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North Carolina teenager saves toddler from pit bull

Khier Casino
Opposing Views
Tue, 28 Oct 2014 00:00 UTC
Colton Hartley
A North Carolina teen is being hailed as a hero for saving a toddler who was being attacked by a dog.

T.J. Blake, of Caldwell County, and her grandson Eli, 2, had seen the dog as they were making their way to a neighbor's house last Thursday.

As they were walking back home, Blake says the dog lunged through a screened window and latched on to the 2-year-old boy, MyFox8.com reports. Blake was also scratched on her arm.
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Alarm Clock

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.1 - 129km NW of Hihifo, Tonga


U.S.Geological Survey
Tue, 28 Oct 2014 13:13 UTC
Earthquake 6.1 Hihifo, Tonga
© USGS
Event Time
2014-10-28 03:15:43 UTC
2014-10-27 15:15:43 UTC-12:00 at epicenter

Location
15.193°S 174.666°W depth=35.0km (21.7mi)

Nearby Cities
129km (80mi) NW of Hihifo, Tonga
346km (215mi) WSW of Apia, Samoa
435km (270mi) WSW of Tafuna, American Samoa
438km (272mi) WSW of Pago Pago, American Samoa
651km (405mi) E of Lambasa, Fiji

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Sun

X-Class solar flares hit Earth, cause radio blackouts


The Extinction Protocol
Mon, 27 Oct 2014 12:14 UTC
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© Extinction Protocol
At 17:09 UT (12:09 p.m. EDT) today (Saturday), active region (AR) 2192 erupted with another X-class flare directed at Earth. This is the second powerful eruption in less than 24 hours to be triggered from the large sunspot that occupies the region. Today's flare registered at X1 on the solar flare Richter Scale, the most powerful class of flare, but weaker than Friday's X3-class flare. Further radio black-outs have been recorded on the daytime side of the Earth, but, once again, today's flare did not generate a significant coronal mass ejection (CME). There was already a high probability that active region (AR) 2192 was going to erupt with a powerful solar flare, so it came as little surprise when, yesterday, the huge sunspot fired a powerful X-class flare right at Earth. And we sure did feel its impact.

Comment: The fire in the skies is highly active:


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Cloud Lightning

Nicaragua, Honduras under threat of flooding, mudslides from Tropical Storm Hanna


The Weather Channel
Mon, 27 Oct 2014 20:15 UTC
tropical storm hanna
Tropical Storm Hanna, the eighth named storm of the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season, formed quickly Monday morning and has now moved inland after making landfall along the Caribbean coast near the Nicaragua - Honduras border.

A tropical storm warning was issued by the governments of Nicaragua and Honduras for a small part of each country's Caribbean coast.
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Cloud Precipitation

Severe hailstorm causes havoc in Australian wine country - up to 30% vineyard losses


weatherwatch.co.nz
Sun, 26 Oct 2014 21:05 UTC
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Vineyards in the south of Western Australia could see yield losses of up to 30 per cent after they were hit by damaging hail storms this week.

Severe thunderstorms struck the South West and Great Southern regions on Wednesday evening.

Wineries in Frankland and Pemberton were hardest hit, with reports of hail completely stripping vines of new season growth.

Ferngrove Wine Group was one of the wineries that fell victim to the hail. Ferngrove senior winemaker Kim Horton said that the storm completely damaged some vines, but some were left unscathed.
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Arrow Down

6 family members killed in Crimea as a massive sinkhole swallows up car

Mark Piggott
International Business Times
Mon, 29 Sep 2014 20:02 UTC
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Six members of one family - including three-year-old twins - died instantly when a vast sinkhole opened up in the motorway and swallowed their car in Crimea. Two other children aged 12 and 12 months survived.

It is believed the car was driving between the Crimean capital Simferopol and a village called Nikolaevka in the disputed region, which recently voted to leave Ukraine and join Russia.
Car falls into monster 8-meter-wide sinkhole in Crimea (PHOTOS, VIDEO) http://t.co/QbrCYG11C8 pic.twitter.com/EKpC5jzGoH
- RT (@RT_com) September 28, 2014
Suddenly a massive hole opened up in the ground, ripping away power-lines and reportedly casting the road into darkness. The car's driver, Ibrail Eskandarov, 34, frantically applied his brakes but had no time to avoid the 26-feet wide hole, rescuers said. The car fell 20 metres and smashed into the bottom.

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Arrow Down

Cement truck gets swallowed up by huge sinkhole, Russia


Metro (UK)
Fri, 24 Oct 2014 19:47 UTC
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© YouTube/Wiktor
Not what you expect on your normal commute
There are times to regret the amount of dash cams on the road recording our every mistake but this truck driver must be chuffed the car behind had their camera working.

Explaining to the boss that your cement truck fell into a large sink-hole works a lot better knowing there is video evidence.

Sinkholes are depressions or craters caused after the collapse of the surface layer and can vary in diameter from one to 600m.

The cause of such rare incidents can vary from the collapse of a disused mine shaft to to ruptured sewage pipes.

Needless to say, this truck driver will never look at a road the same ever again.


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Cloud Precipitation

Athens and Antalya inundated as floods hit Southern Europe

Richard Davies
floodlist.com
Mon, 27 Oct 2014 18:14 UTC
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After the storm surge in northern Europe, then flooding and storms in Slovenia, Czech Republic and parts of the Balkans, the severe weather thought to be caused by the remnants of Hurricane Gonzalez, moved to parts of southern Europe on Friday 24 October 2014.

Athens, Greece

Athens in Greece was left knee-deep in water after torrential rain caused flooding in central and western parts of the city. Local media say as much as 14 cm of rain fell in just 90 minutes on Friday. Emergency services received over 600 calls as hundreds of homes and businesses were inundated. The worst affected areas were Peristeri, Ilion, Perama, Menidi, Aegaleo, Aghioi Anargoiroi, Nikaia, Piraeus and Kamatero.

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Attention

Deer crashes through window into furniture store in Cedar Falls, Iowa

Ben Hooper
upi.com
Mon, 27 Oct 2014 16:01 UTC
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The owner of an Iowa furniture store said security cameras recorded a deer running buck wild through the store before leaving through the back door.

Deb Emmert, owner of Simpsons Furniture in Cedar Falls, said the store had just opened Saturday when the buck crashed through a window and started running around the store.

Security camera footage shows the deer running among the furniture before using his antlers to push open the back door and make his exit.

"They go, 'Deer! Deer! Deer!' And they go, 'Get out of the way!' And I'm just like ... I didn't know which way to go to get out of the way of the deer," Emmert said. "We're just laughing. We're just laughing, especially when we saw him just nonchalantly opened the door and was like, 'OK, done with my shopping.'"

There were no injuries from the deer's shopping trip Saturday and the store remained open while a crew cleaned up the mess.

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Attention

Pack of wild boar attack woman in suburb of Stockholm, Sweden


rcinet.ca
Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:28 UTC
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© N. A. Naseer/ Wikimedia Commons
A wild boar group.
A young woman was left shaken after being chased by a pack of wild boar in a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden.

Stocholm county police write on their website that the woman was out walking in the evening when she met more than a dozen wild boars.

When the surprised woman turned tail and fled the boars gave chase. She luckily met a group of young people who were able to scare away the pack of pursuing porkers.
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