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Man killed in powerful explosion that leveled home in Georgia, blast heard 16 miles away

Anna Hopkins
Daily Mail (UK)
Fri, 03 Feb 2017 19:54 UTC
Georgia home explosion
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White County Sheriff Neal Walden said the blast was so powerful that people reported feeling the shock wave as far as 16 miles away.
Police say an explosion that completely destroyed a home in northeast Georgia may have been caused by a gas leak, which left 'nothing but the foundation' and killed one person inside.

White County Sheriff Neal Walden said the blast around 10:30am on Friday on 64 Rhododendron Road in Sautee Nacoochee, near Cleveland, was so powerful that people reported feeling the shock wave as far as 16 miles away.

The identity of the man who was killed has not yet been revealed, though he is said to be in his seventies.

Sheriff Walden confirmed the explosion left three or four homes nearby with broken windows and other damage, though no other injuries were reported.

Sautee Nacoochee is an unincorporated area in Georgia's northeast corner, near Cleveland, and about 95 miles from Atlanta.

The woods were on fire and what was left of the house was on fire,' Walden said.

'It looked like a war zone.'

TV news stations broadcast footage from the scene of pieces of wood, concrete blocks and other debris strewn over a wide area.


Comment: Some reports of homes and buildings exploding from last year include: See also: SOTT Exclusive: More mysterious high-rise building explosions - is there a 'cosmic' source of ignition?

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Igloo

Freak weather - It's snowing in the UAE!


RT
Fri, 03 Feb 2017 22:58 UTC
Snowing in the UAE
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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is known for its desert climate and year-round sunshine, but freak weather conditions have covered part of it in snow. And as if that wasn't weird enough, heavy winds also caused a crane to collapse, sparking a fire.

One person was injured in the blaze following the crane collapse on Dubai's busy Sheikh Zayed Road, according to officials cited by AFP.

Three vehicles were also destroyed in the fire.
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Cloud Precipitation

Severe weather causes veggie shortage throughout Europe and the UK

Kieran Corcoran
Heatstreet
Fri, 03 Feb 2017 20:07 UTC
vegetables
European consumers have been plunged into crisis by a vegetable shortage caused by severe weather.

Shops across Europe - and particularly in the UK - have seen the shelves stripped of green produce like lettuce, broccoli and spinach.

Courgettes (zucchinis, if you're American), aubergines (eggplant) and peppers have also been badly affected.

The problems stem from a blast of cold weather which has overtaken large parts of southern Europe.
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Wolf

Pack of 9 dogs maul woman to death in Inchanga, South Africa

Se-Anne Rall
IOL
Fri, 03 Feb 2017 19:44 UTC
Dog attack
A 60-year-old woman was mauled to death by a pack of dogs in Inchanga on Thursday morning.

The SPCA inspectors who responded to the incident have launched a search for four of the nine dogs involved in the attack after capturing five of them.

Lisa Morck, of the Kloof and Highway SPCA, said their trainee inspector, Eric Simamane, received a call that a pack of dogs had attacked and fatally wounded a woman.

"He responded immediately and along with our inspectors, they were able to get five of the nine Africanis dogs. We were told to euthanise the dogs by the owner's relative. We are working closely with the community leaders to humanely trap and catch the remaining four dogs," said Morck.
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Snowflake

Freak weather in Spain leaves devastated salad crops and leads to rationing of vegetables in UK supermarkets

Charlie Moore
Daily Mail
Fri, 03 Feb 2017 18:49 UTC
Poking out of the rock-hard ground and covered in snow, these Spanish vegetables haven't made it to our supermarket shelves

Poking out of the rock-hard ground and covered in snow, these Spanish vegetables haven't made it to our supermarket shelves
Poking out of the rock-hard ground and covered in snow, these Spanish vegetables haven't made it to our supermarket shelves.

Shops are rationing greens after snow and storms in the Mediterranean have caused shortages which will last until April.

Stunning pictures from Murcia in southern Spain capture the scale of the problem as whole fields of broccoli and lettuce lie buried in snow.
Shops are rationing greens after snow and storms in the Mediterranean have destroyed crops causing shortages which will last until April

Shops are rationing greens after snow and storms in the Mediterranean have destroyed crops causing shortages which will last until April
Spain supplies more than 50 per cent of Europe's vegetables during the winter. Pictured: Snow covers a tractor near Caravaca de la Cruz in Murcia, Spain

Spain supplies more than 50 per cent of Europe's vegetables during the winter. Pictured: Snow covers a tractor near Caravaca de la Cruz in Murcia, Spain
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Question

Why did over 3,700 coot die near the Yolo Bypass in California?

Macy Jenkins
cbslocal.com
Fri, 27 Jan 2017 18:19 UTC
Dead birds
Thousands of birds died suddenly in the Yolo Bypass last week. Wildlife specialists have spent the last three days picking up more than 3,700 dead bird carcasses from the shore.

"It's just shocking to see that kind of die off," said Laurence Campling, who saw the birds on the ground. "I've never seen anything with that amount of birds dead in one place! Easily hundreds of bodies, hundreds of birds all along the side of this flooded field."

He took pictures and started to worry that something catastrophic was happening. Jeffrey Stoddard, Wildlife Manager for the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area, explained that dead American Coots caught a virus called avian cholera, caused by bacteria. It doesn't pose a risk to humans but other birds can catch it.

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Fire

Fire emerges from beneath frozen Lake Baikal in Siberia


Strange Sounds
Wed, 01 Feb 2017 17:40 UTC
Methane
Look at that!

Fire emerges from the frozen lake Baikal in Siberia.

The pearl of Asia is not only known for its emerald green and strange sounds of its ice. Nope! It also contains huge amount of methane that can burn or more dramatic could suddenly explode!

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Attention

Rare national fire advisory issued for drought-plagued Oklahoma

Justin Juozapavicius
KOCO Oklahoma City
Wed, 01 Feb 2017 22:20 UTC
Oklahoma wildfire
Oklahoma has been placed under a national fire advisory as much of the state struggles with unrelenting drought and tinder-dry vegetation capable of igniting and quickly spreading out of control, state forestry officials said Wednesday.

The rare advisory -- and the first for Oklahoma - issued by the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, is in effect for two weeks and warns residents and fire departments to prepare for potentially severe wildfires.

The national center also cautioned that areas in the neighboring states of Texas, Colorado, New Mexico and Kansas could be ripe for similar extreme wildfires through February. While only two of Oklahoma's 77 counties are currently under a burn ban, Oklahoma Forestry Services officials cautioned residents Wednesday to "avoid doing anything that can cause a spark."

The ingredients for a potentially disastrous fire outbreak are already in place in the mounds of accumulated limbs, dry brush, leaves and needles from years of ice storms and tornadoes that carpet forest floors.

"The situation we're in with the state of our fuels, drought, dryness of fields, fires become more resistant to control under these conditions," said Mark Goeller, the forestry services fire management chief. "Pine needles, logs, big-diameter woody material ... the things from these natural disasters we've experienced throughout the state, all those fuels are critically dry."
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills 1, injures 5 others in Wartburg, South Africa


All 4 Women
Fri, 03 Feb 2017 16:04 UTC
LIGHTNING
One person was killed and five others injured after they were struck by lightning outside a shop in Wartburg, KwaZulu-Natal, paramedic services said on Thursday.

ER24 spokesperson Russel Meiring said paramedics were called to the scene by local authorities.

Meiring said paramedics found five people sitting under a tree with onlookers gathered nearby.

Meiring said one of the men, believed to be in his late 20's, had sustained numerous injuries and showed no signs of life.
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Wolf

Two-year-old girl mauled by terrier in 'horrific' attack in Fife, Scotland


STV News
Thu, 02 Feb 2017 13:39 UTC
Dog attack
Police are looking to trace the owner of the animal that mauled the toddler in Fife.

A toddler has been left with serious facial injuries after being mauled by a dog.

The two-year-old girl was standing with her mother and a family friend when the Staffordshire pitbull terrier-type dog pounced on her.

She suffered injuries to her eyes and mouth in the attack in Fife.

Police Scotland confirmed the girl was taken to hospital after the incident in a car park at Kirkside Court, Leven.
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