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Wildfire covers 110 square kilometres in Kootenay National Park, British Columbia; closes large stretch of highway


CTV News
Thu, 03 Aug 2017 13:32 UTC
Verdant Creek Wildlfire

Verdant Creek Wildlfire
The highway that winds through British Columbia's Kootenay National Park was closed for much of the day Wednesday as wildfire smoke made for dangerous driving conditions.

Parks Canada said it closed Highway 93 from Castle Junction near the Trans-Canada Highway to the town of Radium Hot Springs some 100 kilometres south.

The highway reopened late Wednesday but drivers were being warned that with shifting conditions, there was always the possibility they would be forced to detour again.

On Thursday afternoon, Parks Canada issued a news release suggesting that the best time to travel the highway over the long weekend would be between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m.

The agency also told motorists to check for possible temporary closures at either www.DriveBC.ca or www.alberta511.ca.

Parks incident commander Jane Park said the smoke was extremely dense in some areas.

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Seismograph

Shallow 5.1 magnitude earthquake registered in Tonga region

Talebula Kate
The Fiji Times
Fri, 04 Aug 2017 11:40 UTC
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A 5.1 magnitude earthquake occurred in the Tonga region this morning.

The moderate earthquake occurred at 11.43am at a 10km depth.

It was located at 248km Northeast from Nuku'alofa in Tonga, 346km Southwest from Alofi in Niue, and 921km Southeast of Suva, Fiji.

The Seismology Unit of the Mineral Resources department has assured that this earthquake did not pose any immediate threat to the Fiji region.

Meanwhile, the unit also recorded two seismic activities in the Tonga region yesterday which did not pose any threat as well to the Fiji region.
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Cloud Lightning

82-year-old man found dead in field probably struck by lightning in Brewster, Ohio

Homa Bash
news5cleveland.com
Thu, 03 Aug 2017 11:32 UTC
lightning
A Stark County family is in mourning after a lightning strike likely killed 82-year-old Richard Lutes.

Lutes was a few streets away from his Brewster home dumping wood in a field, when investigators believe he was struck by lightning as a brief storm rolled through Wednesday afternoon.

He was found by his wife of 21 years, Peggy, who became concerned after Richard didn't return home after about an hour.

"I never want to see anything like that again," Peggy said. "He was a good man, a really good man. I'm going to miss him terribly. He was my best friend."

Peggy says Richard had a pacemaker. Investigators say there was a lesion on his chest.
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Cloud Precipitation

Flash floods kill 7 and leave 27 missing in Vietnam


SBS
Thu, 03 Aug 2017 20:55 UTC
Flooding in Son La, Vietnam
© VNA
Flooding in Son La, Vietnam
Flash floods have killed seven people and left 27 others missing in northern Vietnam.

Disaster official Luong Tuan Anh said on Thursday that two people died and 13 were missing in the worst-hit province of Yen Bai.

The other casualties were reported in the neighbouring provinces of Son La and Lai Chau.

Heavy rain has also caused widespread flooding in nearby Thailand, where at least 23 people have been killed in the country's north and east.

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Attention

Signs and Portents: Two-headed piglet born in Hebei province, China


The Star (UK)
Wed, 02 Aug 2017 19:26 UTC
BIZARRE: This two-headed piglet just can't get enough milk

BIZARRE: This two-headed piglet just can't get enough milk
A pig farmer was stunned when one of his sows gave birth to a piglet with two heads.

The unnamed farmer found the bizarre-looking newborn at his farm near the city of Chengde in China's north-eastern Hebei province.

The piglet is really a pair of conjoined twins. The pair share a torso and four legs but the two heads are fused together.

They have one mouth, eye and nose each and a third eye sits between their two faces.

It is not clear whether the piglets' brains are joined.

Both piglets are able to drink formula milk from a bottle but they cannot stand up.

A video shows both feeding hungrily from a bottle held by an unnamed woman, who may be their owner.

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Solar Flares

Timeline for the Sun's Solar Kill Shots Entering the Grand Solar Minimum

Adapt 2030
YouTube
Thu, 03 Aug 2017 12:02 UTC
red sprite over Austria
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
This is a culmination of years of research putting together a timeline for the Eddy grand solar minimum intensification based on planetary geometry, overlapping of cooling cycles on 51, 2016, 3740 year cycles, primer field on the Sun, magnetic field changes on Earth and solar system, ancient societies, and maps from 5000BC societies. As it looks the first major food price rises will happen at the end of 2018, then by 2022 it really intensifies. I go year by year from 2018-2025 so you have a clear picture of where, when and how intense the changes will be.


Comment: The Electric Universe model is clearly explained, with a lot more relevant information, in the book Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection by Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk.

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Cloud Precipitation

Torrential rain floods neighborhoods, roads across Boston, Massachusetts; over 3 inches fell


wcvb.com
Wed, 02 Aug 2017 14:00 UTC
flood
The combination of summer heat and humidity caused scattered severe thunderstorms Wednesday afternoon and early evening.

The storms contained vivid lightning, very heavy rainfall that resulted in localized street and highway flooding in a short period of time. On Dorchester's Ditson Street, people were forced to wade through high waters and abandon their vehicles when flash flooding made driving impossible.

Several flash flood and severe storm warnings and alerts were issued by the National Weather Service as the storms moved through.

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Cloud Precipitation

Flash flood sweeps through Flint, Michigan; 4 inches of rain in less than 2 hours

Roberto Acosta
mlive.com
Wed, 02 Aug 2017 12:48 UTC
Drivers brave through -- and some unsuccessfully -- the flooded roadway as heavy rain continues to fall on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017 on Hemphill Road between Saginaw Road and Grand Traverse Street at the border of Flint and Burton
© Jake May
Drivers brave through -- and some unsuccessfully -- the flooded roadway as heavy rain continues to fall on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017 on Hemphill Road between Saginaw Road and Grand Traverse Street at the border of Flint and Burton
A sudden burst of heavy rainfall Wednesday evening led to flooded roads, stranded drivers, and water inside businesses across Genesee County.

Approximately three to four inches of rain fell in less than two hours time, washing over several intersections, including Saginaw and Hemphill roads in Burton as well as Atherton and VanSlyke roads on Flint's west side.

Flint residents Charlie Pearce and Felicia Ostrander helped pull out a few residents from the shin-high waters on Hemphill after viewing live video of the flooding on Facebook.

"That's right down the road. Let's go check it out," recalled Pearce. "Let's be nice and pull a couple people out, get the good deed for the month out of the way."

Nancy Dixon was heading home after work from the Fenton Road Taco Bell when her car stalled out on Hemphill, with Pearce and Ostrander coming to her rescue.

"I should have taken the expressway," she said aloud, as the rain fell. "One thing is I got nice people to help me. I got to meet nice people today."
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Cloud Precipitation

Wet weather in May and July break rainfall records in Ottawa, Canada


CBC News
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 12:37 UTC
Last month was the coldest and wettest July in recent memory, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada.
© The Canadian Press
Last month was the coldest and wettest July in recent memory, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada.
Ottawa has seen a soggy summer, but last month's rainfall was the wettest July on record from the Ottawa airport.

Almost 250 millimetres of rain fell at the Ottawa airport — the most since they started recording the weather there in 1938.

In 1899, 250.2 millimetres fell at another weather station, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada. The average rainfall for July is 89 millimetres.

In addition to being the wettest July, it was also one of the coolest in recent memory.

Ottawa didn't see a single day reach 30 C for the entire month. The last time that happened in July was in 2009, according to Environment Canada.
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Arrow Down

10 sinkholes found near hydroelectric dam in Vietnam


Vietnam Net
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 12:26 UTC
One among 10 sinkholes found near Ho Ho power plant.

One among 10 sinkholes found near Ho Ho power plant.
On the morning of July 31, the Department of Science and Technology of Quang Binh province organized a field inspection team of subsidence holes in corn field in Tan Duc village 3 (Huong Hoa commune, Tuyen Hoa, Quang Binh).

In early June, people in Tan Duc 3 hamlet in Huong Hoa commune found six big holes in a maize fields and reported to the local authorities. After nearly two months, the number of holes has increased to ten.

The local authorities examined the holes, which are located within an area of 300sq.m, on the right bank of the Ngan Sau River. The biggest hole is 17m in diameter and 4m deep. The holes are only about 800m from the dam of Ho Ho hydropower plant.

Locals have filled up some holes while some holes have expanded.

The local authorities claimed that this is a normal geological phenomenon and not related to or a risk to the Ho Ho dam.
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