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"We warned at the start of ZetaTalk, in 1995, that unpredictable weather extremes, switching about from drought to deluge, would occur and increase on a lineal basis up until the pole shift. Where this occurred steadily, it has only recently become undeniable. ZetaTalk, and only ZetaTalk, warned of these weather changes, at that early date. Our early warnings spoke to the issue of global heating from the core outward, hardly Global Warming, a surface or atmospheric issue, but caused by consternation in the core. Affected by the approach of Planet X, which was by then starting to zoom rapidly toward the inner solar system for its periodic passage, the core was churning, melting the permafrost and glaciers and riling up volcanoes. When the passage did not occur as expected in 2003 because Planet X had stalled in the inner solar system, we explained the increasing weather irregularities in the context of the global wobble that had ensued - weather wobbles where the Earth is suddenly forced under air masses, churning them. This evolved by 2005 into a looping jet stream, loops breaking away and turning like a tornado to affect the air masses underneath. Meanwhile, on Planet Earth, droughts had become more intractable and deluges positively frightening, temperature swings bringing snow in summer in the tropics and searing heat in Artic regions, with the violence of storms increasing in number and ferocity."

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From the ZetaTalk Chat Q&A for February 4, 2012:

 

The wobble seems to have changed, as the temperature in Europe suddenly plunged after being like an early Spring, Alaska has its coldest temps ever while the US and much of Canada is having an extremely mild winter. India went from fatal cold spell to balmy again. Has the Earth changed position vs a vs Planet X to cause this? [and from another] Bitter cold records broken in Alaska - all time coldest record nearly broken, but Murphy's Law intervenes [Jan 30] http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/01/30/bitter-cold-records-broken-in-alaska Jim River, AK closed in on the all time record coldest temperature of -80°F set in 1971, which is not only the Alaska all-time record, but the record for the entire United States. Unfortunately, it seems the battery died in the weather station just at the critical moment. While the continental USA has a mild winter and has set a number of high temperature records in the last week and pundits ponder whether they will be blaming the dreaded "global warming" for those temperatures, Alaska and Canada have been suffering through some of the coldest temperatures on record during the last week.

There has been no change in the wobble pattern, the wobble has merely become more severe. Nancy noted a Figure 8 format when the Earth wobble first became noticeable, in early 2005, after Planet X moved into the inner solar system at the end of 2003. The Figure 8 shifted along to the east a bit on the globe between 2005 and 2009, (the last time Nancy took its measure) as Planet X came closer to the Earth, encountering the magnetic N Pole with a violent push earlier in the day. But the pattern of the Figure 8 remained essentially the same. So what changed recently that the weather patterns became noticeably different in late January, 2012?

The N Pole is pushed away when it comes over the horizon, when the noon Sun is centered over the Pacific. This regularly puts Alaska under colder air, with less sunlight, and thus the historically low temps there this January, 2012 as the wobble has gotten stronger. But by the time the Sun is positioned over India, the N Pole has swung during the Figure 8 so the globe tilts, and this tilt is visible in the weather maps from Asia. The tilt has forced the globe under the hot air closer to the Equator, warming the land along a discernable tilt demarcation line.

The next loop of the Figure 8 swings the globe so that the N Pole moves in the other direction, putting the globe again at a tilt but this time in the other direction. This tilt is discernable in weather maps of Europe, again along a diagonal line. Depending upon air pressure and temperature differences, the weather on either side of this diagonal line may be suddenly warm or suddenly cold. The tilt and diagonal line lingers to affect much of the US and Canada, but the Figure 8 changes at this point to be an up and down motion, pulling the geographic N Pole south so the US is experiencing a warmer than expected winter under a stronger Sun. Then the cycle repeats, with the magnetic N Pole of Earth pushed violently away again as the Sun is positioned over the Pacific.

 

From the ZetaTalk Chat Q&A for April 6, 2013:

 

Would the Zetas be able to let us know what is causing the early break-up of the Arctic Ice, the ice seems to have taken on a swirling pattern at the same time, would this be wobble related? [and from another] http://www.vancouversun.com/news/national/Canada+Arctic+cracks+spec... The ice in Canada’s western Arctic ripped open in a massive “fracturing event” this spring that spread like a wave across 1,000 kilometres of the Beaufort Sea. Huge leads of water – some more than 500 kilometres long and as much as 70 kilometres across – opened up from Alaska to Canada’s Arctic islands as the massive ice sheet cracked as it was pushed around by strong winds and currents. It took just seven days for the fractures to progress across the entire area from west to east. [and from another] http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80752&src=iot... A high-pressure weather system was parked over the region, producing warmer temperatures and winds that flowed in a southwesterly direction. That fueled the Beaufort Gyre, a wind-driven ocean current that flows clockwise. The gyre was the key force pulling pieces of ice west past Point Barrow, the northern nub of Alaska that protrudes into the Beaufort Sea.


The Figure 8 formed by the N Pole during the daily Earth wobble has shifted somewhat to the East, due to Planet X positioned more to the right of the Earth during its approach. This was anticipated, and well described in ZetaTalk, the Earth crowding to the left in the cup to escape the approach of Planet X, so the angle between these two planets would change slightly. This shift of the Figure 8 to the East is due to the push against the Earth’s magnetic N Pole occurring sooner each day than prior. Thus instead of occurring when the Sun is high over the Pacific, over New Zealand, it is now occurring when the Sun is high over Alaska. All the wobble points have shifted eastward accordingly.

This has brought a lingering Winter to the western US, and a changed sloshing pattern to the Arctic waters. Instead of Pacific waters being pushed through the Bering Straits into the Arctic when the polar push occurs, the wobble is swinging the Arctic to the right, and then later to the left, creating a circular motion in the waters trapped in the Arctic. Since the Earth rotates counterclockwise, the motion also takes this path. This is yet another piece of evidence that the establishment is hard pressed to explain. They are attempting to ascribe this to high pressure and wind, all of which are not new to the Arctic, but this circular early breakup of ice in the Arctic is new.

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Comment by SongStar101 on July 7, 2016 at 10:32pm

Floods in China kill almost 130, wipe out crops

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-floods-idUSKCN0ZL0LG

Severe flooding across central and southern China over the past week has killed almost 130 people, damaged more than 1.9 million hectares of crops and led to direct economic losses of more than 38 billion yuan ($5.70 billion), state media said on Tuesday.

Premier Li Keqiang traveled on Tuesday to Anhui, one of the hardest-hit provinces, where he met residents and encouraged officials to do everything they could to protect lives and livelihoods. Li was also to visit Hunan province.

Heavy rainfall had killed 128 people across 11 provinces and regions and 42 people are missing, state news agency Xinhua reported.

More than 1.3 million people have been forced out of their homes, it said.

Weather forecasts predicted more downpours during what is traditionally China's flood season.

Xinhua said more than 1.9 million hectares (4.7 million acres) of cropland had been damaged and another 295,000 hectares had been destroyed, resulting in direct economic losses of 38.2 billion yuan.

More than 40,000 buildings have also collapsed, it added.

It was not clear how that would affect the summer grain harvest, which was expected to reach 140 million tonnes this year.

The stormy weather also took a toll on farm animals.

In Anhui, the flooding killed some 7,100 hogs, 215 bulls and 5.14 million fowl, the China News Service reported.

In the southern province of Hunan, torrential rain and flooding had forced more than 100 trains to stop or take detours since midnight on Sunday, Xinhua reported.

In one city, about 3 tonnes of gasoline and diesel leaked from a petrol station on Monday, contaminating floodwater that flowed into a river, it said.

Water in 43 rivers in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River had exceeded warning levels and patrols were monitoring dykes, Xinhua quoted Chen Guiya, an official with the Yangtze River Water Resources Commission, as saying.

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China flooding: Wuhan on red alert for further rain

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-36721514

The Chinese city of Wuhan is on red alert for more heavy rainfall, after torrential downpours overnight left parts of the city submerged.

Transport links and water and power supplies in the city of 10 million are severely affected, and some residents are trapped in their homes.

Flooding has killed more than 180 people and caused chaos across China.

Police in neighbouring Anhui province even warned that alligators from a farm there had escaped due to the flooding.


China floods in numbers

  • 32 million people in 26 provinces across China have been affected by severe flooding
  • 186 people died and 45 are missing
  • 1.4 million people have been relocated
  • 56,000 houses have collapsed

Source: The Office of the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters, figures accurate as of 3 July


Wuhan's meteorological office released the red alert on Wednesday. It said to expect wind and rain, and flooding in both urban and rural areas.

Chinese media is reporting that more than 560mm (1.8ft) of rain has fallen over the past week, the heaviest ever in the history of the city, which is on the Yangtze River.

Roads and metro stations were inundated with water, and trains cancelled.

Caught in the floods - Robin Brant, BBC News in Wuhan, eastern China

The last leg of the journey home for some people leaving Wuhan train station tonight is on foot, wading through the water.

A handful of couples passed me as I stood, almost up to my knees in it, at the traffic lights under the highway overpass by the railway station. A few coaches made it through the temporary pond, as did a few lorries. But there was no rush hour traffic in the worst hit suburbs tonight.

There is some respite; the rain has stopped for now. But as I write this there are still cars driving the wrong way down a highway slip road because the rain has blocked their route.

Water supplies have been cut off in some areas, and one residential district experienced a complete power black-out, according to local media.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, to oversee relief and rescue operations.

Meanwhile, China's President Xi Jinping, has ordered the army to step up its relief efforts across the country.

Amid the crisis, official figures for the number of dead have fluctuated. On Wednesday state television put the overall toll at about 170.

Social media is awash with pictures of torrents of water thundering through metro stations, submerged cars and buildings, and firemen rescuing stranded people from across fast-flowing rivers that had previously been residential streets.

Police in Anhui shared a notice from Wuhu County's tourism bureau, which said that alligators had escaped from a farm due to the flooding. The notice said people were still trying to verify how many alligators had escaped.

It is not the only animal story to have grabbed the public's attention. On Tuesday a rescue team saved 6,000 pigs which had been stranded at their farm.

Photos of farmers emotionally bidding the animals farewell had been widely shared on social media.

photos below:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/06/asia/gallery/china-floods/index.html

Above: Liuzhou Floods, Guangxi province

Comment by KM on July 7, 2016 at 3:26pm

http://siberiantimes.com/ecology/casestudy/news/n0690-record-heat-a...

Record heat and abnormal flooding as Siberia gets freak weather

Some regions parched, others underwater in latest meteorological surprises.

Siberia's coldest region - the Sakha Republic, also known as Yakutia - also experienced a highly unusual heatwave. Picture:

On 1 July Ulan-Ude experienced its highest ever temperature on this day - a tropical 33.8C - causing a performance of the Republic of Buryatia's first national opera to be cut almost in half because of the stifling heat. 

Unprecedented high temperatures, up to 6C higher than average, have also hit Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk regions. Siberia's coldest region - the Sakha Republic, also known as Yakutia - also experienced a highly unusual heatwave.

At Bestyakh fur farm, the temperature was 32.2C, while Mirny hit 33.6C, Chumpuruk 33.8C, Habardino 34.7C and Kresty 35C.

Yet in Siberia's largest airport, Tolmachevo in Novosibirsk, a huge downpour left the main passenger terminal underwater. Checkin for flights had to be done manually because of the flooding. 

Heat in Ulan-Ude


Heat in Yakutia


Heat in Yakutia

Residents of Ulan-Ude and Yakutsk try to refresh in any way they can. Pictures: @_dejames_, CrimYakutia, @fainanega

Eyewitness Nikita Lapov told NGS: 'At about 9 am the shower began, a large group of people went out the airport, but could not reach their cars and buses, because of the rain. 

'They came back inside the airport. And in the check-in zone ceiling tiles were falling down. First, one fell, and the water poured down from the hole. Then three more fell down.' 

Heavy rains also hit Altai, Kemerovo and Omsk regions. In Omsk, on 2 July, a car 'drowned' in the big puddle near a multi-storey residential building on Lapteva Street. 

Tolmachevo-Novosibirsk


Tolmachevo-Novosibirsk


Omsk - flooded car


Kemerovo

Flood in Novosibirsk airport Tolmachevo. Car 'drowned' in Omsk. A girl swimming in puddle in Kemerovo. Pictures: Nikita Lapov, Ivan Shchipachev, Ju Mori

Locals say that the giant puddle was nicknamed the 'Laptev Sea'. The car was flooded with water up to the wheel. 

Eyewitness say that the driver was 'reckless and tried to drive through the puddle with the side window fully opened, so the water began to flood the vehicle interior very quickly'.

Local official Vladimir Kazimirov blamed the lack of a 'storm drain'. 'We have pumped out 30 barrels of water from Lapteva Street per night. 

'The problem is, that we have the storm drain  only on 22-23% of streets, the other are constantly flooded.' 

Comment by jorge namour on July 5, 2016 at 5:53pm

Severe drought on the border between Paraguay and Argentina [GALLERY]

July 4, 2016

http://www.meteoweb.eu/foto/gravissima-siccita-al-confine-tra-parag...

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=it&tl=en&js=y&...

Fish and other animals (portrayed in the photos) are the first to suffer because of the drought, which unfortunately is rampant badly on the border between Paraguay and Argentina: Pilcomayo River is going through the worst drought in two decades

MAP: http://www.pilcomayo.net/marcoreferencia-7

Comment by KM on July 5, 2016 at 4:15pm

http://www.china.org.cn/china/2016-07/04/content_38803007.htm

Second Yangtze warning issued on flooding peak

Residents are moved to safety on Sunday in Tongling, Anhui province, as flooding continued to affect the city and other regions in central and eastern China. [Photo by Zhan Jun/For China Daily]

Residents are moved to safety on Sunday in Tongling, Anhui province, as flooding continued to affect the city and other regions in central and eastern China.

Authorities warned on Sunday of a second flood peak for the Yangtze River and its tributaries, with new rainstorms forecast after floods left scores of people dead and eight missing in central and eastern areas.

Flooding resulting from rainstorms that began on Thursday left 14 people dead and eight missing in Anhui, Hubei, Zhejiang, Henan and Jiangsu provinces, the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters said in a statement.

The floods affected 6.87 million people and destroyed 10,000 homes, the headquarters added.

The National Meteorological Center said rainstorms were expected to continue to wreak havoc in these areas until Monday, with some parts of Hubei and Hunan expected to receive total precipitation of more than 200 millimeters.

A second flood peak is expected on the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and Poyang and Dongting lakes, both flood basins of the river, according to the flood control headquarters. It issued the first warning of a Yangtze flood peak on Friday.

In Hubei, rainstorms since June 18 have left 28 people dead and 14 missing. Floods caused chaos in urban and rural areas in 81 counties, with 203,200 people needing to be relocated and 222,000 requiring relief efforts from the authorities.

Flooding hit the Xinzhou district of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei, particularly hard, with thousands of homes flooded and nine people killed after the banks of two rivers broke.

Liao Anhua, a 59-year-old resident of Qili village in Xinzhou, said his family had to be relocated.

He later decided to swim back to his house to fetch medicine for his parents, only to find that the floods were so strong that he was left struggling.

"I could only hold on to a wash basin that I came across in the water to stay afloat," he said.

Liao, who was rescued by a group of volunteers on a life raft, added, "I've never seen flooding on such a scale."

The Ministry of Civil Affairs and the National Commission for Disaster Relief sent a work team and 3,000 tents to help relief work in Hubei.

In Anhui, authorities upgraded the emergency response for disaster relief to the second-highest level after floods affected millions of people, according to the provincial department of civil affairs.

The authorities have sent more than 4,400 tents, 3,500 beds along with quilts and clothing to other rain-affected regions for disaster relief.

 
Comment by Gerard Zwaan on July 4, 2016 at 10:28am


Devastating flash floods kill 43 with scores still missing Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province


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The death toll from a flash flood in in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province rose to 43 on Sunday, with over 40 injured and scores of others missing, officials said.
The provincial National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said that Chitral district was the worst hit area where 31 people were killed, Xinhua news agency reported.
"The hill torrent washed away a mosque, a Pakistan army check post and nearby houses (35 full house damage, 47 partial house damage)," the NDMA said in a statement.
The torrential rain hit Ursoon village on Saturday night, which resulted in flash flood in the stream located near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, the statement added.
Express News reported that eight security personnel were killed and four others seriously injured when flash flood swept away their check post in the district.
It added that 32 people were also injured in separate incidents of roof collapse.
Separately, in Haripur district, four people were killed and four others injured when the roof of their work site collapsed near Tarbela dam area, Latifur Rehman, spokesperson for the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) said.
Rescue teams from Pakistani army, paramilitary forces and PDMA have launched a search and relief operation.
The Inter-Services Public Relations said in a statement that the troops have provided food, tents and medical aid to affected people in the Ursoon village.
An army helicopter has made five trips from Chitral to Ursoon and evacuated the injured, said the statement. A search operation for missing persons is ongoing.

Comment by Gerard Zwaan on July 4, 2016 at 10:23am

50 dead and 12 missing as deadly flooding hits southern China


Photo www.theatlantic.com
Authorities say that three days of heavy rain in southern China have left 50 people dead and 12 missing.
The civil affairs department in central Hubei province said Sunday that torrential rains caused the deaths of 27 people and left 12 missing since Thursday.
Nearly 400,000 people have been evacuated or are in need of aid in the province.
In mountainous Guizhou province in the southwest, 23 people were confirmed dead after a landslide Friday.
Rainstorms soak the southern part of China every year, but this rainy season has been particularly wet.
The Yangtze River flood control headquarters has ordered local authorities to brace for severe floods.
More than 800 soldiers and rescuers are working with excavators to find the 12 people who remain missing.
The landslide involved more than 95,00 cubic meters of mud flow.
Rain and storms have wreaked havoc across south China since June 27.

Comment by Howard on June 30, 2016 at 3:20am

Strange Clouds Over Malaysia (Jun 27)

Strange looking clouds caught the attention of many in districts along the west coast of Sabah in northeastern Malaysia.

Sources

http://www.nst.com.my/news/2016/06/155155/wave-clouds-sabah-making-...

http://strangesounds.org/2016/06/creepy-shelf-cloud-sabah-malaysia-...

Comment by KM on June 26, 2016 at 2:05pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3659885/West-Virginia-death...

Rescuers desperately search damaged homes for survivors in West Virginia as Obama declares severe flooding which has killed at least 26 a 'major disaster' 

  • Obama declared flooding in West Virginia a major disaster and directed White House staff to ensure FEMA is providing all appropriate help
  • At least 26 people have died, including two kids, since up to 10 inches of rain started falling in the state Thursday
  • Kanawha, Greenbrier and Nicholas counties are three areas most devastated by the flooding
  • More than 32,000 homes and businesses are still without power as authorities search and rescue survivors
  • The death toll in West Virginia is the highest in any state from flooding this year as it's the worst flooding in more than a century there

President Barack Obama has declared the devastating flooding in West Virginia 'a major disaster' and extended his condolences to the families of the 26 people who lost their lives in the state.

In a statement, White House spokesman Eric Schultz said Obama spoke by phone to Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin on Saturday while returning to Washington, D.C., from Seattle.

Schultz said Obama is committed to ensuring that Tomblin has the federal resources he needs for all recovery efforts. 

The president has directed White House staff to coordinate closely with Tomblin's team to make sure the Federal Emergency Management Agency, known as FEMA, is providing all appropriate assistance.

Heartbreaking: The death toll in West Virginia is the highest in any state from flooding this year as at least 26 people have died. Above West Virginia Natural Resources police officer Chris Lester searches a flooded and damaged home in Rainelle on Saturday

Heartbreaking: The death toll in West Virginia is the highest in any state from flooding this year as at least 26 people have died. Above West Virginia Natural Resources police officer Chris Lester searches a flooded and damaged home in Rainelle on Saturday

Up to 10 inches of rain fell on Thursday in the mountainous state, sending torrents of water from rivers and streams through homes causing widespread devastation. Above Lester searches a flooded home in Rainelle

Up to 10 inches of rain fell on Thursday in the mountainous state, sending torrents of water from rivers and streams through homes causing widespread devastation. Above Lester searches a flooded home in Rainelle

West Virginia received one-quarter of its annual rainfall in a single day. Above Paul Raines walks through his flooded Western Auto store in Rainelle

West Virginia received one-quarter of its annual rainfall in a single day. Above Paul Raines walks through his flooded Western Auto store in Rainelle

President Barack Obama declared the devastating flooding in West Virginia 'a major disaster' on Saturday. Above extensive damage on State Highway 4 along the Elk River is pictured

President Barack Obama declared the devastating flooding in West Virginia 'a major disaster' on Saturday. Above extensive damage on State Highway 4 along the Elk River is pictured

The president extended his condolences to the families of the 26 people who lost their lives in the state due to the flooding. Above the damage on State Highway 4 in West Virginia along the Elk River is pictured

The president extended his condolences to the families of the 26 people who lost their lives in the state due to the flooding. Above the damage on State Highway 4 in West Virginia along the Elk River is pictured

White House spokesman Eric Schultz said Obama spoke by phone to Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin on Saturday. Above the damage on State Highway 4 in West Virginia along the Elk River is pictured

White House spokesman Eric Schultz said Obama spoke by phone to Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin on Saturday. Above the damage on State Highway 4 in West Virginia along the Elk River is pictured

Tomblin asked for a federal major disaster declaration on Saturday for three counties - Kanawha, Greenbrier and Nicholas - which were devastated by the state's worst flooding in more than a century.

The three counties were severely damaged by the flooding that began with heavy rains on Thursday. 

Tomblin said the state would follow up with requests for other counties that also sustained significant damage. 

The scope of damage in those three counties allowed him to make the request immediately, he said in a statement.

A FEMA team is expected to arrive on Saturday to assess the damage in West Virginia where more than 32,000 homes and businesses still were without power.

On Saturday, the PGA announced that the Greenbrier Classic that was to be held at the Greenbrier Resort, a luxury golf course in White Sulphur Springs, from July 7 to 10 is now cancelled.

The course is completely underwater and the resort owner and CEO, Jim Justice told The Weather Channel it would be 'a real mistake' to hold the event after such devastation since some of the heaviest rainfall hit that area. 

The resort, which has been designated a National Historic Landmark, is almost completely submerged underwater.

'It's like nothing I've seen,' said Justice. 'But our focus right now isn't on the property, the golf course or anything else. We're praying for the people and doing everything we can to get them the help they need.'

The resort said all actions are being taken to keep guests and resort employees safe. 

Professional golfer Bubba Watson posted pictures and videos of the flooded course on his Twitter on Friday, writing '1st hole tee shoot not so easy right now!' 

 

Comment by Howard on June 25, 2016 at 3:11am

Tornado and Hail Kill 98 in China, 800 Injured (Jun 23)

The death toll in eastern China skyrocketed to 98 after a powerful tornado and severe storms hit a densely populated area of farms and factories on Thursday.

Whole villages were levelled and huge trees felled when the tornado hit near the city of Yancheng in Jiangsu province, about 500 miles south of Beijing. Some 800 people were also injured.

The tornado, which struck around 2.30pm on Thursday, and accompanying hailstorms destroyed tens of thousands of houses as well as several manufacturing plants and rice mills.

More than 8,000 rescue workers had been scrambled from across Jiangsu province to join relief efforts, including police officers, active and reserve soldiers and firefighters.

Teacher Guo Haimei said the ferocious wind, blacked with dust and debris, seemed to descend out of nowhere onto her kindergarten and its 120 pupils.

"I was very scared. I had no idea what was happening," said Guo. "When I tried to close the door, my hand was injured by the wind pushing it back."

One day after the storm, rescuers on Friday continued searching for survivors in this densely populated area on the outskirts of the major city of Yancheng in Jiangsu province.

The twister was one of the most extreme weather events witnessed by China in recent years, leaving a swath of destruction with destroyed buildings, smashed trees and flipped vehicles on their roofs. A sprawling solar panel factory was shredded, forcing fire crews to secure toxic materials before they leaked into neighboring waterways.

As the death toll climbed to 98 on Friday, doctors said most of the 800 injured had broken bones and deep lacerations, especially on the head. Medical crews had been rushed to the area, about 800 kilometers (500 miles) south of Beijing.

Rescuers carried hurt villagers into ambulances and delivered food and water, while army units worked to clear roads blocked by trees, downed power lines and other debris. While the weather cleared Friday, forecasters were warning of the possibility of more heavy rain, hailstorms and even additional twisters.

"The people inside tried to run outside, but the wind was too strong so they couldn't," Xintu villager Wang Shuqing told an Associated Press reporter. "My family members were all inside, they all died. The police then came and took the bodies out. I can't bear it."

The disaster was declared a national-level emergency, and on a trip to Uzbekistan on Thursday, Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered the central government to provide all necessary assistance.

President Xi Jinping had ordered "all-out rescue efforts" after what the Xinhua news agency said was one of the worst disasters ever to hit Jiangsu.

It was also the worst tornado to hit China in half a century, it said.

Tents and other emergency supplies were being sent from Beijing, while schools and other facilities were used to shelter survivors, state broadcaster CCTV said.

Cellphone and security camera footage showed the tornado's debris-blackened funnel touching down and golf-ball size hailstones falling thick as rain. Terrified residents who sought to hold back doors that were subsequently blown in spoke of a "black wind" that tore the glass from all windows.

Reports said the tornado struck at about 2:30 p.m. and hit Funing and Sheyang counties on the city's outskirts the hardest, with winds of up to 125 kilometers (78 miles) per hour. Twisters of that magnitude are considered capable of inflicting moderate damage, but the accompanying hailstorm appeared to have also contributed significantly to the destruction that reduced farm buildings to mere piles of bricks and tiles.

Cars and trucks lay upside down, street light poles snapped in half, and steel electricity pylons lay crumpled on their side. Power and telephone communications were knocked out over a broad area.

"It was like the end of the world," local resident Xie Litian told Xinhua.

"I heard the gales and ran upstairs to shut the windows. I had hardly reached the top of the stairs when I heard a boom and saw the entire wall with the windows on it torn away."

“I’m 80 and I’ve never seen a tornado like this,” a man from Shuangqiao village in Yancheng told the local newspaper, Yanfu Daily, on Thursday night.

“After the wind subsided, I found that my house had collapsed entirely. Only a bit of wall, 30cm high, remained standing.”

Tornadoes occasionally strike southern China during the summer, but rarely with the scale of death and damage caused by the one on Thursday. Last year, a freak wind described as a tornado was blamed partly for causing a cruise ship to capsize in the mighty Yangtze River on June 1, killing 442 people.

Sources

https://weather.com/news/weather/news/deadly-tornado-strikes-easter...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-36607600

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1980631/mo...

http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/tornado-rips-through-cit...

Comment by Howard on June 25, 2016 at 2:47am

20 Dead in West Virginia 100-Year Flood, 500,000 Without Power (Jun 24)

A state of emergency has been declared in 44 of 55 counties in West Virginia in the wake of storms and floods that hit the state on Thursday night. Twenty people have died, and hundreds are trapped inside a shopping mall cut off by the flooding.

The death toll from the floods has climbed to 20, a spokesperson for West Virginia's emergency management agency said Friday evening, noting that the hardest hit area is in Greenbrier County in the southeastern part of the state, where 15 people have died.

About 500 people became stranded inside a shopping mall in the town of Elkview, some 12 miles (19km) from the state's capital, Charleston, on Thursday. Employees and customers became trapped inside Crossings Mall after a bridge that connected the center to a main road collapsed.

While the bridge was completely washed out by the severe waters, emergency teams are now working on building a new, temporary one to help people get out of the shopping center.

The relief effort hit a snag after the original temporary bridge built by the National Guard turned out to be too short, reported WSAZ. A new bridge was sent for.

State authorities are building a gravel road to approach the shopping plaza from the other side, but it will not be finished until Saturday afternoon, the governor’s office told RT. Fortunately, people stranded at the shopping center have plenty of food available, and the area still has electricity, RT found out from the state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.

At least six people were reported dead in the state by Friday morning. Three of the victims, including an elderly man and a woman who was washed away in her vehicle, were from Kanawha County, where Charleston is located.

Two more people died in Greenbrier County, the local sheriff announced on Friday.

In Ohio County, an eight-year-old boy was killed after he slipped into a creek and was carried away, local reports suggested.

Some 500,000 people have been left without power in the state, electric utilities reported.

According to Gov. Tomblin, the flooding is "among the worst in a century for some parts of the state."

West Virginia MetroNews reports that the house was seen floating down Howard’s Creek on Thursday afternoon.

The National Weather Service Office in Blacksburg, Virginia told MetroNews that the 24-hour rainfall total for White Sulphur Springs was 8.17 inches.

The apocalyptic conditions echo similar incidents in other parts of the world—Texas, for example, has seen some of the worst flooding in its history, and rivers in France rose to their highest levels in 50 years in June.

Sources

https://www.rt.com/usa/348257-west-virginia-flooding-mall/

http://gizmodo.com/flooding-in-west-virginia-is-so-bad-a-burning-ho...

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