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Ohio man tells of Hawaii shark attack


AP
Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:47 UTC
All the way back to shore after an eight-foot tiger shark chomped into his left leg, Harvey Miller thought he might die. "I just remember saying, 'Oh God, not like this, no way,'" Miller said Friday, a day after the gray animal attacked him off Oahu's Bellows Beach.

©AP Photo/Ronen Zilberman
Miller, 36, was snorkeling off Bellows Beach along the windward side of Oahu when the attack occurred.

The animal came after the a 36-year-old attorney from Toledo, Ohio, in clear blue waters in an area not known for shark attacks. The last such incident in that area dates back almost 50 years, the state's Shark Task Force said.
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Earthquake destroys more than 2,000 houses in northwest China


RIA Novosti
Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:53 UTC
An earthquake in a northwest region of China destroyed 2,100 houses and left 8,000 people homeless, Xinhua news agency said Sunday.

The earthquake measuring 5.7 points on the Richter scale rocked northwest China's Xinjiang Yugur autonomous region, on the border with Kazakhstan, Friday.

According to Xinhua, no casualties have yet been reported in the quake.
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Bizarro Earth

Southeast Europe sizzles, north hit by storms, tornado


Reuters
Sun, 22 Jul 2007 07:12 UTC
BUCHAREST - Temperatures across central and southwest Europe threatened to top 42 degrees Celsius (107 Fahrenheit) on Saturday in a heat wave that has killed nine people in Romania and caused havoc from Hungary to Greece.
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Cloud Lightning

Report: Record storms kill 152 in China


AP
Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:30 UTC
Record rainfall this week triggered floods, landslides and mud flows that killed 152 people in China and forced the evacuation of hundreds of thousands, state media reported Sunday.

Since the start of the annual rainy season in June, floods have hit nearly half of China's regions and killed at least 400 people, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
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Cloud Lightning

Texas flooding strands passenger train


AP
Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:24 UTC
KNIPPA, Texas - Storms dumped more than a foot of rain on parts of Texas on Saturday, stranding more than 170 passengers on an Amtrak train for hours and forcing rescue crews elsewhere to pull at least 50 people to safety.

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A horse stands in floodwaters Saturday, July 21, 2007, near D'Hanis, Texas, after heavy rains caused the Seco Creek to overflow its banks, flooding the town and closing U.S. Highway 90.
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Cloud Lightning

Hail storm buries Mexican town just over the border


KVOA.com
Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:00 UTC
These are pictures of a fierce hail storm that pounded the town of Cananea Sonoroa, Mexico, last night.

©Ing. Gardner

"I was talking with my mother this morning," writes international viewer Ing. Héctor Manuel Germán Gardner, "and she says that in her whole life she didn't remember something like yesterday ever happening in Cananea, and she's almost 80 years old!!!"

You can see, hail the size of golf balls and bigger fell upon the town, along wth flooding rain.

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Cloud Lightning

Flooding continues in southern Britian

Scott McPherson
Gazette and Herald Wiltshire Network
Sat, 21 Jul 2007 22:55 UTC
Villagers told to stay away from flooded homes.

©Gazette and Herald Wiltshire Network
Floodwater near the flooded village of Langley Burrell
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Bizarro Earth

Two months of rain in just one day - Worst in living memory


UK Guardian
Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:44 UTC



· Met Office: deluge in south is worst in living memory
· Battered north braced for more as front advances

Some of the heaviest rainfall in living memory deluged southern Britain yesterday, inundating places with up to one sixth of their entire annual rainfall in less than 24 hours.
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Cloud Lightning

Torrential rain causes chaos in Britain


Physorg / AFP
Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:31 UTC
Torrential rain and thunderstorms struck Britain on Friday, causing travel chaos, forcing television stations off the air and delaying a cricket match between England and India.

At London's Heathrow airport, 141 flights were cancelled, 25 stations on the London Underground were closed because of flooding and rail company First Great Western advised travellers against taking the train.

"Even if the flooding subsides, all our trains will be in the wrong places and there will still be severe delays," said a spokesman for the operator, whose services in the west of England were badly hit.

Homes around England and Wales faced flash flooding and police reported a slew of weather-related car and truck crashes.

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Sweeping in from the south-west, the rain struck first in southern and central England and Wales.
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Attention

Utah wildfire threatens 2 dozen homes

Brock Vergakis
Associated Press
Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:21 UTC
Firefighters battled to keep a wildfire that already burned thousands of acres from reaching a small town as residents of at least two dozen homes were told to be ready to evacuate quickly.

The 24-square-mile fire raced toward the town of Indianola on Friday, a day after burning through a campground and motel and forcing rescues. Officials said the blaze may have been started by sparks from a flat tire.

With a highly skilled team on its way from Florida, 150 area firefighters were fighting the flames amid extraordinary heat and drought, with no immediate relief predicted.

"It only takes a cigarette or a match and this stuff will explode," said Fred Burns, owner of Burns Brothers Ranch RV Resort in nearby Fountain Green, which was not affected.
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