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 Kevin Smith is a true influence for the new generation of film makers. After he made “Clerks,” he is now coming back with a new comedy named “Zack and Miri Make a Porno.” Smith chose Seth Rogen to play Zack, a slacker who makes a skin brush together with his best friend as to earn some cash.When Smith started to make the movie, Rogen was...
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Kuala Lumpur - Thick smoke blanketed several states in Malaysia Thursday after winds brought in choking haze caused by forest fires on Indonesia's neighbouring Sumatra island.
In the southern state of Malacca, visibility was 6 kilometres while visibility at the international airport in the northern state of Penang was recorded...
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At least three people died, two were missing and tens of thousands were evacuated Wednesday as Typhoon Hagupit brought gales and torrential rain to much of southern China.
The typhoon destroyed 7,915 houses and affected some five million people in Guangdong province, where all the casualties were reported, the official Xinhua news...
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Paul Goodison claimed Great Britain's third sailing gold of the Beijing Games with victory in the men's Laser category Tuesday while American Anna Tunnicliffe won the women's Laser Radial.
Goodison made up for the disappointment of finishing fourth in Athens four years ago by holding on to his lead in the 10th and final race, winning...
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 Tropical storm Dolly, which strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane, hit the southern tip of Texas yesterday, shaking houses with violent winds and generating tornado warnings, as well as increasing fears of considerable flooding. Dolly, the first Atlantic hurricane to hammer the U.S. in 2008, reached the land at South Padre Island, in...
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 Hurricane Dolly formed in the Caribbean is heading toward the U.S.-Mexico border and may strengthen into a Category 2 storm before reaching the coast around midday, forecasters predicted. According to the National Hurricane Center’s Web site, early this morning the hurricane’s center was an estimated 55 miles (90 kilometers)...
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 U.S. National Hurricane Center informs that Tropical Storm Fausto, which is expected to become a hurricane, and Hurricane Elida plowed across the Pacific Ocean, hundreds of miles from Mexico, whereas in the Atlantic, Tropical Storm Bertha moved away from Bermuda.At 4 a.m., the center of Tropical Storm Bertha was situated about 355 miles...
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 The new hurricane season starts with Boris and Bertha. Boris
passed without hurting anyone, but Bertha blew out suddenly. Boris erupted in
the Pacific and went to the western coast of Mexico and caused no damage.
Bertha formed last Thursday near the Cape Verde
islands and set a record for the farthest east that a tropical storm has...
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According to an infrared satellite image from the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National
Hurricane Center
shows Tropical Storm Bertha moving towards warmer water and gaining strength
quickly.
Hurricane Bertha has strengthened to a Category 3 storm on
the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane...
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This infrared satellite image from the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration's National
Hurricane Center
shows Tropical Storm Bertha moving towards warmer water and gaining strength in
a short time.
According to forecasters, Bertha is expected to become the
season's first hurricane. The tropical storm has sustained...
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A 71-year-old-man died and six others were rescued Tuesday
from two boats off the coast of La Push, Clallam County,
the Coast Guard reported.
It appears that at 9:47 a.m., the master of a recreational
boat radioed Coast Guard Group/Air Station Port Angeles that the boat was
taking on water, but was unable to give a location...
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Sydney - Major fires were burning Friday across the southern Australian state of Victoria as more than 3,000 firefighters tried to hold containment lines with high temperatures and strong winds intensifying the bushfire danger.
More than 200 schools, childcare centres, and many national parks and tourist attractions in...
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The worst dust storm in 40 years was Monday dusting the snow with an orange powder in the alpine region of Australia's south-east corner and bringing what locals call mud rain.
Winds of up to 100 kilometres per hour are lifting soil from the arid interior of New South Wales and dumping it nearer the coast. When combined with rain, it...
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 Cyclone Daman destroyed two villages on the small Fiji island of
Cikobia early Saturday, according to a Radio New Zealand report from
the capital, Suva.
The first cyclone of the 2007/08 season in the South Pacific, rated
category four, which can have wind gusts up to 279 kilometres an hour,
Daman passed directly over the island...
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San Francisco - US President Barack Obama is to get an ultra-secure smartphone so that he can keep up with emails on the go, according to a report Thursday in Atlantic magazine.
Obama has been an avid user of a Blackberry RIM for years, but security concerns meant that he could not keep a standard smartphone as president for fear that...
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 Despite hard weather, the two
rovers that NASA has sent on Mars are still active, and also ready for
continuing their space missions on the red planet. Spirit and Opportunity,
as the two rovers are called, have successfully survived the severe dust storm
that has taken place on Mars starting with early August, as well as...
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Hurricane Paloma strengthened over the Caribbean and was approaching the Cayman Islands and Cuba with sustained winds of 140 kilometres an hour on Friday.
"Paloma is a category one hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Strengthening is likely and Paloma is expected to become a category two hurricane later today (Friday) and...
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Hurricane Paloma strengthened over the Caribbean and was approaching the Cayman Islands and Cuba with sustained winds of 140 kilometres an hour on Friday.
"Paloma is a category one hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Strengthening is likely and Paloma is expected to become a category two hurricane later today (Friday) and...
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 Meteorologists’ research has shown that Tropical Storm Bertha has begun moving away from the Cape Verde Islands on Friday morning after forming in the far eastern Atlantic on Thursday afternoon.The storm is expected to take a turn to the northwest and then north before it reaches North America. It’s early to predict any development of...
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 Severe storms hit the Southeast on Thursday, damaging houses and shopping areas in at least four states. Some northeast Mississippi counties and areas of northwest Alabama were under tornado warnings until midafternoon Thursday. One person was killed and three were injured by a tornado which hit North Carolina, authorities said. A strong...
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 According to Nicaraguan officials, at least 60 people have
died at the hand of Hurricane Felix after it hit the Caribbean
coast on Tuesday.
The worst damage was bound to come as Hurricane Felix’s
rampage continued. Meteorologists said that the hurricane would die down after
entering the Gulf of Mexico but they were
wrong.
The...
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Two people were confirmed dead Tuesday in the sinking of a fishing boat that sank off the South African coast in bad weather the previous night.
The body of one of the 19 passengers was pulled from the water Tuesday morning, while another body was found washed up on a beach Monday night, the SAPA news agency reported.
Two crew...
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German President Horst Koehler began winding up a six-day visit to Nigeria on Wednesday, travelling to the Muslim north for a colourful reception by the emir of the state of Kano.
Koehler, whose visit was devoted both to German-African affairs and to bilateral ties between Germany and Nigeria, was treated to a durbar, a colourful...
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"We are trying to determine the cause of the
accident," spokesman Maj. Felix Kulayigye said after a truck transporting
more than 100 soldiers and their families crashed. The accident took place on
Monday in the eastern part of Uganda,
Kampala, after
the truck hit the concrete side railing. The cause of the event is...
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London - Severe storms and snowfalls hit parts of Britain Tuesday, sparking a number of flood alerts and leaving thousands of homes without power.
A band of heavy rain swept through southern Britain, accompanied by strong winds coming in from the Atlantic, which earlier hit parts of France.
Meanwhile, heavy snow has been falling in...
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Malaga, Spain - A storm with winds blowing at up to 180 kilometres an hour injured 25 people overnight in the southern Spanish city of Malaga, the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) said Monday.
The storm, which was accompanied by rain and which Aemet described as a tornado, uprooted trees, knocked over advertising billboards, tore...
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An infant drowned Tuesday during a search and rescue effort by Greek coast guard officials who rushed to save 19 drowning immigrants attempting to cross into Greece from neighboring Turkey on an inflatable boat.
The immigrants, of unknown origin, were travelling on the inflatable raft when it ended up overturning due to high seas and...
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Accidents snarled high-lying snowed-over roads Friday in Germany as Alpine countries stood by for high winds, sinking temperatures and heavy snow.
In the upland central state of Thuringia, a highway maintenance vehicle spreading salt to melt the snow was struck by a skidding truck, destroying both vehicles, police said. The drivers...
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European Union countries must improve their energy efficiency and stop using the financial crisis as an excuse not to reduce pollution, the bloc's top officials said Thursday.
"The financial crisis has not diminished the risks to our planet deriving from climate change," European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso...
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Britain's QE2 luxury liner, which is to be turned into a floating hotel in Dubai, temporarily ran aground on its final call at its home port of Southampton, southern England, Tuesday.
Tugs were employed to refloat the vessel which it was believed had been blown off course by strong winds as it negotiated entry into the port in the...
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 As the weather worsens by the minute, media services talk
about a man that died in the crash which took place just after 11am on the
northbound carriageway of the A90 Brechin by-pass in Scotland.
Treacherous conditions have been reported across the country
prompting severe weather warnings to be issued...
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 At least three Bulgarian sailors were killed and eight shipmates were
missing and feared dead after a cargo ship sank during a storm in the
Sea of Azov, officials in Sofia and Kiev said Thursday.
One crew member, the ship's second mechanic, was rescued from the
icy water and was en route to a Russian hospital, Bulgarian...
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 A vicious winter storm slammed into the Black Sea coasts of Ukraine and
Russia on Sunday, sinking ships and wreaking havoc ashore, the Interfax
news agency reported.
The level six gale at its epicentre near the Kerch Strait was
producing waves in excess of five metres, and winds over 32 metres per
second, officials at Ukraine...
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 According to local authorities, the Netherlands and Britain
have taken precautionary measure by closing sea defense barriers, evacuating
North Sea oil rig workers and relocating thousands of people from homes as a
storm sent a 3-metre tidal surge along their coasts.
British police told people to leave their homes as the east
coast...
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 After days of strenuous work, hundreds of firefighters, soldiers and volunteers managed to quell the merciless blazes that destroyed homes and lives in Greece, authorities announced on Thursday.Official sources set the death toll at 64 after almost a week of inferno, the value of the material damage being expected to reach billions of...
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 Greece began the fourth nightmarish day of fighting unchecked wildfires that now spread over nearly half the country. Four suspects were charged with starting fires that have allegedly killed at least 63 people since Friday.New fires broke out today at the border of Athens, generate a rush of firefighting crews to Papagou, a suburb of...
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 Devastating fires are sweeping the Canary Islands, destroying the Spanish archipelago's unique wildlife. Both Gran Canaria and Tenerife were affected, with some 24,000 hectares (60,000 acres) of land already gone up in smoke. Around 10,000 people fled out of their homes to seek safety from the fires.The fires had not affected beaches or...
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 A boat race for children ended suddenly in the Irish Sea after a sudden squall caused 91 vessels to capsize and 120 children were swept out to sea on Thursday, the Irish Coast Guard informed.The incident occurred at about 2 pm off the eastern coast of Dun Laoghaire while a junior regatta was taking place. The powerful winds tilted over...
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 Venus Williams advanced to the semi finals after a much disputed match against Russia’s Svetlana Kuznetsova. The triple champion won in two sets 6-3, 6-4 on the famed Centre Court and will meet Ana Ivanovic on Friday. "I was able to stay tough against a great opponent," said Williams in the press conference. "I felt so...
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Minutes after the US Army Humvee leaves its mountain base, 7.62-millimetre bullets tear into the hood and turret until one finally hits driver Alex Goduti's windshield panel dead centre.
The reinforced glass withstands the impact but the next round or two at most will shatter it, so he slams the vehicle in reverse and sends it...
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Seven sailors went missing when a fishing boat capsized in high waves Wednesday in waters off the south-eastern coast of South Korea, news reports said.
Three of the 10 crew members of the 79-ton ship were rescued and were receiving medical treatment, the national Yonhap News Agency said.
The coast guard sent ships and a...
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Divers from two salvage firms began to retrieve toxic chemicals from a
sunken passenger ferry in the Philippines Tuesday, a senior official
said.
Transportation Undersecretary Elena Bautista said about 400 packs
of hazardous pesticide endosulfan was retrieved from Princess of the
Stars, which sank off central island of Sibuyan,...
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Typhoon Hagupit targeted Vietnam over the weekend, killing at least 42 people, while Typhoon Jangmi left two people dead in Taiwan before weakening to a tropical storm, officials reported Monday.
Flash floods, heavy rain and landslides triggered by Hagupit also left four missing and 61 injured in northern Vietnam, the National...
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Typhoon Hagupit targeted Vietnam over the weekend, killing at least 42 people, while Typhoon Jangmi left two people dead in Taiwan before weakening to a tropical storm, officials said Monday.
Flash floods, heavy rain and landslides triggered by Hagupit also left four missing and 61 injured in northern Vietnam, the National Steering...
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Typhoon Jangmi lashed Taiwan with powerful winds and torrential rains Sunday, forcing a standstill in domestic air traffic and some railway services.
The typhoon packed center winds of up to 184 kilometres per hour and gusts of up to 227 kilometres per hour, making landfall in the north-eastern county of Ilan in the afternoon, the...
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Formula One heads into unknown territory on the weekend for the maiden Singapore Grand Prix which also marks the first race under floodlights.
World championship leader Lewis Hamilton must overcome the disappointment of having an appeal against a latest penalty revoked and like all other drivers will have to adapt to the unfamiliar...
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The Chinese death toll from Typhoon Hagupit rose to 10 with at least two people still missing as the storm brought gales and torrential rain to much of southern China, state media said on Thursday.
Floods, landslides and wind damage caused by the typhoon affected 8.73 million residents and 400,000 hectares of crops in Guangdong...
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At least one person died and tens of thousands were evacuated Wednesday as Typhoon Hagupit brought gales and torrential rain to much of southern China.
The island province of Hainan evacuated about 107,000 people from vulnerable areas while two cities in nearby Guangdong province moved more than 38,000 as the typhoon approached,...
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Hong Kong braced for Typhoon Hagupit Tuesday, cancelling dozens of flights and ferry services, after the storm killed five people and left four missing in the Philippines.
Two of the people killed in the Philippines drowned in a swollen river in the central province of Antique, two were buried in landslides in the northern city of...
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Dozens of flights were cancelled Tuesday as Typhoon Hagupit, which killed at least five people in the Philippines, bore down on Hong Kong.
Schools and kindergartens were closed Tuesday afternoon, and ferry services to outlying islands were suspended as the fast-moving storm closed in on the high-rise city of 6.9 million.
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Taiwan braced Monday for Typhoon Hagupit as the storm, which already killed at least one person and stranded thousands of passengers in the Philippines, was expected to brush the southern tip of the island.
The Central Weather Bureau said the rim of the typhoon, which packed centre winds of 155 kilometres per hour and gusts of 191...
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One man was missing and 49 people were injured when tropical storm Nuri hit Hong Kong Friday.
Nuri, which had left seven dead in the Philippines, had weakened and been downgraded into a severe tropical storm by the time it reached Hong Kong in the late afternoon.
However, it still managed to bring Hong Kong to a standstill. The...
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Seven people, including three children, were killed Wednesday as a powerful typhoon slammed into the northern Philippines, triggering landslides and flashfloods.
The children, aged 10, 3 and 1, were buried in a mudslide in Ucab village in Itogon town in Benguet province, 225 kilometres north of Manila, the Office of Civil Defence...
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The Philippines on Tuesday braced for a typhoon that was expected to make landfall over the country's northernmost provinces, the weather bureau said.
Typhoon Nuri was packing maximum sustained winds of 130 kilometres per hour and gusts of up to 160 kilometres per hour as it bore down on the northern Philippines.
The weather bureau...
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 Typhoon Fung-Wong lashed Taiwan Monday, bringing strong winds and heavy rains which triggered landslides and floods. Schools, offices, banks and the local stock exchange had to be closed. Moreover, the railway traffic was stopped due to the powerful winds of up to 126 kilometers (90 miles).The typhoon made landfall on the east central...
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 According to emergency officials, at least 6 people were killed and 6 others injured after Typhoon Kalmaegi hit Taiwan Friday. The Central Weather Bureau said Kalmaegi headed away from Taiwan and toward southern China Friday morning, with winds of 52 miles per hour. In the past 24 hours, parts of the south have recorded up to 44 inches...
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Over 800 people were missing Monday after a Philippine ferry turned over in one of the most powerful typhoons the archipelago has ever seen. The capsizing of the Princess of the Stars, on Saturday, was the worst catastrophe in a weekend of tragedy for the Philippines, as typhoon Fengshen razed the islands, bringing torrents and wind...
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 Twelve people were reportedly killed while
more than 34,000 were displaced after Typhoon Halong hit the northern Phillippines
on Monday, about half of them pinned down by fallen trees or hit by flying
debris in the provinces of Pangasinan, La Union and Zambales, the National
Disaster Coordinating Council reported.
One of the...
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 The cyclone that hit Burma
on Saturday killed more than 350 people, devastating Rangoon and many rural areas. State media
reported that thousands of buildings were destroyed by the storm. 19 people
died in Rangoon, while more than 220 people died
in the Irrawaddy division, a low-lying area
where much of Burmese rice is...
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 Typhoon Neoguri, a two category storm on a scale up to five,
is expected to drop 40 mm (one and a half inches) to 90 mm of rain on Hainan
and Guangdong
and to bring winds of 176 kilometers (110 miles) per hour, the US Navy Joint
Typhoon Warning Center said.
Neoguri’s eyes, which is the second storm of the northwest
Pacific...
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 According to meteorologists, a tropical cyclone bearing down
on the South Pacific island nation of Fiji has intensified into a category four
storm, the second most powerful cyclone, with destructive winds up to 200 kph
(125 mph).
Cyclone Daman is expected to hit the nation's second largest island Vanua Levu
early on Saturday,...
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 Power outages, flash floods and landslides hit the northern Philippines
Monday amid heavy rains and strong winds brought by a powerful typhoon
that has already killed eight people.
The National Disaster Coordinating Council said more than 140,000
people were evacuated in the northern Philippines, which was suffering
the brunt of...
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 A powerful typhoon skirted populated provinces in the eastern
Philippines on Saturday, where thousands of residents had been forced
to evacuate their homes to avoid the repeat of a disaster that killed
more than 1,000 people last year.
Typhoon Mitag veered away from its course before dawn on Saturday,
sparing the provinces of...
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 According to local officials, thousands of people are being
evacuated as tropical storm Mitag gains strength, becoming a typhoon as it
nears the eastern Philippines.
Mitag, packing winds of 120 kilometres per hour with gusts of 150km/h, was
barreling towards the Bicol peninsula, south-east of the capital Manila, the
local weather...
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 According to the government, the number of people left dead
after the powerful cyclone that swept through Bangladesh last Thursday rose to
more than 3,000 today. The United Nations estimated that a million people had
been left homeless, many of them in remote areas without predictable food
supplies.
The Bangladesh Red Crescent...
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 A massive rescue and relief operation has been mounted Saturday by
thousands of soldiers and civilian volunteers in southern Bangladesh,
which was tossed by a devastating tropical cyclone that left a trail of
death and destruction.
Rescuers counted another 300 bodies of people killed in Friday's
cyclone that triggered mudslides...
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 Cyclone Sidr, which roared ashore with winds of more than 200
kilometres per hour, has killed at least 214 people in Bangladesh, an
official with the disaster management office in Dhaka said Friday.
Muhammad Mia said 87 deaths were reported alone in the coastal district of Barguna, the area hardest hit.
The death toll could rise...
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 A powerful tropical cyclone struck the southern Bangladesh coast
Thursday forcing hundreds of thousands of people to leave their homes
after the peripheral stormy winds sparked giant waves and floods on the
off-shore islands, officials said.
One million people living in fragile coastal villages were
evacuated to safe locations...
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 According to Vietnamese government officials, three people died after Typhoon Lekima hit Vietnam on Monday with speeds in excess of 120 kilometers (75 miles) per hour, bringing massive floods and down poring precipitations.The storm caused communication breakdowns, knocking down telephone poles and power lines along with houses in Ha...
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 Much feared Typhoon Wipha hit the south coast of Shanghai early Wednesday
afternoon, flooding streets and fields and causing massive transport disruptions.
Although believed to be the strongest typhoon to hit shanghai in the past decade,
only one man was killed by electrocution during a power surge.
Shanghai, China's biggest city,...
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 Shutting down local airports and re-routing flights in or
out of China
are only a few precautioanary measures taken by the Chinese government to minimize
possible damage afflicted by the passing of the Wipha typhoon.
The imminent impact of Wipha has also caused the closing of the stock exchange market,
as meteorologists expect a...
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According to local officials, the fast-moving typhoon called
Nari has killed at least 14 people, injuring many more.
As it was moving on an eastern axis through the cities of South Korea
bringing with it heavy rain and floods, Typhoon Nari caused both local and international
flights to be grounded.
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 Tokyo
is on alert after a powerful typhoon is threatening to hit by Friday. Flights
were grounded as the typhoon was expected to bring floods and landslides after
dumping heavy rains on central Japan.
Typhoon Fitow was near Hachijo
Island, 124 miles south of Tokyo, where towering
20-foot waves were reported. Although it is only a...
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A powerful typhoon rain pounded the Japanese island of Kyushu on Thursday forcing cancelation of a significant number of flights. The Japanese Meteorological Agency said that the typhoon, named Usagi (rabbit in Japanese) packed winds gusting up to 180 km per hour (112 mph).The Kyushu and Shikoku islands were also expected to be affected...
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 While the southern regions are battered by heavy rain and strong winds, northern Japan was struck early Monday by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake that killed four persons and caused nuclear reactors to shut down.The most affected region was Niigata prefecture, on the coast of the Sea of Japan, where two people were caught under rubble from...
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 The powerful typhoon Man-yi lashed out at southern Japan on Saturday with strong winds and torrential rains, 44 people reportedly being injured and thousands displaced due to the intense storm.After ravaging the southernmost islands of Okinawa on Friday, the tropical storm struck Kyushu, the third-largest island of Japan and is moving...
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 The southern islands of Okinawa were struck Friday by a powerful typhoon, strong winds and torrential rains battering settlements and forcing hundreds of people out of their homes.Over 370 domestic flights were postponed and massive power cuts left about 100,000 inhabitants in the dark, 23 persons being injured by the tropical cyclone...
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 At least 12 people died and dozens are still missing after a passenger ferry sank Thursday in central Philippines.The MV Blue Water Princess went under in the early hours off the coast of San Francisco, about 140 miles south-east of Manila in the Quezon province. According to the coast guard, 129 people have been rescued, but another 115...
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 Karachi is battered by fierce storms for the past two days, more than 200 people being killed in Pakistan’s largest city, the authorities reported Sunday.Most of the fatalities were caused by fallen power lines and crumbling buildings, that trapped hundreds under piles of rubble and mud.The powerful winds trampled trees, billboards and...
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 According to gaming site Kotaku, the layoff winds that have blown in April at Sony’s European division have now arrived in the US, where up to 100 employees are now expecting to be fired.Sony Computer Entertainment America senior director of corporate PR Dave Karraker has confirmed that a "streamlining" is underway at the...
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 Pakistan’s southern coastal region was battered Tuesday by strong winds and heavy rains, at least 13 people being reported dead and thousands forced out of their homes.The savage cyclone Yemyin wreaked havoc on the Balochistan coastline, where people fled to higher regions after most of the area was flooded. Local officials informed that...
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 Cyclone Gonu, the worst tropical storm to hit the Arabian Sea region made its first victims in Oman, three people being killed Thursday in the province that holds the country’s capital Muscat.According to a police official, the heavy rains and strong winds flooded numerous houses and took three lives until now, injuring nine persons....
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 The strongest tropical cyclone to hit the Arabian Sea region, Cyclone Gonu prompted Iran's Interior Ministry to declare an emergency state in the southern regions and evacuate hundreds in Chabahr on Wednesday.Hormuzgan and Sistan-Beluchistan, two southeastern coastline provinces have received warnings from Iran’s Department of...
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 Recent reports suggesting that the Ares I rocket is doomed to failure have been denied by NASA officials. The story first appeared in the Orlando Sentinel, on October the 26th, where it was mentioned that there are concerns regarding Ares I crashing into its launch tower under certain wind conditions. This delayed the U.S. space agency’s...
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 The Italian Space Agency has reported that the Cassini space probe has found the best evidence yet that there is the possibility that Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, might hide a large underground mass of water under its surface.The hypothesis has a lot of chances to be true, since similar underground oceans have been discovered on...
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 According to a recent study, it
seems that the Arctic ice is simply melting away. Although this winter the
sea’s ice seems to have made a partial recovery compared to last summer’s
record melt, this apparent improvement is nothing else than an illusion,
according to a report made public by federal scientist on Tuesday. Walter
Meier,...
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 According to a recent study made
public on Thursday by the British journal Nature, it seems that the warmer the
seas get, the more likely is for hurricanes to form and to threaten countries and
cities and their inhabitants. The study conducted by British researchers Mark
Saunders and Adam Lea of the Benfield UCL Hazard Research...
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 After the strong Pacific storm that left around 20 percent of the California residents in the dark in the true sense of the meaning and which is believed to be only the first one in a series that was forecast to hit California this weekend.More than 1.300.000 electricity users lost power since Friday morning, as the storm damaged 40...
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 The environmental group World Wide Fund for Nature published a report on Tuesday that warns about the devastating effects of global warming on the penguin population of Antarctica.The report, named Antarctic Penguins and Climate Change said that four species of penguins have declined by 66 percent over the last 25 years, as global...
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 The European Space Agency (ESA) presented to the media in Paris on Wednesday findings of the Venus Express probe which demonstrate the fact that the climate of the planet Venus has more similarities to that of Earth.Despite the obvious differences, since Venus surface’s temperature reaches 500 degrees Celsius and cannot have water on it,...
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 After the unfortunate oil spill in San Francisco bay, another “ecological disaster” has occurred in the Black Sea, after around 2.000 tons of heating oil have spilled into the sea from a tanker that wrecked during a powerful storm into the Crimean peninsula, according to the Monday report of the Russian environmental authorities.The...
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 The United
States’ National
Hurricane Center
has said in a report that a subtropical or tropical depression is likely to
form in the western Atlantic or in the Gulf of Mexico
over the next day or two. The institution has also said that it is to name the
next two tropical storms Olga and Noel.
In the Gulf of Mexico there is...
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 The hurricane Humberto is a first
category hurricane, which has crashed early today ashore along south-east
Texas, bringing this way heavy rains and maximum sustained winds that blow to
up to 80 meters per hour. Humberto has been announced by the United States’ National Weather Service to be in
its way to Louisiana.
However,...
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 The east cost of the United
States of American, which includes also New York City,
could be hit by a potentially major tropical storm, which is currently brewing
out in the Atlantic Ocean. The weather
forecasters and the hurricane hunters have checked out the storm and have
characterized it as a low pressure system that is sitting...
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 The crew is already preparing for lift off while NASA officials are confident that the weather will not be an obstacle for tomorrow’s launch.NASA Test Director Steve Payne was happy to report at this morning’s Countdown Status Briefing that months of hard work at the external tank- damaged in March by an unusually powerful haze storm-...
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 A new study concluded that oceans’ ability to absorb the huge amounts of CO2 emanated in the atmosphere has decreased, thus boosting the global warming.The study, published in the most recent issue of Science magazine, says that oceans have lost their capacity to retain the atmospheric CO2, thus contributing to the accelerated phenomenon...
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 Astronomers have released for the first time a roughly detailed “picture” of how the weather’s like on an extra-Solar System planet, called HD 189733b.HD 189733b’s weather has been mapped more accurately because it’s much closer to Earth- “only” 60 light years away in the constellation Vulpecula. It is considered to be a “gaseous giant”...
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 The fire from California has reached its fourth day of spreading all around the area and destroying more than 800 homes. Firefighters are desperately trying to stop it while evacuating thousands of residents. Since Thursday, when the blaze began, 800 houses, most of them million-dollar mansions, were erased in the county of Montecito....
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 Officials from Santa Barbara County, California, announced that a wildfire which started on late Thursday destroyed a big part of the canyon and obliged the residents from Montecito to flee away. The flames burnt down nearly 70 multimillion dollars homes and ranch-style houses.Because of the strong winds the blaze started to spread...
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 The effects that Hurricane Ike had on Galveston can still be felt now. The University of Texas Medical Branch from Galveston was badly damaged by the strong winds and rain that Ike brought during this fall. Because the teaching hospital is running out of money, nearly 3,800 workers will be laid off. The next three months will be crucial...
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 Northern Los Angeles has been attacked by big flames on Tuesday. The gusty Santa Ana winds have sent the biggest wildfires from southern California. Many homes in the area were threatened by the big blazes. Special crews and helicopters tried to fight the fire which was spread on more than 20-sqaure miles above the San Fernando Valley...
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 Firefighters received the alarm call on Sunday night as a wildfire was spreading quickly over 20 miles north of Los Angeles. Officials announced that strong winds and dry weather was expected during the night. Ron Haralson, spokesman for Los Angeles County Fire Department, stated that "There's been no open flames for hours. It's...
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 The National Hurricane Center announced on Wednesday that Hurricane Norbert, the latest hurricane in this season in the Atlantic, approaches Baja in New Mexico, California. Its winds reach 115 miles per hour and the NHC has developed a five-day period during which Norbert was analyzed.Now, the hurricane is located in the Pacific Ocean at...
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Subtropical Storm Laura formed in the north central Atlantic Ocean, according to the National Hurricane Center. Laura is centered at about 1,015 miles west of Faial Island in the Azores and was moving west-northwest at nearly 8 mph on Monday. The subtropical storm’s winds are near 60 mph and Laura can reach the strength of a hurricane on...
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 Tropical Storm Kyle is the 11th storm of this year’s hurricane season in the Atlantic. According to the U.S. National Hurricane Center, Kyle formed on Thursday as a terrible weather was announced in Puerto Rico and other northern Caribbean islands. Kyle reached to be a tropical storm when its winds reached 45mph.As a Category 1...
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A tense calm reigned Friday as Houston braced for the arrival of Ike, the first major hurricane in 25 years to bear down on the fourth-largest US city in full strength.
Hundreds of thousands of people were leaving nearby coastal areas to flee what the National Hurricane Centre (NHC) warned would be "certain death."
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 On Monday, Hurricane Ike entered the northeastern Cuba and it could take over Havana on Tuesday morning, heading for the U.S. Gulf Coast during the coming week. Nearly 73 people in Haiti were killed by the heavy rains and the floods brought by Ike, leaving every place looking like hell itself.The officials evacuated the Florida Keys...
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 The National Hurricane Center in Miami has released a new report about Hurricane Ike, which seems to be the strongest hurricane this season. It grew its strength to Category 4 as it crossed a path from the Caribbean to Florida and Louisiana to Mexico, making everybody wonder where it would stop.Before heading to the warm waters of the...
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 Tropical Storm Gustav headed toward Cuba on Wednesday after it had killed 11 people and caused a lot of floods and damages in the Caribbean. Louisiana and the Gulf Coast are also threatened by the tropical storm which could become a Category 3 hurricane.Evacuations are possible for residents in New Orleans. People living in the area were...
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 On Wednesday, tropical storm Gustav headed toward Cuba after it had killed 11 people and caused a lot of floods and damages in the Caribbean. Louisiana and the Gulf Coast are also threatened by the tropical storm which could become a Category 3 hurricane.A meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Rebecca Waddington,...
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 The Atlantic hurricane season has come with its seventh tropical storm this year in central Caribbean. The storm is heading for the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Forecasters announced that the center of the storm was located at 260 miles southeast of Port-au-Prince in Haiti, at 11 a.m. on Monday.The National Hurricane Center said that...
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 Friday was the fifth day since tropical storm Fay established in Florida. Heavy rains and winds frightened the residents in the region. People in the Gulf Coast and other communities in the area had to be very careful about their staying in their homes. Two feet of rain drooped in Florida and spread to the central Atlantic coast.Fay is...
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 Heavy rain and winds came together with tropical storm Fay in the Florida Keys. Fay broke down trees and headed southwest Florida on Monday, after it had killed nearly 50 people in the Caribbean. This is the sixth storm this year in the Atlantic hurricane season and had hit Florida with winds reaching 60 mile per hour.Fay didn’t reach...
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 The helicopter that crashed in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest on Tuesday killed nine men and injured four other. The chopper rose from the helipad and then crashed into trees. National Transportation and Safety Board managed to recover the helicopter’s cockpit voice recorder and sent it to Washington D.C. to be verified. The accident...
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 220,000 customers at Commonwealth Edison were left without electricity for several nights during a strong storm. It will take a couple of days to repair the cables and restore the damage, as Anne Pramaggiore, ComEd executive vice president said. "Given the magnitude of the damage ... we do expect this to be a multiday restoration...
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Residents along the Texas coast on Monday were
bracing for Tropical Storm Edouard, as forecasters predicted the storm
could strengthen before making landfall. Edouard was predicted to make landfall near the Texas-Louisiana early Tuesday, the National Hurricane Centre in Miami said.
Monday afternoon it had sustained...
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 Tropical Storm Edouard, the fifth tropical storm of the hurricane season in Atlantic this year, has formed near an oil and gas producing area of the northern Gulf of Mexico, on Sunday.By 11 p.m. EDT, the storm was located around 80 miles southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River and was expected to come on the Texas coast being as...
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Tropical storm Dolly has formed on Wednesday in the Gulf Coast. It traversed the U.S.-Mexico coastline and weakened as it entered a tropical depression in South Texas on Thursday. Warnings have been made for a flood along the Rio Grande Valley.Flood warnings were available for Texas too. Charles Hoskins, deputy emergency officer for...
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New Hampshire was affected by a tornado on Thursday. It destroyed a lot of homes and took the life of an old lady in Northwood Lake. Storms came through central N.H. and 1,000 people in Alton-Barnstead-Strafford area ran out of electricity. 200 other in Ossippe, Effingham and Freedom and also 100 in Epsom and Pittsfield got the same...
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It’s a fact that the pollution which comes from vessels that navigate on the sea represents a great factor of causing diseases. International negotiators have hardly tried to reduce this pollution, but they have always come across shipping conglomerates.If the new rules will be voted, the regulation will affect 43% of all the vessels...
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After tropical storm Bertha and other storms that formed along the Atlantic and threatened the states around the ocean, another storm is expected this season, which has started earlier that it was scheduled. Hurricane Dolly heads for the United States, Caribbean and Central America these days.The hurricane season is scheduled to last...
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California firefighters gained the upper hand
Monday on a rash of wildfires that have devastated the state for three
weeks. But the problems continued in the Golden State as the violent
thunderstorms that helped douse the flames also triggered mudslides.
'If it isn't fire, it's flood. If it isn't fire or flood, it's the
mud,' said...
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 While mudslides on fire-blemished territory in the eastern
Sierra Nevada constrained people to leave their properties, more gentle weather
in Northern California facilitated the
firefighters’ work in suppressing parts of the wildfires in the area and
permitted inhabitants of numerous communities to return home.
A massive mudslide...
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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
ordered 2,000 more National Guard troops to the fire lines Friday as
the first fatality of the three weeks of wildfires was discovered.
The remains of the unidentified person were found in a house
destroyed when the Gap Fire swept through the town of Concow Wednesday,
said police in the...
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June 21. The fire became the nightmare of thousands of residents in California, as hot and dry summer conditions helped it to spread faster. Firefighters seem to battle an enemy that they cannot defeat. On July 12 the fire goes on, burning Butte County and the town of Paradise.Northern California has been lifted an evacuation order on...
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 Hurricane Bertha slowly approaches the Atlantic
Ocean on Friday. Officials in Bermuda
said that the hurricane advanced on the island with 85 mph winds. The hurricane
center advised those on the island to monitor Bertha’s progress closely.
Bertha formed last Thursday near the Cape Verde
islands and set a record for the farthest...
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 Spokane Valley is fighting against the wildfires
brought by the wind in eastern Washington late Thursday. Winds with a power of
50mph have burned nearly 1,200 acres and destroyed at least four houses. The
whole tragedy sent a lot of residents in search for shelters.
The suburban Spokane Valley is situated in a heavily
wooded area,...
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 By Wednesday, 10,000 people were evacuated from
Butte County. A third of the town of Paradise and its single hospital were
evacuated too. The blaze threatened 3,800 houses.
The Butte Lightning Complex Fire burned only two
houses since it started, on June 21, but destroyed 48 more that day.
Firefighters tried to stop the fire from...
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 Fire destroyed dozens of homes in Big
Sur, but on Tuesday the residents could go back home, as the fire
eased. Unfortunately, it is not over yet. 300 miles north, in Butte County,
fire and blazes took over the whole place.
It seems that the fire was burning since June 21 at The
Butte Lightning Complex Fire, but on Tuesday night,...
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Firefighters Monday tried to lock in gains
they made in fighting California's worst wildfires, as hotter weather
was expected to move in and make their task more difficult.
Over 300 fires were still raging across the state fought by some
20,000 firefighters, over 1,500 fire engines and over 100
water-dropping aircraft. The fires...
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 Additional firefighting crews were requested on Monday to
help combat a massive wildfire in Southern California
in order to profit from the wearing off winds before the forecasted higher
temperatures and possible lightning storms turn up later this week, officials
said.
The blaze which erupted in Santa
Barbara County is one
of...
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Hot weather and swirling winds Wednesday
fanned flames of a huge fire close to the tourist town of Big Sur,
leading authorities to order the evacuation of one of the most scenic
areas on the state's Pacific coastline.
The Basin Complex fire jumped a fire-line that firefighters had
hoped would protect the town, and led to the...
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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
extended California's state of emergency Thursday, declaring disaster
status in Santa Barbara county where a wildfire threatened the coastal
community of Goleta.
The Gap Fire has burned some 970 hectares and the order made Santa
Barbara the most southern of the 11 counties to be declared a...
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Goleta, California, caught fire on Friday. Los Padres National Forest burnt down and officials had to evacuate the residents who were living in the canyon. Goleta is located at about 8 miles northwest Santa Barbara and this weekend, because of the dry thunderstorms, the place turned into flames.Authorities evacuated the area as fast as...
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 The Mississippi River’s flooding waters passed levees and swamped nearly two dozen of them along the waterway, deluging dozens of small towns in Iowa and the neighboring states of Illinois and Missouri, on Thursday.
The floods have also destroyed thousands of hectares of agricultural crops, including corn and wheat. More than two...
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 The strong winds hit USA once again. Wednesday, a small
town in central Kansas
was struck by a half-mile-wide tornado which left one dead behind. Sharon
Watson, spokeswoman for the Kansas Adjutant General's Department, said that there
was only one deceased found so far. However, she added that there might be others.
“The town took a...
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 A Salt Lake City
couple missing in the Grand Canyon for at
least five days have been found. Despite high winds and rain and cold, they are
alive.
Alan Humphrey, 39, and his wife, Iris
Faraklas, 35, had been hiking the Royal
Arch Route at the Grand
Canyon for nearly a week. On Sunday, the couple’s friends and
Humphrey’s...
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The Santa Cruz Mountains area
burst into flames a few days ago and since then people are fighting desperately
to stop the persistent wildfire. All that the fire leaves behind is ashes. Six square
miles of centuries-old wood has turned into a battlefield, nature versus
humans. At least 20 houses were destroyed and another 570...
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 A wind-driven fire consumed an estimated 2,000 acres, or
more than 3 square miles, about 10 miles south of Reno, caused the evacuation of a school,
threatened homes, forced a major highway to close. Firefighters had to contend
with gale-force winds while battling the huge blaze that raced along the edge
of valley south of Reno,
the...
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 A father and son boat journey ended tragically after a blast
of wind tipped over the rowboat which was carrying Jose Lucero from Lafayette and his son Randy
Lucero. With all Randy’s efforts to save his father by pulling him to shore,
Jose didn’t make it. Neither CPR managed to save Randy’s dad. The 69-year-old
man was taken along...
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 Forecasters say the natural cycle in air pressure and
sea-surface temperatures in the Atlantic
became more favorable to storms beginning in 1995. The devastating natural
program will continue, bringing more hurricanes and storms than ever. The
predictions were made for 15 to 20 years to come.
“We don't attribute this to anything...
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 After strong winds had damaged several buildings in Central
US and more than a dozen people were injured in a pileup in Colorado,
the tornado moved to Central Arkansas.
In Little Rock,
Ark., a tornado destroyed a
hangar and several planes, injuring a number of people.
According to the Associated Press, after it hit Little...
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 Strong winds from what appeared to be a tornado damaged
several buildings on Central US. It killed one
person in a massive traffic pileup caused by the snow.
The Associated Press reports three people were taken to
hospital and treated for minor injuries after a strong storm flattened an
antique store and damaged a gas station in...
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 Rain and snow battered both coasts of the United
States Thursday, while powerful winds raged through the northeast, causing the
death of a construction worker in New York.
New York City officials said the worker fell 12 stories
Wednesday when the scaffold platform beneath him collapsed, apparently because
of high winds, The...
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 Rain and snow pummelled the California region Saturday, dumping nearly
two metres of snow in the Sierra Nevada and bursting a levee in Nevada
that forced the evacuation of thousands of people.
The levee broke along the Truckee Canal in Fernley, Nevada,
trapping about 3,500 people who were being rescued by US military
helicopters...
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 A powerful storm battered California on Friday leaving some 500,000
homes and businesses without power and threatening mudslides, flooding
and huge snowfalls projected to last into next week.
Meteorologists said the storm could be the worst in the state for
ten years with up to 25 centimeters of rain expected to fall Friday...
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