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Man dies after 3 dogs attack him at homeless encampment in Bend, Oregon

Helena Wegner
Miami Herald
Fri, 21 Jul 2023 09:15 UTC
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Three dogs fatally attacked a 56-year-old man at a homeless encampment in Oregon, deputies said.

Deputies found Joseph Taylor Keeton losing a lot of blood at about 1:15 a.m. July 19 at the Juniper Ridge transient camp in Bend, the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.

Rescuers applied a tourniquet on the Bend man, performed CPR and used an automated external defibrillator, deputies said.

Keeton was then taken to a hospital where he died. Deputies said he had been mauled by three pitbull-bullmastiff mixed dogs.
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Seven killed in Bhutan as floods wash away part of hydropower plant

Gopal Sharma
Reuters
Fri, 21 Jul 2023 13:32 UTC
Flash floods in Lhuntse, Bhutan, July 2023.
© Government of BhutanFlash floods in Lhuntse, Bhutan, July 2023.
At least seven people were killed and 16 others missing in Bhutan after flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains washed away a section of a small hydroelectric plant on Thursday, local media reported.

Rescue and search teams have rushed to the area, authorities said. Prime Minister Lotay Tshering has arrived at the site and is taking stock of the situation and guiding rescue and search operation, his office said.

A section of the 32 MW Yungichhu Hydro Power Project in a remote area in the east of the country was washed away, but the main part was not hit, the Bhutanese newspaper said in a Twitter post without elaborating.

State broadcaster BBS said seven bodies have been recovered so far and another 16 were missing.

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Large hail, some 'baseball sized,' batters southeast Michigan - 100,000 lose power

Aurora Sousanis, Nour Rahal, Frank Witsil
Detroit Free Press
Thu, 20 Jul 2023 12:59 UTC
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Severe thunderstorms ripped through southeast Michigan on Thursday, bombing the state with giant ice balls so large that some people indoors said it sounded like "bowling on the roof." The hail smashed car windows, sunroofs, and dented everything it touched.

Worse, it hurt people.

By early Thursday evening, Hope Urgent Care of Davison, a clinic in Genesee County that treats non-life-threatening medical concerns, told the Free Press that there were injuries from the hail "everywhere" and that there were "a ton of people coming in for care due to the hail right now."

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Waterspout outbreak at Gulf of Finland as eyewitnesses observe 6 spectacular phenomenon


Lastly.com
Fri, 21 Jul 2023 12:01 UTC
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Eyewitnesses observed up to six waterspouts over the Gulf of Finland on Thursday morning. A video has surfaced on social media that shows a spectacular phenomenon happening off the Estonian coast on July 20.

A waterspout can be described as a highly concentrated, columnar vortex that typically takes the form of a funnel-shaped cloud, manifesting over a body of water.

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Huge waterspout spotted off coast in Kent, UK


Selma Sun
Fri, 21 Jul 2023 11:46 UTC
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A huge waterspout was spotted off the coast of Dungeness in Kent, England on Thursday, July 20. Separate vortexes were also reported off Herne Bay earlier in the day.


Comment: Elsewhere on the same day another was filmed in Cardigan Bay, Wales, watch here.

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Heatwaves have fallen in the United States over the last 75 years

Chris Morrison
The Daily Sceptic
Thu, 20 Jul 2023 01:10 UTC
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The BBC is reporting that heatwaves are the "new normal" as 50°C hits the United States and China. Scientists are reported to say that climate change is making heatwaves longer, more intense and more frequent. Quite where all this fearmongering guff is coming from is not immediately clear. Certainly not from official figures produced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that show a decline in U.S. heatwaves stretching back 75 years. EPA data for 1,066 weather stations across the U.S. show a total of 863 locations, or 81%, reporting either a decrease or no change in the number of unusually hot days.

As we noted on Monday, the decline in very hot days stretches back to the 1930s. Since that time the number of U.S. weather stations recording 38°C (100°F) has fallen by half. Writing for Climate Realism, the U.S. meteorologist Anthony Watts referred to the graph below from the EPA showing that heatwaves were much worse in the 1930s, well before climate change became a blip on the media radar.
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12 killed in landslide after heavy rain in Maharashtra, India

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Thu, 20 Jul 2023 18:20 UTC
Landslide in Raigad district, Maharashtra, India, 20 July 2023.
© Government of RaigadLandslide in Raigad district, Maharashtra, India, 20 July 2023.
Heavy rain in the state of Maharashtra in India has caused severe flooding and landslides over the last 2 days. A massive search operation is continuing in Raigad district where a landslide buried a number of homes, causing multiple fatalities.

Heavy rain has been falling in Maharashtra over the last few days, with areas of Raigad district seeing some of the worst of the effects. The district recorded 198.6 mm of rain in 24 hours to 20 July 2023. The Savitri River has exceeded the danger mark in Mahad, standing at 6.55 metres as of 20 July (danger level is 6.5 metres).

The heavy rain in Raigad district triggered a massive landslide in the village of Irshalwadi, burying as many as 40 homes, the district collector said. Emergency teams have been searching through the debris throughout the day. Almost 100 people have been rescued from the site. As of late (local time) 20 July, 12 bodies had been located. Adding to the tragedy, one of the rescue workers suffered a cardiac arrest and died at the rescue site.

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City of Nanjing in China hit by flooding after heavy rainfall - 4 inches in just 1 hour

Frank Hossack
The Nanjinger
Tue, 18 Jul 2023 17:59 UTC
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Nanjing experienced the heavens' opening yesterday. Many parts of our City were knee deep in water, while the rainfall set near records for cumulative waters. But just where was it highest? And which parts of Nanjing got off unscathed?

As the week dawned, the rains starting falling late Sunday evening in Nanjing. So who got hit hardest? And by how much?

That would be the residents of Qinglong Residential Community in Chunhua Subdistrict of Jiangning. There, a good 26.29 centimetres of water was accumulated yesterday, 17 July, according to data pertaining to the period from 00:00 to 13:00.

Elsewhere, the rainfall in multiple districts of Nanjing exceeded 10 centimetres yesterday. Data released by the Municipal Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters Office show that the next biggest-hit area of Nanjing was Jianye District, where Shuangzha Subdistrict saw a cumulative rainfall of between 8.01 and 16.6 centimetres.

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Flash floods hit Zagreb, Croatia

PJ Cresswell
Time Out
Thu, 20 Jul 2023 12:45 UTC
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Two people died, dozens more were injured and significant damage was caused when a massive storm hit Zagreb on Wednesday afternoon, July 19. Both victims were hit by falling trees.

Emergency services were still restoring power to streets and buildings the following morning. Rivers of rainwater swept down the city's main street of Ilica and public transport was shut down on certain routes. There was further destruction across the region, with fatalities reported in Slovenia and Bosnia, before the storm made its way towards Serbia.

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Kentucky declares state of emergency as historic rainfall floods communities - 11.2 inches of rain in 24 hours - Pfizer plant in North Carolina hit by EF3 tornado (150 mph winds)

Rebecca Falconer
Axios
Wed, 19 Jul 2023 12:25 UTC
A road near Mayfield in Graves County, Kentucky,
© Graves County Sheriff's OfficeA road near Mayfield in Graves County, Kentucky, on Wednesday following a washout that saw 11.28 inches of rain fall in 24 hours, according to preliminary NWS data.
Kentucky's governor declared a state of emergency Wednesday after historic rainfall inundated parts of the state and forecasters said additional storms on "extremely saturated ground" overnight raised fresh flooding concerns.

The big picture: Gov. Andy Beshear urged people to "pray for Mayfield and areas of Western Kentucky impacted by significant flooding from last night's storms" as officials responded to the damage. The city in Graves County is still recovering from a December 2021 tornado that left 57 people dead, the Washington Post notes.

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