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A third cougar attack within a month leaves six-year-old California boy injured

Steve Gorman
news.yahoo.com
Mon, 08 Sep 2014 10:47 UTC
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Attack: A six-year-old boy was attacked by a mountain lion (file picture) while hiking with his parents and another family in California on Sunday - and he was only saved when his dad fought the animal off
A mountain lion attacked and injured a 6-year-old boy hiking with family and friends on Sunday along a wooded trail in California's Silicon Valley before two adults managed to frighten the cat away, a state wildlife official said.

The attack occurred at about 1 p.m. local time in an open-space preserve adjacent to the historic Picchetti Ranch Winery just west of the town of Cupertino, said Lieutenant Patrick Foy of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife.

The victim's parents reported that the child was walking about 10 feet ahead of the rest of the group - two adult couples each hiking with their three small children - when "the mountain lion came out of nowhere" and grabbed the boy.


Comment: This is the third cougar attack on humans within a month, see also: Some wild animals are losing fear of humans: Biologist recovering after cougar assault in Grand Prairie, Alberta

Teenager attacked by cougar in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta

There was also this: Mountain lion 'stalks' woman near Telluride, Colorado

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Cloud Precipitation

'Wettest day on record' - Phoenix suffers more major flooding from former Hurricane Norbert


KPHO.com
Mon, 08 Sep 2014 09:57 UTC
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© Michael Chow/The Republic
Cars are stuck in flood waters on Interstate 10 east at 43rd Avenue after monsoon rains flooded the freeway in Phoenix Sept. 8, 2014.
Record-breaking rainfall in the Valley of the Sun played havoc with early morning commuters, closed schools and caused extensive power outages. Heavy downpours early Monday morning brought freeway traffic to a crawl, closed many surface street intersections and placed the state on a flash flood watch for the rest of the day.

Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport reported 3.06 inches of rain since midnight, breaking the record for the date by nearly 2 inches, Ken Waters of the National Weather Service said. It marked the wettest day on record for Phoenix since record keeping began in 1895, Waters said.

Buckeye received nearly 5 inches, according to the Maricopa County Flood Control District. The National Weather Service extended a flash flood warning until 10:30 a.m. for Maricopa, Pinal and Yavapai counties.

Interstate 17 was closed at Indian School Road and U.S. Highway 60 (Grand Avenue) was closed between 51st and 59th avenues because of heavy flooding, the Arizona Department of Transportation said.

Traffic was brought to a crawl on Interstate 10 in the Buckeye area and water was up to the hoods of several vehicles and at least 27 vehicles were stalled in the standing water at 43rd Avenue and I-10, Bart Graves of the Arizona Department of Public Safety said.

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Snowflake

3 days of heavy early snowfall results in 174 lost and 200 trapped on Pakistan's Deosai Glacier

Aamir Latif
View Times
Sun, 07 Sep 2014 09:37 UTC
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The trapped and missing people are mostly shepherds and their families who move with their herds during the season.
At least 174 people are missing and around 200 people are trapped in Pakistan's northern mountaineer 'Deosai' glacier site as massive snowfall which continued over the last three days has blanketed the region, local officials said.

Around 200 people, including women and children, are trapped in the Charagah area of Deosai while 252 people were rescued Saturday night, Tariq Hussein a local administration official told reporters.

Many among the rescued people are injured as the region faces an unseasonal amount of snowfall, the official said. The trapped and missing people are mostly shepherds and their families who move with their herds during the season.
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Fish

Giant 18-inch-long shrimp-like creature caught in Florida waters


weather.com
Fri, 05 Sep 2014 07:07 UTC
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© Unknown
Chances are you've never seen a shrimp like this before.

A Florida fisherman got more than he bargained for when he pulled an 18-inch-long shrimp-like creature from the water while doing some nighttime fishing from a dock this week in Fort Pierce, Florida, a coastal city about a two-hour drive north from Miami.

Steve Bargeron, who was fishing on the same dock where the creature was snagged, snapped the photos above and shared them with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Service. After FWS posted them on the agency's Facebook page, the photos went viral and have since garnered more than 7,600 shares.

Comment: Creatures from the deep signal major Earth Changes: Is anyone paying attention?

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Attention

Gas tornado caught emerging from fiery volcano

Paul Marks
New Scientist
Fri, 05 Sep 2014 22:49 UTC
volcano tornado
© nicarnicaaviation
This is pretty hot stuff. A swirling 1-kilometre-high tornado of gas has been caught emerging from the lava pouring out of a fissure on Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano. The image was captured on 3 September by an infrared camera designed for aircraft, to let pilots see volcanic ash clouds.

It is not entirely clear what is causing the tornado, says Fred Prata, inventor of the ash camera at Nicarnica Aviation in Kjeller, Norway.

"The generation mechanism is probably the same as that for dust devils, but in this case the tornado funnel is most likely filled with sulphur dioxide, gas and volcanic ash."
iceland volcano

Bardabunga lava fountains
Seismic activity and eruptions around Bardabunga have been occurring since mid-August, but the Icelandic Met Office says the "effusive lava eruptions and fire fountains" currently present no threat to flights.

Comment: The new book Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection has a lot to say about the electrical nature of tornadoes of all types.

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Attention

Hunter attacked and bitten by black bear, Longview, Washington state


foxnews.com
Sat, 06 Sep 2014 11:09 UTC
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A Washington state hunter is recovering after surviving an attack by an angry black bear that chased him up a tree, chomped down on his leg and clawed him with one of its big paws.

Retiree Jerry House knows how lucky he is to have fended off the bear. He said he got the bear off him only after he kicked the animal in the nose as he hung onto a tree branch.

"It totally amazes me how fast that bear got on me. In three seconds it was on me," Hause, 60, told The Longview Daily News Thursday. "I was thinking, 'If it gets me out of this tree I'm a dead man.' It was mad, it was growling. It was serious about what it was going to do."

Hause was out hunting for deer with his 26-year-old son on Labor Day when he came face to face with the bear. They were in a remote wooded area about eight miles west of Longview.

Comment: See also: Bear stalks 2 women in 3-hour ordeal

2 men stalked by black bear while jogging in northern Alberta

Woman killed by a black bear in Fort McMurray, Alberta

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Black Cat 2

Aggressive lynx attacked dog near Timmins, Ontario

Jeff Labine
Timmins Daily Press
Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:42 UTC
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© U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Lynx rufus
Timmins Police Service officers have killed a lynx that reportedly attacked and killed a dog on a popular hiking trail.

Police and officials with the Ministry of Natural Resources confirmed the death of the big cat at a media conference Tuesday.

Reports came in last week about the animal and its aggressive behaviour near the trails between MacLean Drive and the Timmins and District Hospital. Some residents took to social media sites such as Facebook to voice their fear for their pets.

Staff Sgt. Henry Dacosta confirmed that the animal had attacked and killed a dog that was with its owner on the trail.

"Public safety is the paramount issue here," he said. "Based on the one circumstance over the weekend where the actual person involved got into battle with this lynx and afterward she got a hold of her dog and was able to walk away but the lynx was still following her. That's a serious concern."

"Lot's of people walk there with their kids. People love their pets and a lynx comes onto the animal and the person tries to defend their pet and they get hurt ... we don't want to see that."

Comment: Two months earlier and about 100 kilometres west from the location of this incident, came the following report of unusual lynx behaviour: Man fights off and kills lynx with bare hands near Chapleau, Ontario

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Attention

2 men stalked by black bear while jogging in northern Alberta

Caley Ramsay and Emily Mertz
globalnews.ca
Mon, 16 Jun 2014 08:37 UTC
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A morning jog for two Alberta men changed pace quickly, when they had to escape a black bear.
Two men who were running along a northern Alberta trail earlier this month received quite the scare when they were approached and followed by a black bear.

In a video posted by Bruce Allan on YouTube, a black bear can be seen following the men, who were jogging along the Matcheetawin Discovery Trails near Fort McMurray on June 5.

"Not good. Not good," you can hear one man say as the bear begins to follow them. "No way, man. We're not doing this."

From time to time the video shows the bear picking up speed. While at times the bear appears to be fairly close to the men, the animal never tries to attack them.

The men can also be heard talking about finding rocks to possibly hit the bear with if necessary.

"Get ready to hit him in the head. We're going to have to knock him out," says one man.

Around the four-minute mark of the video, while the bear attempts to climb a small tree, the men appear to get a bit of distance and run to safety.


Comment: See also: Woman killed by a black bear in Fort McMurray, Alberta

Bear stalks 2 women in 3-hour ordeal

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Fish

"Rare" 300-pound warm-water Mola sunfish washes up on Washington coast


KOMO News
Fri, 05 Sep 2014 05:37 UTC
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© AP Photo/Cape Disappointment State Park, Eric Wall
This Aug. 29, 2014 photo provided by Cape Disappointment State Park shows a 7-foot ocean sunfish rarely seen in Washington waters, washed ashore on a beach at Cape Disappointment State Park near Ilwaco, Wash.
A 7-foot ocean sunfish rarely seen in Washington waters recently washed ashore on a beach at Cape Disappointment State Park near the mouth of the Columbia River.

It was found dead on the beach at low tide Aug. 27 by children after a campfire program, said June Mohler, a biological technician from Troutdale, Oregon, working this summer as an interpretive assistant at the park.

Comment: This is another unusual event of a deep-sea creature being washed ashore this year.

See also:
  • Sunfish invasion continues as third massive marine beast washed up in Norfolk


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Cloud Lightning

Hurricane Norbert marches up Mexico's Baja coast and heads north-west


The Guardian
Sat, 06 Sep 2014 03:06 UTC
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© NASA/AFP/Getty Images
A satellite image shows hurricane Norbert swirling along the Pacific coast.
Heavy rains brought by Hurricane Norbert prompted evacuations as the storm roared up the coast of Mexico's Baja California peninsula. Forecasters said the storm may help bring weekend precipitation to the parched US South-west.

The Baja California Sur state governor, Marcos Covarrubias, urged people in vulnerable areas to evacuate and said travellers should stay off highways as the storm passed by. He said most government services would be closed or restricted, and schools in Los Cabos and La Paz were closed on Friday.

At least 1,000 people remained in shelters on Friday evening in Los Cabos, where the storm toppled trees and knocked out electricity in parts of the resort area.

Comment: Extreme rainfall occurred in south-western US a month ago, bringing 'apocalyptic' flash-floods.

See also: Hurricane Norbert lashes Mexico's Baja peninsula

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