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Tennessee, US: Sinkhole beside Spring Hill's new high school stirs speculation


The Tennessean
Sun, 17 Jul 2011 04:43 UTC
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© Jill Cecil Wiersma / The TennesseanA sinkhole is under repair near Summit High School in Spring Hill. Crews discovered the 60-foot-long, 18-feet-wide,14-foot-deep hole earlier this week
Cause of huge hole at Summit unclear

As crews scurry to finish work on Spring Hill's $40 million Summit High School, workers have found a large sinkhole on one of its athletic fields.

Geotechnical engineers are searching for the cause of a 60-foot-long, 18-foot-wide and 14-foot-deep hole discovered earlier this week, said Director of Construction and Facilities Kevin Fortney.

Fortney described the large sinkhole to school board members Thursday night at their work session, joking that it was not part of the school's swimming program.
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Haryana, India: Mysterious buffaloes deaths in Kaithal district


The Times of India
Sun, 17 Jul 2011 03:07 UTC
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A mysterious disease in Khanpur village of Kaithal district led to sudden death of nearly 25 buffalos in past 24 hours, plunging the villagers into mourning.

A team of doctors rushed to the village after reports of the disease, which is killing one cattle almost every hour, since Friday evening, but have so far failed to identify the disease or the cause of so many deaths.

The disease was noticed on Friday evening after when buffaloes started falling to the ground following which villagers consulted a veterinary assistant in the village. But even after treatment there was no improvement and buffalos started dying by late night on Friday. Villagers informed that the buffalos stopped taking fodder or hay initially and then laid on the floor. Ram Pal Singh, a farmer, informed that he had brought his buffalo home from the village pond along with many other villagers. The symptoms started soon after returning home.
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Most of The Netherlands left without radio after two large radio towers catch fire and collapse in space of two days


Southgate Arc
Sun, 17 Jul 2011 02:50 UTC
Two broadcast masts in different parts of the Netherlands have caught fire, one has collapsed.

On July 15 a fire caused a broadcast tower 303.5 metres high to collapse in Hoogersmilde NE Netherlands. On the night of July 14 a fire occurred at a similar 366.8 metre high tower in Lopik central Netherlands resulting in that tower being shut down.

It has been reported that terrestrial FM and Digital TV signals to 80% of the Netherlands were lost.

Watch the YouTube video of the Smilde collapse:


Comment: Two towers going down in the space of two days has obviously got people in The Netherlands wondering 'who done it'. Far from it being a conspiracy of 'terrorists' or anyone else, we rather suspect that a build-up of electrical energy is the culprit. Ryan X noted the surge in exploding transformers earlier this summer:

Exploding Transformers - More than meets the eye?

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US: Minnesota: Heavy rains flood neighborhoods, metro roads


KARE 11
Sat, 16 Jul 2011 10:55 UTC

Heavy rains flooded metro neighborhoods and roads, including a half-mile stretch of Interstate 35W near Interstate 694.

Crews closed that section of the well-traveled freeway early Saturday morning, after receiving reports of stalled vehicles. Both directions of I-35W were reopened by around 9:30 p.m.

"With the intense rains we had overnight, the overflow ponds have overflown onto the freeway," said Trooper Kyle Klawiter of the Minnesota State Patrol.
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North Carolina, US: Flash flood slams Cherokee hatchery

Clarke Morrison
Citizen-TImes
Sat, 16 Jul 2011 20:59 UTC
Thousands of fish were killed when a wall of water swept through the Cherokee Fish Hatchery.

The flash flood washed many of the young trout out of the raceways where they were being raised as well as taking down about 75 feet of fence surrounding the facility, hatchery supervisor Doug Reed said.

The hatchery has about 800,000 fish at any one time. Reed said Saturday he and other workers were still trying to determine how many had been killed as they cleaned up the mess. He estimated the damage at about $30,000-$50,000.

"It overflowed the raceways and poured the fish out onto the ground," he said. "It washed leaves and sticks into the raceways."
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Igloo

More Harsh Winter Weather In Store for Ireland and UK

Mark Dunphy
Irish Weather Online
Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:11 UTC
UK Ireland winter
© Image MODISView of Ireland and UK from space on Christmas Day 2010.
The trend of severe winter weather could be set to continue according to new research.

A number of senior UK-based academics have published their findings in the journal Environmental Research Letters. The basis for the wintry outlook is that relatively cold winters in the United Kingdom and Ireland are more common when solar activity is low.

The findings follow on from one of the coldest winters experienced in Ireland and Britain in more than 45 years.

Using the Central England Temperature (CET) record, which dates back to mid-17th century, the research team said that average temperatures during recent winters had been markedly lower than the longer-term average.

According to the authors of the new report: "The mean CET for December, January and February for the recent relatively cold winters of 2008/09 and 2009/10 were 3.50C and 2.53C respectively. Whereas the mean value for the previous 20 winters had been 5.04C. The cluster of lower winter temperatures in the UK during the last three years had raised questions about the probability of more similar, or even colder, winters occurring in the future".
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Bizarro Earth

US: Alaska Peninsula - Earthquake Magnitude 6.1


USGS
Sat, 16 Jul 2011 15:34 UTC
Alaska Quake_160711
© USGSEarthquake Location
Date-Time
Saturday, July 16, 2011 at 19:59:14 UTC

Saturday, July 16, 2011 at 11:59:14 AM at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location
54.895°N, 161.267°W

Depth
48.2 km (30.0 miles)

Region
ALASKA PENINSULA

Distances
70 km (43 miles) SW of Sand Point, Alaska

98 km (60 miles) ESE of Cold Bay, Alaska

971 km (603 miles) SW of Anchorage, Alaska

1674 km (1040 miles) W of WHITEHORSE, Yukon Territory, Canada
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Bizarro Earth

Southern Lights As Seen From the ISS


SpaceWeather
Sat, 16 Jul 2011 13:52 UTC
Earth orbit is a great place to watch geomagnetic storms. On July 14th, astronauts onboard the International Space Station witnessed a broad curtain of green auroras over the southern hemisphere. This is what aurora australis looks like from space:

Aurora Australis
© SpaceWeather
The picture was taken by one of the crew of space shuttle Atlantis, now docked to the ISS for the last resupply mission of NASA's 30-year shuttle program. In addition to Southern Lights, the picture also frames Atlantis's port side wing and a segment of the boom sensor system attached to the shuttle's robotic arm.
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The display was caused by a solar wind stream which hit Earth's magnetic field on July 12th. Note to astronauts: Another solar wind stream is heading for Earth, due to arrive on July 19th. The crew of Atlantis should remain alert for auroras.
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Balkans Wilt Under Heat Wave


BalkanInsight
Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:50 UTC
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© Janeen
Balkan countries are roasting under a heat wave, with temperatures over 30 degrees for a third day in a row, causing deaths and increasing the risk of wildfires.

Croatia

The heat on the Croatian coast has caused eight deaths so far. Five people died on Thursday and Friday, while on Saturday another three people died in the town of Zadar and on the islands of Vis and Pag.

In addition, hundreds of tourists sought medical attention over the weekend. According to local rescue and medical services, the number of casualties are likely to grow if the heat continues.
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Cloud Lightning

US: Father and Son Both Victims of Lightning, 48 Years Apart

Reshma Kirpalani
ABC News
Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00 UTC

A New Jersey man followed the tragic fate of his own father 48 years ago when he was struck dead by lightning during a weekend barbecue with his family.

On Thursday, family members said 500 people from the tight-knit Hammonton, N.J. community attended the funeral to mourn the death of Stephen Rooney, 54, who was "well-known" and a "real nice guy," according to the town's Chief of Police Robert Jones.

On July 3, Rooney, and 25 members of his extended family took part in the "normal Fourth of July kind of antics," at a weekend barbecue--a 30-year family tradition at Rooney's residence at 59 Plymouth Road.
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