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US: Richmond County, North Carolina: Lightning kills 20 cows

Kelli Easterling
Daily Journal
Fri, 08 Jul 2011 07:12 UTC
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20 of Wesley and Sammy Anderson’s Angus cows were killed by lightning on Wednesday afternoon
A lightning storm Wednesday afternoon claimed the lives of 20 Angus cows belonging to Wesley and Sammy Anderson, of Ellerbe.

The cows congregated underneath a tree when the storm rolled in, and were killed when lightning struck and traveled through the group.

"We're fourth generation farmers, and my dad and I don't ever remember seeing anything like this," said Sammy. "I've heard of cows being hit standing in ponds, but not this many - and I've never seen it myself."

Sammy said that it's normal for cows to congregate under trees during storms.
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US: Record Temperatures Seen as Heat Wave Plagues 23 States

Jacqui Jeras
CNN
Sun, 10 Jul 2011 07:30 UTC

A heat wave is building and could reach dangerous levels in parts of the Midwest, the Plains and the Southeast this week.

Twenty-three states were under heat advisories Monday, according to the National Weather Service.

Kansas City, Missouri, and St. Louis are under an excessive heat warning, along with Tulsa, Oklahoma; Memphis, Tennessee; and Evansville, Indiana. In these areas, the heat index, or how hot the body feels due to the combined effects of heat and humidity, will reach between 110 and 115 degrees this week.

A 51-year-old man in Granite City, Illinois, died Sunday due to the excessive heat, the Madison County coroner said. Mitsunari Uechi was found unresponsive in his mobile home, where the air conditioning was not working. Police described the residence as "extremely hot," Coroner Stephen Nonn said in a statement.

Uechi was transported to Gateway Regional Medical Center with a body temperature of 104 degrees. He was later pronounced dead, according to the coroner.
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Arrow Down

US: Lenoir, North Carolina sinkhole evidence of a possible wider problem

Steve Ohnesorge
WBTV
Tue, 12 Jul 2011 05:15 UTC
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© WBTV
Lenoir, North Carolina - A small sinkhole in Lenoir was much bigger than officials thought.

When work crews began digging on Monday they found that hole that was just a foot wide at the surface of the pavement, was more than twelve feet wide under the pavement.

"The pavement was holding itself up," said Streets maintenance Supervisor Estel Osborne. Pennton Avenue was closed last week as a precaution when the problem was discovered and Osborne said it was lucky they did keep cars off of the spot. "There was nothing under the asphalt."

Crews on Monday cut out a forty foot section of the road to get to the drainage problem that caused the sinkhole in the first place.

"There's an old pipe in there and the bottom of the pipe just rusted out." The pipe carries water from an old creek under the roads and buildings in the area.

Comment: Oh this goes WAY beyond the city's drainage system rusting out! Think on a global scale...

Australia: Enormous sinkhole swallows south-east Queensland Rainbow beach

A collection of sinkhole images from around the world

Huge sinkhole appears in Germany! Usedom Island has a Grand Canyon now

Update: Tropical storm leaves more than 115 dead and a huge sinkhole in Central America

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Cloud Lightning

Scotland: Homes and cars flooded in Edinburgh downpour

Angie Brown
BBC
Fri, 08 Jul 2011 05:09 UTC
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© BBC
Witnesses said cars in Balcarres Street were bobbing about in the water
Homes, businesses and cars have been hit by flooding during a heavy downpour across Edinburgh.

Witnesses have been reporting cars floating in deep rivers running down roads in Morningside, Colinton and Oxgangs.

One resident in Balcarres Street said her ground-floor-flat had been ruined following the flash flood at 1440 BST.

Emergency council teams have been deployed in a bid to help firefighters deal with the "huge volumes of water".

A resident in Balcarres Street added that the fish in her pond in her front garden had been washed away in the flood water.

A 31-year-old witness said: "I have never seen anything like it. There was such a huge volume of water in Balcarres Street that buses were trying to plough through it and the wake was causing the cars at the side of the road to crash into each other.

"There is also a car showroom in the street, which has been flooded."
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Arrow Down

US: Massive sinkhole opens up in Daisetta, Texas


Reuters
Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:58 UTC

Comment: The above is one we missed from 2008, but this report came in today, 12 July 2011:

US: Lenoir, North Carolina sinkhole evidence of a possible wider problem

These reports are from just the past month:

South Carolina, US: Sinkhole Closes Stephens County Boat Ramp

U.S.: Fairfield Township deals with sinkhole

Enormous sinkhole swallows south-east Queensland Rainbow beach

Canada: Downpour Leaves 18-metre Sinkhole in Ontario Highway

Australia: Sinkhole swallows south-east Queensland beach

North Dakota, US: Sinkhole closes Fargo overpass

US: 45' deep sinkhole appears in Pittsburgh parking lot

Big Apple, Cracked! New York, US: Midtown sinkhole stops rush hour traffic, baffles investigators

A collection of sinkhole images from around the world

The planet is literally opening up!

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Bizarro Earth

Sicily, Italy: Etna Volcano Erupts Again on July 9 2011

Armand Vervaeck and James Daniell
Earthquake Report
Sun, 10 Jul 2011 11:58 UTC
UPDATE 09:45 UTC : Due to the volcanic activity and the ash concentration in the air, the (important) regional airport of Catania was closed since yesterday 18:12 (6:12 PM). The airport reopened this morning at 07:00 ( 7 AM).

UPDATE 08:00 UTC : As stated below, the densely populated Catania area got a lot of ash showers covering cars and roofs with a gray layer.

UPDATE : One video tells more than a 1000 words. This YouTube video was recorded by Klaus Dorschfeldt alias KdEtna. We encourage our readers to take a look at his great Etna Channel on YouTube. The strong eruption was short-lived (see in-depth text below), which explains why there are only daylight videos from this eruption
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Cloud Lightning

US: New Mexico Rains Douse Flames But Fuel Flood Fears

Dennis J. Carroll
Reuters
Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:59 UTC
The monsoons arrived on schedule in northern New Mexico on Monday, bringing with them the promise of containing a monster wildfire that has broken records in the state.

But they also brought potential peril from flash floods, wind bursts and lightning, with possible flooding made worse by the ground-clearing fires.

"It's such a Catch-22 with the rains," said Arlene Perea, a fire information officer. "The rains are welcome, but we know there are some problems with it."

The National Weather Service on Monday put out a flash-flood watch for the fire area through at least Wednesday. Forecasters said showers and thunderstorms were expected, with hail, lightning and winds up to 45 miles per hour.
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Cow Skull

US: Drought Spreads Its Pain Across 14 States

Kim Severson & Kirk Johnson
New York Times
Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:11 UTC
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© Grant Blankenship/The New York Times
Terry Pickle climbs out of the hole in Colquitt, Ga., that was once the spot on Spring Creek where river baptisms were held. Drought conditions have reduced the creek to a series of puddles.
Colquitt, Georgia - The heat and the drought are so bad in this southwest corner of Georgia that hogs can barely eat. Corn, a lucrative crop with a notorious thirst, is burning up in fields. Cotton plants are too weak to punch through soil so dry it might as well be pavement.

Farmers with the money and equipment to irrigate are running wells dry in the unseasonably early and particularly brutal national drought that some say could rival the Dust Bowl days.

"It's horrible so far," said Mike Newberry, a Georgia farmer who is trying grow cotton, corn and peanuts on a thousand acres. "There is no description for what we've been through since we started planting corn in March."

The pain has spread across 14 states, from Florida, where severe water restrictions are in place, to Arizona, where ranchers could be forced to sell off entire herds of cattle because they simply can't feed them.
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Bizarro Earth

US: Scientists tie Colorado River flooding to San Andreas quakes

Hector Becerra
Miami Herald / Los Angeles Times
Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:06 UTC
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© David Lynch
Map of the San Andreas Fault (Red Line)
Researchers believe Colorado River damming projects that followed the creation of the Salton Sea could be one reason why Southern California is overdue for a major earthquake.

In a new study led by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, scientists found that the floodwaters that periodically flowed through faults helped trigger earthquakes in the area, including several large ones along the mighty San Andreas.

The modern Salton Sea came to life nearly a century ago when record floodwaters from the Colorado River overwhelmed barriers, and during the course of two years created the massive body of water in a desert sink. Dams and other irrigation barriers were eventually built to stop the flow of water into the sea and end the periodic flooding that had long plagued the area.

But scientists wonder whether the creation of the Salton Sea tweaked the seismic dynamics of the area, which is crisscrossed by numerous fault lines that feed into the San Andreas.

The study's lead author, Daniel Brothers, a marine geophysicist for the U.S. Geological Survey, said that in the past the weight of the flowing floodwaters bent the Earth's crust, causing some sections of the faults to bow and others to bulge. In addition, floodwaters percolated into voids in the rock, exerting an outward pressure on the faults. All this helped trigger quakes, he said.
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Bizarro Earth

New Zealand: Christchurch rocked by more than 7400 aftershocks


Stuff.co.nz
Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:39 UTC
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© NASA
Christchurch City
There have been more than 7400 aftershocks in Christchurch in the 10 months since September's magnitude-7.1 quake.

They've sent people running, brought buildings down and left 181 dead.

Many people had been injured, left without water and power - and some have had to abandon their homes.

The aftershocks include the February 22 magnitude 6.3 and the 6.3 tremor which shook the city once again on June 13.

They contribute to this year's total of more than 11,000 quakes felt throughout the country.

Four earthquakes larger than magnitude 6 have already hit New Zealand this year, compared to just three occurring for all of 2010.

Two of them were in Christchurch, one was off the Coromandel coast on January 28 and the largest, a magnitude 6.5, occurred in Taupo last week and was felt throughout the country.
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