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Massive Winter Storm Hits The Southeast, Killing 4 and Leaving Thousands Without Power
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Wide swaths of the Carolinas, Georgia, and Tennessee woke up to power outages Sunday morning as Winter Storm Diego continued to wreak havoc across the Southeast. Virginia also got affected as the day progressed. According to PowerOutage.us, more than 12,000 had no electricity in North Carolina. Over 91,000 were cut off in South Carolina, 13,000 in northeastern Georgia and more than 16,000 in Tennessee. About 36,000 customers lost power in Virginia. At its peak, on Sunday the total number of people affected by the outage exceeded 400,000. "Over 20 million people are unde...
State of Emergency Declared in Alaska: What Now Wait?
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ALASKA - December 1, 2018 Federal authorities issued an emergency declaration for Alaska after a magnitude 7 earthquake struck on Friday, which left thousands without electricity and temporarily shut the state’s most important oil pipeline. More than 190 small earthquakes have hit parts of Alaska since Friday, authorities said. According to the US Geological Survey, the first and most powerful quake was centered about 7.5 miles north of Anchorage, Alaska's largest city, with a population of about 300,000 Prelim M6.7 Earthquake Southern Alaska Nov-30 17:29 UTC, update...
Deadly House Fire Leaves at Least 6 Dead in Indiana
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LOGANSPORT, Ind. (AP) — November 29, 2018 A fire that devastated a rural house in Indiana early Wednesday morning left at least six people dead, including four children, said local police. Local authorities have started an investigation into the cause of the fire. Police said they could not rule out any possibility, accidental or criminal. According to Indiana State Police Sgt. Tony Slocum, the victims of the fire outside Logansport included a 25-year-old woman and her three children, two daughters aged 3 and 1, and a 3-month-old son. The other victims were a 42-year-old...
Scientists Predict Lung Problems for Generations in California
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CALIFORNIA - November 27, 2018 The 2008 wildfire season in California was a terrible one. Just like this year, air quality alerts were triggered across the northern part of the state, and even hundreds of miles from the actual fires, the air was filled with smoke. In the midst of this, 50 baby monkeys were born. They spent their first months of life outside, breathing that choking, sooty air. Now, they are one of the best sources we have for information about the long-term effects wildfires can have on public health. The results are not comforting. The current batch of C...
Camp Fire Now Fully Contained
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PARADISE, Calif. – November 26, 2018 U.S. emergency services have reported the complete localization of one of the most destructive wildfires in California history. #CampFire [final] Pulga Road at Camp Creek Road near Jarbo Gap (Butte County) is now 100% contained at 153,336 acres. Unified Command: @CALFIRE_ButteCo, @ButteSheriff, Paradise Police Department, and the USFS.https://t.co/CJkryyPNVZ pic.twitter.com/TjMmiLrRQQ — CAL FIRE (@CAL_FIRE) November 25, 2018 The catastrophic wildfire in northern California is nearly out after several days of rain, and many in so...
US Border Is in Flames
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TIJUANA, MEXICO – November 26, 2018 It has begun. The crisis that has arisen with the caravan of migrants from poor countries of Central America stuck on the US-Mexican border must somehow be resolved. We have repeatedly written about by whom and why this caravan was organized. Trump was driven into a classic trap from which there is no good way out. If he allows the migrants to pass, it will have extremely negative consequences for the US in economic, political, and socio-cultural terms, all of which will turn against Trump, who will be accused of softness and indecisi...
FB coaxing teen girls to befriend topless middle-aged men
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Facebook is encouraging girls as young as 13-years to befriend topless middle-aged men, an investigation conducted by The Telegraph found. Teenage girls who join the network are given up to 300 recommendations for people who they might know, as predicted by Facebook’s algorithm, and can therefore add as friends. Many of these suggestions include middle-aged men who are topless in their profile pictures. These men mostly are sexual groomers, who try to find and lure young girls for their perverted sexual pleasures. Following the revelation, National Society for the Prevent...
Yellowstone Park drone scandal
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WYOMING – November 19, 2018 One shouldn’t use drones, and, of course, take pictures with them while in Yellowstone – it’s simply prohibited by local rules, as it can harm nature and wildlife. Unfortunately, some people aren’t that conscious and continue to send drones into the blue sky above the national park to take “amazing” pictures and to get thousands of likes on various social networks. This is the case with photographer Timothy McGurr from New York who launched his photo-drone, took several pictures, uploaded them to the web, and is now claiming he never knew it w...
Bad weather leaves thousands without power in Kentucky
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La Grunge, Kentucky – November 16, 2018 The winter that was expected to be coming in two weeks has struck tiny Oldham County in Kentucky already (with the population of just 60,000), leaving trees downed and forcing local inhabitants to use candles instead of electricity. Have you ever heard of this place? Probably not, but, this county has some interesting features, as it was named for Colonel William Oldham, and stayed a “dry county” from the time of Prohibition until January 2005, when the sale of alcohol was allowed in restaurants with at least 100 seats, and just th...