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Alaska: Flooding closes highway with 'unprecedented levels of overflow'


Alaska Dispatch News
Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:04 UTC
Alaska flood
© ADOT / PF
"Notice the height of the water: Delineators along the edge of the road are usually 5 feet above the road," the state transportation department said on Facebook.
Flooding has once again forced the closure of the Dalton Highway after it was briefly opened following the clearing of unprecedented levels of overflow.

The highway will remain closed though Monday as crews tackle further complications from a storm that has created low visibility and prevented crews from keeping up with the overflow on the road and snow drifts, Alaska Department of Transportation spokeswoman Meadow Bailey said. A 35-mile section between mileposts 378 and 413 was closed.

Trucks use the highway to take supplies to North Slope oil fields, but the blockage essentially put a halt to those deliveries.

Comment: The earth changes continue! Check out:
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  • Hail, floods, and downpours affects hundres of thousands in China
  • Massive flooding in Kentucky leads to declaration of a statewide emergency

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Cloud Lightning

Powerful thunderstorm creates rivers of hail in St. Louis


RT
Tue, 07 Apr 2015 21:21 UTC

A massive storm system rumbled across the Midwest on Tuesday, dumping large amounts of hail in a relatively short period of time. Many communities, particularly in St. Louis, were flooded with rivers of hail when drainage systems were unable to handle the amount of water.
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Attention

Baby melonhead whale found stranded near Yamba, Australia


The Daily Examiner
Tue, 07 Apr 2015 17:08 UTC
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This whale calf was found stranded near Yamba at the weekend
Staff from Dolphin Marine Magic were called to assist in the treatment and care of a stranded whale calf on a beach south of Yamba.

DMM staff travelled to the beach and worked with volunteers from ORRCA to stabilise the whale for several hours on Saturday until veterinary assistance arrived. Veterinary inspection of the whale revealed that it was an extremely young Melonhead Whale calf and therefore unable to be released back into the ocean.

"The size of the whale and its lack of developed teeth indicates that this was a young calf still highly dependent on its mother for survival," DMM Veterinarian Dr Duan March said.

"The animal was heavily emaciated and in very poor body condition which suggests it had been separated from its mother and had not been feeding for some time.
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Attention

Strange animal behaviour: Giraffe is gored to death by an antelope at Norwegian zoo

Sara Malm
Daily Mail, UK
Tue, 07 Apr 2015 16:46 UTC
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Tragedy: Melvin the giraffe was attacked by an antelope walking in the same enclosure at Kristiansand Zoo in southern Norway
Dozens of children witnessed a giraffe being gored to death by an antelope at a Norwegian zoo on Easter Monday.

Melvin the giraffe had got his head stuck in a fence when he was attacked by an eland antelope walking in the same enclosure at Kristiansand zoo, around 200 miles south of Oslo.

Zoo vets rushed to the scene, but were unable to save the five-year-old giraffe, who died in front of shocked families.

Around 30 people witnessed the unprovoked attack at Dyreparken Kristiansand on Monday.

Melvin was a firm favourite among young visitors, having been named in a readers' competition in a national newspaper when he was born at the zoo in 2010.
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Wolf

Aggressive coyote attacks man in Saddle River, New Jersey

Jim Norman
The Record
Mon, 06 Apr 2015 16:26 UTC
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© Stephen W. Oachs
Coyote
A man working in his garden in the Twin Brooks area of the borough was attacked Monday by a coyote that was then hunted down and euthanized, authorities said.

The man, whose identity was not released, was taken to a hospital for treatment and then released for recovery at home, according to a report on the Saddle River Police Department's Facebook page.

The man was attacked from behind by the animal and managed to escape, the police report said.

Officers who investigated the incident learned that the same coyote had attacked a neighbor's dog last week, requiring the dog's owner to have it treated at a veterinarian's office, police said.

In addition, the police report said, workers in the area reported having seen the coyote several times on Monday, acting aggressively toward other dogs.
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Cloud Precipitation

Hail, floods and downpours affects hundreds of thousands in China


news.xinhuanet.com
Sat, 04 Apr 2015 15:48 UTC
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© Reuters
A man wades through a flooded street after heavy rainfall in Weifang, Shandong province, April 2, 2015.

Floods caused by hail and downpours have damaged crops and halted traffic in central and east China, with hundreds of thousands of people affected.

In central China's Hunan Province, hail and storms since Friday evening have damaged 292,000 mu (19,467 hectares) of crops in 52 villages and towns. Of the 239,500 people affected, 12,100 have been evacuated as of 6 p.m. Saturday.

Heavy downpours have flooded houses in Yueyang City in northern part of Hunan, trapping some local residents. Some roads were also flooded, with many vehicles stuck.

More rain is forecasted in the following few days, according to Hunan's provincial meteorological bureau.
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Arrow Down

Woman falls into sinkhole in St. Louis, Missouri

Mike Rush
ksdk.com
Fri, 03 Apr 2015 14:55 UTC
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© KSDK
A South City woman fell into a sink hole in front of her house a month after reporting it to the city.
Nearly a week after a south St. Louis woman reported falling into a sinkhole to the city, she's wondering why it's still there.

So she contacted Five on Your Side's Mike Rush.

Other than a pinky finger, 63-year-old June LaBarbera has gone all her life without a broken bone. Until now.

"The humerus bone goes up here... is broken from that collar bone up there," LaBarbera points out.

Her bone and her record were broken by a hole about a foot across and three feet deep that developed in her front yard at the curb on Odell Street.

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Binoculars

Eurasian shorebird (wader) turns up far inland near Winslow, Indiana

Ryan Sabalow
Indianapolis Star
Tue, 07 Apr 2015 13:54 UTC
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© John Kendall
Indiana birdwatcher John Kendall took this photo of a black-tailed godwit on Saturday in Gibson County.
It was Friday morning, and Jeremy Ross needed to head to home to help with the kids.

But Ross, newly initiated into the world of bird watching, couldn't resist a few more minutes looking through his spotting scope.

He'd hoped to spot some of the long-beaked shorebirds that often stop in Indiana during their spring migration to feed in fields along Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge.

He was driving down a bumpy, muddy dirt road near Francisco in Gibson County when he spotted a bird that just didn't look right.

"I got the binoculars out and watched it land," Ross said. "It was real pretty. But with the black and white and orange, I thought 'That's just not normal. I don't know what this is, but it isn't normal.' "

Ross had spotted a black-tailed godwit, a gull-sized shorebird native to Europe and Asia. Ross' find has made the middle- and high-school arts teacher a celebrity of sorts among birdwatchers. After all, they might spend a lifetime tallying birds and never find one so rare.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills 5, injures 18 at Easter mass, Tanzania


ippmedia.com
Tue, 07 Apr 2015 12:53 UTC
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Lightning struck while Easter Mass was in progress at a Tanzania Assemblies of God church in Chato District, Geita District, leaving five people dead and 18 injured.

Geita Regional Police Commander Joseph Konyo confirmed the incident, saying those killed are Daud Medard (20), Daud Lazaro (20), Saimon Marco (15), Haile Shija (20) and Monica Sumuni (19).

He said four of the injured are admitted to Bwanga Dispensary, naming three of them as Mabula Mathias (8), Fabian Ezekiel (10) and Edina Leonard (21) and adding that the identity of the fourth was yet to be established.

Doctor In-charge at the dispensary Deogratias John, confirmed having received the 18 injured, saying 14 of them were discharged the very day they were admitted but the remaining four are still getting treatment at the health facility.

Commenting on the incident, the Councillor of the ward, Mahobe Chiza, said the incident was one of its kind to have taken place during Easter festivities.
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Cloud Precipitation

Massive flooding in Kentucky leads to declaration of a statewide emergency


WLKY
Mon, 06 Apr 2015 22:07 UTC
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Storms cause major flooding in Kentucky
Gov. Steve Beshear has declared a statewide emergency allowing officials immediately access to resources to assist in public safety and recovering efforts.

"We have reports of heavy damage in some areas of the state already, but the threat of thunderstorms and further flooding has not cleared Kentucky yet," Beshear said. "By declaring a state of emergency for the entire state, we can deploy any needed state assistance, such as National Guard troops, without delay."

Comment: Kentucky's massive storms are part of a much bigger picture. Check out: SOTT Earth Changes Video Summary - March 2015: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, and Meteor Fireballs

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