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Man hit by lightning as storm rips through Edmonton, Canada

Mack Lamoureux
cbc.ca
Fri, 29 Jul 2016 13:19 UTC
A car is stranded in a flooded part of the Whitemud on Wednesday afternoon.
© Nicole Teeuwsen
A car is stranded in a flooded part of the Whitemud on Wednesday afternoon.
Flooding so severe in some areas that boats had to rescue commuters from vehicles

A man was struck by lightning Wednesday as a sudden and violent thunderstorm raged through Edmonton.

Alberta Health Services confirmed the man was struck in south Edmonton at about 2:30 p.m. and was taken to hospital in stable condition.

Early in the afternoon, Environment Canada issued severe thunderstorm warnings for Edmonton and the surrounding communities of Sherwood Park, Spruce Grove, Stony Plain, Morinvillle, Big Lake and Villeneuve.

Those warnings have since been lifted.


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Cloud Lightning

Four killed by lightning bolt in Bihar, India


Outlook
Fri, 29 Jul 2016 12:52 UTC
Lightning
Four women were today killed in lightning strike in Bihar, while rains continued to lash northern parts of the country, including Uttar Pradesh, where major rivers were in spate.

Floods that occurred mainly due to heavy rains in Nepal's catchment area continued to affect the life of over 17 lakh people in 10 districts of Bihar and have so far claimed 22 lives.

Four women were killed and two others received burn injuries after being struck by lightning in East Champaran district, a police officer said.

Rains continued to lash northern parts of the country, including New Delhi, where 14.1 mm rainfall was recorded between 8.30 AM and 5.30 PM.
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Windsock

Huge waves close roads and destroy seawall amid weather chaos in Wellington, New Zealand

Rachel Thomas and Laura Doone
stuff.co.nz
Sun, 24 Jul 2016 12:23 UTC
While the wind and rain settled down on Sunday, rough seas continued to pound the Wellington coast.
© Kevin Stent
While the wind and rain settled down on Sunday, rough seas continued to pound the Wellington coast.
Large waves washed away a Porirua seawall and swallowed up a Kapiti Coast beach after a weekend of wild weather that saw highways washed out, trees toppled and trampolines sent flying across the Wellington region.

Parts of the Porirua coast, including a section of Steyne Avenue, were hammered by the sea on Sunday.

State Highway 58 between Joseph Banks Drive and Spinnaker Drive as well as Grays Rd reopened about 4.30pm on Sunday, after being closed in the middle of the day due to rising sea levels.

At the time a New Zealand Transport Agency spokeswoman said the combination of high tides and storm conditions had made the road conditions unsafe.

Two Porirua roads were also closed for four hours overnight on Saturday because waves were washing over them.


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Cloud Precipitation

Update: Over 100 dead in South Asia flooding


BBC News
Thu, 28 Jul 2016 14:35 UTC
Nepal flooding
© AFP PHOTO / NEPAL ARMY
Nepalese army personnel rescue flood victims at Nawalparasi, around 200 km west of Kathmandu on July 26th
More than 100 people have been killed in monsoon floods in South Asia, as torrential rain caused chaos in several countries.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced, with many rescued from rising waters and housed in shelters.

Nepal has suffered the highest death toll with over 75 people killed this week in floods and landslides.

Hundreds die every year across the region during the monsoon season between June and September.

In Nepal the army has been evacuating hundreds of people from villages submerged by rising flood waters, with western parts of the country worst hit.

Interior ministry officials say they fear the death toll could rise as information comes in from remote areas.

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Bizarro Earth

Iceland's largest volcano Katla rumbles with earthquakes


Iceland Monitor
Tue, 26 Jul 2016 21:14 UTC
Mt. Katla
© Iceland Monitor/Sigurður Bogi Sævarsson

Two earthquakes of magnitude 3.2 occurred in the Katla caldera in Mýrdalsjökull glacier around 4:00 AM this morning. Ten smaller earthquakes followed.

Katla is one of Iceland's largest volcanoes, and with twenty eruptions being documented since the year 930, Katla remains on of the country's most active volcanoes.
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Attention

Baboon attacks caretaker and his dogs in South Africa

Mandla Mahashe
News24
Thu, 28 Jul 2016 20:52 UTC
Thula Makoa and the female Rottweiler, bearing its injuries. Beside them is Reverend Moeketsi Mototjane, of the Holy Cross Anglican Church in Nyanga
© Mandla Mahashe
Thula Makoa and the female Rottweiler, bearing its injuries. Beside them is Reverend Moeketsi Mototjane, of the Holy Cross Anglican Church in Nyanga
An alleged stray baboon attack has left both master and man's best friend nursing a bruised ego and a broken left hind leg, respectively.

According to Thuso Makoa, the incident took place in the early hours of Sunday.

"I was sitting by the fire when I heard a strange sound and I went to investigate. It was as if someone had dropped something over the fence. As I was walking in an alley, I couldn't believe my eyes."

Makoa said there, in front of him, was a baboon with a chain around its waist.

Then it lunged at him, he said.

"I turned around and ran for my life, and hid in one of the alleys,"

"As the dogs chased the animal around the yard, I managed to scramble to my room where, after a few minutes, I heard one of the dogs yelping in pain. As Makoa opened the door of his room, he said he saw one of the guard dogs, a female Rottweiler, rushing towards him, dragging its left hind leg and in obvious pain. He said he stayed in his room until daybreak as he was too scared to even save the dog from the attacker.
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Attention

Rabid bat attacks person in broad daylight in Terrace, Canada


cbc.ca
Thu, 28 Jul 2016 20:43 UTC
When a bat
© Getty Images
When a bat "dive-bombed" someone at Lakelse Lake near Terrace, B.C. recently, it was caught and tested positive for rabies.
The bat 'dive-bombed' a person near Lakelse Lake during the day

It was a bizarre sight: a bat, normally a nocturnal animal, dive-bombIng a person in broad daylight near Lakelse Lake in Terrace, B.C.

When the bat was caught, it tested positive for rabies.

The individual wasn't harmed, but Dr. Melissa McLaws, a veterinary epidemiologist with the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, says rabies is a serious issue because it is "almost universally fatal if a person gets it or an animal gets it."

She says that less than one per cent of wild bats have rabies, but "we do find positive bats every year in every part of British Columbia".
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Attention

Fish dying by the millions all over the planet in last month

Michael Snyder
Activist Post
Mon, 09 May 2016 19:38 UTC
fish
Why are millions upon millions of dead sea creatures suddenly washing up on beaches all over the world?

It is certainly not unusual for fish and other inhabitants of our oceans to die. This happens all the time. But over the past month we have seen a series of extremely alarming mass death incidents all over the planet. As you will see below, many of these mass death incidents have involved more than 30 tons of fish.

Comment: More recent stories:

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Fire

Scientists warn that volcanic "super-eruptions" give very little advance warning

Jayson Maclean
Cantech Letter
Tue, 26 Jul 2016 19:23 UTC
eruption Eyjafjallajökull volcano

The eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland in April, 2010, coated much of Northern Europe with volcanic ash, but was a very small event compared to “super-volcanos”.
A new study has determined that super-eruptions -volcanic events so large they spew out hundreds of cubic kilometres of magma and ash -typically give only one year's warning before they erupt, a prospect which would leave humanity little time to prepare for the worldwide devastation produced by such an eruption.

The 2010 eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland disrupted air traffic and coated much of Northern Europe with volcanic ash, while the eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington State in May of 1980, which was the deadliest and most economically costly volcano blast in U.S. history, covering 11 states with ash and killing approximately 57 people.

But neither of these disasters comes close to the power and devastation of what geologists refer to as super-eruptions volcanic explosions that register highest on the Volcanic Explosivity Index and send up between 100 and 1000 cubic kilometers of ejecta into the atmosphere.

Scientists have long tried to pinpoint when and where the next supervolcano will erupt. Now, researchers at Vanderbilt University and the University of Chicago have used microscopic analysis of quartz crystals to conclude that the decompression process which releases gas bubbles prior to an eruption begins less than a year before the actual event.
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Black Cat

Leopard attacks villagers, injuring 10 including a 3-year-old child in Uttar Pradesh, India

Harriet Mallinson
Daily Mail
Wed, 27 Jul 2016 17:33 UTC
In the footage the big cat can be seen charging out of a building and pouncing on a man in white shirt before dashing away

In the footage the big cat can be seen charging out of a building and pouncing on a man in white shirt before dashing away
An Indian village was plunged into fear when a runaway leopard attacked and injured 10 people.

Dramatic footage caught the moment the beast mauled two men as it ran through a courtyard.

The big cat reportedly emerged from the fields in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and entered a house where it savagely tried to drag away a 3-year-old child sitting in his uncle's lap.

Thankfully the man, known as Suraj, managed to hold onto the tot and raised the alarm, although the child sustained severe injuries from the mauling.

The animal fled to a neighbouring village where it hid in a heap of husk in a house and attacked two unsuspecting women.

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