EARTH CHANGES 2011 DAILY UPDATES

Typhoon wreaks havoc in south east Asia



Sun Jul 18,
3:40 am ET





HANOI (AFP) – Three people were missing in Vietnam as
tropical storm [color:f9d6=#366388 ! important][color:f9d6=#366388 ! important]Conson hit the country, officials
said Sunday, after leaving 68 dead in the Philippines when it roared in
as a typhoon.
A woman went missing in the north of Vietnam and two fishermen
disappeared in waters off the impoverished central provinces, an
official in Hanoi from the national committee to fight storms and
flooding told AFP.
Conson swept onto the shores of Vietnam late on Saturday and was
downgraded to a tropical depression, the official said.
"It continues to cause rainfall in parts of northern and central
regions. We have not yet been able to calculate the amount of damage,"
he said, but added the storm "has destroyed basic infrastructure,
especially water works".
Thousands of Vietnamese soldiers have been mobilised to help people
living in areas affected by Conson and about 30,000 people were
evacuated before the storm blew in.
Conson slammed into the Philippines on Tuesday, directly hitting the
capital Manila as it cut westward into the South China Sea with a
ferocity that caught weather forecasters by surprise.
Rescuers retrieved three more bodies from the sea Sunday, raising the
death toll to 68 in the Philippines, but more bad weather was hampering
search operations.
"Three more bodies were recovered from a sunken fishing vessel," [color:f9d6=#366388 ! important][color:f9d6=#366388 ! important]Benito [color:f9d6=#366388 ! important]Ramos, chief of the Office of Civil
Defence in Manila, said on DZBB radio. "The death toll is now 68."

He said rescuers, including volunteers and troops, continued to scour
coastal areas in the country's southeastern seaboard Sunday, where the
majority of the 84 still missing were reported.
"We are still hoping that they are still alive," Ramos said.
However, he said fresh rains brought on by a new weather disturbance
east of the main island of Luzon were hampering search and rescue
operations.
State weather forecasters said the rains were unlikely to develop into a
full-blown storm.
The Philippines is in the [color:f9d6=#366388 ! important][color:f9d6=#366388 ! important]so-called [color:f9d6=#366388 ! important]typhoon [color:f9d6=#366388 ! important]belt of the Pacific. Up to 20
typhoons sweep through the country each year, killing hundreds of
people.
After slamming into the Philippines, Typhoon Conson, the first of the
season, brushed past the southeastern Chinese island of Hainan and
barreled its way into Vietnam on Saturday.
It killed least two people, tore down trees and ripped up electricity
pylons when it hit Hainan Friday evening, local officials said.
Authorities on the [color:f9d6=#366388 ! important][color:f9d6=#366388 ! important]popular [color:f9d6=#366388 ! important]tourist [color:f9d6=#366388 ! important]island evacuated around 40,000
people from the most vulnerable areas before the storm headed inland.
Two men, a security guard and a motorcyclist, died after being struck by
advertising hoardings unhinged by strong winds, an official from the
local typhoon warning centre said.http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100718/wl_asia_afp/vietnamphilippinestyphoon

Heavy rains, floods kill 24 in Yemen and Saudi
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100716/wl_nm/us_yemen_saudi_floods


Fri Jul 16,
10:20 am ET





SANAA (Reuters) – Fierce rains and floods have killed
24 people in northwest Yemen and southwest [color:e652=#366388 ! important][color:e652=#366388 ! important]Saudi [color:e652=#366388 ! important]Arabia and cut off several
villages, local media and government officials said on Friday.
Heavy downpours in Yemen's Wasab Safil district forced a dam to burst,
the Interior Ministry said, citing witnesses, killing nine people.
Scattered floods throughout Yemen's northwest region brought rocks
tumbling down from hillltops onto buildings. Several homes and a
hospital collapsed, killing at least seven. Four people were injured and
several remained trapped under the rubble of the hospital, Interior
Ministry said.
Yemen's Civilian Defense Center said the [color:e652=#366388 ! important][color:e652=#366388 ! important]total [color:e652=#366388 ! important]death [color:e652=#366388 ! important]toll stood at 23, including some
who drowned as flash floods swept through the streets and trapped
drivers in their cars.
The heavy rains have also isolated villages in southwest Saudi Arabia,
near the Yemeni border, the Saudi newspaper [color:e652=#366388 ! important][color:e652=#366388 ! important]Al [color:e652=#366388 ! important]Watan
said.
One person was reported dead in Saudi Arabia, according to the Arabic
daily. In Jizan, a civil defense team is searching for a man believed
washed away by flood waters after his [color:e652=#366388 ! important][color:e652=#366388 ! important]brother's [color:e652=#366388 ! important]body was found.
Defense forces had responded to 100 calls for assistance from people
stuck in their cars as floods hit, it said. (Reporting by Mohammed
Ghobari in Sanaa and Erika Solomon in Dubai; writing by Erika Solomon;
Editing by Jon Hemming)

hi burgundia

thinking of you, hope yer safe. keep us posted


blessings spiritwarrior

SINKHOLES - What's Happening to the
Earth? Oil Leak, Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Sinkholes WORLDWIDE


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IS IT ALL CONNECTED? Oil Leak, Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Sinkholes
WORLDWIDE and if it is all connected then what is going on with the
earth.
When you can longer trust the earth under the foundation of
your house, then what?
It has been blamed on volcanic activity
releasing pressure and on rain and on the "oil spill" oil leak in the
Gulf of Mexico but maybe ALL of these events are connected?. youtube
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Mundra has a thread "Is our Earth growing and expanding ?
http://www.themistsofavalon.net/news-views-f9/is-our-earth-growing-and-expanding-t628.htm

Apparently research by a group of Italian scientists indicates that the Gulf Stream Loop Current has broken unfortunate courtesy of the BP oil spill...
[url=http://www.rense.com/general91/OilSpill-CNR 2.pdf]http://www.rense.com/general91/OilSpill-CNR 2.pdf[/url]






Does this mean we can look forward to another Ice Age?

____________________________________________________________
All that glitters is not Gold...............................................Anon

I hope not Jenetta. though i'm sure people in Brazil feels it has already arrived..

Killer Cold Leaves 100 People and Thousands of Cattle Dead in Brazil and South America

The polar wave that has trapped the Southern Cone of South America
has caused an estimated one hundred deaths and killed thousands of
cattle, according to the latest reports on Monday from Argentina, south
of Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile and Bolivia.



Deaths were caused by hypothermia or gas intoxication from defective burners and heaters.
In the south of Brazil and central Paraguay thousands of cattle have
been reported dead, while in the south of Chile an agriculture emergency
was declared and in Buenos Aires at the peak of the winter season, tens
of regional flights had to be canceled because of the extreme weather
conditions leaving thousands stranded in the Argentine capital.
At least 2,700 cattle have died because of cold in Mato Grosso do
Sul, according to the latest numbers released by the Iagro (State Bureau
of Animal and Plant Health Protection). Not since 1979 had so many
animals died from cold in the area.
In Argentina the number of dead from hypothermia reached twelve plus another 33 intoxicated with carbon monoxide.
Bolivia reported 18 deaths because of freezing temperatures, most of
them in EL Alto next to the capital La Paz, one of the highest cities of
the world.
Even the east of the country which is mostly sub-tropical climate has
been exposed to frosts and almost zero freezing temperatures.
To prevent contagion from flu and other illness the Bolivian Ministry
of Education suspended schools until Wednesday. Weather forecast is for
the freezing climate to continue until August with cyclical peaks.
In southern Brazil at least 19 homeless died of hypothermia, and in
the city of Urupema, next to Argentina, temperatures dropped to a record
minus 7.8 Celsius (18 degrees Fahrenheit). In the Amazon basin in some
cities thermometers dropped to minus 7 Celsius (19.4 degrees Fahrenheit)
last Saturday.
In Santiago de Chile freezing temperatures reached minus 2 Celsius
(28.4 Fahrenheit) killing several homeless and intoxicating two families
with malfunctioning burners.
But in the region of Aysen, 1.600 km (1000 miles) to the south of
Santiago, villages are covered in snow and isolated; thousands of cattle
and sheep are short of food and minimum temperatures dropped to minus
15 Celsius (5 degrees Fahrenheit).
An agriculture emergency has been declared in Aysen; the main airport
at Balmaceda has been closed for a week and several small towns have no
power.
Paraguay so far has reported nine dead because of freezing weather,
mostly homeless, and in the capital Asunción the government has opened
refuges to host people overnight.
In Uruguay, one death has been reported and temperatures in the
center of the country dropped to minus 5 Celsius (23 degrees Fahrenheit)
while the prices of fresh fruit and vegetables have soared.
In Peru, which is more exposed to cold climate, so far 104 people
have been reported dead because of pneumonia and respiratory diseases,
caused by freezing temperatures and poor medical attention.
Although impressive these numbers are considered "normal" by Peruvian sanitary authorities for this time of the year.http://www.brazzilmag.com

Milwaukee sinkhole that gobbled car, stoplight: Will it grow?



Workerslook over the Milwaukee sinkhole Friday. Powerful thunderstorms caused widespread flooding in southern Wisconsin, closing down Milwaukee's
airport and opening up a giant sink hole, and two people were hospitalized after being struck by lightning, authorities said.. Morry Gash/AP

July 23, 2010
A 40-foot-wide Milwaukee sinkhole swallowed a car and driver – and a stoplight – Thursday night after torrential rainfall in the Great Lakes
region.

The sinkhole is approximately 20 feet deep, according to Milwaukee’s Department of Public Works. Businesses surrounding the downtown intersection with the sinkhole have been evacuated while the compromised ground is tested to make sure it will not collapse further.

Bystanders rescued the driver of the car and police cordoned off the area immediately after the accident. The city left the car running overnight to burn off its gasoline before attempting to remove it and clean the area.

A spokeswoman for the public works department said the sinkhole was caused when a manhole gave way as rainwater gushed through Milwaukee’s
drainage system, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The city received more than 5-1/2 inches of rain Thursday, about an inch shy of
the local record.

The rain also caused the temporary closure of Milwaukee’s General Mitchell Airport Friday morning, after the water flooded the airfield and some roads leading to the airport. Heavy rainfall is one of several primary causes for sinkholes, according to Mark Kasmarek, a hydrogeologist at the US Geological Survey.“To get a big washout of material, the only way is to have a high rate of water flowing through the sediment,” Mr. Kasmarek says. “If a place has had torrential rains, that can cause groundwater to flow, which erodes out sediments from underneath asphalt and buildings.”Sinkholes have made big news over the past couple months. Particularly large holes in Guatemala City and Tampa, Fla.,attracted significant media attention at the beginning of the summer.

But sinkholes are not any more common now than they used to be, says Kasmarek.“Sinkholes are fairly common in certain areas,” he says.James Currens, a hydrogeologist with the Kentucky Geological Survey, agrees.“It’s just more awareness and reporting,” Mr. Currens says. “I don’t think it’s a trend.”

A Cadillac Escalade along with a set of traffic lights shown gobbled by the Milwaukee sinkhole, on Friday. Chris Murphy/ Whitehotpix/ Newscom.
http://www.csmonitor.com/

does anyone think that the perfect circle made by some of these sinkholes are a bit TOO circular to be just caused by rain, especially when you lok at the one in
Guatemala? [Guatemala City sinkhole so big, so round it 'doesn't seem real', http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2010/0601/Guatemala-City-sinkhole-so-big-so-round-it-doesn-t-seem-real]

spiritwarrior wrote:does anyone think that the perfect circle made by some of these sinkholes are a bit TOO circular to be just caused by rain, especially when you lok at the one in
Guatemala?

I still haven't read a satisfying explanation. How is this possible from natural erosion:



It's like a perfect drill hole.

metaw3 wrote:

spiritwarrior wrote:does anyone think that the perfect circle made by some of these sinkholes are a bit TOO circular to be just caused by rain, especially when you lok at the one in
Guatemala?

I still haven't read a satisfying explanation. How is this possible from natural erosion:



It's like a perfect drill hole.

exactly metaw3, reminds me of the tunnel boring for the underground bases?

is this the Guatemala one?

blessings spiritwarrior

spiritwarrior wrote:is this the Guatemala one?

blessings spiritwarrior

Yes it's from a photo gallery in the article you posted:
http://www.csmonitor.com/CSM-Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Guatemala-sinkhole

Wisconsin

Line of thunderstorms pounds city, floods streets

Thunderstorms deluged much of southern Wisconsin on Thursday evening, causing massive flooding, shutting down streets and freeways, leaving tens of thousands without power, and creating a giant sinkhole that swallowed a Cadillac.

The rain fell so fast and furious - more than 7 inches in a couple of hours - it unofficially broke a one-day Milwaukee rainfall record set during a flash flood in 1986.

Across the metro area streets transformed into rushing rivers, basements swelled to the brim, sewers backed up and vehicles looked like surfboards skidding
through flooded roadways.

Two sisters returning home from a sandwich shop were struck by lightning on Milwaukee's south side, and a driver had to be rescued when a sinkhole
opened at the intersection of N. Oakland and E. North avenues and gulped his Cadillac Escalade. All three were taken to area hospitals.

The National Weather Service reported a tornado was spotted by storm watchers near Palmyra, Muskego and Wind Lake. Another tornado touched down in Milton and a twister was observed in Franklin...continues here http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/99052519.html

Eastern US cooks in summer heat, temps reach 100s

Updated:

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Jul 25, 2010

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI
Associated Press Writer

TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) - Another wave of oppressive heat clamped down on a broad swath of Eastern states on Saturday, with temperatures in the high 90s and 100s and residents scrambling for shade or just staying indoors.

In the Mid-Atlantic, already the locus for brutal temperatures several times in July, weather experts warned of the dangerous conditions and residents resigned themselves to coping with the discomfort.

"Oh, it's disgusting. It's already really hot," meteorologist Heather Sheffield of the National Weather Service said of morning temperatures in Washington, D.C.

One possible weather-related death was reported in Maryland, where paramedics said the high temperatures and humidity likely played a role in the death of a
20-year-old man who was biking, went into cardiac arrest and hit his head on a tree as he fell.

With the heat and humidity combining for a possible heat index of over 110 degrees, the weather service issued an excessive heat warning for the first time this year
for an area stretching from south of Washington to north of Baltimore, along the Interstate 95 corridor. By midday Saturday, a wide band from lower New England to the Deep South was under a heat advisory.

The thermometer hit 100 degrees in Washington and Baltimore by mid-afternoon, where the heat index was 109. In Norfolk, Va., it was 104 degrees and 108 degrees with the heat index. Elsewhere, record highs for July 24 of 97 degrees in New York and Philadelphia and 99 degrees in Newark, N.J., were reported.

As temperatures soared toward 100 degrees in New Jersey, Harry Oliver was trying to make sense of it all as he waited to get sandwiches inside a Toms River convenience store.

"When I complain about the heat and humidity, my wife reminds me that I was begging for this type of weather when I was shoveling all that snow this past winter," the 47-year-old Lakehurst resident said. "Now I'm looking forward to the snow again."

Oliver said he and his wife didn't want to cook. "It's hot enough in the house already, even with my air conditioning running 24/7," he said.

In New York City, the heat brought out the inner entrepreneur in one resident.

A.J. Ousmane, 27, a native of the West African nation of Mali, sold ice-cold water bottles for $1 from a cooler on a Harlem sidewalk. He planned to stay out all afternoon, and hoped to make about $55 for the day, after expenses.

"I keep moving with the shade," he said, as he positioned himself in the creeping shadow of a coin-operated laundry.

Poolside, 20-year-old Meredith Watkins slathered herself with SPF 15 and filled her water bottle before working a shift as a lifeguard in suburban Columbus, Ohio. Watkins scouted the swimming pool for an excuse to jump in - something she says she does at least once an hour on hot days.

"You still gotta do your job when it's this hot," she said, twirling a whistle on a red lanyard. "Especially with the humidity, it makes it awful. You just sit there and
sweat and sweat."

Kristin Kline, a weather service meteorologist at Mount Holly, N.J., said this summer hasn't been "record-setting hot" in most places. The off-and-on scorching heat
that's been felt in the Mid-Atlantic can be blamed on "a Bermuda high" between Bermuda and North Carolina that is pushing hot, humid air into the region, Kline said.

In Pennsylvania, Louie Correa, 55, of Louie's Appliances was out trundling a fan and a kitchen table into a South Philadelphia home. He said that earlier in the day, he had been by the homes of some older residents to make sure they were all right."Sometimes they see me knocking on the door, and the neighbors say 'What you want there?' Like this morning, I said 'Oh, just making sure Miss Regina is all right,' 'Just making sure Frank is all right,'" Correa said.

While temperatures climbed, Jason Wish dabbed a sweaty T-shirt on his brow as he loaded crates of tomatoes and bushels of peppers into a truck at a farmer's market in suburban Columbus, Ohio. He and dozens of other farmhands hurried to pack up their produce and escape to air-conditioned vans and pickups.

"It makes me wanna jump .....http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=12864362

Floods close Chicago interstate, damage Iowa dam

CHICAGO (AP) - Standing water on Chicago-area expressways turned what should have been an easy Saturday morning drive into a soggy, snarled mess after heavy rains across the Midwest closed roads, stranded residents and punched a hole through an Iowa dam.

In Chicago, officials say more than 7 inches of rain fell early Saturday, inundating the sewer system and overwhelming waterways. Water covered portions of several Chicago.

interstates and the commuter train tracks that run along them, leading crews to divert traffic and call in bus shuttles. Portions of Interstate 290 west of downtown were closed for several hours.

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and other officials urged residents to call for help if they need it.

"Our goal is to get the city back to normal as quickly as possible," Daley said at a news conference Saturday.

West of Chicago in suburban Westchester, crews in boats were searching for people who were stranded in their flooded homes or trapped in cars under viaducts.

In eastern Iowa, the Lake Delhi dam failed as rising floodwater from the Maquoketa River ate a 30-foot-wide hole in the earthen dam, causing water to drop 45 feet to the river below and threatening the small town of Hopkinton.

Lake Delhi was created in the 1920s by damming the Maquoketa River. The resort area now has about 700 cabins and homes.

Areas below and above the dam had been evacuated after heavy rain has pushed the river to 23.92 feet - more than 2 feet above its previous record of 21.66 feet in 2004.

Jack Klaus, a spokesman with the Delaware County emergency management office, said warning sirens sounded in Hopkinton as water began to surround homes Saturday afternoon."There's going to be significant losses of property there," Klaus said

Donna Dubberke, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Davenport, said areas below the dam will see an initial crest in the river caused by the dam's failure followed by a secondary crest as the high water above the dam made.....

http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=12864112.

Magnitude 6.0 - TONGA
2010 July 25 03:39:22 UTC

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2010zdae.html

M 6.2, Samoa Islands

Sunday, July 25, 2010 03:39:19 UTC
Saturday, July 24, 2010 04:39:19 PM at epicenter
Depth: 66.00 km (41.01 mi)

M 6.2, Moro Gulf, Mindanao, Philippines

Saturday, July 24, 2010 05:35:01 UTCSaturday, July 24, 2010 01:35:01 PM at epicenter
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Depth: 563.90 km (350.39 mi)


Philippines Earthquake 2010 – A Series Of Earthquakes Hits Southern Philippines Today


The U.S. Geological Survey has reported a series of earthquakes that have occurred in southern [color:5438=#EE1C24 ! important][color:5438=#EE1C24 ! important]Philippines
in the Moro Gulf on Saturday morning. The earthquakes occurred over a
span of one hour. There were no tsunami warnings issued after the quake
struck nor were there any reports of damage.



File pic

CNN reports state that out of the four
earthquake tremors that were felt in the Philippines, three of them were
of the magnitude 7.3 to 7.6 and the other was a relatively smaller
tremor compared to the previous ones – it was of the magnitude 5.4.

The first earthquake struck at 06:08 am
local time and the last and the fourth tremor struck at 07.15 am. The
interesting point of the last quake, was that the quake had originated
at depth of 616 kms below the Earth’s surface. The epicenter of the
quake was around 100 kms off the coastal city of Cotabato and 950 kms
from [color:5438=#EE1C24 ! important][color:5438=#EE1C24 ! important]Manila.

Philippines has been prone to
earthquakes since a long time. One of the big quakes was the 1990 Luzon
earthquake, which was of 7.8 magnitude and killed 1,621 people.http://uktodaynews.com/7423/philippines-earthquake-2010-a-series-of-earthquakes-hits-southern-philippines-today/</blockquote>

M 7.4, Moro Gulf, Mindanao, Philippines


Friday, July 23, 2010 23:15:08 UTCSaturday, July 24, 2010 07:15:08 AM at epicenter
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Depth: 616.70 km (383.20 mi)</blockquote>

quite a lot of strong earthquakes in the past few days

blessings spiritwarrior

Russia weather heatwave agriculture

Russian farmers suffer 'catastrophe' in baking summer


MOKRYE KURNALI, Russia, July 25, 2010 (AFP) - Russian farm owner
Ilshat Gumerov stands in the middle of his fields under the mercilessly
hot sun with a look of despair on his face. His 700-hectare land in
the central Volga region of Tatarstan has not been touched by a drop of
rain in weeks amid one of the severest heatwaves of the century in
Russia. He already fears he has lost two thirds of his harvest. "It is
a catastrophe," he said, ruefully fingering the dried-up ears of wheat.
"This year I am going to make no profit. It will only be enough to buy
fodder." No rain has fallen since April in this largely Muslim region
800 kilometres east of Moscow while temperatures over the last weeks
have jumped over 30 degrees Celsius. And this after a bitter winter
whose thaw destroyed winter crops.


The drought is not just bad news for Gumerov and thousands of other
farmers across Russia but also for grain consumers worldwide and the
country's ambitions to become a leading global grain exporter. Twenty
three of Russia's 83 regions, mainly situated in the European part of
the country, have declared a state of emergency over the drought.
According to the ministry of agriculture, 10 million hectares of land
have been destroyed by the heatwave, equivalent to around 20 percent of
all of Russia's arable land. "The drought is extremely unusual because
we have never seen such temperatures and such a lack of rain in the
European part of Russia," said leading Russian agriculture expert Dmitry
Rylko. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin this week told First Deputy
Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov to take the situation under "firmer"
control. "The situation is not getting better, it is getting worse," he
said bluntly. According to Rylko, director of the Institute for
Agricultural Market Studies, the problems have not been evenly spread
across Russia, with the Volga region, including Tatarstan, the Urals and
the southwest, suffering the worst. By contrast, the harvest in
Siberia and the south of Russia has been relatively strong, he said.
Tatarstan is one of Russia's leading agriculture regions, with one third
of its land covered by the famous chernozyom, the black earth known for
its richness in humus formed by the decomposition of plant matter.
But its earth and the large water resources in the Volga region have not
been enough to temper the effects of one of the severest droughts in
Russia in living memory. --- "Now we have to restablish
ourselves" --- ---------------------------------------------
The drought comes at the worst possible time for Russia, which has
launched a drive to increase its share of the global grain market with
the aim of more than doubling its grain exports to 40-50 million tonnes a
year. But Rylko said it was likely that Russia is going to harvest
only 80 million tonnes of grain in 2010, compared with 97 million last
year. Agriculture Minister Elena Skrynnik said that the forecast for
exports this year was set to be less than 20 million tonnes, down even
on last year's figure of 21 million tonnes. In a country where average
annual domestic consumption is 77 million tonnes of grain, Russia will
have to call on its reserves. As of June 1, Russia was believed to have
24 million tonnes of grain reserves. Rylko said the effects were
already being felt on the global wheat market, with Russia already the
world's number three wheat exporter and the number two behind the United
States of medium quality wheat. Prices for Russian wheat have spiked
on international markets, moving to 195 dollars from 165 dollars within
the space of two weeks. But this will hardly compensate producers for
the lower harvest. "In a boomerang effect, the prices of other
products will rise proportionally," said Kamiyar Baitemirov, head of the
association of farmers and landowners in Tatarstan. Rylko said he
hoped that the Russian agriculture market would be able to recover in
the next two years............

http://www.weatheronline.

China weather floods

China warns of more rain in flood-hit areas




BEIJING, July 25, 2010 (AFP) - Chinese
authorities warned Sunday of more rain in some areas hit by floods that
have left at least 1,100 people dead or missing this year, as water
levels in key rivers were set to rise again. The Asian nation is
grappling with its worst flooding in a decade, with its Yangtze River
dangerously swollen as summer downpours continue to hit southern parts
of the country.



The National Meteorological Centre warned Sunday that parts of the
badly hit southwestern province of Sichuan -- where 100,000 people have
been evacuated from their homes in recent days -- would continue to see
torrential downpours. Other areas such neighbouring Yunnan, as well as
the eastern provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian, would also see heavy
rain, it added. The nation's flood control headquarters predicted that
falling water levels in the reservoir of the huge Three Gorges Dam
would start rising again on Sunday, as would water upstream of the
Yangtze River. Water levels on the Huaihe River, China's third longest
waterway, had also risen above warning levels after heavy rain, the
official Xinhua news agency said. Premier Wen Jiabao warned on
Saturday that the situation was at a "crucial stage," adding there could
be worse to come as he toured the flood-hit central province of Hubei,
wading knee-deep in Yangtze floodwaters.


State television broadcast dramatic images of relief efforts across
the nation, with rescuers struggling to get people across stretches of
rushing, muddy water, and diggers moving earth to try to mend several
river breaches. In Sichuan, rain-triggered floods and landslides have
already killed 13 people and left another 20 missing since Thursday,
Xinhua reported. In one township, for example, rain fell continuously
for 10 hours, triggering floods that swamped all single-storey houses.
Roads leading into the town were cut off, as were power supplies and
communications, Xinhua said. Thousands of people had to evacuate their
homes and were sleeping in warehouses and tents on higher ground, it
added. In neighbouring Shaanxi province, more than 700 workers were
repairing a collapsed dyke on the swollen Qianhe River, which was
threatening a railway bridge, Xinhua said. Recent rains there have
killed 100 people since July 14, according to the official China News
Service. In Hubei's Yichang city, meanwhile, six people died and
another eight were missing in a landslide. ................

http://www.weatheronline.ie

Sinkhole Swallows an SUV in Flooded Milwaukee
Mara Gay Contributor

(July 23) -- A man was rescued from a sinkhole in Milwaukee, asking "What happened?" after his Cadillac Escalade plummeted into the a chasm that opened up during a deluge.

Mike Thiel, TwitPic
A man was rescued from a sinkhole in Wisconsin after his Cadillac Escalade plummeted into a giant hole in the middle of the road, which was caused by extensive flooding.
Lance Treankler, 25, said he was driving his new Escalade down the road when he noticed something odd: "The streetlight was just, like, underground," he told AOL News in a phone interview today. Treankler said he didn't have much time to process what he was seeing. "I was trying to comprehend it," he said. "Then the road just collapsed under me."

Treankler said he fell about 20 feet into the hole and lost consciousness for a few seconds because of the force of the impact. When he opened his eyes, all he could see was mud, telephone wires and water rushing at him from out of a sewage pipe. "I thought, 'I'm either going to get electrocuted or drown,' so I knew I needed to get out," he said.

The Milwaukee resident had climbed out the window of his SUV when a man standing above the gaping hole offered him a much-needed hand.

Mark Pawlik, 46, says he reached over the edge of the growing sinkhole and helped pull the driver onto solid ground by his belt loop. Pawlik told AOL News today that he'd seen the Escalade simply vanish from the road as the sinkhole opened.

"It's not everyday you see a car disappear right next to you," he said.

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