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Shoe

Family of black bears chases tourists in Yellowstone National Park


Daily Mail
Sun, 10 May 2015 11:14 UTC
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'Keep going!': Tourists ran as a mother bear chased after them with her brood in Yellowstone National Park
Cute, small and fluffy, these little black bears seemed to melt the hearts of visitors at Yellowstone National Park this week.

But their cooing soon turned into screams when the mother sow decided she'd had enough.

She started to chase, followed by her brood, and the tourists were forced to run.

'Keep going! Go! Go!' park ranger John Kerr shouts at the families as they leg it across a bridge in the Montana sanctuary.

At one point, one of the 13-month-old bears targets a teenage girl and follows her round the back of a car - before she jumps in the passenger's side.

And an elderly couple grip each others hands as they move as fast as possible.

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Brick Wall

Fifty-one tornadoes rip through Tornado Alley; Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and north Texas


New York Post
Sun, 10 May 2015 15:18 UTC
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© ReutersDamon Braley carries his mother’s dog Sammy, which he rescued from under the wreckage of his parents’ RV.
Victims from a 51-twister outbreak across Tornado Alley sifted through rubble Thursday while experts issued ominous forecasts for the coming days.

Tornadoes hit Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and north Texas on Wednesday. Most were small and chewed up only farmland, but a pair crossed into Oklahoma City and damaged homes and businesses. A few injuries were reported — including about a dozen at an Oklahoma City trailer park — and one woman drowned in an underground storm shelter that flooded.
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© Zuma wireA large tornado passes just to the west of Halstead, Kansas, on Wednesday.
"There is a hotel on Interstate 35 that sustained major damage — it just looks destroyed," said Oklahoma police Sgt. Gary Knight. "We've been going room to room."

The Storm Prediction Center had warned that severe weather would come to Tornado Alley and said more storms were possible later in the week. Meteorologist John Hart said the greatest threat for severe weather Thursday was in southern Oklahoma and north Texas. Even two days out, the center was warning of a "moderate risk" of severe storms Saturday from the high plains of Kansas to the Red River area north of Dallas, including much of western Oklahoma.

"The conditions are right; it's the right time of year," forecaster John Hart said. "There are just a lot of things that make you think over the next three days there will probably be big tornadoes across the southern Plains."


Grady County authorities said Wednesday that a tornado destroyed 25 homes in Bridge Creek, a community southwest of Oklahoma City.
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Snowflake

May snowstorm dumps over a foot of snow on South Dakota's Black Hills


kttc.com
Sun, 10 May 2015 15:02 UTC
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The white stuff.
A May snowstorm has dumped more than a foot of snow in South Dakota's Black Hills.

Meteorologist Kyle Carstens of the National Weather Service in Rapid City says between 10 to 18 inches of snow already has fallen in the Black Hills as of Sunday morning. Snowfall could total 20 to 24 inches by the time the system passes.

Rapid City reports 8 to 11 inches of snow and could see a foot.

Carstens says the snow is not unusual for this time of year. He says this is the wettest time of the year for the Rapid City area, and temperatures have been hovering just below freezing.

Carstens says many roads have deep slush, but the snow won't stay. Temperatures are expected to reach the 60s by mid-week.

Source: Associated Press
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Cloud Lightning

Tornado destroys homes in North Texas as series of twisters rip through Great Plains states

Alex Dobuzinskis
Reuters
Sun, 10 May 2015 13:18 UTC
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A tornado hit the North Texas town of Cisco Saturday evening.
A tornado killed one person in a rural part of north Texas on Saturday and destroyed at least two houses, a local emergency official said, just days after a series of twisters tore through several Great Plains states.

The twister touched down about 5 miles (8 km) south of the town of Cisco, an area of farms and small ranches, where it traveled in a straight line and tore through several houses in its path, said Eastland County Judge Rex Fields, the local emergency management coordinator.

One person was killed by the twister, Fields said. He could not immediately provide more information on the victim.

At least two houses were destroyed in the area about 130 miles (210 km) west of Dallas, and other dwellings might have been damaged, Fields said. Roads were partly flooded because of the storm, he said.

"We can't exactly tell what all we've got just yet," Fields said. "We don't even have everybody accounted for."

In eastern Colorado, three tornadoes touched down in rural areas on Saturday, said National Weather Service meteorologist Jim Kalina. There were no reports of injuries or property damage from the weak twisters, he said.
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Wolf

Over the past year dog attacks leave 48 people needing hospital treatment in Cornwall, UK


piratefm.co.uk
Thu, 07 May 2015 14:49 UTC
Pirate FM has learnt almost one person a week is ending up in hospital in Cornwall after being attacked by a dog.

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Over the last year that has included a two year old boy and a ninety-four year old woman.

Almost forty ended up needing an operation, according to figures from Treliske.

Jessie from Redruth was attacked as a child, and then again when she set up a dog walking business.

Even though she has got the scars it has not put her off working with the animals.

She said: "I've looked at forums to see what people's opinions are and a lot of people say, 'put them down, they shouldn't be around, they're dangerous to other people and children' - and it depends, it always depends on the situation.
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Blue Planet

One person killed as tornadoes rip through Texas


RT
Sun, 10 May 2015 14:42 UTC
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© Reuters/Kathryn Piotrowsk

One person was killed after at least two tornadoes tore through parts of northern Texas. Meteorologists warned of worsening weather conditions for a broad swath of the state just days after several Great Plains states were pummeled by tornadoes.

The twister touched down about 5 miles (8 km) south of Cisco, a small rural town about 100 miles west of Fort Worth, where it tore through several homes in its path, Eastland County Judge Rex Fields, the local emergency management coordinator, told Reuters.
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Cloud Lightning

Tornadoes tear through North Texas - 1 dead and 'five miles of destruction'


US News
Sun, 10 May 2015 14:05 UTC
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© AP Photo/Orlin WagnerRain clouds hang over the press box during a delay in the Sprint Cup Series auto race at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kan., Saturday, May 9, 2015.
Multiple tornadoes tore through North Texas on Saturday, leaving one person dead and others unaccounted for in a sparsely populated farming and ranching area as the system slowly weakened while advancing toward Fort Worth, officials said.

One of the twisters caused "five miles of destruction" as it ravaged homes in a rural area south of the town of Cisco, about 100 miles west of Fort Worth, Eastland County Judge Rex Fields said.

"The homes that I've seen, there are just maybe one or two walls standing," Fields, who also serves as the county's emergency services coordinator, told The Associated Press. "(The tornado has) taken them into pieces and blown them out into pastures."

Comment: Below is footage of another tornado that tore through Texas last month:



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Snowflake

Unseasonal sudden snowfall hits Chelyabinsk in Russia, thousands left without power


RT
Sun, 10 May 2015 11:44 UTC
May snowfall in Chelyabinsk
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Chelyabinsk, the Russian city that made headlines with its meteorite, triple sun and blue snow, has been hit by a new natural phenomenon. The city in the Southern Urals marked May 9 with a sudden snowfall so thick it left 39,000 people without power.

The wintry weather, which started on May 9, hasn't discouraged social media users who were preparing to mark 70 years since victory over Nazi Germany in WWII. They marked the words "May 9" in the snow, and drew pictures of St. George's ribbons on their snowy cars.

"I love winter in the beginning of May," gzbender user wrote on Instagram. The city residents even revived their favorite New Year tradition - building a "stern Chelyabinsk snowman."


The snow also damaged power lines in the city and left about 39,000 people without electricity, regional energy officials said.

Comment: Last summer residents in the region witnessed a similar natural anomaly, where snow fell in the middle of summer, an event which had occurred only three times in the last hundred years.

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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strikes kill 2 in Meherpur, Bangladesh


Dhaka Tribune
Sun, 10 May 2015 11:56 UTC
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Two people have been killed in a lightning havoc in Meherpur.

The deceased are Bilkis Begum, 25, wife of Qatar expatriate Liton Hossain of village Kazipur and Atiar Rahman, 55, son of late Ismail Hossain of Char Goalgram.

Bilkis died when lightning stroke her while she was entering her house on Sunday morning while Atiar was killed in the lightning while working at the courtyard of his house.

Gangni OC Akram Hossain confirmed the matter to the Dhaka Tribune.
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Alarm Clock

More than 60 small eruptions at Nicaragua's Concepcion volcano


Latin American Herald Tribune
Sun, 10 May 2015 10:12 UTC
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© EFE/ArchivoView of the 1,610 meter high Concepcion active volcano located in the picturesque island of Ometepe, Nicaragua.
Nicaragua's Concepcion volcano has experienced more than 60 small eruptions since early Wednesday.

"The volcano has spewed gases but no ash," said the coordinator of the Council on Communication and Citizenry, Rosario Murillo.

"Experts from the Nicaraguan Institute of Territorial Studies, Ineter, are now analyzing this phenomenon," she explained.

Ineter reported two earthquakes of magnitudes 2.4 and 1.3 near the volcano shortly after the eruptions began.

Ineter investigator Armando Saballos said the volcano had shown signs of activity over the past few weeks linked to seismic activity, with small explosions of gas that tended to subside after a few days.

He added that although this was normal, seismic activity could increase in the coming days.

On April 27, Ineter announced that a group of volcanologists would analyze gases from the volcano after the increase in seismic activity was reported.

The 1,610 meter high active volcano is located on the picturesque island of Ometepe, with 36,000 inhabitants.
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