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Another landslide in Dorset, England: Woman trapped under rocks

Matthew Taylor and Steven Morris
The Guardian
Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:20 UTC
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Emergency services at the beach near Bridport, Dorset, where this week's landslide struck.
Rescuers are searching for a young woman trapped after a cliff in Dorset collapsed sending hundreds of tons of earth and rock onto a busy beach.

Horrified onlookers - including the woman's father and boyfriend - tried to get to her before another huge section of cliff gave way, forcing them back.

Gary Rafferty, 36, from Bournemouth, went to help when the first part of the cliff collapsed. "I rushed to help and helped a man aged in his 50s out of the debris. I saw his son who had also been trapped. I said to him 'are you alright' and he said 'no, my girlfriend's trapped under there.' He was quite hysterical."

Rafferty said they had struggled to reach the woman before the second landslide struck.

Comment: 17 July 2012: Two feared dead in English landslide as worsening weather causes chaos

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Flash floods and mudslides in Austria leave 1 dead and isolate dozens of Alpine villages


Extinction Protocol
Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:24 UTC
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Heavy rains hit the province of Styria, in central Austria, causing floods, landslides and mudslides. One person has been killed in Austria after torrential rains triggered mudslides and flooding across several provinces. Whole provinces were inundated with rivers of mud. 360 people living in an alpine region were forced to evacuate their homes after a torrent of mud swept through. The rain has destroyed houses, cut off villages and damaged roads. More rain is forecast over the coming days.


Source: Sky News
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Huddled in Beijing As 20-Hour Killer Storm Strikes City

Sarah Simpson
Discovery News
Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:36 UTC
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I was stunned to learn that a 20-hour thunderstorm that kept my family huddled in our Beijing apartment all day Saturday killed at least 37 people.

Late Sunday the Beijing city government issued a statement saying that 25 people drowned, six were crushed in collapsed homes, one was hit by lightning and five were electrocuted by fallen power lines. That death toll is more than double the dozen deaths reported earlier that day.

Overall, the rain and flooding in Beijing and its suburbs forced evacuation of nearly 57,000 residents and caused damage of at least 10 billion yuan ($1.6 billion), the official China Daily newspaper added this morning. That doesn't count the death and destruction from dozens of other storms reported elsewhere in the country.

Whew! Even as the storm progressed, I'd had no idea we were experiencing the heaviest rain to hit China's capital in six decades.
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Aquifer Could Supply Water to Sub-Saharan Africa for Hundreds of Years


Terra Daily
Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:00 UTC
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A newly discovered underground source could supply water to northern Namibia, [one] of the driest countr[ies] in sub-Saharan Africa for hundreds of years, experts say.

The water in the aquifer dubbed Ohangwena II, which lies under the boundary between Angola and Namibia, is up to 10,000 years old but safer to drink than many modern sources, scientists say.

On the Namibian side of the border the aquifer covers an area of about 43 miles by 25 miles.

"The amount of stored water would equal the current supply of this area in northern Namibia for 400 years, which has about 40 percent of the nation's population," said Martin Quinger from the German federal institute for geoscience and natural resources, which has been helping the Namibia government in its search for sustainable water supplies.
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Mudslides and Flooding Devastate Austria

Phase Super
YouTube
Sat, 21 Jul 2012 20:37 UTC
Mudslides and flooding in Austria have left one man dead and many other people injured.

Hundreds were evacuated from their homes and some villages were cut off.
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Severe typhoon hits Hong Kong and south China

James Pomfret
Reuters
Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:01 UTC
Hong Kong raised its highest tropical cyclone warning on Tuesday as an intensifying severe typhoon edged closer towards the financial hub, grounding flights and forcing the port to close.

Financial markets, schools, businesses and non-essential government services close when any No. 8 or above signal is hoisted, posing a disruption to business in the capitalist hub and former British colony that returned to Chinese rule in 1997.

The Hong Kong observatory said it expected the No. 10 signal to remain in force overnight, meaning markets could be shut down in the morning.

Separately, China's National Meteorological Center issued an orange alert for Typhoon Vicente, the second highest warning level in China's four-tier typhoon warning system, state media reported.

Strengthening gale force winds overturned trees, churned up huge waves in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour and sent debris flying, injuring some 30 people as Vicente edged closer to the city and the western reaches of China's Guangdong province.

Twelve flights were cancelled and over 200 delayed late on Monday evening in Hong Kong, aviation authorities said.
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Tragic July 4th deaths: 5 kids die, 1 hurt in Missouri, Tennessee, Iowa


NY Daily News
Thu, 05 Jul 2012 07:06 UTC
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Alexandra Anderson, 13, and brother Brayden, 8, were killed, while swimming near a private dock in the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri around noon Wednesday.
Tragedy struck on the 4th of July as three children were electrocuted swimming in lakes in Missouri and Tennessee, and another three drowned in Iowa.

Two siblings were killed around noon on Wednesday while they were swimming near a private dock in the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri. Alexa Anderson, 13, and Brayden Anderson, 8, of Ashland, were hit with an electric shock while they were in the water, according to the Missourian.

Adults who heard their screams jumped in and pulled them out of the lake to perform CPR, but both children were pronounced dead after being transported to a nearby hospital.

Sgt. Paul Reinsch of the Missouri State Highway Patrol said it's not clear where the electricity came from.
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Wildfire rages on Spanish-French border, kills three people


The Guardian
Mon, 23 Jul 2012 05:11 UTC
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Firemen try to extinguish fire close to Figueres in northern Spain.
High winds fan flames and hamper firefighters' efforts in the Costa Brava tourist haven close to the French border

Three people have died after forest fires broke out in Girona province, north-east Spain.

The area in Catalonia is close to the French border and home to one of the most popular beach destinations in Spain, the Costa Brava.

Strong winds hindered firefighters' efforts on Sunday and have so far spread two fires over 13,000 hectares (22,000 acres).

A man and his 15-year-old daughter were killed after jumping off a cliff to escape the flames, while a third person died of a heart attack. El País newspaper said 19 people had been injured.

About 80km (50 miles) of roads have been cut off in the area, a big artery for holidaymakers making their way to and from southern France in the coastal province. Residents were being told to stay at home, while the winds were pushing the fires towards Figueres, a town of around 50,000 people.
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Extreme Weather: Thirty-Seven Killed in Record Beijing Rains


RIA Novosti
Sun, 22 Jul 2012 18:05 UTC
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A woman pushes her bicycle on a flooded street amid heavy rain in Beijing on July 21, 2012
Thirty-seven people were killed as the heaviest downpours in more than half a century have flooded China's capital, Beijing, state-run new agency Xinhua reported.

Only 22 victims were identified. Most of them drowned, but some were killed by houses brought down by the flood or electrocuted, and one was hit by lightning, the report said.

Some 14,500 Beijing residents have been evacuated from flood-hit areas as of early Sunday, China Network Television (CNTV) said on its website.

Heavy rains began in Beijing on Saturday morning, with 220 mm of rain falling over the city of 14 million, the report said. The rains were the heaviest to hit China's capital in 61 years.
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Beijing Sees Heaviest Rains in 60 years‎


Associated Press
Sun, 22 Jul 2012 10:26 UTC
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A woman wades through a flooded street following a heavy rain in Beijing Saturday, July 21, 2012. China's government says the heaviest rains to hit Beijing in six decades. The torrential downpour Saturday night left low-lying streets flooded and knocked down trees.
The heaviest rain to hit Beijing in six decades killed at least 10 people and left cars and buses submerged, and 10 other storm deaths were reported elsewhere as China braced Sunday for more downpours.

The rain Saturday night knocked down trees in Beijing and trapped cars and buses in waist-deep water in some areas. In Tongzhou district on the capital's eastern outskirts, two people were killed by collapsed roofs, one person was fatally struck by lightning and a fourth was electrocuted by a fallen power line as he helped neighbors escape, the government's Xinhua News Agency said.

One man in Beijing died when his car was trapped in deep water near the city center, the newspaper Beijing News said.

Elsewhere, six people were killed by rain-triggered landslides in Sichuan province in the west, Xinhua said, citing disaster officials. Four people died in Shanxi province in the north when their truck was swept away by a rain-swollen river.

On Sunday, the government warned of more storms over the following 24 hours for China's northeast, the port city of Tianjin east of Beijing, Inner Mongolia in the north, Sichuan and neighboring Yunnan province, and Guangdong and Hainan provinces in the southeast.
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