A sinkhole has opened on Arrowood Dr. in Clarksville.
Arrowood Dr. will be closed from the back entrance of Wal-Mart to Jordan Dr. off Purple Heart Parkway until further notice.
Officer Natalie Hall with the Clarksville Police Department says any drivers who go around the barricades in place to enter the blocked roadway will be cited.
"The roadway is blocked off in order to keep those in the immediate area safe from injury and to prevent further damage created by the sinkhole," she said.
A large sinkhole opened on the same stretch of road last September.
Aerial photo by West Virginia National Guard shows the extent of the landslide that’s closed Keystone Drive. Yeager Airport said about a third of the engineered fill beneath its main runway overrun area has collapsed
A worst-case scenario became reality Thursday when a large portion of the Yeager Airport hillside — which began experiencing some disturbing slippage over the weekend — collapsed into the valley along Keystone Drive, destroying at least one house, damaging a church, blocking a creek and forcing the evacuation of dozens of residents.
Now officials are scrambling to mitigate damage as they wait on a man-made mountain to finish its bow to gravity.
"It's a bad situation," said Kanawha County Commission President Kent Carper. "This is a very serious event."
Airport officials initially sounded an alarm Wednesday when they evacuated six people from two houses along Keystone Drive as a precaution when a portion of the hillside underneath the main runway's emergency overrun area slipped about 6 feet over the weekend. Most of the overrun area, known officially as the Engineered Material Arresting System, or EMAS area, was built about eight years ago atop an engineered fill containing about 1.5 million cubic yards of dirt. It was the back portion of that area that began shifting significantly over the weekend.
During an emergency airport board meeting Wednesday, airport officials and representatives from the airport's consulting firm Triad Engineering said the chance of a landslide was slight, but they couldn't discount the possibility.
"The likelihood of a catastrophic failure and it being down in those houses or on that church is slight, but if there is a risk, you're talking about people's lives and I could never live with myself if we didn't strongly encourage them (to relocate)," airport executive director Rick Atkinson said at the time.
However, that remote possibility became a stark reality a short time after noon Thursday when about a third of the engineered fill area began collapsing into the valley below.
NASA's top water scientist says California only has about one year's worth of water left in storage, and its groundwater - often used as a backup for reservoirs and other reserves - is rapidly depleting. He suggests immediately rationing water.
California just had the driest January since record-keeping began in 1895, with groundwater and snowpack levels at all-time lows, NASA scientist Jay Familglietti wrote in a column for the Los Angeles Times. He said the state has been running out of water since before the current years-long drought and storage levels have been falling since at least 2002, according to NASA satellite data.
"California has no contingency plan for a persistent drought like this one (let alone a 20-plus-year mega-drought), except, apparently, staying in emergency mode and praying for rain," said Familglietti. "In short, we have no paddle to navigate this crisis."
Comment: Access to water is a basic human right, and is essential for sustaining human life. With extreme weather increasing, will we begin to see people migrating as drought conditions worsen in some areas?
Corporations have been systematically 'sucking dry' this valuable resource, with no meaningful restraints or considerations in place, consumed only by their insatiable thirst for profit.
A bizarre video has emerged in the Netherlands of a lone wolf stalking a city suburb as it hunted for its next meal.
The huge grey wolf was filmed running along a residential street in the northern city of Kolham, which is normally packed with children and family pets.
The 22 second video shows the wolf strutting along the road for around 30 metres, stopping from time to time to look into gardens before continuing on its way.
Although running at a brisk pace, witnesses say that it did not seem dangerous and was possibly looking for a new home.
Tropical Cyclone Pam may have weakened somewhat Saturday morning, but it was still pounding the islands of Vanuatu after hours of fierce winds and torrential rain.
"#CyclonePam still tearing through #Vanuatu. 'Much bigger than expected,' says our colleague in Port Vila. Initial reports of devastation," tweeted the Australian branch of UNICEF.
Pam, one of the strongest storms seen in the South Pacific in years, earlier made a direct hit on Port Vila, the capital, raising fears of mass destruction.
#CyclonePam still tearing through #Vanuatu. "Much bigger than expected," says our colleague in Port Vila. Initial reports of devastation
March 12. 2015: Just before noon on Thursday, the blizzard allowed summit webcams to glimpse the observatories partially buried in snow.
Rapidly accumulating snow drifts reported
The blizzard warning continues for the summits of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, as snow is piling up high.
The National Weather Service says the warning is in effect for Hawaii Island's higher elevations - anything above 11,000 feet - until 6 p.m. Thursday. Forecasters expect an additional 2 to 4 inches of snow to fall. Temperatures are in the mid-20s, but its the wind that is extreme, gusting up to 85 miles per hour.
Those who work on the summit - including snow removal crews - had to abandon their posts. This message was issued by the Maunakea Rangers early Thursday morning.
The road to the summit of Maunakea is CLOSED to the public due to continuing blizzard-like, white-out conditions on the summit. Due to rapidly accumulating snow drifts, extremely strong winds and near white out conditions yesterday, the snow removal crew and all observatory personnel abandoned the entire summit area. Weather permitting, our snow removal crew will again begin attempting to clear the large amounts of snow from summit roads early this morning, however, it will likely take them at least the entire day to complete this task. - Maunakea Rangers at 3:55 a.m.
It is likely that the summit road will remain closed all day today.
Down below Mauna Kea, summit views were shrouded in clouds all day. Some folks were able to glimpse the snow on the areas just below the summit as it peeked out from beneath the blizzard. Lynn Beittel of Visionary Video took these shots from Waimea this morning.
Comment: Hawaii known for it's warm tropical breezes is having blizzard warnings along with 85 MPH winds in March! There's global warming for you.
A new round of booming noises has disturbed residents of west Port Angeles and Joyce, who say the mysterious sounds shake their homes.
The rattling noises were reported at about 12:21 p.m. Wednesday, almost exactly two weeks after the last round of booms heard on the afternoon of Feb. 25, and again at about 9:35 a.m. Thursday.
"It sounded like it came from the direction of the Strait [of Juan de Fuca]," said Jim Haugen, who lives on Milwaukee Drive in west Port Angeles near the bluffs and reported the Wednesday boom.
"We were in the house, heard the boom and the house vibrated," he said.
"It sounds similar to a sonic boom, [but there were] no planes in the area," he added.
Haugen said he has been hearing and feeling the booming vibrations at his home for 13 years.
On Thursday morning, reports of booms from Joyce to downtown Port Angeles were made on Facebook.
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Reindeer killed by avalanche
An animal tragedy in the Oppdals part of Trollheimen, specifically in the area south of Storhornet, was discovered Wednesday afternoon.
Two local residents, Day Jørund Vik and John Bjorndal, wanted to see the extent of the landslide and took a trip inland to the area the same day.
We had heard about it being exceptional and wondered how big it was. We discovered that the animals had been taken and notified the reindeer owner, says Vik Adresseavisen.
The animal tragedy was also featured by a number of other media including local newspapers Opdalingen, Up and NRK Sor-Trondelag.
Two new explosion of gas and ash Friday mid-morning broke a brief period of low activity at Turrialba Volcano, located in the province of Cartago, 67 kilometers from the capital San José.
The new explosions follow one that occurred at 4:30 a.m. Friday and four on Thursday.
The Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica (OVSICORI)'s web cameras recorded the explosions Friday. The agency reported that columns of material reached some 1,500 meters high (4,921 feet), similar to those recorded on Thursday.
Spewings of ash and gases lasted for periods of some 30 minutes, OVSICORI reported.
A busy road in Plymouth Meeting, Montgomery County is closed until further notice because of a sinkhole.
Plymouth Road between the Blue Route and Butler Pike is detoured indefinitely while PennDOT assesses how badly a sinkhole has damaged the bridge over Plymouth Creek.
At street level, the 12×3 foot hole takes up the narrow shoulder of the two-lane bridge. But down along the creek bed, exposed utility lines are visible.
Drivers, meanwhile, are being forced to detour to Germantown Pike until PennDOT can assess the damage and repair the bridge.
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Comment: Access to water is a basic human right, and is essential for sustaining human life. With extreme weather increasing, will we begin to see people migrating as drought conditions worsen in some areas?
Corporations have been systematically 'sucking dry' this valuable resource, with no meaningful restraints or considerations in place, consumed only by their insatiable thirst for profit.
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Flow: How privatization is accelerating the world's water crisis
Water industry, World Bank pilot new scheme to drive public water into private hands
Coca-Cola and Nestle are sucking us dry without our even knowing, effectively privatizing water supplies