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Horse

Horse rescued after getting stuck in 6 foot deep sinkhole, Horsham, UK

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Horse rescued after getting stuck in sink hole for hours
An elderly horse was rescued after getting stuck in a six foot ditch for several hours in Bashurst Hill near Horsham on Saturday.

Firefighters, including four specialist officers, spent four hours yesterday afternoon getting the horse out of the sink hole using winching equipment.

The horse was left in the care of its owner and vet.

Arrow Down

Update: Over 100 feared dead in huge Washington landslide

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© Washington State Transportation Department
The list of people reported missing after Saturday's landslide in rural Washington includes 108 names, Snohomish County emergency officials said Monday morning. The official death toll remained at eight.

The Saturday landslide, which encompassed about one square mile, was caused by groundwater saturation tied to heavy rainfall in the area over the past month.

At least six houses were destroyed in the landslide, and as many as 16 were damaged, the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office said.

Arrow Down

Lorry falls into sinkhole in Gillingham, Kent, UK

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© Nathan Wyatt
This is the huge hole left in a road after the back of a tipper truck fell down a sinkhole in Gillingham.

The hole appeared on Medway Road as it meets Prince Arthur Road, near MidKent College, this morning at about 8.15am and all four wheels on the back of the lorry have fallen down it.

The vehicle, which was stuck in the gap at a 45 degree angle, is thought to be a hired vehicle being leased by the Gallagher Group, a civil engineering business based in Kent.

The driver of the truck was able to get out of his lorry without injuring himself, but police had to close the road.


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© Nathan WyattThe road after the lorry was removed.
A police spokesman said: "The road is thought to be unstable and has been closed to all traffic."

Cow Skull

Drought kills 20 thousand animals in Casanare, Colombia.

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© SEMANAThe drought has killed fish, cattle, deer, and other animals. The greatest toll has been capybaras.
To the government, deforestation is in Boyacá reduces the water available, but that would not be the whole truth.

The strong wave of drought in Casanare has caused for four months death by dehydration of about 20,000 animals, mainly capybaras, deer, foxes, fish, turtles, reptiles and cattle.

The impact has been so strong that the Government of that department is considering Friday whether to declare an environmental emergency, especially in the town of Peace Ariporo, the third largest in Casanare. But for this they need legal arguments being collected.

Doing so would mean that the medium-term works as drilling deep wells with pumps would provide water.

But the problem is not lack of enough wells but a forest reserve, as explained to Semana.com Adriana Soto, former deputy environment minister and expert on climate change adaptation.

Cloud Lightning

Sydney storm: man dies after being swept into stormwater drain

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© Cam O'Neill/TwitterFlooding in Rosebery, Sydney.
A man is dead, a truck driver has severe injuries and two people have been struck by lightning as wild weather battered Sydney.

A month's worth of rain fell on parts of the city on Monday afternoon when an area of low pressure passed slowly over the city towards the Illawarra.

Sydney's south bore the brunt and at Lucas Heights a man died after being washed into a stormwater drain.

Paramedics were called to the Lucas Heights waste management and recycling centre on New Illawarra Road at 3.15pm, but were unable to save the man. He died at the scene and is believed to have drowned.

"Unfortunately there was nothing we could do," a NSW ambulance spokesman said.

Comment: Earlier this month: Apocalyptic storm front appears over Sydney, Australia


Bizarro Earth

Call for probe into trails in the sky

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Persistent contrails, not 'chemtrails'
In the wake of trails observed in the sky over the past few days, the Gaia Foundation is calling on the transport and environment authorities to investigate whether airline companies are involved in geo engineering tests over Maltese airspace to affect climatic conditions.

The environmental organisation said these trails hang in the sky for several hours, leading to cloud formation, and could be seen covering huge areas and forming massive clouds on satellite images.

"Many times, planes have been seen actually switching these trails on and off, creating even more suspicion of some intentional acts of commission. The engineering of clouds to manipulate climate is a reality and has been recognized by the scientific community and geo engineers in particular as a possibility for many years," it said.

The environmental organisation said the airline industry is obliged to act with the utmost transparency and accountability, and air traffic regulators have an obligation to investigate and provide all related environmental information in line with the principles of the Aarhus Convention, which have become part of European Law.

The foundation said it had been carrying out its own investigations to propose more thorough policies and regulations to ensure that Malta's skies remained free of any form of geo engineering carried out by foreign corporations.

Comment: They're not 'chemtrails'; they're regular contrails, it's just that the atmosphere's composition is changing.

Interesting that it's become so obvious now that mainstream media outlets have no choice but to cover it.

And rather than actually investigate the phenomenon, what ready-made smokescreen do they reach for?

Why, the pre-prepared 'chemtrails conspiracy theory' of course!

Chemtrails? Contrails? Strange Skies

Chemtrails, Disinformation and the Sixth Extinction


Cloud Lightning

Lightning kills 114 sheep and 12 cows in Achacachi, Bolivian Andes

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Lightning killed 114 sheep and 12 cows in an Aymara village in the Bolivian Andes, an official in the area said.

Dead sheep were scattered on the hill with the charred wool, said Friday by telephone to The Associated Press Panfilo Chura, secretary of the mayor of Achacachi, 80 kilometers north of La Paz where the community Yacachi Grande is located in which the phenomenon occurred on Thursday afternoon.

The lightning was so loud that it seemed that the sky was broken, a witness told the PAT television. The roar threw down the shepherd and flock Angelino Ventura, 80, who was unhurt owner. Ventura broke down in tears on Friday and said he lost all his cattle.

Satellite

NASA proposes using satellites to 'predict' increasing sinkholes


Texas sinkhole
© Source: APSudden...A massive sinkhole near Daisetta, Texas, which swallowed oil field equipment and vehicles after suddenly appearing in 2008 and then continuing to grow.

RADAR images taken from planes or satellites could some day be used to predict where sinkholes might form.

The possibility of an early-warning system stems from new NASA research into a monstrous sinkhole that opened in Louisiana in 2012, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of residents.

Two NASA researchers examined radar images of the sinkhole area near Bayou Corne.

Cathleen Jones and Ron Blom discovered that the ground near Bayou Corne began shifting at least a month before the sinkhole formed - as much as 25 centimetres towards where the sinkhole started.

Since its formation, the sinkhole has expanded to 25 acres and is still growing.

The NASA findings raise the possibility that engineers eventually could develop a way to predict the location of sinkholes.

Blue Planet

Sinkhole in Marion County, West Virginia getting bigger

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The giant sinkhole that opened up on Pleasant Valley Road near the gateway connector in Fairmont has gotten even worse.

It shut down the road on Thursday, and now crews aren't sure when it can open again. The problem has been lifted out of the hands of the Department of Highways and set into the Department of Environmental Protection.

When the DOH set to work repairing the 20-foot-deep hole, another old mine shaft started collapsing under their equipment and they were forced to stop. The hole on Friday was twice the size it was on Thursday, and it's stretching under the ground in all directions. DOH officials said they've had some problems with mine subsidence before, but never anything like this.

Alarm Clock

USGS: Earthquake magnitude 6.0 - 87km NW of Iquique, Chile

Earthquake 6.0  Chile
© USGS
Event Time
2014-03-23 18:20:03 UTC
2014-03-23 13:20:03 UTC-05:00 at epicenter
2014-03-23 19:20:03 UTC+01:00 system time

Location

19.744°S 70.811°W depth=34.6km (21.5mi)

Nearby Cities
87km (54mi) NW of Iquique, Chile
150km (93mi) SSW of Arica, Chile
201km (125mi) SSW of Tacna, Peru
239km (149mi) SSE of Ilo, Peru
456km (283mi) SW of La Paz, Bolivia

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