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Icelandic farmer digs out horses buried under deep snow

Inês Pereira
The Reykjavik Grapevine
Fri, 13 Dec 2019 13:47 UTC
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This morning, Magnús Ásgeir Elíasson, a farmer from Hvammstangi, had a sudden feeling that he should check on his horses. It was a lucky intuition, as Magnús arrived to his fields to find a large group of his horses stuck in the snow. Thankfully, he had arrived just on time to bring all of them to safety and warmth, he told Vísir.

Apparently, after he finished the morning feeding, something snapped in him. "As I was walking into the house, I felt someone stopping me and saying, 'Go check on the horses.' I then turned around, looked up [onto the mountain] and saw my herd," Magnús explained. His horses were freezing in the snow.


Comment: Iceland blizzard brings 149 mph winds, up to 10 feet of accumulating mountain snow

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Two dead, 50 houses covered in mud as flash flood hits Sigi, Indonesia


The Jakarta Post
Sat, 14 Dec 2019 11:39 UTC
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Two died and 50 houses were left covered in mud after a flash flood hit several villages in Kulawi subdistrict in Sigi regency, Central Sulawesi, on Thursday evening.

The disaster occurred at 7 p.m. when most residents were at home and while others were holding a Christmas prayer at a church in the area.

The flood was as a result of a landslide from a mountain located in Bolapapu, a village in Kulawi located next to forests. Heavy rain for days caused the landslide, which directly hit the village.

The disaster killed a father and his daughter who were stuck in their house when the flood hit. The mother of the family was able to survive as she was not in the house.

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2 rescued after sinkhole swallows minivan near Ocala, Florida


wsvn.com
Sun, 15 Dec 2019 11:16 UTC
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A water main break caused the ground to open up in an Ocala-area neighborhood, causing a minivan to fall in and leaving two people trapped inside until good Samaritans came to the rescue.

Witnesses said the sinkhole that formed on Thursday quickly turned into an emergency for those inside the minivan.

"I went inside again to get her to show my wife, and by that time, the water was up, halfway through the motor, the hood," said area resident Dave Harris.

The concerned neighbor said his wife had just driven through the area before the sinkhole formed.

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Cloud Precipitation

Two dead, hundreds of thousands of homes without power as powerful storm hits southwestern France


CNA
Sat, 14 Dec 2019 13:10 UTC
Floods in Maubourguet, south western France
© AFP/LAURENT DARDA man walks through a flooded street following heavy rains that led to the flood of the Adour and Echez rivers on Dec 14, 2019 in Maubourguet, south western France.
Two pensioners have been killed and tens of thousand of homes left without electricity as gale force winds and flooding hit southwestern France.


Comment: Winds reached 160kms/hr! And this wasn't even a named storm; just a sudden plunge in air pressure off France's Atlantic coast.


Eleven departments remained on orange alert weather warnings late Saturday.

A 70-year-old man died in the Pyrenees-Atlantique in the Basque Country on Friday when his vehicle struck a fallen tree.

In Espiens in the Lot-et-Garonne region a 76-year-old man was swept away by rising waters when he went out to fetch his mail on Friday.

Rescuers found his body 24 hours later more than a kilometre from his home.


Comment: This weather event seems to have received little coverage in anglophone media. It was quite something: it raged for almost 48 hours, brought rivers to near-record levels, and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes.

Less than a month ago, by the way, storms in France, Greece and Italy caused 'biblical' destruction.

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6.9 magnitude earthquake rocks Mindanao, Philippines

Ellalyn De Vera-Ruiz
Manila Bulletin
Sun, 15 Dec 2019 06:38 UTC
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Almost two months after a series of strong earthquakes hit parts of Mindanao, a powerful tremor measuring 6.9-magnitude on the Richter scale shook anew the southern region on Sunday afternoon.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) recorded the earthquake around 2:11 p.m. and traced its epicenter 9 kilometers northwest of Matanao, Davao del Sur.

The earthquake was felt as a "destructive" tremor at Intensity VII in Matanao and Magsaysay in Davao del Sur.

It was recorded as a "very strong" earthquake at Intensity VI in Kidapawan City; General Santos City; Bansalan, Davao del Sur; Alabel and Malapatan, Sarangani; and Koronadal City.

The ground-shaking was recorded at Intensity V or "strong" shaking in Tulunan and Matalam, Cotabato; Cotabato City; Davao City; and Glan, Sarangani.
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Dozens of villages cut off by up to 5 feet of snow in north of India


United News of India
Sat, 14 Dec 2019 20:10 UTC
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Snowfall continues in northern state
Dozens of far-flung and remote villages, including those near the Line of Control (LoC) besides border towns of Machil, Keran, Karnah, Gurez, remained cut off for the fourth day on Saturday due to heavy snowfall.

The Kupwara-Machil, Kupwara-Keran and Kupwara-Karnah roads besides road to border town of Gurez, surrounded by Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) from three sides, from Bandipora remained closed due to fresh snowfall.

There was about two feet to five feet of fresh snowfall forcing authorities to suspend traffic on dozens of roads leading to far-flung and remote villages, including those near LoC, official sources said.

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Snowfall will become a thing of the pass: 18 inches of new snow in 24 hours for White Pass, Washington

Lance Tormey
newstalkkit.com
Sat, 14 Dec 2019 19:43 UTC
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More than 18 inches of new snow has allowed the White Pass Ski Area to open for the Christmas season on Saturday for limited operations.

White Pass General Manager Kevin McCarthy says snow in the past two days helped fill areas that were lacking snow and will allow the area to open for business on Saturday.

He says they'll operate the Great White and Triple chairlifts as well as carpets.

That's great news to thousands of skiers and snowboarders who had been hoping for an earlier opening of the area because of early season snow.
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Ice Age Farmer Report: IT IS BEGUN: Corn shortage Brazil - Food scarcity means submit to Greta


Ice Age Farmer
Sat, 14 Dec 2019 14:41 UTC
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Brazil meatpackers warn of corn shortages in 2020 -- this is unlike greens or vegetables, as corn is a STAPLE for people and livestock -- and Christian warns that the global warming agenda is shifting: as the world's food supply is destroyed, they will scream "CO2" and push through the totalitarian agenda, holding the world hostage. Spread the word and start growing food.


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Thousands' of dead mackerel found in Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand

Brad Flahive
Stuff
Sat, 14 Dec 2019 14:12 UTC
"The birds had picked the eyes out but the flesh had not been touched," Wendy Morrell said.
There's something fishy going on in the Hauraki Gulf - thousands of dead mackerel were found floating in the sea near an island beach.

Wendy Morrell - steward of the Twitter account 'Adventures of Mr Muppet and first mate, Oscar' - documented the curious event while sailing near Auckland's Kawau Island on Thursday.

The biblical scene got "weirder and weirder" as she got closer to the shore near Bostaquet Bay.

"About midway through our journey from Algies Bay to Kawau Island we saw the odd fish bobbing on the surface," Morrell told Stuff.


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Cloud Precipitation

Delhi records highest 24-hour December rainfall in 22 years


Daily Pioneer
Fri, 13 Dec 2019 19:23 UTC
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The national Capital recorded its highest 24-hour December rainfall since 1997 on Friday, MeT officials said.

The Safdarjung Observatory recorded 33.5 mm rainfall, the second highest after 70 mm in December 1997.

The Palam weather station registered an all-time December high of 40.2 mm in the last 24 hours. It had measured 33.7 mm rainfall on December 3, 1997, the officials said.

India Meteorological Department (IMD) in its weekly weather forecast said foggy days will start from Saturday. "Moderate to dense fog from December 14 to December 19," MeT updated in Regional Weather Forecast for Delhi.

For the next week, minimum temperature will remain at 8 degrees Celsius and maximum will fluctuate between 18 and 20 degrees Celsius.
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