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Disaster
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Tornado Twists The Heart Out Of US Midwest [PICS]
23 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A chain of particularly violent storms ripped through the American Midwest on Sunday. Joplin, Missouri, has become iconic of the increasingly-depressing storm season blighting the US.
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Dramatic New Images Released Of The Tsunami Striking Fukushima Plant
20 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Tokyo Electric Power Company has released dramatic new photographs showing the immense power and immediate devastation the tsunami waves caused at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on March 11. The moment-of-impact images were taken from the fourth floor of the radioactive waste disposal building.
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Obama On Alabama Twister Devastation
29 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A further tornado outbreak yesterday has killed at least 210 people in Alabama, prompting President Barack Obama to sign a disaster declaration to assist the clean up of the aftermath of the twisters. Tornados have been ravaging the southern states of the USA for days now, and the death toll has risen to 300.
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Tornado Drama From Inside An Airport – Video
28 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Tornadoes are just fascinating, aren’t they? So much force and destructive power wrapped up in a crazy cone of wind. In the last few days, the southern states of the USA have been hit by a spate of storms which have given birth to deadly tornadoes. Check out this video, captured by CCTV cameras from inside Lambert Airport, in St Louis.
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Tornado Takes Man’s Hamburger And Drink [VIDEO]
21 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Obviously it’s not actually humorous to make fun of natural disasters, and that’s not what we’re doing here. Instead we’re laughing at the unique situation that Eric Hubbard landed up in, shall we say. So, go ahead and make of this fellow what you will. He is rather superbly animated with his storytelling execution.
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Veld Fire Destroys Somerset West Hotel
18 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Nature showed her claws again this weekend in the Western Cape, when Somerset West’s Straightway Head Hotel was ravaged by a veld fire along with 15 other houses on Saturday. Built in 1939, The Straightway Head was a well-known luxury establishment which many of your grandparents would have been familiar with, even if you weren’t.
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Level Five Becomes Level Seven – The Reality Of Japan’s Nuclear Crisis [VIDEO]
12 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As reported in morning spice headlines this morning, Japan has decided to raise its assessment of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to the worst rating on an international scale: from a level five to a level seven, putting the disaster on par with the 1986 Chernobyl explosion in the former Soviet Union.
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Yet Another Tsunami Warning Issued For NE Japan
11 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Watch out for Japan in the next 100 years, because if this continual natural bombardment doesn’t galvanize a national stoicism, ingenuity and will to survive of epic proportions, then nothing will.
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Japan Braces Itself: Tsunami Warning Issued For North East Coast
07 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
In what is quickly becoming a cosmic joke, the North East shore of Japan is expected to be struck by a tsunami in a matter of hours. An earthquake with a magnitude of 7,4 struck off the coast of Honshu, with local reporters in the North East of the country citing concern over an unusually strong aftershock.
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Nature, You Are Horrific: Spiders Take Over Trees In Wake Of Pakistan Floods
31 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Human displacement aside, the floods in Pakistan have caused massive changes in the local ecology. With more than a fifith of Pakistan submerged, millions of spiders have escaped the rising waterline by moving into trees – quickly covering riverside treelines in cocoons of spiderweb. It’s creepy-looking.
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Baby Dolphin Saved After Tsunami Dumps It In Rice Field
24 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Japanese have displayed some of the most heroic efforts in aid of fellow man during this, one of the hardest experiences they have had to endure. Now, we’re happy to bring you an animal and man story. No dog, just a small dolphin in a rice field. That needed rescuing. Brace yourselves, this is literally fantastic!
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Child Trafficking In Haiti – Children Sold For As Little As R8,80
22 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The earthquake in Haiti last year caused massive destruction, but even more chaos looms in the aftermath. Traffickers are taking advantage of the situation by kidnapping, buying or stealing children. Some are being auctioned off to well-meaning yet ignorant western families while others are being forced into prostitution.
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Floods, Potholes, Overcharging And Double Road Tax
10 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Today is an important day because it’s the day our President gives his state of the nation address. It should be an interesting one and I heard there may even be autographed heaven cards for sale afterwards. It’s therefore important to highlight some issues our Jozi brethren currently face and ask whether they are getting a fair deal.
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Ex-Girlfriend Wins Breakup With Google
07 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Ha. Some kid called Jack Weppler broke up with his girlfriend, so she put a truckload of embarassing Lolcat-style photos of him online – and tweaked it so that they’d all show up if somebody tried to Google him. So hey, that’s something new to worry about.
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Shinmoedake: Yeah, But Eyjafjallajökull Did It First
01 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hey, remember the whole thunder/ice/volcano scenario in Iceland that cancelled a couple of European flights? Well a similar sort of deal went down in Japan on Sunday, between the Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures. Insert your own joke about Japan copying the west. Awesome photos follow.
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Sex Toy River Rafters Rescued In Melbourne
17 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s good to see our antipodean friends still have a sense of humour after all the flooding and disaster that’s hit them. An enterprising couple looked out their bedroom window yesterday, saw the river was coming down hectically and decided to go for a joy ride on blow up dolls when the plan, well, blew up in their faces.
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Australian Floods – So Much For A Water-Scarce Country [VIDEO]
11 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Here we have a video of a small creek in an obscure part of Queensland, Australia, transforming from a benign trickle into a hellish monster comprised chiefly of speed, water, mud, and cars from this office’s parking lot. The footage is intense, but the awesome Australian accents are pretty distracting.
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