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Large sinkhole swallows entire pond in Lowndes County, Georgia

Adam Floyd
The Valdosta Daily Times
Wed, 05 Aug 2015 16:15 UTC
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Sinkhole swallows pond
A large sinkhole opened up Tuesday night in Lowndes County, closing one road and swallowing an entire pond.

"We have had a giant sink hole open on Shiloh Rd. at Franks Creek. It started on private property and has swallowed up an entire pond," said Lowndes County Clerk Paige Dukes. "Right now, we've got three places right next to the road that have opened up."

Last night, it was too dark for Lowndes County Engineering crews to evaluate the size of the sinkhole, but because of the extremely unstable conditions, Shiloh Rd. was closed, said Dukes.

"Citizens will need to take the usual detour. Please do not visit the area. This is not a photo opportunity," said Dukes. "Sinkholes are unpredictable and can be extremely dangerous."

Residents are also asked to remember that much of the sinkhole is located on private property.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills farmer, hurts 3 others in the Philippines

Freddie G. Lazaro
Tempo
Thu, 30 Jul 2015 16:07 UTC
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A farmer died and three others were injured Monday when lightning struck them while on their way home from rice planting session in a farm in Barangay Dardarat, Cabugao town.

Police said the victim, Raymund Incillo, 29, died instantly from severe burns on the body.

The other victims identified as Reynold Incillo, Angel Padilla, and a certain Remolacio sustained slight body injuries after being hit by lightning.

PAGASA weather forecaster Cynthia Iglesias said the best way to prevent from being hit by lightning is to find enclosed shelther such as homes, offices, shopping centers, and hard-top vehicles with windows rolled up.
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Attention

Dozens of dead seabirds found on beaches around Homer, Alaska

Quinton Chandler
Alaska Public Media
Wed, 05 Aug 2015 15:16 UTC
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© KBBI Bishops Beach
The Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge is receiving multiple reports indicating a significant increase in dead and dying birds found on beaches in the Homer area over the last two weeks. The reports are coming from beach walkers and local citizen scientists dedicated to surveying sea bird populations. Leslie Slater is the Gulf of Alaska Unit Biologist for the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. She says the number of birds reported is in the dozens.

"So it's hard to give a real exact number of the normal number. I would say on a given stretch of beach we normally don't find more than one within a couple of miles stretch."

Slater says there are a lot of potential reasons for the increase in fatalities but the prevailing cause is likely tied to the birds' food sources.

"What we're seeing more precisely is that birds seem to be starving. That's sort of the ultimate cause of their deaths but something might be happening before that. We might be having a PSP (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) outbreak or another situation called domoic acid where these biotoxins can build up through the food chain and ultimately cause the deaths of these birds."
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Attention

Portents and signs: Woman gives birth to a two-headed baby in India

Priya Prakashan
india.com
Wed, 05 Aug 2015 15:08 UTC
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Bizarre things happen in the world, one of the most peculiar incident that occurred recently was when a two-headed baby was born in Mathura, India. Not only two-headed babies but also two-headed animals are rare but known to exist. The condition of having more than one head is known as Polycephalys. This is not the first time a baby with two heads was born. A woman gave birth to the two headed baby in a private nursing home.

Dr Niranjan Lal Sharma from the nursing home said that the baby had two heads and the rest of the body was just like any other new born baby's. The baby's one head was relatively fair than the other head which was dusky.Interestingly this was the woman's fifth baby, the rest four were found to be normal. The mother of the new born is healthy and fine but the baby died within few hours of the delivery.
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Cloud Lightning

Biggest superstorm of 2015 to strike Japan & Taiwan this week


RT
Tue, 04 Aug 2015 14:48 UTC
Typhoon Soudelor
© NASA / AFPThis August 4, 2015 NASA satellite image shows Super Typhoon Soudelor in the Pacific Ocean.
The most powerful storm of 2015 is on a collision course with Japan and Taiwan. With winds of over 350kmh, Typhoon Soudelor has already wreaked havoc on a group of tiny islands in the Pacific Ocean. It is expected to make landfall sometime on Thursday.

The tropical storm ripped through the Northern Marianas on Sunday, which are some 2,500km due east of the Philippines. However, it hasn't taken any lives yet. Winds have been gusting up to 354kmh (220mph) according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, as cited by AFP and it is stronger than Cyclone Pam, so far the strongest storm of 2015, which claimed 15 lives in Vanuatu when it struck five months ago.

Typhoon Soudelor became 2015's fifth super typhoon on Monday. A super typhoon is defined by sustained wind speeds of at least 241kmh (150mph).
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Bug

Atmospheric dysbiosis: Is the loss of rainmaking bacteria causing the drought in the Western US?

Sayer Ji and Keith Bell
Green Med Info
Mon, 27 Jul 2015 18:41 UTC
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It's time to consider the possibility that industrial farming with its focus on chemicals such as glyphosate and glufosinate have played an important role in creating drought and other severe weather patterns.

The term microbiome can be misleading because it conjures images of things so small and insignificant that, in relation to macroscopic phenomena, they are literally invisible. These ubiquitously distributed bacteria collectively constitute together something of a globe-spanning organism, and their collective power to affect changes in the planet's climate may be far more profound than any of us imagined.

For instance, it is now known that the atmospheric microbiome actually regulates rain and snow formation and precipitation. In fact, Earth is surrounded by microbes and the products of microbes flying from land to sky and back to land. A recent article explains how "Over land outside the tropics, only 1 percent of rain events involve ice-free clouds, according to the new study." And what is the most significant rain-making bacteria identified to date but an ice-nucleating bacteria called Pseudomonas syringae? Perhaps it would be more accurate to speak of these bacteria in the atmosphere in toto not as a microbiome but an "atmospheric macrobiome."

Comment: See also: How Does Rain Form: Pseudomonas syringae.

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Enormous sinkhole opens in Brooklyn, New York

Alex Lockie
Business Insider
Tue, 04 Aug 2015 10:54 UTC
The police have blocked off the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 64th Street in Brooklyn's Sunset Park as a massive sinkhole opened up around 7:30 am Tuesday morning, taking most of the street corner with it.
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MyFoxNY reports that there are no reported injuries from the collapse.

National Grid workers are on the scene to work on affected gas lines, and the north bound N train is expecting delays due to the wreckage, CBS NewYork reports. The footage of the sinkhole shows at least one disconnected pipe, and the water lines to several nearby businesses have reportedly been cut off.
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Pictures posted on Twitter show a large hole that could have easily swallowed up a car. The cave-in is limited to the street, and the sidewalk remains intact. The New York Fire Department tweeted these photos:

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Comment: Bronx, NY in the midst of second Legionnaires' outbreak this year

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Attention

Another dead whale found near Pacifica, California: 4th since mid-April


sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com
Mon, 03 Aug 2015 17:48 UTC
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© Tom MattuschTom Mattusch provided this picture of a dead Humpback Whale floating off the Pacifica Coast.
Boaters were being warned to watch out for a large dead whale found floating off the Pacifica Coast near shipping channels.

"We found this Humpback Whale, floating, rather bloated," boater Tom Mattusch said.

The whale was found just a few miles off the coast, swollen to the size of a small house.

The fishing vessel Hulli Cat was returning from a Farallon bird watching trip when Mattusch spotted it.

"I've been coming out on the ocean since 1967, and this is the first bloated, floating whale that large I've ever seen," Mattusch said.

An increased number of dead whales have been washing onto Bay Area shores. Another dead whale washed onto the beach in Pacifica Sunday.

Comment: See also:Dead whale found on beach in Pacifica, California: 3rd since mid-April

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Umbrella

4 waterspouts seen in eastern Carolina over the weekend


witn.com
Mon, 03 Aug 2015 17:01 UTC
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Waterspout over the Albemarle sound
Some unsettled weather along our coast over the weekend produced several waterspouts, reported by viewers through photos and videos.

Viewers in Tyrrell County sent in multiple photos of waterspouts that formed over the Albemarle sound early Sunday evening.

Teresa Thompson sent in amazing video of a fully-formed waterspout in the sound near Columbia.

The Tyrrell County Sheriff's Office says a funnel cloud was spotted just before 7:00 p.m. near Woodley, but it didn't touch down on land. However, three waterspouts were reported in the Albemarle sound.

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Sheeple

1,000 sheep die mysteriously in Kazakhstan


rferl.org
Fri, 31 Jul 2015 15:02 UTC
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Dead sheep in Kazakhstan
Kazakh authorities are unable to explain the sudden death of around 1,000 sheep in a single district.


Comment: See also these other recent reports of mysterious mass animal deaths in Kazakhstan: Death toll of rare saiga antelope reaches 85,000 in Kazakhstan

More mass animal deaths in Kazakhstan: 70 rare dalmatian pelicans found dead in country's west

Over 1 thousand dead seagulls discovered in Kazakhstan sector of Caspian Sea

If these deaths are being caused by viruses, then perhaps the following extract from the book Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection (The Secret History of the World) by Pierre Lescaudron, may be of some relevance here:
Space-bound bio-hazard

Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe have shown how viruses can be spread in the Earth's atmosphere by dust in the debris stream of comets. [313] When Earth passes through this stream, the dust and viruses enter the upper parts of our atmosphere, [314] where they can remain suspended for years until gravity finally pulls them down. [315]

Microbes can also be brought by meteorites directly to Earth's surface. That's the conclusion of the same Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, who published a paper showing the presence of fused fossilized microorganisms in a meteorite that recently hit the ground. [316] Wickramasinghe conducted extensive tests that ruled out any possibility of terrestrial contamination. A cosmic origin for some microbes may explain why so many new viruses emerge in Asia. The Earth's atmosphere is thinnest at the Himalayas and its surrounding region, [317] therefore 'drop-downs' should take less time there. It might also explain why new strains of viruses usually affect birds first, as we see with the numerous avian flus. [318] During their drop-down, microbes are first present in the sky, where they can contaminate birds before eventually reaching the ground.[321]
In addition, there's this report to take into possible consideration - Why the U.S. Is Building a High-Tech Bubonic Plague Lab in Kazakhstan?

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