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Two dead, one missing as landslides hit Kaski, Nepal after torrential rainfall


The Himalayan Times
Sun, 02 Jul 2017 09:20 UTC
The kitchen area of the house owned by Hari Paudel, that was swept away by the landslide along with his wife Shova Paudel, beside Seti River, in Lamachaur, of Pokhara Lekhnath Metropolitan City-19, on Sunday, July 02, 2017.
© Rishi Ram Baral
The kitchen area of the house owned by Hari Paudel, that was swept away by the landslide along with his wife Shova Paudel, beside Seti River, in Lamachaur, of Pokhara Lekhnath Metropolitan City-19, on Sunday, July 02, 2017.
As many as two persons died and another went missing from various locations of Kaski district, following flood and landslide triggered by continuous rainfall since Saturday night.

The deceased have been identified as Shova Paudel (33), wife of Hari Paudel, a permanent resident of Lamachaur in Pokhara Lekhnath Metropolitan City-19 and Tanka Chhetri (14) of Galyang Municipality in Syangja.

Paudel was swept away by the landslide on Sunday Morning at around 4:00 am in Lamachaur. She was attempting to clean the excess water in her kitchen area, when the landslide swept the kitchen along with her, said police.

The house was on a cliff beside Seti River. Her 12-year-old son, however, was safe in the mishap as he was sleeping in another room, said police.

A police team mobilised in the area had recovered Paudel's body some 100 metres down the cliff buried in the debris at around 7:00 this morning.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills 2 in Rautahat, Nepal


The Himalayan Times
Mon, 03 Jul 2017 09:15 UTC
lightning
Two persons died on the spot after getting struck by a thunder bolt in Dharampur of Gadhimai Rural Municipality-6 in Rautahat district on Sunday.

The deceased have been identified as Bishwanath Rai Yadav (45) and Saroj Yadav (17), both the local residents.

The lightning struck the duo while they were herding the buffaloes in a field yesterday, said police.

Further investigation into the case is underway, said police.
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Massive sinkhole opens up in Janesville, Wisconsin

Neil Johnson
Gazette Xtra.
Sat, 01 Jul 2017 08:53 UTC
City of Janesville Department of Public works officials and crews discuss a sinkhole that opened up on North Washington Street in Janesville on Friday afternoon.
© Anthony Wahl
City of Janesville Department of Public works officials and crews discuss a sinkhole that opened up on North Washington Street in Janesville on Friday afternoon.
City crews worked Friday afternoon to fill a massive sinkhole that broke open on a street on the city's west side after heavy rains earlier this week had washed out the ground beneath the roadway.

Crews at the scene Friday afternoon said it took three truckloads of gravel to temporarily fill a sinkhole the length and width of a large car that broke open at about 3 p.m. Friday, leaving a 15-foot deep chasm on the east side of North Washington Street just north of Highland Avenue and the Mercy Hospital and Trauma Center campus.

Troy Egger, a city of Janesville public works department crew leader, told The Gazette that one of his crew members has worked for the city for 31 years.

He said that worker said he has never seen a sinkhole the size of the one that broke open Friday.
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Fire

'Big bang' and 'pillar of fire' as two new craters form on Yamal peninsular, Siberia


The Siberian Times
Sun, 02 Jul 2017 05:19 UTC
New crater on Yamal peninsular
© Alexandr Sokolov
New funnel in Yerkuta is reported to be 8 meters in diameters and about 20 meters deep.
Local reindeer herder witnessed the tundra explosion that led to birth of new hole in river.

Scientists have located two fresh craters formed on Yamal peninsula this year, with the latest exploding on 28 June with the eruption picked up by new seismic sensors specifically designed to monitor such events, The Siberian Times can disclose.

First pictures of the large craters - or funnels as experts call them - are shown here, and add to four other big holes found in recent years and examined by experts, plus dozens of tiny ones spotted by satellite.

The formation of both craters involved an explosion followed by fire, evidently signs of the eruption of methane gas pockets under the Yamal surface.

People in Seyakha village heard a 'loud explosion-like bang' then saw a fire and clouds of black smoke, according to reports.

Deputy director of the Oil and Gas Research Institute, Moscow, Professor Vasily Bogoyavlensky said: 'We heard the news (about the new crater) from a friend who saw a flame of fire and then a rising pillar of smoke.'

The head of Seyakha village, Igor Okotetto, confirmed he had been told about the explosion.

Comment:
In 2014 a mysterious crater-hole was discovered in the Yamal peninsular, northwest Siberia, Russia. It was 'probably caused by methane released as permafrost thawed' according to researchers, and the result of 'internal forces not seen in 8,000 years'. Since then new information has come to light, with witnesses reporting an 'explosion' and a 'glow in the sky' from 100 km away.

This would indicate an extremely powerful explosion occurred from below to form this 'crater-hole', in a region known in the local Nenets language as the 'end of the world'. The recent discovery by scientists of methane 'bubbles' on the remote Belyy Island in the Kara Sea off the Yamal Peninsula coastline may be another alarming sign of increased activity in the depths.
SOTT Exclusive: The growing threat of underground fires and explosions

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Ambulance

Rescue helicopter crashes killing eight on way to evacuate people from Indonesian volcano after sudden eruption


ITV News
Mon, 03 Jul 2017 03:52 UTC
Sileri Crater erupts
© AP Photo/Dwiana Jati Setiaji
Smoke billows from Sileri Crater after it erupted in Dieng, Central Java, Indonesia, on July 2, 2017. The crater at Dieng Plateau spewed cold lava, mud and ash as high as 164 feet into the sky when it erupted, injuring number at least 10 people.
A rescue helicopter has crashed as it went to help evacuate residents near an active volcano in Indonesia.

All eight people on board were killed and at least 10 on the ground were injured when the Sileri Crater at Dieng Plateau spewed cold lava, mud and ash as high as 164 feet into the sky when it erupted on Sunday.

The aircraft went down about three minutes before arriving at the popular tourist area.

It reportedly hit a cliff on Butak Mountain in the Temanggung district of Central Java province.

Brigadier General Ivan Tito, director of operation and training at the search agency, said the victims were four navy officers and four rescuers.

He said the Indonesian-made Dauphin AS365 helicopter was airworthy.

The sudden eruption occurred while about 17 visitors were around the crater.
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Attention

Frosts increase with solar minimum: Thus it begins

David Archibald
WUWT
Sat, 01 Jul 2017 00:00 UTC
Back in late April, European wine growers were hit by the most damaging frost since 1991. That frost affected vines as far south as Tuscany. More recently it is the western Corn Belt that has been affected by late Spring frost. The following two figures show damage to crops from frosts a few days ago:

Figure 1: Chickpea crop in Saskatchewan just north of the Montana border, 27th June 2017, yellow is frost-killed dead plant material.
yellow field
© Mike Foley
Yellow is frost-killed dead plant material.
Figure 2: Frozen corn just east of McLaughlin, South Dakota, 27th June, 2017
frozen corn
© Joel Bierman
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Attention

Shotgun-toting 11yo boy kills attacking bear to save family in Alaska


RT
Sun, 02 Jul 2017 15:29 UTC
Brown bear
© Patrick Pleul / Global Look Press
An 11-year-old boy toting a shotgun saved three members of his family from a charging brown bear in Alaska.

Elliot Clark was returning from a fishing trip with his uncle, great-uncle, and cousin when the animal appeared from the woods near Game Creek in Port Frederick on Chichagof Island.

"There was four of them in a line... my son was third," Lucas Clark, Elliot's father, told the Juneau Empire. "The bear came down the trail at them, fella in the front, who was his uncle, the bear was on him so quickly that he didn't have time to take his rifle off his shoulder."

Comment: See also:

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Snowflake

Snowstorms in June affect races in Canada and Colorado

Adapt 2030
You Tube
Sun, 02 Jul 2017 14:28 UTC
dig out
In June 2017, there were two regoinal races hampered by unusual blizzards and heavy late season snow. The Yukon Relay in Canada and the Leadville Trail Marathon. Only one team even crossed the finish line in the Yukon race and they were uni-cyclists, and the Leadville event organizers were digging through seven foot deep snow drifts to create a trail. Events like these will become more common as the Grand Solar Minimum progresses into 2018-2019, which will affect crop yields and in turn drive up food prices. Th economy will suffer as disposable income is spent on food not retail or travel.


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Attention

5 killed,19 injured in mudslide after torrential rain in Hunan, China


The Indian Express
Sun, 02 Jul 2017 14:11 UTC
Representational Image/ AP
© AP
Representational image
Four others remain missing in the mudslide, which had hit Zuta village, Ningxiang County on Saturday due to heavy rains

At least five persons have been killed and 19 others injured in a mudslide in China's southern Hunan province that witnessed severe flooding after torrential rains over the last 10 days. Four others remain missing in the mudslide, which had hit Zuta village, Ningxiang County on Saturday due to heavy rains.

Several parts of the county received over 200 mm of precipitation within 24 hours, with flooding disrupting traffic and telecommunications and raising water levels in reservoirs and rivers above warning levels. A rescue and search operation is underway, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

Last week 15 people were killed and 73 others were listed missing in Xinmo village in Maoxian County in the Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Aba. Hunan has experienced severe flooding after torrential rains over the last 10 days. Since June 22, flooding has inundated parts of several cities, forced 311,300 people to evacuate, damaged 295,160 hectares of crops and destroyed 6,369 houses.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills 5, injures 4 others in Bangladesh


bdnews24.com
Sun, 02 Jul 2017 13:49 UTC
lightning
Five people have been killed in a village in Kushtia after lightning struck them.

The incident has been reported from Mirpur Upazila of the western district on Sunday afternoon, said police.

Four others including a woman, injured in the lightning, have been hospitalised, Police Inspector Rafiqul Islam told bdnews24.com.

The lightning struck around 1:30pm when the victims were working at a crop field. Five of them died on the spot, he said.

Comment: Elsewhere in Asia recently a woman was killed by lightning in Nepal.

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