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Lightning strikes kill 2 in South Africa

Jeff Wicks
News24
Mon, 26 Oct 2015 19:52 UTC
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Two women were killed in two separate lightning strikes during a storm near Harding in KZN on Sunday night.

Two other women were seriously injured and were treated by paramedics who responded to the emergency.

KZN EMS spokesperson Robert McKenzie said that the emergency call centre had received multiple reports of lightning strikes at the Jali Informal settlement.

"From the initial incident we had a 51-year-old woman who was killed when lightning struck her home. She sadly sustained fatal injuries and was declared dead at the scene. Several other people who were inside the house managed to escape unharmed," he said.
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Attention

Man survives black bear attack in Eastpoint, Florida


wctv.tv
Sat, 24 Oct 2015 19:31 UTC
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FWC investigating bear attack in Eastpoint, Franklin County
It wasn't an ordinary day at the Sportsman's Lodge and Hotel.

Charlie Griffin came face to face with a bear after checking the dumpster Friday.

"I done this and a bear came out of there, I couldn't get away from him," said Griffin.

He says the 400 pound bear popped out of the dumpster and ran him down.

"And the bear caught me right around here," as Griffin point's out the spot.

Slashed by the bear on the arm, Charlie ran leaving bloody prints.

"I was heading back this way, and I slipped right here fell down here. and after I fell down the bear went back that way," said Griffin as he points where he fell behind the truck.
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Attention

Woman nearly killed in kangaroo attack near Adelaide, Australia

Nigel Hunt
adelaidenow.com.au
Mon, 26 Oct 2015 18:41 UTC
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Margaret Acton was attacked and badly injured by a kangaroo while walking her dog "Jess" on the family property in the Adelaide Hills.
Margaret Acton can still remember the blows raining down on her body.

Her towering attacker showed no hesitation as he struck and scratched violently at her head, face, upper body and legs dozens of times.

But Mrs Acton's attacker wasn't an intruder in her home. Astonishingly, it was a two-metre tall kangaroo that lives in scrubland on her Adelaide Hills property.

When the blows from the huge male marsupial finally stopped — only after her dog Jess intervened — Mrs Acton could feel the warm blood gushing down her face and neck as it flowed freely from shocking wounds that had opened up her scalp.
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Butterfly

Flamingos migrating to Caspian Sea in mortal danger - lost in Siberia


RT
Mon, 26 Oct 2015 17:41 UTC
Flamingos siberia
© Anuruddha / Reuters
Greater Flamingos land at Bundala National Park, Hambantota, Sri Lanka.
A video posted online of a group of flamingos stranded in Western Siberia is raising concerns that the birds will die without human help.

Russian social media VKontakte user Pavel Shaposhnikov posted the video on his page with the caption: "I'm shocked! Watched a flock of flamingos on River Tom! 25.10.2015 in the Kemerovo region."


The average temperature in the Kemerovo region at this time of year is near zero degrees Celsius, and drops lower at night.

The birds have likely lost their way while migrating from Kazakhstan. This has happened before: the first such case of lost flamingos dates back to 1907 in the region's records.

Nikolay Skalon, a professor in the zoology and ecology department of Kemerovo State University, told Russian media that "younger birds lose their way because of changing weather when the autumn storms start," and added that they can only survive with human help.

Normally, the flamingos that spend the summers in Kazakhstan are meant to fly toward the Caspian sea for winter.

Temperatures in Kemerovo are set to drop to -10 degrees Celsius toward the end of the week - too cold for the pink birds, who are used to tropical and subtropical climes.

Comment: More animal strangeness.

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Cloud Precipitation

Massive flooding in Texas; more rain expected for parts of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas

Sean Breslin
The Weather Channel
Mon, 26 Oct 2015 10:30 UTC
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© AP/Tony Gutierrez
The rain-swollen Trinity River is seen with the city skyline in the background Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015, in Dallas.
After days of flooding swamped towns in Texas, authorities in San Antonio got good news Sunday afternoon. A 41-year-old homeless man who was swept away by floodwaters was located more than a day after rushing water swept him away, according to News 4 San Antonio.

Roel Martinez was caught in the raging water when he chased after his dog, officials said, and after several hours, the search was called off due to unsafe conditions, the San Antonio Express-News reported. More than 24 hours later, Martinez was located. He was treated for minor injuries and released from the hospital, News 4 San Antonio added. "You can call it luck, you can call it blessed, you can call it all of those things," San Antonio Fire Department Chief Charles Hood told News 4 San Antonio.


In Louisiana, thousands lost power in Louisiana as a slow-moving storm system compounded by the remnants of Hurricane Patricia continued to bring severe weather and the threat of flooding from Texas east into parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas. The National Weather Service in New Orleans reported that an EF0 tornado shifted a mobile home off its foundation Sunday morning near Destrehan, Louisiana, injuring an elderly woman.

However, Texas has seen the worst of the weather so far. Some parts of Houston saw as many as 9 inches of rain this weekend, canceling many outdoor events, including the Houston Half-Marathon and the Gulf Coast International Dragon Boat Regatta.
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© AP/Tony Gutierrez
A road sign that reads 9 feet, 5 inches, referring to an overpass clearance nearby, is wrapped with caution tape on a flooded roadway into White Rock Lake, Friday, October 23, 2015.
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© Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via AP

Comment: Chaotic weather is happening all over the planet. See SOTT's latest Earth Changes video summary below.


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

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Nuke

Fukushima fallout: Throwing radioactive caution to the wind & sea

Cynthia McKinney
Russian Times
Mon, 19 Oct 2015 14:36 UTC
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© Kyodo / Reuters
An aerial view shows No. 4 (front L), No. 3 (front R), No. 2 (rear L) and No. 1 reactor buildings at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama nuclear power plant in Takahama town, Fukui prefecture, in this photo taken by Kyodo November 27, 2014.
In the aftermath of Japan's Fukushima nuclear power meltdown following the tsunami of March 11, 2011, the international community has totally failed in keeping the public properly informed and protected from the fallout.

Scientists and environmental officials continue to express concern, even now, at the unusual events and wonder about the causes. At the same time, the media present the facts, but fail to make any connection whatsoever to the ongoing state of affairs stemming from the tragic 2011 events at Fukushima.
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Snowflake

Record snowfall for Chabarovsk in Siberia

Robert Felix
Ice Age Now
Mon, 26 Oct 2015 14:47 UTC
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Record snowfall paralyzed the main highway in Chabarovsk, in far eastern Siberia.

By ten o'clock in the morning it was practically impossible to get to the airport, or to drive on Krasnorechenskoe in the industrial area.

Motorists admitted that they were not prepared for disaster, and did not have time to change summer tires for winter.

Ice has led to a lot of minor accidents in all areas of the regional center, said the driver of one of the Chabarovsk taxis.

Recall snowfall hit the city streets in the morning on October 24.


Thanks to Argiris Diamantis for this link
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Cloud Precipitation

Deadly flash floods kill 7 in Alexandria, Egypt

Richard Angwin
Al Jazeera
Mon, 26 Oct 2015 14:10 UTC
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© EPA
Alexandria would usually only expect to see 5mm of rain during the entire month
At least seven people have died after heavy rain fell in the Egyptian Mediterranean city of Alexandria.

Torrential rain began falling in the early hours of Sunday, and was accompanied by strong winds.

A frontal depression has brought unseasonably unsettled weather to much of the eastern Mediterranean.

The northern portion of the depression brought very heavy rain across Turkey.

Through Thursday and Friday, 246mm of rain fell in Marmaris on the south coast. This is five times as much rain as would normally be expected during the entire month of October.


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Attention

Major 7.5 earthquake hits Afghanistan, Pakistan & India


RT
Mon, 26 Oct 2015 12:19 UTC
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© Danish Ismail / Reuters
People stand on a road after vacating buildings following an earthquake in Srinagar October 26, 2015.
Dozens of fatalities and hundreds of injuries have been reported following a 7.5 magnitude earthquake that hit in northern Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. There are fears the reported death toll will rise.

The earthquake has been followed by a series of aftershocks, USGS reported. Tremors with magnitudes of 4.7 and 4.8 have hit 42-45 km east of the town of Farkhar, Takhar Province, Afghanistan.

The total death toll from the earthquake that hit Pakistan, Afghanistan and India has risen to at least 180 as Pakistani officials announced that the number of people killed in the quake in that country has reached 145, AP reports. Inayatullah Khan, Pakistan's provincial minister, told AP that the death toll only in the Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has increased to 121.

Comment: More seismic 'signs of the times'! See also:

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

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Fire

Officials confirm 'arc flash' caused electrical explosion which seriously injured workers at Washington state dam

Christine Pratt
Tri City Herald
Sun, 25 Oct 2015 09:25 UTC
Priest Rapids Dam
© Grant PUD
Six workers received serious burns after an electrical explosion at Priest Rapids Dam on October 8th 2015.
The explosion that burned six workers at Priest Rapids Dam on Oct. 8 was the result of an electrical heat wave called an "arc flash," Grant County PUD officials have confirmed.

All the injured received serious burns. Two of the six workers remain at Seattle's Harborview Medical Center. One remains in serious condition in intensive care but is awake and alert, hospital spokeswoman Susan Gregg said. The condition of the other has improved from critical to serious, she said.

Both of the men are in their 40s and undergoing burn surgeries, she said.

The employees were in the vicinity of the dam's P8 generating unit, when the main breaker that turns the unit on or off failed, causing the arc flash explosion, PUD spokesman Chuck Allen said last week.

An arc flash is a phenomenon where an electric current leaves its intended path and travels through the air from one conductor to another, or to the ground, according to workplace safety bulletin on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) website.

Comment: Could the 'grounding' of our Solar System be contributing to some of these incidents of electrical explosions and fires? See also:

SOTT Exclusive: Solar System 'grounding': Transformer explosions and electrical anomalies

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