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2 votes
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Deadly flash flood wipes away villages in Nepal, Tibet
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Wildfires expose — and detonate — buried bombs and mines from World War I and World War II
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Gualliguaica - The drowning town
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California goat grazing faces crisis after wage change
24 votes -
Canadian wildfire that forced 20,000 to flee may signal ‘new normal’
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Magnitude 7.4 quake rocks western Colombia, killing at least 111 people
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After decades of drought, water is rising in the African Sahel
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France and Spain race to contain huge wildfires before fresh heatwave begins
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Homes lost, thousands under evacuation orders as wildfires spread across central Oregon
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French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time
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Largest residential fire in modern Norwegian history destroyed more than 100 homes and forced hundreds of people to evacuate
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Wildfire smoke from Canada will soon spread across the Midwest and East United States
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Last night was terrifying
Went on a guys trip to Johnsons Shut-Ins the last week. Go ahead and Google what happened there last night. I don't really know the point of posting this here but I feel like sharing. It started...
Went on a guys trip to Johnsons Shut-Ins the last week. Go ahead and Google what happened there last night. I don't really know the point of posting this here but I feel like sharing.
It started raining around 11pm. The tents held up fine for a while.
I remember waking up at one point to hard rain. I checked the tent but things seemed fine. That was probably about midnight or 1am. Around 2am I woke up cause something felt wrong. The tent was moving and shaking.
I opened the door and saw chaos. It was like looking at the sea in a storm, and I was being carried off by the rushing water. We were swept into a shelter, where I was able to find footing to grab my kid (I was telling "GET UP, GET UP NOW" the whole time) and toss him onto a table out of the water.
I managed to grab quite a bit from the tent and toss it on too and then wedge the tent between two trees.
I then saw the other tent from my group float past. I couldn't help them.
My kid is crying, a torrent of rising water is at my feet, and I spotted that the bathroom shelter nearby was higher up. I grabbed my kid and had to fight my way through the raging water worrying I'd drop him with any misstep. I made it across and we were the first ones there.
Slowly others came. First my FIL and then other campers tricked in. We didn't know what had happened to my bil or my nephew, just they they'd been swept away. My FIL had been sucked out of the tent when he opened the door.
Another family we could hear yelling across the water. A father and son stuck in the trees. They showed up later at the shelter, apparently the son had been pulled away from his dad but wedged on a tree and was able to escape. The dad went back to find the rest of the family. They were all ok.
A few hours later, my bil and his son showed up. They'd been pinned by the current to the trees for at least 2 hours. Hypothermic and exhausted, but safe.
Dawn came and the rain stopped. We gathered what ever else we could find and then left through flooded roads.
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The world has an anchovy supply problem
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Nearly 70,000 missing as Venezuela earthquake death toll rises to 1,430
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Around twenty drown in France as French seek relief from heatwave
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7.2 and 7.5 earthquake in Venezuela
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Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dead after plane crash
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Singer Oliver Tree dead at 32 following tragic helicopter crash
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As floods get worse, Britain tries a new solution: beavers
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Blue Origin New Glenn stage 1 "No, It's Necessary" explodes during static fire
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How the datacenter boom is exacerbating Chile’s mega-drought
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India battles power cuts as heatwave boosts electricity demand to record
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Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods
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Utah's shrinking lake: a scientific asset and a crisis
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A strong El Niño may be coming. Global warming is changing its effects.
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Data centre fires take down anime piracy website?
Anime piracy titan AnimeKai has reportedly been taken down a few days ago because their server caught on fire and burnt. This could be related to the Almere data centre fire in the Netherlands...
Anime piracy titan AnimeKai has reportedly been taken down a few days ago because their server caught on fire and burnt.
This could be related to the Almere data centre fire in the Netherlands last week.
Anime pirates can't catch a break these days.
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San Diego now has so much water that it's selling it
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Air Canada CEO will retire this year after his English-only crash message was criticized
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The (illegal) nuclear reactor buried under Greenland
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How to enjoy the end of the world
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Helgi Hjorleifsson, a firefighter, is a leader in an Icelandic experiment to steer rivers of lava away from important sites. Some called it crazy, but it worked.
17 votes -
Two Amazon Web Services Middle East availability zones down after data centre fires
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Ancient stepwells brought back to life as India begins to run out of water
13 votes -
United Airlines Flight 232 lost all hydraulics mid-air. This is the story of the “impossible landing".
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The problem with stainless steel: the Uster disaster
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Deadly dust: Explosions at Didion Milling
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The hidden engineering of runways
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Hurricane vs. Tiny Houses
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Visualizing a volcano - Mexico's Popocatépetl
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USGS V1cam livestream of erupting Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (west Halemaʻumaʻu crater)
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The latrine disaster in Erfurt
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Why Japan has issued an advisory for a possible megaquake in the country’s north
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Low pressure, fatal consequences: Explosion at Yenkin-Majestic
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Magnitude 7.6 earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued
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Volcanic eruption may have triggered Europe's deadly Black Death plague
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Hong Kong buildings blaze kills at least thirty-six people, hundreds missing
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Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds
44 votes -
Iran's president says capital must move from Tehran over ecological concerns
39 votes