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Storms
in the US Midwest have claimed at least 14 lives as temperatures
plunged below freezing point over the holiday weekend. Tens of thousands
of homes have been left without electricity, while driving conditions
are treacherous due to icy roads.
A
wintry storm system that has been moving through parts of the Great
Plains and the Midwest since Thursday has brought extremely cold weather
to the region. Eight people have lost their lives in Texas, with a
further six dying in the state of Kansas.
The icy conditions are
also causing havoc for local residents. Some 78,000 people in parts of
Oklahoma have been left without power after trees collapsed onto power
lines, according to Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co.
(CNN) —The governor of Oklahoma, Mary Fallin, has declared a state of emergency for her state, according to KOCO.
This follows an ice storm and flooding that has knocked out power for thousands of people throughout the state.
Meanhwhile,
flooding and wintry precipitation have led to at least 10 deaths in
Texas and Kansas as a storm system moves across the central Plains,
authorities reported.
Five people died in single-vehicle accidents
in Kansas, according to Lt. Adam Winters with the state's Highway
Patrol. He said all of the accidents could be attributed to black ice or
hazardous road conditions.
Flooding claimed at least three lives
in the Dallas area. The victims include a man in Garland, northeast of
Dallas. Benjamin Floyd, 29, was on his way to work when raging
floodwaters swept his car off the road, according to CNN affiliate KTVT.
He was unable to get out of his vehicle before it was submerged Friday,
Garland city officials said.
The two other flooding deaths came in Johnson County, south of Fort Worth, county emergency management officials said.
The
National Weather Service reported ice storms in the Texas Panhandle.
Three people died in a road accident on Interstate 40 about 45 miles
west of Amarillo, the weather service reported.
Are You Prepared For The Coming Economic Collapse And The Next Great Depression?
By Michael Snyder, on November 8th, 2015
Have you noticed that seismic activity along the Ring of Fire appears to be dramatically increasing? According to Volcano Discovery, 39 volcanoes around the world have recently erupted, and 32 of them are associated with the Ring of Fire. This includes Mt. Popocatepetl
which sits only about 50 miles away from Mexico City’s 18 million
inhabitants. If you are not familiar with the Ring of Fire, it is an
area roughly shaped like a horseshoe that runs along the outer perimeter
of the Pacific Ocean. Approximately 90 percent of all earthquakes and
approximately 75 percent of all volcanic eruptions occur along the Ring
of Fire. Just within the last 24 hours, we have witnessed a 4.4, a 5.4
and a 5.7 earthquake in Alaska, a 6.8 earthquake in Chile and 20 earthquakes
in Indonesia of at least magnitude 4.3. And as you will see below,
this violent shaking along the Ring of Fire seems to continue a
progression of major disasters that began back during the month of
September.
For whatever reason, our
planet suddenly seems to be waking up. Unfortunately, the west coast of
the United States is one of the areas where this is being felt the
most. The little city of San Ramon, California is about 45 miles east
of San Francisco, and over the past several weeks it has experienced a
record-breaking 583 earthquakes…
“It’s
the swarm with the largest number of total earthquakes in San Ramon,”
said USGS scientist David Schwartz, who is more concerned about the size
of quakes than he is the total number of them. Still, the number tops
the previous record set in 2003, when 120 earthquakes hit over 31 days, with the largest clocking in at a magnitude of 4.2.
Could this be a prelude to a major seismic event in California?
We shall see what happens.
Meanwhile, records are being shattered in the middle part of the country as well.
The state recorded its 587th earthquake
of 3.0 magnitude or higher early this week, breaking the previous
record of 585. That record was set for all of 2014, meaning that
Oklahoma has now had more 3.0 magnitude or higher earthquakes so far in
2015 than it did in all of 2014. So far this year, E&E News reports,
Oklahoma’s averaged 2.5 quakes each day, a rate that, if it continues,
means the state could see more than 912 earthquakes by the end of this
year.
Oklahoma has also experienced
21 4.0 magnitude or greater earthquakes so far this year — an increase
over last year, which saw 14.
Starting
with a magnitude-4.1 temblor at 5:11 a.m. close to the Oklahoma-Kansas
border, the region experienced a series of six earthquakes within a
75-minute period Saturday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on its website.
The
largest earthquake Saturday morning was the 4.1, which had an epicenter
nine miles northwest of Medford, Okla., 59 miles southwest of Wichita.
That
was followed by five more quakes near Medford with magnitudes of 2.5,
2.8, 2.5, 3.1 and 2.9 – the last of which came at 6:24 a.m.
A seventh earthquake – this one a magnitude-4.2 temblor – was recorded at 12:29 p.m., 10 miles north-northwest of Medford.
So why aren’t more Americans alarmed that these records are being broken?
Tornado damage in Mayflower, Ark. (Courtesy of James Bryant / Associated Press / April 27, 2014)
By Matt PearceThis post has been updated with the latest information.
April 27, 2014, 10:46 p.m.
The
worst tornado outbreak of the year struck several small towns across
the central U.S. on Sunday, killing at least 12 people, damaging or
destroying scores of homes and businesses, and sparking a search effort
in Arkansas that continued into the night.
Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe’s
office confirmed that at least 11 people were killed when twisters
struck near Little Rock. Another person was confirmed dead in Quapaw,
Okla. Nearby Baxter Springs, Kan., was heavily damaged.
Smaller
tornadoes were reported in Nebraska, Illinois, Missouri and Mississippi,
but it was in central Arkansas where the some of the most dramatic
rescue scenes were playing out. A tornado -- or a series of tornadoes --
appeared to scour a path dozens of miles long and possibly up to
three-quarters of a mile wide.
Officials said the twister crossed
Interstate 40, a crucial trucking artery out of Little Rock, while
drivers were still on the road, then thrashed the town of Mayflower
before continuing northeast to Vilonia and beyond. The National Weather Service reported that Arkansas Game and Fish Commission headquarters east of Mayflower had been destroyed.
About
20 percent of people on the Tabor College faculty have come down with
an illness that includes stomach and flu-like symptoms. The spread of
the illness has gotten the attention of the local and state health
departments. Investigators, who don’t suspect cafeteria food poisoning
because some sick students didn’t eat there, are still trying to
determine the cause.
Biohazard name:
Unidentified Illness
Biohazard level:
2/4 Medium
Biohazard desc.:
Bacteria and viruses that cause only mild disease to humans, or are difficult to contract via aerosol in a lab setting, such as hepatitis A, B, and C, influenza A, Lyme disease, salmonella, mumps, measles, scrapie, dengue fever, and HIV.
"Routine diagnostic work with clinical specimens can be done safely at
Biosafety Level 2, using Biosafety Level 2 practices and procedures.
Research work (including co-cultivation, virus replication studies, or
manipulations involving concentrated virus) can be done in a BSL-2 (P2)
facility, using BSL-3 practices and procedures. Virus production
activities, including virus concentrations, require a BSL-3 (P3)
facility and use of BSL-3 practices and procedures", see Recommended
Biosafety Levels for Infectious Agents.
Symptoms:
stomach and flu-like symptoms
Status:
suspected
.....
Mystery illness sickening Tabor students and faculty
Hillsboro, Kan. --
Tabor College senior Ryan Nelson had what started as a normal Tuesday
of classes then work. But by early Tuesday evening normal came to
sickening end.
Nelson says, "By seven o'clock that night I started throwing up. Just really having bad body aches and everything."
He
missed class and discovers he wasn't alone in his misery. "But then I
found out a ton of other people on campus got sick as well."
Tabor's
Director of Communications Katrina Hancock says, "By Tuesday night
we've got at least 30 kids had got sick with stomach cramping and
diarrhea and vomiting."
And the number of sick has grown since
then she says, "I'd say anywhere from 30 to 50 students and faculty that
were affected by this. About 20 percent of our campus has gotten it."
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Mysterious sickness killing Emporia dogs
by Lauren SeabrookKWCH 12 Eyewitness News
9:16 p.m. CDT, September 17, 2013
(EMPORIA, Kan.)—
A
disease is killing dogs across Lyon County and veterinarians do not
know what it is. Vets at Kansas State University are working with the
Emporia Animal Shelter to find out.
Dozens of dogs that seemed to
be healthy quickly became deathly ill at the shelter. "We're in the
process now of hoping it's not some virus that we're not aware of ...
some new form of distemper or this new circle virus that's been reported
around the country," said Emporia veterinarian Floyd Dorsey.
Dorsey
thinks it started with dogs found wandering out in the country that
were picked up and brought to the shelter. "We've been trying to contain
it since then and each time we think it's contained, it seems to break
out again," said Dorsey.
The sick dogs started with what seemed
like kennel cough, but progressed to matted eyes, green mucus from the
nose, and fevers. "The virus can affect the brain and the central
nervous system, cause seizures, cause wobbliness when they walk. They go
off food, won't eat and usually have to be put down at that point,"
said Dorsey.
Heavy rain from the Nashville metro area eastward has triggered
flash flooding. Water running down city streets swamped cars
windshield-deep in some low spots and flooded some ground floor
apartments. Nashville firefighters waded waist-deep water to lead some
residents of Parkwood Villa Apartments, along Ewing Creek, to higher
ground. Video shown by WTVF-TV showed other residents sitting on
second-story balconies. In the area of the Gaylord Opryland Resort &
Convention Center, traffic was stopped by high water on Briley Parkway
for a time. The water began receding as the rain moved east, out of the
metro area. Estimates of more than 5 inches of rain were common from the
center of the city northeastward across the Madison neighborhood. There
have been no reports of injury.
Torrential rains shortly before dawn Thursday triggered widespread
street flooding across Wichita, authorities said. The National Weather
Service reported 1.59 inches of rain fell in about an hour, starting
shortly after 4 a.m. "It just came down so fast our drainage systems
couldn't handle it," said Scott Smith, a meteorologist at the Wichita
branch of the weather service. Flooded streets were reported throughout
downtown Wichita as well as numerous locations around the city, a
Sedgwick County dispatch supervisor said. While no water rescues were
necessary, several cars became stranded at flooded intersections -
including a reported five at 13th and St. Paul in west Wichita alone.
Westar Energy reported more than 1,300 customers without power just
before 7:30 a.m., most of them small clusters scattered across west
Wichita north of Kellogg. Much of south-central and southern Kansas
received at least 1 1/2 inches overnight, Smith said, which will only
aggravate flooding in the saturated region. Light rain is projected to
fall across Wichita and much of the area the rest of the morning, Smith
said. A lull will set in until tonight, when another round of heavy rain
is expected to move through.
Cars stall out in flood waters on Brick Church Pike August 8, 2013 in Nashville, Tenn.
(ST. LOUIS) — Torrential rains continued across the nation’s
midsection on Thursday, causing flash flooding that killed a woman,
damaged homes and forced multiple water rescues.
Up to 10 inches of rain pounded southern Missouri early Thursday. A
woman died near Jane, Mo., in the far southwestern corner of the state
when creek water washed over a highway, sweeping away her car.
“Early this morning it just unleashed,” said Greg Sweeten, emergency management director in McDonald County, Mo.
Authorities in the south-central Missouri town of Waynesville
continued to search for 23-year-old Jessica D. Lee, whose car was swept
up in a flash flood early Tuesday. The body of her 4-year-old son,
Elyjah, was found Tuesday, hours after his mother made a distress call
from her cell phone.
Flash flood warnings were common in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas,
Oklahoma and Tennessee. And things could get worse: Heavy rain is in the
forecast into the weekend.
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A southwest Missouri woman died after another
round of torrential downpours caused flash flooding that swept away her
car, authorities said Thursday.
McDonald County emergency management director Greg Sweeten said the
woman died early Thursday when water from normally dry Brush Creek
suddenly overwhelmed Route 90 near the town of Jane, Mo., flooding the
road up to 6 feet deep.
The victim's name has not been released.
National Weather Service meteorologist Drew Albert said parts of
southwest Missouri got 10 inches of rain overnight. McDonald County in
the far southwest corner of the state was inundated with rain that
seemingly came all at once.
"Early this morning it just unleashed," Sweeten said.
Fifteen people camping on an island on the Elk River near Noel had to
be rescued. In fact, the county boat rescuing them broke down, and the
rescuers themselves had to be saved by a boat from the Missouri State
Highway Patrol, Sweeten said. Two women were rescued from their homes in
Powell, Mo.
The town of Hollister also was hard hit, with about 100 buildings
damaged when Turkey Creek came up suddenly, said Melissa Duckworth,
assistant emergency management director in Taney County. More than two
dozen people had to be rescued from homes, mostly mobile homes, in
Hollister, which is near Branson. Two of the mobile homes were washed
away. Another 50 or so residents were evacuated, and several trucks
parked at a strip mall were washed down the creek.
1 dead as flooding washes over 12 Midwestern, Eastern states
Posted on: 3:20 pm, August 8, 2013, by Matt Knight
(CNN) — A Missouri woman was killed in the state’s flash flooding
Thursday as inclement weather hammers several states in what forecasters
predict will be a particularly nasty storm season.
As rescue teams were performing 18 “swift water rescues” in McDonald
County, Missouri, Thursday morning, the woman — thought to be in her 60s
— was driving over a bridge when she was caught up in “rapidly rising
waters,” said Gregg Sweeten, the county’s emergency management director.
Sweeten said he was hopeful the Elk River, which runs through this
county on the Arkansas state line, about 80 miles southwest of
Springfield, Missouri, would crest late Thursday night.
South of the capital, Jefferson City, Interstate 44 was shut down because of high water. It’s since been reopened.
Forecasters warn that areas along the Gasconade River could see
record water levels, and widespread flooding is expected to continue in
Missouri and Kansas into the weekend.
Southern Missouri has witnessed widespread flash flooding as parts of
12 Midwestern and Eastern states experienced some sort of flood watch
or warning Thursday.
By Michael Snyder, on November 8th, 2015
