And suddenly the water turned RED
Your daily dose of natural disasters and amazing phenomena for August 31, 2021...
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Saturn, Moon, Jupiter and its moons in one picture! Amazing!
Hurricane Ida’s destructive path
Sixteen years to the day since Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans, Hurricane Ida — a stronger but smaller storm — reached the city, testing the levee system it built after the failures of the 2005 storm.
Ida made landfall in Louisiana on Sunday night as a category 4 storm, with winds as strong as 156 miles per hour. Planning was particularly complicated given that hospitals in Louisiana, as well as in neighboring Alabama and Mississippi, are already struggling with hospital capacity given a surge in delta variant Corona cases.
At least one person has died.
Unlike during Katrina, the flood protection system seems to have kept New Orleans from being drowned. Nowhere along the 192 miles of the system did floods breach through the barriers. But damage to four hospitals and the electricity failures mean New Orleans residents are still in danger.
Hurricane Ida was so powerful it made the Mississippi River flow backwards for several hours…
As of Monday morning, more than 1 million Louisianans were without power, including the entirety of New Orleans. Energy executives in New Orleans said they are still assessing the damage and do not yet have a timeline for restoring power. Several transmission lines and a tower have been knocked down.
Ida, which is quickly weakening, has been downgraded to a tropical storm as it moves through Mississippi. Central Alabama and the western Florida panhandle are still projected to receive up to 15 inches of rain, but by the time the storm reaches the mid-Atlantic states, it is only expected to dump 3 to 6 inches.
More disaster News
Blood red water and dead fish in Russia…
Heavy torrential rains continued to hit China over the weekend of August 28-29, 2021, triggering widespread flooding and landslides that prompted the evacuation of more than 23,000 people. In some parts of southwestern China, water levels reportedly rose at a speed of about 30-40cm (12-15 inches) per hour. The highest maximum peak flow in 20 years was measured on the Ren River.
Unique impact crater lake mysteriously disappears underground…
Massive snow fall just outside of Cape Town…
Weather war: Lightnings kill:
Powerful, electric storm caught on camera recently from Siesta Key Beach. Incredible composite!
Amazing sprites over Fuego Volcano, Guatemala:
Kīlauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island is not erupting. However, intrusive activity that began on August 23 continues south of Kīlauea caldera. Ground deformation in Kīlauea’s south summit region continues, though at a lower rate than what has been seen in earlier intrusive pulses over the past week. Current earthquake activity remains low compared to the earlier pulses of this intrusive activity. The East Rift Zone remains quiet.
As of 30 August, a total of 14,175 families or 62,860 people were affected by widespread flooding across 4 regencies of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Furthermore, 12,763 houses were damaged, along with bridges, roads, schools, medical centres and other public buildings. In some areas flood water was 2 meters deep.
Meanwhile, five people lost their lives after heavy rain caused landslides and mudflows in North Sumatra Province of Indonesia. According to disaster authorities in Indonesia, the landslides in Kabanjahe damaged or destroyed 7 houses. Five people died in the incident while 4 people were injured. More…
Big sunspot AR2860 is seething with activity. This one-hour movie taken by Maximilian Teodorescu of Magurele, Romania, shows multiple arcs of hot plasma shooting up and down the length of the sunspot group. All these small flares may be helping the sunspot "blow off steam," forestalling the buildup to a more ferocious explosion…
Miscellaneous
Blade runner gets run over…
Some heavy space debris captured by people in Seattle…
Mom repeatedly punches mountain lion with bare hands, saving her 5-year-old son's life in Calabasas, California…
Strange 'alien' object in north Kent sky leaves people 'flummoxed'… More…
Yesterday, the FBI said that the number of hate crimes in the US rose last year to the highest level in 12 years. The federal agency says over7,700 hate crimes were reported across the US in 2020 – a 6% increase from the year before…
Only in Wisconsin: Cow spotted in drive-thru lane at McDonald's in Marshfield…
Big Tech wants to build the ‘metaverse.’ What on Earth does that mean?
The world is still short of everything. Get used to it…
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