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Freak Alberta hailstorm leaves behind 10-Mile ice strip across Airdrie, Canada

Rebecka Schumann
International Business Times
Tue, 09 Jul 2013 14:36 UTC
Alberta hailstorm
© Twitter
The aerial image of the 10-mile-long hailstorm that hit Alberta, Canada, was captured by Captain Daryl Frank north of Calgary.
What appears to be a giant white strip in the middle of Canada is actually the aftereffect of a freak hailstorm in the province of Alberta this past weekend. The photograph, taken by a pilot, shows the remains of the storm in the city of Airdrie.

The now-viral photo, first shared on Twitter, was reportedly taken by a Jazz Aviation pilot, Captain Daryl Frank, north of Calgary on Saturday. According to a report from the Huffington Post, the hailstorm and high winds hit not only Airdrie but also Cochrane and north Calgary Saturday afternoon. The storm, although leaving behind up to 12 inches of accumulation that measured two miles wide and 10 miles long, only lasted an estimated 30 minutes, reported WunderGround.
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Fish

DEC investigating reports of fish kills on several Finger Lakes, NY - including Cayuga and Skaneateles

David Figura
syracuse.com
Wed, 03 Jul 2013 10:15 UTC
Reports of fish kills on several of the Finger Lakes has prompted testing by the state Department of Environmental Conservation, officials confirmed this week.

David Lemon, fisheries manager for the DEC's Region 7, said Tuesday, "I've heard that several of the western Finger Lakes are experiencing significant fish mortality events." Locally, he mentioned Cayuga and Skaneateles lakes.

"We've had no reports of significant die-offs in either Owasco and Otisco Lakes," he said.

Dennis Rhoads, a veteran angler from Summerhill, said he's seen dead fish on Cayuga Lake. He said he's also been talking to other anglers on Cayuga and Seneca Lakes and has been reading reports from fishermen on LakeOntarioUnited.com, an online fishing forum. Earlier this week, he said:

"Last several weeks we have seen lots of dead fish on Cayuga Lake. Bass, perch, sunfish etc.," he said. "We were on lake yesterday at latest and saw recent dead fish. Guys are reporting big kills on all Finger Lakes from Hemlock, Canandagua to Cayuga."

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© Wikimedia Commons
Yellow Perch, (Perca flavescens)
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Fish

Shinnecock Bay bluefish mysteriously washing up dead in droves, NY

Lyn Mccabe
longisland.com
Sat, 06 Jul 2013 09:18 UTC
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1,000 to 1,200 pounds of dead bluefish have been hauled in from the Shinnecock Bay, but not other fish species is showing signs of a ...

Shinnecock Bay fishermen have been scratching their heads as to what is happening to the bluefish, which have been washing up dead on the shores since last weekend. Now, the Marine Animal Disease Laboratory at Stony Brook University is stepping in to investigate the unusual die-off of this particular species.

According to Southampton Town trustee Ed Warner, the dead bluefish started turning up last Sunday, June 30. They first were found floating in the center of the bay east of the Shinnecock Reservation in small numbers, but the number of dead fish found rose exponentially. By midway through this week, town trustees had removed 1,000 to 1,200 pounds of dead cocktail bluefish, each weighing between 2 and 4 pounds, Warner said to Newsday.
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Third killer whale found dead off Queensland coast, Australia


ninemsn.com.au
Sat, 06 Jul 2013 08:46 UTC

A third killer whale carcass has been found by wildlife rangers at Fraser Island, off the southern Queensland coast.

The whale was discovered late on Friday in a creek north of Kingfisher Bay on the island by Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service staff.

The discovery comes two days after two whales, believed to be a mother and calf, died on Wednesday when their pod became stranded on a sandbar in the Great Sandy Strait which separates the island from the mainland.

It's believed the whale discovered on Friday, which measures seven metres, had been dead for at least 24 hours before its discovery.
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Cloud Lightning

Another Canadian city under water: Toronto battered by storm, flooding; 300,000 residents without power after deluge breaks rainfall record three-fold


CTV News
Mon, 08 Jul 2013 21:56 UTC
Toronto Flooding
© Jorge Costa
A car is partially submerged on Highway 427 in Toronto on Monday, July 8, 2013
Hundreds of thousands of residents are without power in the Greater Toronto Area and streets are flooded with rainwater after severe thunderstorms dumped nearly 100 millimetres of water across the region.

As of late Monday evening, 91 mm of rain fell in the city while rainfall totals measured 106 mm at the suburban Pearson International Airport after the storms blew through. The rain began at 4 p.m. local time, stranding commuters in cars, buses and subway trains as the busy rush hour was getting underway.

Toronto Hydro reported late Monday that approximately 300,000 residents remained without power across the city. The agency advised residents to call 416-542-8000 to report an outage.

Tanya Bruckmueller, public affairs advisor at the agency, said Monday evening it was impossible to guess when power will be restored.

She said extra work crews were on standby ahead of the storm's arrival, and more were being called in.

Comment: 22 June 2013: Calgary, Alberta devastated in deluge of biblical proportions

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Cloud Lightning

Region hit by silent 'heat' lightning

Matt Stewart
Stuff.co.nz
Mon, 08 Jul 2013 21:41 UTC
Lightning
© Allan Scadden
Stargazers could be mistaken for thinking the night sky had filled with flash photography last night after a series of 'heat' lightning strikes off the Wairarapa coast were seen across Kapiti, Wellington and as far north as Masterton.

Karori man Stuart Cunningham noticed the flashes in the sky when he was walking to his house about 8pm. They were ''non directional'' and he originally thought someone nearby was doing flash photography. But when he logged on to Facebook he realised people as far away as Christchurch were also reporting seeing it.

While some speculated the flashes came from alien life forms coming to earth, he believed it was more likely a meteor shower.

MetService forecaster Dan Corbett said 124 strikes were recorded between about 6pm and midnight after a trough of cold air moved over relatively warm waters off the Wairarapa coast creating the conditions for the lightning storm.

Nearly all of the strikes happened out to sea and because they were so far offshore they struck without sound.

Source: The Dominion Post
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Black Cat

Indonesia: Five men trapped up trees by tigers rescued by animal tamers after five-day ordeal

Adam Withall
The Independent, UK
Mon, 08 Jul 2013 11:50 UTC
Seven Sumatran tigers were angered when the foragers
accidentally trapped a cub, and mauled one man to death
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An animal taming rescue team has saved a group of men who were trapped up trees for five days by an angry family of Sumatran tigers.

Five men were helped down from branches where they had survived on rain water as the endangered animals circled beneath them.

A sixth man was mauled to death. The 28-year-old sought refuge with his companions but, police said, "the branch broke, causing him to fall to the ground".

The group was out on Thursday in the remote, protected Mount Leuser National Park in Indonesia, searching for rare agar wood that can be sold to make incense and perfumes.

While using a trap to catch deer for food, they unwittingly caught a tiger cub instead. This enraged its mother, and caused five more of the animals to join in an attack on the foragers.

From the relative safety of the trees, the men used text messages to ask villagers for help.
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Blackbox

Louisiana 22-acre sinkhole forces hard choice on longtime neighbors

Littice Bacon-Blood
Associated Press via Yahoo News
Mon, 08 Jul 2013 11:51 UTC
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Texas Brine spokesman Sonny Cranch said 92 buyout offers have been made, with 44 accepted so far.
The sob is deep and exhaled on a frustrated sigh. "I cannot stand this!" The words burst from Annette Richie and ping off the bare walls of the empty living room as her neighbors of 20 years, Bucky and Joanie Mistretta, recall happier times along Bayou Corne.

"I know, I know," Joanie Mistretta said, soothing her. "You come back now and it's just sad."

They were supposed to be planning camping trips, cookouts and potlucks. Instead, the Mistrettas, the Richies and many neighbors in the swampy Assumption Parish community are packing up decades' worth of belongings, chased from waterfront homes that were supposed to be retirement nests by a gas-emitting, 22-acre sinkhole less than a mile away.

The sinkhole, discovered Aug. 3, resulted from a collapsed underground salt dome cavern about 40 miles south of Baton Rouge. After oil and natural gas came oozing up and acres of the swampland liquefied into muck, the community's 350 residents were advised to evacuate.

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Fish

Record mass fish kill on Gulf Coast

Ashley Rodrigue
wwltv.com
Tue, 02 Jul 2013 10:10 UTC

Biloxi, Miss -- Stingrays, fish, shrimp, eels and crabs, all dead, were spread along beaches on the Mississippi Gulf Coast Tuesday. Officials say it's the second day of a fish kill for the record books.

"According to people at the MDMR, that have been working there for a long time, this extent, stretching as far as it did from the Beau Rivage all the way down to long beach, so from Biloxi to Long Beach, was a large area, and they just haven't seen that large of an area in the past," said Kelly Lucas, chief scientific officer for the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources.

A family from Texas, with Mississippi family ties, described the scene yesterday as biblical.

"Last night, we went out at low tide and there was just massive amounts of dead fish and stingrays and shrimp, shrimp 7 to 8 inches long. Never seen anything like that before," said Alicia Aldridge.

"It was a lot. Disturbing," said 18-year-old Kendalyn Aldridge,
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Cow Skull

30-40 sheep found dead in Marion Co. field, Oregon

Carla Castano
koin.com
Mon, 01 Jul 2013 09:56 UTC
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© Marion County Sheriff's Office
As many as 40 sheep were found dead at a field in Turner. A cause of death has not been determined, July 1, 2013
Turner, Ore. (KOIN) - Since the 1950s, Eztel Farms has been raising sheep on a 200-acre property near Turner but over the weekend as many as 40 sheep died in their field.

Neighbor Floyd Noel said the dead sheep brought in pests like buzzards and flies, but the stench was the worst part, he said.

His wife called the sheriff's deputies to the farm when she said she heard strange noises and saw some sheep stumbling around and falling at the property on Little Road SE.

The deputies found between 30 and 40 dead sheep on about 80 acres of land, but also noticed more than 200 sheep grazing in the field.

The temperature at the time was in the mid-90s and one deputy noticed a protein-based soy supplement in the field, officials said.

Neighbors said they have long been concerned about the care of the sheep and conditions turned fatal as temperatures climbed into the 90s.
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