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Sinkhole swallows TTC vehicle on Commissioners St. in Toronto's Port Lands

David Shum
Global News
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 20:42 UTC
A sinkhole swallows up a TTC vehicle near the Port Lands.

A sinkhole swallows up a TTC vehicle near the Port Lands.
A sinkhole caused by a water main break has closed a section of Commissioners Street in the Port Lands area of Toronto.

Toronto Fire crews responded to a call of water flowing along the stretch of road between Bouchette Street and Logan Avenue at around 5 a.m. Tuesday.

Firefighters arrived on scene and located a TTC supervisor vehicle partially submerged in a sinkhole near the water main break.

TTC spokesperson Brad Ross said the driver got out safely and no injuries were reported. The vehicle was fully submerged several hours later.

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Unseasonal snowstorms sweep across central France, cause road chaos

Luke Baker
Reuters
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 20:03 UTC
The Route National 88 in central France were hundreds of motorists were left stranded by the snow.

The Route National 88 in central France were hundreds of motorists were left stranded by the snow.
Heavy snowfall across south-central France, with up to 40 centimeters (16 inches) falling in some towns and villages, has caused chaos on the roads and knocked out electricity to nearly 200,000 homes, authorities said on Tuesday.

The unseasonal and unexpectedly large snowstorms hit across Auverge-Rhone-Alpes and nearby regions, south and west of Lyon. TV footage showed thick blankets of snow falling across highways and in towns, with hundreds of vehicles brought to a halt.
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Cloud Precipitation

Heavy rainfall leads to foot-deep waters flooding Metro Vancouver roads


CBC News
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 15:32 UTC
Some city crews told CBC News the tools
© Gian-Paolo Mendoza/CBC
Some city crews told CBC News the tools they normally use to unclog drains weren't deep enough for some areas.
Drivers forced to abandon vehicles after trying to drive through massive puddles

Columbia Street near West 2nd Avenue and Hastings Street near Clark Drive were hit particularly hard. Several drivers were forced to abandon their vehicles after they stalled in the middle of massive puddles.

"The water got so deep it started to go up over the floorboards in some of the cars," said Jerry Dobrovolny, general manager of engineering for the City of Vancouver.

"I'd caution people: If you see a big puddle in the middle of the road, don't try driving through it."

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Cloud Precipitation

Flood kills 10 in south Nigeria

Mu Xuequan
Xinhua
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:20 UTC
floods
Ten people have been confirmed killed and 15 houses destroyed by flood in Nigeria's southern state of Anambra, according to a local government official on Monday.

Arinze Awogu, head of the Ogbaru local government area of the state, told reporters that a three-year-old child was among those killed by the devastating flood in the area since last Friday.

A total of 16 communities were submerged by the flood caused by heavy rains, he said.

Flooding is a perennial disaster in Nigeria, mainly occurring during the rainy season.

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Cloud Precipitation

Namibian rivers in flood after years of drought in some districts

Gopolang Chawane
The Citizen
Mon, 29 Oct 2018 11:38 UTC
floods
The rain has been described as a miracle after it led to the Tsondab flooding after many dry years.

Namibian locals woke to the sound of a gushing Tsondab River recently.

A few locals appeared to be in shock after years of drought.

Namibia's desert landscape has been blessed with severe rain recently, which caused the rivers to overflow.

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1-year-old dies a week after family dog attacks her in Edgecombe County, North Carolina

Ed Crump
abc11.com
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:07 UTC
PIT BULL ATTACK
The Edgecombe County 1-year-old injured after her family dog attacked her has died.

The attack happened Oct. 22 on the back porch of the family's home about six miles outside of Rocky Mount.

The mother of the child said she tried to stab the dog to get it off her baby.

"This animal was strong and she did try to stab it, beat it, and get him off and it did not work," said Edgecombe County Sheriff Cleveland "Clee" Atkinson Jr.

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'Unprecedented' number of dead whales have washed up in Scotland and Ireland - 10 times usual number

Tom Metcalfe
Live Science
Mon, 29 Oct 2018 10:29 UTC
This dead Cuvier's beaked whale
© Margaret Mulrooney/Irish Whale and Dolphin Group
This dead Cuvier's beaked whale was found in Sligo Bay in Ireland on Aug. 9, 2018.
A total of 80 deep-water whales have been found dead on the Atlantic coasts of Scotland and Ireland since early August — more than 10 times the usual number over that time in previous years.

Marine mammal scientists say the presence of the washed-up whales suggests an "unusual mortality event," or UME, that could have killed up to 1,000 Cuvier's beaked whales in the North Atlantic Ocean in recent months.

The cause of the whale deaths is unknown, but scientists fear they may be the result of warships using active sonar to hunt for enemy submarines, or naval anti-submarine exercises.

Simon Berrow, a marine biologist who heads the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG), a conservation NGO, told LiveScience that 30 dead beaked whales had washed up on Ireland's west coast since Aug. 4.
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M6.2 earthquake strikes New Zealand's North Island, disrupts parliament session


RT
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 02:33 UTC
New Zealand quake
© USGS
A powerful 6.2 earthquake has struck New Zealand, some 64 kilometers east of the town of Waitara, and was felt all across the island nation, including the capital city of Wellington.

No tsunami warning was issued by the nation's Civil Defence. So far there have also been no reports of damage or casualties caused by the tremors, which locals say lasted for about a minute.

However, the jolts which struck the country shortly after 3:00pm local time have led the Parliament to suspend its session.

"I never thought I'd have to do that, suspend the House until we find out what's happened," deputy speaker Anne Tolley said, according to local news. "There were public in the galleries and people need to just make sure their staff are OK. I mean we're in the safest building probably in the country - but just to make sure and get some advice."

Comment: There has been an uptick in seismic activity recently. Some related articles from the past week include:

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Northern hemisphere weather behaving strangely


Adapt 2030
Mon, 29 Oct 2018 23:43 UTC
SNOW ALPS
High velocity winds pushing massive storm floods through the Mediterranean, record snows across European Alps, earliest remembered snows in Morocco, North America east and west coasts epic early snows and this is only the last week of October.


Comment: Related articles include:

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Cloud Lightning

Indonesia's Karakatau volcano creates its own lightning during dazzling eruption


RT
Mon, 29 Oct 2018 21:16 UTC
Karakatau volcano
© YouTube / Photovolcanica
Mother Nature produced a light show made of lava when Indonesia's Krakatau volcano erupted, scattering fiery specks and volcanic lightning into the night sky. The entire display was caught on video.

The beautiful footage shows the volcano, known for its violent eruptions, shoot ash and lava from its crater in a way that can only be described as mesmerizing.
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