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Puerto Rico: Dam failure causes flash floods; evacuation orders issued


RT
Sat, 23 Sep 2017 10:17 UTC
Puerto Rico flood
© Dave Graham / ReutersA flooded street is seen in the Juana Matos neighbourhood in Catano municipality after Hurricane Maria, southwest of San Juan, Puerto Rico September 21, 2017.
Evacuation orders have been issued for an area in northwestern Puerto Rico, after authorities said the Guajataca Dam was failing under the pressure of water accumulated from Hurricane Maria.

Operators reported that the structure was failing around 2:10 pm local time on Friday, causing flash flooding downstream on the Rio Guajataca, according to the National Weather Service (NWS) in San Juan.
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Roses

Four-year-old boy killed by pack of 17 stray dogs in Andhra Pradesh, India

Helen Roberts and Charnamrit Sachdeva
Daily Mail
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 19:38 UTC
The dogs bit the child in the neck, face, hands, chest, shoulders and legs in an attack that lasted more than 30 minutes until he was left in a semi-conscious condition
The dogs bit the child in the neck, face, hands, chest, shoulders and legs in an attack that lasted more than 30 minutes until he was left in a semi-conscious condition
A shocking video shows a small boy crying for help while lying in a pool of blood after being mauled by 17 stray dogs in India.

Four-year-old Praveen Kumar left his house in Guntur, southern India, with his sister to play with other children on Thursday, when a pack of dogs attacked him.

The dogs bit the child in the neck, face, hands, chest, shoulders and legs in an attack that lasted more than 30 minutes until he was left in a semi-conscious condition.

His parents claimed neighbours heard the attack and ran out but proceeded to film the incident on their phones instead of rescuing the child while he screamed and cried for help.

Achyuta Rao, President of the Child Rights Association who is now involved in the case, said: 'The dogs pounced on the child and bit him indiscriminately.

(WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT)


Comment: See also this recent report of another fatal attack in the same country: Attacked by 12 stray dogs for hours an 8-year-old boy succumbs to injuries in Maharashtra, India

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Attention

Indonesia raises Mount Agung volcano alert to highest level, thousands evacuated


New Zealand Herald
Sat, 23 Sep 2017 05:23 UTC
Bali's Mount Agung
© AFPBali's Mount Agung
Tourists on the Indonesian island of Bali are becoming understandably anxious after Indonesian authorities raised the alert level for the Mount Agung volcano to the highest level.

Some 10,000 villagers have already left their homes around the mountain, while more than 200,000 have received warnings. Locals have described the volcano as "starting to spit".

"Of course it's going to explode," one man said from a rice field overlooking Mount Agung.

Meanwhile, holiday-makers have been urged to be vigilant amid fears of increasing seismic activity and the possibility of a volcanic eruption.

The volcano, about 72 kilometres from the resort area of Kuta, is a popular tourist destination and hiking spot. The National Disaster Mitigation Agency earlier said no residents or tourists should be within 9km of the crater and within 12km to the north, north-east, south-east and south-southwest.

Locals and tourists alike have already begun posting about feeling earthquakes and tremors from deep below the ground as Indonesian authorities sweep a 12km radius from the peak, ensuring no residents or tourists remain in the critical-risk region.
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Hurricane Maria: Flooding continues across Puerto Rico, San Juan begins cleanup

Patricia Mazzei, Elivan Martinez
Miami Herald
Wed, 20 Sep 2017 03:12 UTC
flooded street
© CARL JUSTE CJUSTE@MIAMIHERALD.COMResidents deal with navigating high water throughout San Juan as Hurricane Maria left many streets flooded and blocked by fallen power lines, trees, and debris while Puerto Rico tries to recover from the Category 4 storm on Thursday.
Left to fend for themselves a day after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico and forced them into a primitive existence, San Juaneros took to the streets Thursday to do what they say Caribbean people do best: Inventar. Figure it out.

No electricity? A mustachioed man in a white undershirt played traffic cop at a Santurce intersection. No ambulances? A daughter borrowed her brother's SUV to race her frail mother from the La Perla neighborhood to a hospital. No debris removal? A physician and two neighbors borrowed garden tools to clear main Condado thoroughfares on their own.

With the enormity of Maria's destruction still unknown even to the overwhelmed Puerto Rican government, the capital's storm-dazed residents ventured outside Thursday, clogging roadways while trying to bring some semblance of order to their bruised city.

Their task was so massive some just wandered the streets, gawking.
San Juan street
© CARL JUSTE CJUSTE@MIAMIHERALD.COMA man waits in knee-high water for a neighbor to open a door as residents throughout San Juan deal with Hurricane Maria’s aftermath leaving on Thursday.

Comment: Meanwhile officials are rushing to evacuate tens of thousands of people from their homes in western Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria inflicted structural damage on a dam and unleashed "extremely dangerous" flash floods.

Some 70,000 residents in the municipalities of Isabela and Quebradillas were being evacuated by bus after a crack appeared in the nearly 90-year old Guajataca dam.

"It's a structural failure. I don't have any more details," Governor Ricardo Rossello said from the capital, San Juan. "We're trying to evacuate as many people as possible."

"This is an EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITUATION. Buses are currently evacuating people from the area as quickly as they can," the US National Weather Service tweeted on Friday .

In a later message, the NWS tweeted: "All Areas surrounding the Guajataca River should evacuate NOW. Their lives are in DANGER! Please SHARE!"

More than 15in (nearly 40cm) of rain has fallen on the mountains surrounding the Guajataca dam, swelling the reservoir behind the nearly 90-year-old dam, which holds back a manmade lake covering about two square miles (five square kilometres).

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Seismograph

Shallow 5.7-magnitude earthquake hits off coast of Northern California

Jack Phillips
The Epoch Times
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 20:39 UTC
map earthquake
© USGS
A magnitude-5.7 earthquake hit off the coast of Northern California according to the U.S. Geological Survey in an update at 4 p.m. ET on Friday.

The quake hit at around 5.6 miles in depth, according to the agency.

The quakes appear too far offshore to cause any damage. It's unclear if a tsunami warning was issued. It hit about 150 miles off the coast of California.

The Sacramento Bee wrote that after Tuesday's devastating earthquake in Mexico, it noted that smaller quakes shook parts of California. "The West Coast is bracing for the worst."

"Time spoke to experts who pointed out that Southern California, Los Angeles and San Francisco were the most at-risk areas in the country for the next destructive quake. It's been 160 years since the magnitude 7.9 earthquake near the San Andreas Fault, meaning a lot of pressure has built up over the years," it reports.
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Igloo

Australian ad - 'The next Ice Age should be the most serious climate event for humanity'

Joanne Nova
JoNova
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 20:13 UTC
An advert today describes the real climate change we should afraid of, discusses how past CO2 levels did not cause dangerous global warming, and extra CO2 has a smaller and smaller effect, then connects failed climate models with rising electricity bills.
Next Ice Age
© Ad in Australian Paper
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Roses

1-month-old baby killed by 2 pit bull terriers in Knox County, Ohio


wsaz.com
Thu, 21 Sep 2017 19:27 UTC
PIT BULL ATTACK
Ohio authorities are investigating a reported dog attack that killed a 1-month-old boy.

The Dispatch reports 25-year-old Teddy Hagans called 911 around 6 a.m. Wednesday to report that his dog had mauled the infant inside his bassinet.

Emergency medical crews pronounced the infant dead at the Knox County home about 60 miles northeast of Columbus.

The Knox County dog warden removed two pit bulls from the home.

The boy's mother, a 23-year-old nurse's aide, wasn't at home when the reported attack occurred.

Knox County Sheriff David Shaffer declined to release details about the death or the investigation, which also involves the county coroner's office and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation.

Source: AP

Comment: See also: Woman dies from injuries sustained in pit bull terrier attack in Neshoba County, Mississippi

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Tornado2

Waterspouts spotted on Oregon's coast amid intense storm


King5
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 22:30 UTC
Netarts, OR waterspout
© Richard Kittner
As a strong storm traveled up the Oregon coast and into Washington Monday, two videos of what appear to be waterspouts were seen from Netarts and Astoria.

Richard Kittner shared video of the waterspout near Netarts, taken Monday morning.


Comment: Another waterspout was seen in Oceanside, Oregon on the same day:

Oceanside, OR waterspout
© Daniel LarsonThe waterspout spotted this morning near Three Arch Rocks in Oceanside.


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Bizarro Earth

Major disaster: Hurricane Maria ravages Puerto Rico, leaving entire island without power (Updates, Photos)

Patricia Mazzei and David Ovalle
Miami Herald
Wed, 20 Sep 2017 10:38 UTC
Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico
Rosselló also said that at least one person was killed in the storm on the island when a board was ripped from a house it had been nailed to and hit a man. He said that the number of deaths could increase in the next few days. Pictured above are downed power lines and poles on Wednesday on the island
The eye of Hurricane Maria exited Puerto Rico on Wednesday afternoon, but only after carving a vicious path that toppled trees, sheared roofs, engorged rivers and obliterated the electric grid - cutting off power for the entire island of 3.5 million people.

By 2 p.m., the weakened storm had moved into open water but the danger was far from over.

The top winds were still clocking in at 115 miles per hour - still a major life-threatening Category 3 storm - and punishing rain was expected to drench Puerto Rico through the rest of the day. The U.S. National Weather Service was predicting up to 18 inches of rain through Friday, with "life-threatening flash floods and mudslides." News footage showed the muddy Guayama River overflowing and rushing in a brown torrent down streets .

"The truth is the danger continues," Gov. Ricardo Rosselló told the island's largest newspaper, El Nuevo Día. "It's going to keep raining hard. Flood zones are at critical levels. We're still going to have a full day of rain."

Comment:
Update: (Sept. 22)

Puerto Rico battled dangerous floods Friday after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island, as rescuers raced against time to reach residents trapped in their homes.The death toll has climbed to 33, including 15 in Dominica, three in Haiti and two in Guadeloupe. Although the southeast coast suffered the worst damage, no part of the island escaped the storm's wrath. Of the 27 river gauges on the island, 13 of them are in flood. The National Weather Service reported rainfall of between five and 7 inches an hour.

Maria has already torn through several Caribbean islands, claiming the highest toll on Dominica, which has a population of around 72,000 and has been largely cut off from the outside world.
Puerto Rico Hurricane Maria
President Donald Trump said the US territory had been 'absolutely obliterated' by the devastating storm
puerto rico hurrican maria
Cars have been forced to navigate the island by any means possible, as many roads have been partially or fully blocked by floodwaters and fallen trees. Picturned here, a car navigates the capital of San Jua
puerto rico hurrican maria
Work has already begun to try and restore a sense of normality after the storm, but officials have warned it could be 'months and months and months' before the country completely recovers
puerto rico hurricane maria
Massive flooding in the town of Guayama
puerto rico hurricane maria
A view of the facade of a building that was damaged by strong winds and heavy rain during the passing of Hurricane Maria in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Wednesday
More photos can be found here.

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Snowflake

Global warming causes early northern hemisphere snow and Arctic ice increase

Adapt 2030
You Tube
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 16:53 UTC
Kirkwood web cam shows a dusting of snow on the morning of Sept. 21, 2017.
Kirkwood web cam shows a dusting of snow on the morning of Sept. 21, 2017.
Summer snow starts in California, causing pile-ups on the slick roads, but wait for it, global warming will be blamed. This is the new media move as the cold, snow and Arctic ice increase. The intensification of the effects of our Sun changing Earth's climate will be obvious for all to see this year, that's why the media will go into full court press damage control over what the people of our planet will see in front of their eyes. The media will try to convince you that what your eyes are seeing is false.


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