America is sinking underwater

Your daily dose of natural disasters and amazing phenomena for August 24, 2021...

Hi everybody, I hope you had a great weekend! Here some news:

NASA Earth Observatory

Mexico, NC, Tennessee and the US Northeast under water

• Flooding in Tennessee has become deadly, with 21 people dead and 20 missing as of Sunday afternoon. Infrastructure in Tennessee has been severely damaged by flash floods, with roads, power lines, phone lines, and entire homes having been destroyed. This flood is already Tennessee’s second major flood of the year.

• For the first time in 30 years, a hurricane has made landfall in New England. Tropical Storm Henri brought storm winds and heavy rain to Rhode Island Saturday.

  Henri brought a record for rain in one hour in New York City and dumped heavy rain into central New Jersey, leaving more than 120,000 homes without power on Sunday afternoon.

  Rhode Island, New York, and Connecticut have all declared states of emergency, but experts say the storm is weakening as it moves inland across New England.

  As a result of all of the rain, flooding is predicted in Long Island, eastern New York, northeastern Pennsylvania, and parts of New England. President Biden said FEMA is prepared to begin emergency assistance.

• Major Hurricane Grace has already killed 8 and injured dozens during its second landfall in Mexico in two days. After the Yucatan Peninsula, now the veracruz area…

• About five days ago, extreme flooding hit North Carolina, killing at least 2 and destroying 10-15 bridges after rain from Tropical Storm Fred.

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Other science and disaster news

A major earthquake and tsunami will destroy Andalusia in Spain…

Geothermal heat: Antarctica is melting from below…

Africa's most populous city may soon be unlivable, experts warn…

Five people were killed, two were missing and six were injured in a fire on Pemex's offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico…

Caldor Fire is burning out-of-control in Northern California: Thousands evacuated, dozens of homes destroyed…

Evacuation launched after Greece’s Evia island is hit by second wildfire in two weeks…

It’s August and it’s snowing in Colorado and Utah! Flooding, hail, high winds and tornadoes also reported…

Astronomers discover new alien megastructure in the Milky Way and no one knows what it is…

The Middle East is running out of water, and parts of it are becoming uninhabitable…

Major snowstorm cuts raods and strands dozens in Neuquén, Argentina…

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Miscellaneous

Afghanistan, again, becomes a cradle for Jihadism - and Al Qaeda & we should not forget ISIS too early…

Almost terrifying! Look at these robots performing parkour…

The Food and Drug Administration fully approved the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine…

New York City is instituting a vaccine mandate for all public school teachers and staff…

The pandemic has most Americans paying no federal income taxes…

The shortages are going to get worse later this year as global supply chains increasingly falter…

Vancouver coyote attacks on people increase dramatically, bite their own tail, and biologists don’t understand why…

First cross-river railway bridge between China and Russia completed & Here’s the Google map location…

The rise of the 'alien' face…

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