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Thailand: Large Wave Strands Tourists

Agence France-Presse
Sun, 25 Dec 2011 11:12 UTC

© Agence France-Presse
Bad memories: A Thai man takes a photo of a wave in Prachuap khiri khan province southern Thailand. About 100 people were evacuated and dozens of tourists stranded.

About one hundred people in southern Thailand were evacuated overnight when a large wave flooded a coastal village.

The three-to-four metre high wave inundated a shore on the Gulf of Thailand, causing floods of one metre deep and damaging houses in a village in Chumphon province, according to provincial governor Pinich Charoenpanich.

Dozens of tourists were stranded on Phitak Island with about 1000 people in total affected by the waves. Reports suggest about 200 households were hit, although there are no reports of casualties.

Mr Pinich said officials helped evacuate about a hundred people to a safe place farther inland, and were expected to return home when the waters had subsided and the wind dropped.

Huge waves batter Southern Thailand shoreline houses swept away

Leo Reyes
Digital Journal
Sun, 25 Dec 2011 10:22 UTC

Giant waves measuring at least five meters high hit part of Southern Thailand Sunday, forcing residents in the affected areas to flee as their houses were swept away by the storm-induced waves from the sea.

Among the areas hardly-hit were Hua Lame village in Langsuan district and sub-villages in the three sub districts as giant waves struck before noon time. No casualties have been reported so far.

Flooding in the coastal villages did not originate directly from heavy rainfall in contrast with the flooding devastation in Southern Philippines as giant waves struck the villages which reportedly caused the flooding.

Sakurajima back online -- several impressive eruptions

You Tube
Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00 UTC

You will see 5 of the 10 eruptions which occurred today at Sakurajima. If you were to watch the videos in extreme fast forward, the volcano would appear like a steam engine -- literally giving off eruptions all day long at regular intervals.

In this video, you will see static discharge lightning, lava bomb/missiles/projectiles, and the entire mountainside covered in lava.

The volcano webcams were not uploading for at least a week, it is good to see the site back up and running !

US: White Christmas Eve Brings Travel Misery to the South West as Scores of Shut Roads Strand Travelers

The Daily Mail, UK
Sat, 24 Dec 2011 09:56 UTC

Road closures: Dozens of vehicles sit along the side of a highway in Rio Rancho, N.M., waiting for authorities to reopen U.S. 550 northbound

Travelers across the New Mexico and Texas are facing miserable holiday travel conditions today after a snow storm hit the region.

More than a foot of snow was dumped on the region yesterday, with high winds making driving conditions treacherous.

Several roads including Interstate 40 were shut as high winds created snow drifts and icy conditions.

There were also delays for passengers flying out of Albequerque and Denver.

Stranded motorist Tarquin Wilding told KOAT-TV: 'If you don't have (four-wheel drive) and you just have two-wheel ... you're either going to spin or stay stuck'.

Hundreds trapped as snowfall brings part of Greece to standstill

Monsters and Critics
Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:40 UTC

Hundreds of drivers remained trapped on Friday as a cold front of heavy snowfall and gale-force winds swept across several parts of central and northern Greece.

Emergency crews rescued more than 1,000 drivers trapped along the Egnatia Highway near the towns of Kozani and Grevana, but hundreds more remained confined to their cars.

Australia: Darwin on alert as cyclone develops offshore

ABC News
Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:24 UTC

Darwin residents are bracing for wild weather on Christmas Day as a cyclone heads toward the Top End coast.

The Bureau of Meteorology has upgraded Darwin from a cyclone watch to a cyclone warning.

It is predicting a tropical low off the Top End coast will develop into a category one cyclone around 4:00am ACST, strengthening into a category two system by 10:00pm.

Gusts of up to 110 kilometres per hour are expected to lash the Territory coastline including the Tiwi Islands.

'Absolutely No Progress Being Made' at Fukushima Nuke Plant, Undercover Reporter Says

Robert Irvine
The Mainichi Daily News
Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:19 UTC

Tomohiko Suzuki, in full protective gear

Conditions at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant are far worse than its operator or the government has admitted, according to freelance journalist Tomohiko Suzuki, who spent more than a month working undercover at the power station.

"Absolutely no progress is being made" towards the final resolution of the crisis, Suzuki told reporters at a Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan news conference on Dec. 15. Suzuki, 55, worked for a Toshiba Corp. subsidiary as a general laborer there from July 13 to Aug. 22, documenting sloppy repair work, companies including plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) playing fast and loose with their workers' radiation doses, and a marked concern for appearances over the safety of employees or the public.

For example, the no-entry zones around the plant -- the 20-kilometer radius exclusion zone and the extension covering most of the village of Iitate and other municipalities -- have more to do with convenience that actual safety, Suzuki says.

"(Nuclear) technology experts I've spoken to say that there are people living in areas where no one should be. It's almost as though they're living inside a nuclear plant," says Suzuki. Based on this and his own radiation readings, he believes the 80-kilometer-radius evacuation advisory issued by the United States government after the meltdowns was "about right," adding that the government probably decided on the current no-go zones to avoid the immense task of evacuating larger cities like Iwaki and Fukushima.

Into the blue: Stunning images from within Iceland's tallest volcano

Dailymail.co.uk
Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:18 UTC

Glistening in the setting afternoon sun of an Icelandic winter, the Crystal Cave of Svmnafellsjvkull (CORR) in Skaftafell national park, highlights nature's beauty.

Created by the awesome forces of the Vatnajvkull ice cap in the south of the volcanic island, the deep blue cave was formed by the glacier meeting the coastline.

The centuries old ice that has come from the slopes of 6,921 feet tall Vrffajvkull, Iceland's tallest active volcano, has compressed all air out of the ice adding to the texture and colour of the cave.

© Orvar Thorgeirsson
Nature at its best: Created by the awesome forces of the Vatnajvkull ice cap in the south of the volcanic island, the deep blue cave was formed by the glacier meeting the coastline

Accessible through a 22-foot entrance on the shoreline, the cave tapers to a tight squeeze at the end no more than four feet high.

'Blue ice like this deep blue occurs over hundreds of years and begins when simple snow falls onto ice or in this case a glacier,' said 35-year old photographer Orvar Thorgeirsson.

New Zealand Christchurch is rocked by yet ANOTHER violent earthquake

Richard Shears and Lee Moran
The Daily Mail
Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:01 UTC

Christchurch is today facing a grim future after being hit by yet another violent earthquake, its third major tremor in 15 months - with scientists predicting many more to come.

Experts predict the quakes will continue to hit New Zealand's second city for the next four years as residents rapidly lose the will to stay with the cost of making good after each disaster spiralling upwards.

The latest quake was registered at 5.8 magnitude, and although no lives were lost fears are growing that Christchurch could soon become a 'ghost town'.

Massive Oil Spill Moves Toward Nigerian Coast

Musikilu Mojeed and Leslie Kaufman
New York Times
Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:15 UTC

Lagos - An oil slick roughly 350 square miles in size from a Royal Dutch Shell platform is slowly making its way toward the southern Nigerian coast, threatening wildlife and widespread shore pollution, Nigerian officials said Thursday.

Royal Dutch Shell confirmed that the deepwater spill occurred on Tuesday during what the company called a "routine transfer" of crude from a floating storage device in the Bonga oil fields 75 miles offshore to a tanker; a leak in one of the transfer lines caused the spill.

The company said that at most about 40,000 barrels had been lost, which would be less than one percent of the oil thought to have spurted from the well beneath the Deepwater Horizon during the catastrophic Gulf of Mexico spill in 2010. The company also said that 50 percent of the oil had already evaporated into the air or been dispersed by wave action.

We haven't hit November yet. And then comes December. Stay strong folks!! Get cleaned up!!

LindaMay

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Neizvestno

We must believe lies as truth or face the consequences. I am not sure if I can assimilate into the Brave New World.

nuggatron

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Earth Changes

Thailand: Large Wave Strands Tourists

Huge waves batter Southern Thailand shoreline houses swept away

Sakurajima back online -- several impressive eruptions

US: White Christmas Eve Brings Travel Misery to the South West as Scores of Shut Roads Strand Travelers

Hundreds trapped as snowfall brings part of Greece to standstill

Australia: Darwin on alert as cyclone develops offshore

'Absolutely No Progress Being Made' at Fukushima Nuke Plant, Undercover Reporter Says

Into the blue: Stunning images from within Iceland's tallest volcano

New Zealand Christchurch is rocked by yet ANOTHER violent earthquake

Massive Oil Spill Moves Toward Nigerian Coast

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