EXPLOSION ROCKS NORTH TEXAS! FLAMES VISIBLE 20 MILES AWAY

11/05/09

Area: USA, State of Texas, About a mile north of Bushland

Number of Injured person(s): 3

Description: Natural Gas Line Explosion

A natural gas pipeline explosion shook homes, melted window blinds and shot flames hundreds of feet into the air early Thursday near Amarillo, authorities said. Three people were injured in the blast, which was reported around 1 a.m. about a mile north of Bushland.

The fire was contained by 5:30 a.m., said Potter County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Roger Short. Those injured suffered burns and were taken to Northwest Texas Hospital in Amarillo, Short said. He didn't provide details. The cause of the explosion hasn't been determined. 'My home is about 20 miles something away and I could see the flames from my home, and that's substantial. The flames were huge,' Short told The Associated Press, 'You could her the roar of the flames 20 miles away!'

Gas was shut off to the line and most evacuated residents were being allowed to go home by 5:30 a.m., Short said. One house was destroyed and several others were damaged, he said. 'The heat onto the homes, it did a lot of damage. You could see blinds inside the homes that were melted, it was hot, it was very hot,' Short said.

Bushland Middle School principal Mark Reasor said about 60 people who were evacuated took shelter at the school, but were returning home before dawn. He said classes would start one hour late. Crews from El Paso Natural Gas and Atmos Energy were at the scene. Bushland is a town of about 1,500, located 15 miles west of Amarillo.

Michael Bradbury reporting for Viewzone

11/06/09

SPECIAL REPORT

Reports circulating in the Kremlin today are saying that Russian Air Force Commanders have issued warnings to all of their aircraft to exercise 'extreme caution' during flights 'in and around' an area defined as Latitude 17 North [North Atlantic Ocean] Latitude 3 South [South Atlantic Ocean] to Latitude 8 North [Indian Ocean] Latitude 19 South [Indian Ocean] between the Longitudes of 46 West, 33 West, 46 East and 33 East, and which covers the greater part of the African Tectonic Plate.

The reason for this unprecedented warning, these reports state, are the rapid formations of 'geomagnetic storms' emanating from the boundaries of the African Tectonic Plate that due to their intensity have caused the loss of two major passenger aircraft during the past month leaving nearly 300 men, women and children dead. The first aircraft to be downed by this phenomenon was Air France passenger flight 447, and which these reports say that upon encountering one of these geomagnetic storms, on June 1st, near the western boundary of the African Tectonic Plate close to Brazil’s Fernando de Noronha Islands, was 'completely annihilated' causing the deaths of 216 passengers and 12 crew members as their plane plunged in pieces into the Atlantic Ocean. The second aircraft to be downed occurred on the eastern boundary of the African Tectonic Plate today when another of these geomagnetic storms slammed from the sky a Yemeni Airways flight to the Island Nation of Comoros in the Indian Ocean of which of the 153 passengers and crew aboard, only 1 “miracle child” has been rescued, so far. To the catastrophic events occurring within the African Tectonic Plate it has been known for over a year with the reporting of a 'new ocean' forming in Ethiopia, and as we can read as reported by Nature News Service.

Although the birth of an ocean is an extremely rare phenomenon on the largest of historical scales, the geophysics is currently experiencing such an event. Even more dazzling, this occurs in one of the Earth's most inhospitable and arid regions, the Afar Depression in Ethiopia.

The African continent is literally unstitching itself apart just like the sleeve of an old shirt, along the area known as the East African Rift, which traverses it beginning with the southern end of the Red Sea, going through Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique. The molten lava beneath the Earth's surface makes it thin by constantly pushing against it, and eventually breaks it and tears it apart.

Though Western scientist assert that the formation of this new ocean is not likely to be finished for millions of years, Russian scientists state, unequivocally, that due to the Suns current unprecedented Deep Solar Minimum, our Earth is in danger of being, literally, 'ripped apart', at the worst, or nearing a 'total pole reversal' due to an as yet unexplained, but extremely powerful, gravitational force emanating from the outer reaches of our Solar System that some researchers state is the mysterious Planet X, and which many believe to be a large brown dwarf and known to the ancient peoples of Earth as Nibiru, and called by the name of Wormwood in the Christian Bible. Russian scientists further warn that the West’s 'obsession' with manmade Global Warming is a deliberately designed propaganda effort to shield their peoples from the fact that not only our Earth, but all of the planets in our Solar System are currently undergoing rapid warming, and as proved, beyond all doubt, by Doctor Scientist Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of space research at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia, when in 2007 he released his findings that for the previous 3 years the ice caps of Mars have been melting at an unprecedented rate. And, as reported by one, of many, dissident Western news sites, Photographs of the merging of two red spots on Jupiter, evidence of warming on Neptune's largest moon Triton, warming on Pluto that is 'puzzling scientists' and, of course, the already documented warming trend on Mars all add up to convincing evidence for increased solar activity across the entire solar system.

To the most chilling parts of these reports on the current instability of the African Tectonic Plate are those Russian scientists who assert, that, should a powerful enough gravitational force be exerted upon this region [such as that which would occur in our Earth’s presence with a Planet X type body], it would cause this plate to be subsumed with the Atlantic and Indian Oceans completely covering what is now known as the African Continent, and further cause a corresponding rise of what were known to the ancient peoples as the Continents of Atlantis in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and Lemuria in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Interesting to note about these current events is that the most documented psychic of 20th century America, Edgar Cayce, predicted that both Atlantis and Lemuria would arise again during the ending of our Earth’s present age, and which many in the World currently believe will be in 2012 as predicted by the Mayan Calendar.
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Michael Bradbury reporting for Viewzone

11/07/09

WAVES AS HIGH AS 50ft REPORTED!

Date & Time: 2009-11-07 14:23:35 [UTC]

Area: USA, State of Oregon, Depoe Bay area

Damage level: Heavy

Description

Massive foam inundated Depoe Bay, inclement weather caused several rescues, and a tornado even cut a swath through the central coast last night. Monstrous waves have been reported and documented along the Oregon coast the last two days, including a rather bizarre video of a woman who defied all wisdom and common sense and was nearly swept away or killed on several occasions by wandering a stormy beach.

The storm also caused the closure of coastal bays like Nehalem, Tillamook and Yaquina. The Coast Guard responded to more than one rescue on unruly seas, including a group that was stuck on a floating refueling platform on Tillamook Bay. The most dramatic incident came from a tornado that shot through Lincoln City late Friday, but that wasn’t the only weather event.The Lincoln County Sheriff's office said a large thunderstorm hit the area, including a lightning strike on the Alsea Bay Bridge about 10:13 p.m. It damaged a light pole and sprayed debris onto the roadway.

Some flooding in Waldport was also reported due to heavy rains. Earlier in the evening, Lincoln City was hit with a small tornado. 'At about 9:54 p.m., residents of the Roads End residential area, just north of Lincoln City, near the Chinook Winds Casino, reported seeing a large waterspout tornado move onshore and through a section of the community,' the sheriff’s office said in a press release.

Lincoln County deputies, Lincoln City Police Department officers, and members of the North Lincoln Fire Department responded to calls of damage in the area. Deputies reported a damage path, about two blocks wide, leading from the beach and stretching about three blocks to the east. 20 to 30 homes were damaged, as were several vehicles in the area.

The damage mainly consisted of broken windows and downed trees, but one of the homes in the 7400 block of Logan Road suffered extensive damage. Emergency responders checked the area and reported that no one was injured. Many of the damaged homes were vacant at the time the tornado stuck. The Lincoln County Sheriffs said most of the home owners have been notified of the damage as of Friday night. 'Power in the area was knocked out by the tornado and utility crews are working to restore services,' the sheriff's office said.

The National Weather Service was contacted and it reported that meteorological data supported the existence of a tornado, but that the classification could not be determined until the damage is examined in daylight. Meanwhile, high winds and monstrous surf had also been an issue. The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a surf warning for the Oregon coast on Friday, meaning conditions would be dangerous for the beaches. High winds started on Thursday and continued through the early morning on parts of the coast, culminating in reports of gusts as high as 90 mph on Mt. Hebo in Tillamook County, and gusts in the 60-mph range in many other parts of the coast.

The NWS said swells of more than 27 feet had been reported, although other entities on the coast have reported swells of near 50 feet in some places. 'These waves will be very energetic as they move into the surf zone, pummeling the coast with large breakers as they move onshore,' said the NWS in a bulletin on Friday. 'Heavy debris, such as logs, will be thrown around by the large waves, making the surf especially hazardous.'

Also in the oceanic drama category, monstrous sea foam hit the central coast earlier this week, although this had been more prevalent on the north coast in the last two weeks. Depoe Bay resident Angi Wildt photographed the large chunks of brownish foam hitting the bay this week. Friday, she noted the ocean had grown wild and conditions in Depoe Bay were proving dramatic, especially one of the town’s more prominent natural featres. 'The spouting horn is going off,' Wildt said. Science experts say after the storms have subsided is the best time to go beachcombing, as numerous oddities will likely be in abundance.

Michael Bradbury reporting for Viewzone

11/09/09

Area: Ireland, Co Sligo, Lissadell Beach

Event : Extreme Weather

Description:

Extreme weather conditions have killed tens of thousands of starfish and left them strewn across a sheltered beach. A carpet of pink and mauve echinoderms, a family of marine animals, appeared yesterday morning on Lissadell Beach in north Co Sligo. The adult starfish, measuring between 7cm and 20cm in diameter and estimated to be up to 50,000 in number, stretched along 150 metres of the strand.

Marine biologist and lecturer at Sligo Institute of Technology Bill Crowe speculated that they had been lifted up by a storm while feeding on mussel beds off shore. 'The most likely explanation is that they were feeding on mussels but it is a little strange that none of them were attached to mussels when they were washed in,' he said. He added that if they had died as a result of a so-called 'red tide' or algal bloom, other sealife would have been washed ashore with them. 'These were almost all adult size and the typical starfish variety that is found in the North Atlantic but there was nothing else mixed in with them,' he said.

Surveying the unusual scene, he placed some in a bucket of seawater to test whether they were alive, but while this prompted a slight response from one or two of the creatures, the vast majority were dead. Tim Roderick, District Conservation Officer with the National Parks and Wildlife Service, agreed the phenomenon was most likely caused by recent bad weather.

They turned up almost certainly as a result of an exceptional storm event. 'A storm hit the seabed where these sub-tidal animals were and lifted them up and washed them ashore,' he said. A spokesperson for the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government said that investigations were continuing into how they came to be washed ashore but initial indications pointed to the stormy weather, which has been a feature in the north-west in recent days. In a similar episode earlier this year, thousands of dead starfish washed ashore on Youghal Beach in Co Cork. Scientists speculated that they, too, had been thrown on to the beach by an underflow, which was probably caused by a storm at sea.

Michael Bradbury reporting for Viewzone

11/10/09

Swarm attacks man while driving down expressway!

Rochedo, Brazil

Date of event 10/06/09

Number of death person(s): 1
Number of Injured person(s): 2

Description

The attack of a swarm of bees caused a traffic accident in the southern Brazilian city of Rochedo, in which one person died and two others were injured, reported on Monday.

The bees entered the vehicle as it drove down an expressway and attacked the driver, who lost control of his car, which turned over several times. Right away, a group of motorcyclists who were going by were able to help two of the injured victims, only because they were protected with helmets, jackets and gloves, firefighters and police said.

Nonetheless, the motorcyclists were unable to help the car’s driver, who was trapped inside the wreck. When first responders arrived, the presence of the bees did not permit emergency agents to enter the wrecked vehicle to rescue and administer first aid, and the agents had to leave to find adequate clothing. The driver had died by the time they returned equipped to work protected from the bees.

Michael Bradbury reporting for Viewzone

11/11/09

1.1 Million people with flu or flu like symptoms.

Event: Epidemic

Location: Ukraine MultiStates Ternopil, Lviv, Zakarpattya, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblasts

Number of Dead: 189 person(s)
Number of Infected: 1100000 person(s)
Situation

Ukraine's deadly flu outbreak spiked on Wednesday, as senior government officials warned of a "battle" to control the disease's spread. Flu and flu-related symptoms have killed 189 people in the former Soviet republic, with the latest 15 deaths reported on Tuesday, according to data made public on Ukraine's Ministry of Health website.

The rising death toll followed Tuesday statements by Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko that Ukraine's severe flu outbreak was showing signs of abating. "We have (recently) seen a doubling in infections in Ukraine," Tymoshenko said at a Wednesday cabinet meeting televised by Channel 5. "This is a trend, and we will have to battle with it." Ukraine's flu outbreak remained concentrated in the country's western provinces on Wednesday, adjacent to the European Union, according to Ministry of Health data.

Some 1.1 million people were infected with the flu on Wednesday, according to the ministry's estimates, down from a Tuesday high of 1.3 million. Since the flu's October 29 outbreak, a total of 17 people have died from the virulent A/H1N1 swine flu virus, of 79 people known to have been infected with wine flu, according to Ministry of Health figures released Wednesday afternoon.

Medical supplies remained hard to come by, with protective masks still readily available only on the black market, and basic flu remedies, if available, typically sold for two to four times their normal cost. Traditional Soviet-era flu remedies, primarily vitamin tablets and anti-septic nose creams, were widely on sale in most major Ukrainian cities on Wednesday, according to news reports.

Michael Bradbury reporting for Viewzone

11/13/09

Event: Snow Storm

Location: China MultiProvinces Provinces of Hebei, Shanxi and Henan

Number of Dead: 40 person(s)
Number of Evacuated: 158000 person(s)

Situation

Unusually early snow storms in north-central China have claimed 40 lives, caused thousands of buildings to collapse and destroyed almost 500,000 acres (200,000 hectares) of winter crops, the Civil Affairs Ministry said Friday. Nineteen of the deaths resulted from traffic accidents related to the storms that began Nov. 9, the ministry said in a statement on its Web site.

The snowfall is the heaviest in the northern and central provinces of Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Shandong and Henan since record keeping began after the establishment of the Communist state in 1949, the ministry said without giving detailed figures. It estimated economic losses from the storm at 4.5 billion yuan (US$659 million). Chinese state media say some of the snow was induced through cloud seeding, although the precise amount of snowfall in all areas was not reported and it wasn't clear what the previous records were.

Hebei's provincial capital, Shijiazhuang, received the heaviest snowfall — 3.7 inches (9.4 centimeters) — on Nov. 10, the day of the heaviest flurries. Neighboring Beijing, which usually suffers through long, cold and extremely dry winters, reported about 1 inch (2.5 centimeters).

More than 7.5 million people have been stranded or otherwise affected by the storms, which caused the collapse of more than 9,000 buildings, damaged 470,000 acres (190,000 hectares) of crops, and forced the evacuation of 158,000 people, the ministry said. State media have reported at least two deaths were caused by the collapse of buildings, including a school cafeteria.

Beijing has been hit by three successive waves of snow, causing havoc on roadways and forcing the cancellation or delay of scores of flights. The capital and surrounding areas are little prepared to deal with such heavy snow, with few plows or road deicing supplies. Snow tires and chains are almost unknown and many drivers simply leave their cars at home and turn to public transport in such conditions. The impact has been far greater in the surrounding provinces of Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Shandong and Henan, where highways have been closed, schools shuttered, and crews sent to rescue people in their snowbound homes.

Freak snow and ice storms last year hit parts of eastern and southern China unaccustomed to such weather. Those storms paralyzed key transport systems just as millions of migrant workers were heading home for the Lunar New Year holiday, leading to more than 80 deaths and billions of dollars in damage.

Michael Bradbury reporting for Viewzone