with his cell phone of a waterspout that formed in Hudson.

Severe storms leave flooding in Rockford, Illinois

Steve Kahn
WGN
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 18:26 UTC

Heavy rain pounded the Rockford area Wednesday night. Tornado warnings were issued and severe thunderstorms dropped torrential rainfall across portions of north central Ilinois Wednesday evening with severe flooding reported in around Rockford. Numerous cars were stranded, viaducts are flooded and Kent Creek is out of its banks.

Many basements are flooded as the heavy rainfall continues. Doppler estimates indicate that 3 to upwards of 5 inches of rain have already fallen in the area. The Rockford Airport has measured 2.37 inches within two hours with the rain still falling.

Sensational sun halo hovers over Bangkok, Thailand

Coconuts Bangkok
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 18:23 UTC

At around 10am today, Bangkok witnessed a sun halo, a phenomenon in which a full 360 degree rainbow is seen encircling the sun.

Netizens tweeted pictures of the beautiful rainbow from many corners of Bangkok this morning.

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Earth Changes

Firefighters declare state of emergency as heavy floods submerge Berlin

Enormous sinkhole swallows car in St. Louis, Missouri

Tornado causes significant damage to eastern Iowa town

Heavy rain leads to flooding, floating cows around Maryville, Missouri

Increased great white shark sightings off Cape Cod

Severe hailstorm brings winter to Barrhaven, Ontario

Snake bites, though rare, are on the rise in US

'Crazy weather': Waterspout seen over Hudson, Florida

Severe storms leave flooding in Rockford, Illinois

Sensational sun halo hovers over Bangkok, Thailand

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