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    Quote Originally posted by Altaira View Post
    Stay safe Sooz, I hope it wont be as bad is expected.
    Thanks Altaira, all good here...the storm skirted around my area. Often happens. Sometimes serious clouds move in and I get a call from friends in the next suburb to ask if I'm alright. I say what are you talking about? Then I go to their place about 5 minutes away and find huge trees uprooted - the roots the size of a car - and houses demolished from falling trees, but nothing happens where I live just 5 minutes away, bizarro.

    It's all good here.

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    Costa Rica’s Turrialba Volcano – shaken by violent eruption



    COSTA RICA - Among the observations by volcanologists conducting weekend inspections in the area around Costa Rica’s Turrialba Volcano were craters in the earth measuring up to one meter in diameter – the result of rocks shooting out from the volcano. Experts from the National Seismological Network (RSN) and the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica (OVSICORI) conducted the inspections in light of significant activity at the volcano that started last week. RSN volcanologist Gino González Ilama said the areas of impact are located on the south side of the volcano and cover 80 percent of the slope up to 400 meters from the volcano’s crater. “We observed the impact of volcanic rock that had caused several craters on the ground. We believe the rocks were shot out of the volcano at speeds greater than 100 kilometers per hour, and this proves there is strong activity inside,” González said.

    Expelled ash again reached several areas north of San José, located 60 kilometers southwest of the volcano, and several areas in the provinces of Alajuela, Heredia and Limón. According to the RSN, it was the first time ash had appeared in Limón, falling on the city of Guápiles. “The Turrialba Volcano is very active,” González said. “The hole formed after the first explosion has grown and is about 150 meters long and 100 meters wide. It’s getting bigger, and the volcano’s walls continue collapsing because explosions of gas, ash and rock are constant. We also found small amounts of lava.” Volcanologists on Sunday reported two types of eruptions taking place: phreatic – which entails gases, mud and ash – and strombolian – which contains magma and ash. Turrialba Volcano showed signs of activity in 2010 with phreatic explosions. According to OVSICORI, magma hasn’t been expelled from the volcano since 1866. –Tico Times

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    New Maps of California's Water Shortage Are Absolutely Shocking!


    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqIMOnLw71c


    The maps come from a new paper in Nature Climate Change by NASA water scientist James Famiglietti. "California's Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins have lost roughly 15 cubic kilometers of total water per year since 2011," he writes. That's "more water than all 38 million Californians use for domestic and municipal supplies annually—over half of which is due to groundwater pumping in the Central Valley."

    Famiglietti uses satellite data to measure how much water people are sucking out of the globe's aquifers, and summarized his research in his new paper.

    More than 2 billion people rely on water pumped from aquifers as their primary water source, Famiglietti writes. Known as groundwater (as opposed to surface water, the stuff that settles in lakes and flows in streams and rivers), it's also the source of at least half the irrigation water we rely on to grow our food. When drought hits, of course, farmers rely on groundwater even more, because less rain and snow means less water flowing above ground.

    The lesson Famiglietti draws from satellite data is chilling: "Groundwater is being pumped at far greater rates than it can be naturally replenished, so that many of the largest aquifers on most continents are being mined, their precious contents never to be returned."

    The Central Valley boasts some of the globe's fastest-depleting aquifers—but by no means the fastest overall. Indeed, it has a rival here in the United States. The below graphic represents depletion rates at some of the globe's largest aquifers, nearly all of which Famiglietti notes, "underlie the world's great agricultural regions and are primarily responsible for their high productivity."

    http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philp...ia-middle-east

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    Holy Crap!!!

    I'd ask for a refund on my ticket.



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    Jesus H. Christ.

    Those poor souls. Say a prayer for them please.

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    A strange thing happened this evening. Never seen it before.

    A HUGE flock of cockatoos, screeching their tits off, roared over my house for about 5 minutes. They even seemed to be going in circles. Very odd.

    Copped a big thunderstorm soon after, so maybe that was it, but the flying in circles squawking loudly, got me. Never seen that before.

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    Massive hail storm in Vrindavan, India April 3, 2015


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    Pole Shift Devastating Earth Changes Hit Kashmir


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    The scariest Weather video I've seen in a long time: The Chile Flood


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