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40 miners trapped, 3 dead in China's disasters


asiancorrespondent.com
Sat, 02 Jul 2011 08:48 UTC
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Beijing - A coal mine flood in southwestern China trapped 21 miners underground, while a cave-in at another mine Saturday killed at least three workers and left 19 others sealed off, officials said.

Rescuers scrambled to reach the miners at the Niupeng coal mine in the county of Pingtang in Guizhou province on Saturday morning, according to a staffer from the Pingtang work safety bureau. The staffer would only give her surname, Chen, as is typical for officials.

Chen confirmed rescuers were at the mine and the cause of the flood was under investigation, but did not have any details about the rescue.
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U.S.: Ogeechee River Suffers Major Fish Kill: Death zone kills 80 percent of sunfish, 60 percent of bass


GON
Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:08 UTC
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Imagine your favorite fishing lake suddenly losing 60 percent of its bass and 80 percent of its bream to a massive die-off and not knowing the cause. That's the situation facing Ogeechee River anglers.

Five weeks after one of the most devastating fish kills in Georgia history decimated the Ogeechee River, state officials aren't sure why it happened, but attention centers on a wastewater discharge pipe at King America Finishing. The textile plant near Sylvania has 175 employees and processes more than 50 million yards of fabric annually, applying finishes like fire retardant and water-resistant coatings.

The Ogeechee River death zone stretches for 70 miles and begins just below the wastewater discharge pipe.
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US: Wacky West weather means snow on the 4th of July

Robin Hindery
The Associated Press
Sat, 02 Jul 2011 05:52 UTC
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© The Associated Press / Rich Pedroncelli
Local resident Jeff Cole, makes his way across a snow covered field as he goes for a ski run at Alpine Meadows Ski Resort near Tahoe City, Calif., Thursday, June 30, 2011. An unusually cold and wet year, which continues to bring snow to California's mountains, is enabling Alpine Meadows to be open for the Fourth of July weekend for the first time since 1995 and for just the second time in its 50-year history. Neighboring Squaw Valley USA also plans to be open for skiing over the weekend
A summer that looks a whole lot more like winter has travelers across the West scrambling to revise their Fourth of July itineraries - or at least their packing lists.

Ski poles are replacing fishing poles at popular hiking and camping spots where late-winter snowstorms blanketed Western mountains from the Rockies to the Sierra Nevada.

"A lot of people are calling it the trifecta day, where they're going to ski in the morning, mountain bike in the afternoon, maybe do something on the lake in the evening," said Julie Mauer, a spokeswoman at Sierra ski resort Squaw Valley, which saw record-breaking snowfall this season. The resort plans to open four ski lifts on the upper mountain and promises free commemorative July 4 t-shirts to the first 5,000 guests who show up on Monday.

At Crystal Mountain, south of Seattle, spokeswoman Justus Harris said she expected to see "a lot of bikini tops" out on the slopes. The National Weather Service is predicting mostly sunny skies on the mountain on July 4, with a high near 59 degrees. The mountain hasn't been open this late in the year since 1999.

An unseasonably strong low-pressure system has brought above-average rainfall to California's Central Valley and the Sierra earlier this week, and the National Weather Service on Thursday issued a flood warning for much of the region, cautioning that warming temperatures leading into the weekend will accelerate snowmelt and cause rising water levels in rivers and streams.
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US: Heavy Rains Prove Too Much for Missouri's Platte County Levees

Rob Low
FOX 4
Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:42 UTC

It was the day that many residents in the northwest corner of Platte County were fearing, after heavy rains overnight proved to be the final straw for levees already struggling to hold back the flooded Missouri River.

Waters from a broken levee washed through the town of Rushville, Missouri, across the river from Atchison, Kansas, after an inch-and-a-half of rain overnight. Rushville resident Diana Stanton and her brothers spent Monday working to save their nearly-century old farmhouse.

"We've been hanging on by our teeth last night. We had an inch and half of rain here, the big storm, so we knew this morning we were going to have problems," said Stanton, who spent the day pulling up carpets and cleaning out furniture.

Brother Keith Stanton says that last week they laid out sandbags to stop the rising water, but it wasn't enough.

"We probably laid 30,000 sand bags," he said.

At nearby Sugar Lake, the water is rising fast. Area resident Tammy Christgen and her family emptied their house on the front lawn on Monday, as trucks haul belongings to higher ground. But Christgen says that they will be back.
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US: Rowan University Grad Reports on Devastating Floods in Midwest

Rob Scott
NJ.com
Fri, 01 Jul 2011 04:00 UTC
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© Photo by Rich Wisniewski/KMOT-TV
Floodwaters inundate a street in Burlington, N.D., a town a mile east of Minot. Burlington was one of the first towns to get hit by the historic floods in North Dakota, according to Rich Wisniewski, a Gloucester County native who works for a TV station in Minot.
One hundred fifty-eight.

Up until recently, that's all Minot, North Dakota, was to Rich Wisniewski. A number.

For about eight years, he'd wanted to be a TV reporter, so, following the advice of his boss at NBC 10 in Bala Cynwyd - where he'd been interning for a year and a half - Wisniewski last year Googled the top 210 television markets in the country, started at 150, and worked his way down through Montana, Wyoming, upstate New York, Florida.

KMOT-TV, the Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson market that ranked 158, was just one of 70 small market stations Wisniewski, a Rowan University graduate, sent his résumé tape to.

Today, seven months after KMOT hired him, Minot is Wisniewski's adopted home.

He watched last week as the worst flooding in the city's history swept through town, swallowing up homes, streets and businesses. He watched, not with the cool, detached eye of someone paid to cover and report the news, but as a resident of the ravaged town, as a neighbor, as a person.
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Africa: More Global Warming Propaganda -The Atmosphere is Saturated

Arnold Letsholo
Mmegionline
Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00 UTC
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Open Billed Storks at Sunset, Botswana, Africa
The atmosphere is so saturated with green gases that even if the all the world's automobiles were parked and industrial activity stopped, it would hardly make a dint

The former Director of Meteorological Services, David Lesolle, told Mmegi in an interview this week that climate change is manifesting itself in climate variability and excessive rainfall that came even in winter, making its utilisation difficult.

Lesolle said though the developing countries are adversely affected by this climate change phenomenon, they are not its cause. Developed countries caused it. He said, "We cannot stop climate change but adapt it. We can only stop our emissions."


Comment: While it is true that the climate is changing and will have devastating consequences for societies, greenhouse emissions have little to do with this. For a more realistic assessment of what's going on here on the BBM read Forget About Global Warming: We're One Step From Extinction!

He said signs of the vulnerability of developing countries in Africa happened a few years ago when the cyclones occurred in Madagascar and the Indian Ocean. This was in 2000 when the Eline cyclone brought vast rainfalls into Botswana and South Africa where dams were filled beyond capacity. Both countries opened their dams so that their walls would not be damaged. The excessive waters flowed into Mozambique.
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India: Monsoon rains 89 pc above normal in Uttar Pradesh

Ashish Tripathi
The Times of India
Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:19 UTC
Uttar Pradesh got a break from five days of continuous heavy rains on Friday. Though light to moderate intermittent rains were reported from many parts of the state, the intensity has decreased. While total rains in the monsoon so far have been 89 per cent above normal, incessant rains have also claimed 18 lives so far, including three more deaths in a house collapse incident in Kanpur on Friday. The weatherman has predicted low rainfall activity for the next 2-3 days. The monsoon, however, will revive again from July 4-5.

According to the monsoon assessment report of UP MET department, the monsoon arrived in UP on June 17, two days behind schedule, but has given ample rains so far. The per district average rainfall in the state between June 1-30 was 170 mm against the normal of 89.8 mm, which was 89 per cent above normal. The west UP received more rains in comparison to the east. The average per district rainfall in west UP was 168.1 mm against the normal of 58.1 mm, which was 147 per cent above normal. In east UP, the average per district rainfall was 117.2 mm, 64 per cent higher than normal 104.1 mm. In Lucknow, the rainfall in the same period was 47 per cent.
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Tropical Storm Arlene deluges Mexico


Boston.com
Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:54 UTC
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NOAA satellite image taken Wednesday at 1:45 a.m. ET
Veracruz, Mexico - The Atlantic season's first tropical storm hit Mexico's Central Gulf Coast yesterday, hurling heavy rains over a wide swath.

The heart of Tropical Storm Arlene struck land near Cabo Rojo, a cape just off the mainland between the cities of Tampico and Tuxpan. It had maximum sustained winds of 65 miles per hour and was moving inland at 8 miles per hour, said the US National Hurricane Center in Miami.

Coastal towns appear to have escaped serious damage from the initial storm. Tree branches fell, water accumulated on some streets, and a neighborhood of Tuxpan lost electricity, civil protection authorities reported.
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Bangladesh: More rains ahead


bdnews24.com
Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:44 UTC
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Heavy rains, caused by the active monsoon at different parts of the country, may prolong for one or two days more.

Bazlur Rashid, an official at the Met Office, told bdnews24.com on Friday that the active southwestern monsoon had created deep clouds over the North Bay.

The country's coastal areas, he said, might be affected by heavy winds due to the deep clouds.

The maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox's Bazar and Mongla were advised to keep hoisted local cautionary signal No 3.

Fishing boats and trawlers plying the North Bay were also advised to move cautiously until further instructions.

It is feared that tidal waves, surging 1-3 feet higher than usual ones due to the southwestern monsoon and the appearance of the new moon, could flood the coastal areas of Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Noakhali, Feni, Lakshmipur, Chandpur, Comilla, Bhola, Barisal, Patuakhali, Barguna, Pirojpur, Jhalakati, Bagerhat, Khulna, Satkhira, and adjacent islands and chars, Rashid said.
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U.S.: Storm pounds Chicago area with hail, causes power outages


Chicago Sun Times
Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:22 UTC
Violent storms pelted the area with rain and golf ball-sized hail Thursday night, leaving more than 100,000 ComEd customers without power.

The "supercell" storm hit shortly after 9 p.m. The south suburbs had about 56,000 ComEd customers without electricity. About 16,000 customers did not have power in Chicago and near west suburbs.

The severe storm collapsed part of the roof at the conference center at Illinios Beach State Park and felled trees and snapped utility poles, knocking out power in Waukegan, Beach Park, Zion and Winthrop Harbor and as far north as Racine.
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