Keep your eyes on the sky! Solar flares are building to a potential crescendo.NASA ISSUES NEW WARNING TELLING US TO PREPARE FOR A ONCE IN A LIFETIME SOLAR STORM

NASA is warning about a once in a lifetime solar event. Keep on top of this issue by periodically looking at this site

A serious solar storm could knock out all electronics and put us back to the stone age.

Update: 12-15-2011. With well over a half million visitors ‘per-hour’ to this website now, you most likely have heard about NASA warning the public, “to get ready for a once in a life time solar event”. But since we first published this update back in early 2010, a lot more information has since unfolded. Soon we will add some additional NASA footage here that is very troubling, that gives cause to exactly why NASA is so concerned.

Additionally we have been inundated by email asking us about other pending issues expected in 2012-2013. IE: Meteorite storm, sudden pole shift, Nibiru (aka planet-x), extreme weather, earthquakes, volcanic activity and the oceans of the world sweeping across the continuants of the world resulting from a sudden pole shift.

All we can say is that there is so much conflicting data out there, that it’s hard to know what to believe. But no doubt that 2011 smashed all modern world records when it comes to the most natural disasters in a single year, breaking some three thousand records. That alone says something. Should this trend escalate greatly 2012, mankind will have to start taking the 2011, 2012 warning signs very seriously.

Though we publish a Solar Storm Survival Guide, we have delayed it’s release in updating it to better cover other possible world calamities. There is no need to panic. Simply prepare yourself as best as you can, and hopefully nothing serious will happen. But in case something does, you will have a head start in being prepared. We must keep in mind that should any one or more of these events actually happen, each and everyone of us will have no choice but to fend for our own food and water as well as protection from the elements and would be predators for months, possibly for years to come. If you are way up in your years, most likely you really don’t care at this point, that is, unless you have family you might be concerned about.

As we originally stated…

In light of recent news, the following information is paramount. On July 14, 2010 we learned that our sun is passing through an interstellar energy cloud which excites/energizes the sun. NASA, along with The National Academy of Science and other world renowned scientist are so concerned about this up and coming solar maximum in late 2012, that way back in March 10, 2006 NASA issued a solar storm warning (in writing) for 2012. What NASA omitted in their 2006 solar storm warning is what prompted NASA in the first place to issue a 2012 solar storm warning four years in advance? Then in 2010, NASA again warns the general population of a pending solar storm, telling the population to get ready for a once in a lifetime solar storm. Despite that news agencies and websites like this one are beginning to cover this developing story, no high government official has yet to stick his or her neck out to make an official announcement about the catastrophic implications as to allow the global population to begin preparing.

The following scientific data revealed by Alexei Dmitriev further supports NASA’s original 2012 solar storm warning issued back in March of 2006.

Astrophysicist Alexei Dmitriev says that both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 satellites reveal that our sun, as well as our entire solar system, is now moving into an interstellar energy cloud. Opher, a NASA Heliophysics Guest Investigator from George Mason University says this interstellar energy cloud is turbulent. Dmitriev explains that this cloud of energy is exciting the atmospheres of our planets and especially our sun. As this interstellar energy cloud continues to excite/charge the sun, it causes the sun to become more active, resulting in greater output from the sun. IE: Bigger and more frequent solar storms and CME’s resulting in the Carrington effect. This interstellar cloud of electrical energy is also absorbed by the Earth, and scientist have found that it results in more earth quakes, all while dramatically effecting our weather here on earth. When asked how long will it take our sun to pass through this interstellar energy cloud, Dr. Dmitriev replied, “I don’t know. But If I had to guess, I would say somewhere between two thousand to three thousand years.” This interstellar cloud is a wispy band of charged particles through which our solar system is slowly moving through.

When Dr. Dmitriev was asked what are the implications of all this for earth he replied, “Global catastrophe! Not in tens of years from now, but in ones of years” …in that this global catastrophe is basically right around the corner setting the stage for NASA’s latest solar storm warning 2012-2013.

Dr. Dmitriev is talking about the Carrington Effect which can knock out electrical power and all modern forms of communications world wide for months on end, even years. When that happens, global anarchy and mass looting will soon begin as the food chain will become paralyzed/crippled in modern countries, while water shortages will quickly become a threat to our very survival because electricity is what runs the pumps that gets the water to our homes and offices. If you are not prepared prepared to be self efficient for one to two years, then you and your family will be at risk of dehydration and starvation during a time when drinking water, food and toilet paper will be more valuable then money itself.

 

The water is looking suspect in the Denver area

As if tar sands don’t have enough issues. Looks like this goop is leaking into the Denver water supply.

 

News broke yesterday that “toxic oily muck” was spilling from a refinery into a creek in Commerce City, outside Denver.

Suncor Energy, the company that owns the petroleum refinery (the only one in the state, though you can’t miss seeing or smelling it if you drive past), has said the spill is contained and that the cause is under investigation.

Reuters reports: “The Canadian energy firm said it had not yet identified the source of the leak, but acknowledged it was likely coming from its 93,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery in the area. It said plant operations were unaffected.”

Different story for the water, however—a creek that runs into a river that is a major source of drinking water for nearby Denver has definitely been affected.According to Environment News Service, the spill was discovered on Sunday “by local fisherman Trevor Tanner, an aerospace engineer and South Platte conservation advocate, who saw oil on the water and said the area smelled like a gas station.”

ENS reports:

High levels of benzene and volatile organic compounds at the nearby Denver Metro Wastewater plant made closure of a technical services building necessary and have forced employees to wear respirators.

Today, workers contracted by Suncor used vacuum trucks and absorbent material to suck up water mixed with an unidentified liquid.

Tar Sands
It’s worth a special mention that the spill involved tar sands crude oil. ENS wrote, “Suncor is the oldest of the tar sands producers; up to 90 percent of its production is derived from tar sands bitumen.” Reuters said Suncor is Canada’s largest oil and gas producer, and said the company expects tar sands output to hit 300,000-310,000 bpd this year.”

The refinery plant recently underwent, according to Reuters, a $540 million upgrade in order to handle oil sands crude from Canada, which is heavier than conventional crude, extra-toxic, and extremely inefficient to produce.

More on tar sands oil:
350 More Ducks Killed In Canada’s Toxic Tar Sands Tailing Ponds
Tar Sands, Banking Crisis, & Peak Oil – Mired At The Crossroads
Economic, Environmental Costs of Developing Tar Sands & Oil Shale ‘Unthinkable’Your text to link…

2011 Tornadoes Worst in almost a century

Interesting thing in this article is the attitudes of the people that were affected…too much trouble to move, too many warnings etc. Lack of personal responsibility is the key here, at least in my opinion.

 

A little bit of caution can go a long way towards keeping you alive and thriving!

 

 

2011…A Deadly Year for Tornadoes.

2011 has been a very deadly year for tornadoes, but in this day and age with advanced technology, how did so many people lose their lives?

Reporter: Cindi Clawson

Email Address: cindi.clawson@wndu.com

 

 

2011 has been a very deadly year for tornadoes, but in this day and age with advanced technology, how did so many people lose their lives?

 

552 people lost their lives, making 2011 the second deadliest year on record for killer tornadoes, tied with 1936.

 

The majority of the deaths this year happened on two days: April 27, when a severe outbreak of tornadoes occurred in the southeast, and May 22 when a single tornado killed 158 people in Joplin, Missouri.

 

In some cases, the tornadoes may have been so strong that they were just not survivable. But there are some behavior patterns that may have come into play. According to the National Weather Service, many people interviewed did not immediately react to the sirens and the tornado warning.

 

Last month at a town hall meeting in Birmingham, Alabama, some tornado survivors told first-hand about their attitudes and reactions to sirens and warnings.

 

“We live on the edge of the county, and most of the time when it goes off it’s for the other side of the county and it’s a big fuss for nothing.”

 

That’s number one: Many indicated that the sirens go off too much and they have become complacent.

 

Mike Sabones, National Weather Service, describes the differences between the types of warning systems, “There are different schools of thought on who should control when sirens go off. Should it be solely based on a National Weather Service product? Or should it continue to be done as it is done now where the decisions to sound the sirens is a local government decision?”

 

Second: Many people felt that there are too many tornado warnings.

 

Sabones describes the differences between the types of tornados, “We have a tricky problem with tornadoes. There’s a wide range of tornadoes. There’s very weak tornadoes that touch down, do a little bit of damage, aren’t very deadly, and there are very big, very deadly tornadoes. Clearly we want to warn people about those very big, very deadly tornadoes, the ones that kill people.”

 

And third: There are many who think that a tornado will never happen in their area.

 

Sabones explains why people should not think that it can not happen to them, “If you’re 25 years old and you say, ‘gee, I can’t remember the last time we had a huge tornado outbreak here.’ Well, if you go back to 1974 and 1965 there were huge outbreaks in these areas, and if they happened before, they certainly can happen again.”

 

So, how do we overcome these issues so we can reduce the number of fatalities?

 

Sabones explains how people are thinking maybe there should be different warnings, “So, people are kicking around things like, gee, should we issue one type of warning for what we think are more significant tornadoes, the EF2 and higher end tornadoes, and some type of a lower-end warning for the EF0, EF1 tornadoes, the ones that are short-lived, weaker, don’t tend to kill people.”

 

Another important change would be to upgrade sirens to be able to sound for just the parts of the county under a warning. However, the cost of doing so may not make it possible.

 

One positive thing that we are seeing is the role of social media in getting the warnings and information out. Not only are people getting more and more information online, but when the power goes out, people are turning to their smart phones to get their weather updates. There are more and more options for getting those warnings.

 

Sabones explains that the National Weather Service can not be fully responsible, “There is some responsibility that has to be borne by the individual. To insure that he’s given himself a lot of options. A lot of different ways to make sure that he can get that critical weather information that just might save his life.”

 

As we look to the future, the National Weather Service is upgrading their Doppler Radars to Dual-Polarization Technology which will help us see more clearly into storms.

 

We also expect to see GPS technology in weather radios in the next few years. Both of those should bring very positive improvements to the warning process.

 

Are you willing to take responsibility for your actions, or lack thereof?

Solar Flares…What do you know?

Solar flares could really disrupt life as we know it…how much do you know?

 

 

Solar storms increasing through 2013

 

 

For thousands of years people have been watching the sun. With the invention of the telescope, scientists have been recording the number of spots they see forming on the sun’s surface. Sunspots are believed to be the source of solar storms.

 

According to Matt Penn, an associate astronomer at the National Solar Observatory located here in Tucson, “On the Sun we have sunspots with huge magnetic fields and they’re the source of two things that effect us on Earth…Solar flares and also Coronal Mass Ejections. So a Solar flare happens when the magnetic field within these sunspots changes and erupts with light and particles, a CME, a coronal mass ejection happens when an enormous amount of mass is thrown off from again a change in a magnetic field of a sunspot.”

 

Not all solar storms effect the Earth. Many times this matter is hurled into space and never encounters the Earth. The Earth is exposed to solar flares and CMEs from time to time, causing some dramatic effects.

 

Penn says, “The effects on Earth are really dramatic, and in particular, the more we depend on space assets, satellites for communication or navigation or even high altitude flights, the more of an impact it will have on us on the Earth. For instance, the particles from a solar flare can disrupt the electronics in a satellite and cause dropouts in communication so if you are using your GPS device and the GPS satellite goes out, than you’re lost and stuck without navigation.”

 

Even without telescopes, people have known about these storms for some time. The interaction of these storms on the Earth’s Atmosphere causes the Aurora that is usually visible near the Poles (between 90-60 degrees).

 

“We’ve known about solar storms for a long time by watching the aurora, and what happens when a magnetic gas clouds comes from the sun and interacts with the Earth’s magnetic field is it accelerates particles here in the Earth’s environment and those can impact our atmosphere causing aurora from glowing molecules in our atmosphere, so we’ve known about solar interactions for a long time, and those are some of the most beautiful interactions that we can see.”

 

It is not just satellites and the atmosphere affected by these solar storms.

 

According to Penn, “As long as you have a disturbance in the Earth’s magnetic field you can induce currents, in particular if you have a long conductor like a long transmission line along the ground, you can get an overload of current through that line. And this happened way back in the 1800s, where we had telegraph lines across the country which weren’t protected properly, at the end of the telegraph line you would have a sparking device to send your message and because the current was too big in this line, the sparks were out of control and they actually burned down telegraph offices back in the 18-hundreds, but also now, even though we have protection in our long lines which are now power transmission lines, we can still overload circuits because the currents that are caused by the magnetic field changes are so large, So in 1989 in Quebec, Canada, Millions of people were without power in the winter because within 30 seconds the currents overloaded some of the circuitry and caused a massive power outage. During a sunspot cycle maximum those events are more likely to occur and so we may be facing more of those in the future.”

 

We study sunspots because we believe them to be the source of solar storms. Sunspots reach a maximum on the surface of the sun every 11 years or so. This cycle is called the “sunspot cycle”. The sunspot cycle is actually part of a larger 22 year cycle called “the solar cycle”.

 

“So right now we are going into solar cycle number 24 and we’re predicting that around 2012 or at the beginning of 2013 we’ll reach the maximum, during a sunspot cycle, we see very few sunspots at first, than they increase to a maximum and then they decrease over an 11 year cycle, so right now we are in the rising phase, so the number of spots that we see is increasing from month to month as we observe the sun.”

 

At this point there is no way to predict when a sunspot will erupt, but the theory is that it has to do with the magnetic fields.

 

“So in a sunspot when the magnetic field changes it releases energy in the form of a flare or a coronal mass ejection, we think that the magnetic field becomes more complicated as a sunspot may twist or certain other dynamic events occur at a sunspot, so what we look for at our telescopes out at Kitt Peak is the complexity of the magnetic field. Spots with a very complicated magnetic field structure have more energy and are more likely to erupt, spots that are simple and are maybe round and have a simple magnetic field configuration are less likely to erupt.”

 

Once a solar storm erupts, what can we expect on Earth?

 

“With a solar storm there are really two waves that can really impact the Earth, The first wave is the light and the high energy particles that travel at nearly the speed of light and so we can’t really get any warning about that, by the time we see it, the effect is occurring and they’re changing our satellites or they are disrupting our electronics. The second wave of a solar storm though can be a magnetized plasma cloud, a river of magnetic gas that takes between, sometimes one or sometimes up to four days to travel from the Sun to the Earth, and so by observing a flare we can predict when this magnetic cloud would impact the Earth, if it will impact the Earth and then make changes to our systems here on Earth to react to that.”

 

These plasma clouds can move at speeds up to a million miles per minute, but that still gives the groups that own and operate satellites two to three days notice before the cloud arrives. This might give them time to react.

 

“Well if you know a CME is going to impact your satellite, what you can do is shutdown critical circuits. Circuits that have to do with the stabilization of a satellite for instance or circuits that have to do with pointing of communications antenna on the satellites because you certainly don’t want your satellite firing jets in orbit or repointing the antenna that talks to the Earth during an event like that. In terms of longer term protection, companies that launch satellites have shielding on them which is basically just mass, lead to protect them from the particles and so you could send up more and more shielding, in particular if you expect solar storms to happen more and more.”

 

Even though companies know about solar storms, sometimes damage still occurs.

 

“Oh yes many satellites have been lost, many companies may not want to admit that a solar storm was involved in the loss but the coincidences have been pretty clear, as a matter of fact, in 1997, When I was driving to Kitt Peak one morning a communication satellite was knocked out and as I was in Three Points trying to buy gas at the pay-at-the-pump service station, I couldn’t because the link between the pay-at-the-pump and my bank was broken because the satellite was off-line from the solar storm. More and more of these things could happen including disruption of the GPS satellite system, in that case, a lot of people depend on that and it could have a lot of impact on people’s lives.”

 

Shielding can be added to satellites to protect them, so why is this not done more?

 

“Whether or not a company protects its satellites enough is really a money issue, the shielding that is necessary to protect your circuits is extra weight and that’s the whole cost of launching a satellite is the weight, so in particular in hard economic times, companies are trying to do things on a narrow profit margin and so they may skimp on some of the shielding in that case we maybe more vulnerable to solar disruption.”

 

Some say the sunspot cycle is constant, but the research being done right here at Kitt Peak might change that line of thinking.

 

Penn says, “My colleague Bill Livingstone and I have been looking at magnetic field strengths and sunspots and we have now a 13 year data set that covers the last solar cycle completely and now the introduction to this cycle into the rise phase, during that time we’ve seen something that people haven’t seen in any other data set, and that is the average magnetic field strength of sunspots has been decreasing, as a matter of fact it has been decreasing in a very linear, very straight line form…the second thing that no one else has seen is there is a threshold, a minimum value of magnetic field strength that’s required to form a dark sunspot…so if you take a decreasing magnetic field and a threshold to that eventually, we think, that the magnetic field and sunspots will be too weak to form dark areas on the sun, and we may go into the next cycle, cycle 25 without seeing any sunspots. This has happened once in the history of the sun that we know about, we’ve observed in the 1600s, it was called the Maunder Minimum period, but it is a unique chance for us now to look at how the sun might go into a minimum period like that and what the physics involved are.”

 

Could this “sunspot minimum” period have an effect on the Earth and in particular the weather?

 

“There is some controversy as to what would happen during a sunspot minimum, during a grand minimum as we call it. Where many cycles are reduced in amplitude, there is some evidence that there might be some climatic influence, but science is very tough, you can imagine the climate records from the 1600s are pretty sparse, but there also is no real physical connection people are no able to draw the physics out about why that would occur so its pretty much on the speculative side about whether that would have a climatological effect. We think that it may decrease the overall intensity of solar storms that would impact the Earth, but we can’t really be sure, we know that the sun erupts and emits magnetized gas plasma even without sunspots and some of those events also impact the Earth, and so even if we don’t have sunspots, we’ll still have solar storms and they may still be damaging.”

 

These storms often have effects on electronics, but it turns out they can also effect some sports!

 

“One of the fun things that a solar storm can do in terms of your recreation is that apparently a lot of people race pigeons, homing pigeon races are popular in some parts of the world and there’s apparently some betting that goes on with these races, it turns out that homing pigeons use the earth’s magnetic field to navigate, during a solar storm, the Earth’s magnetic field has changed and some of these pigeons become lost and people loss a lot of money because of this, so solar storms really do have an impact in some recreational sense with us here on the Earth.”

 

We use Satellites for nearly everything we do these days, from making cell phone calls to using your bank card. Nearly everything we do uses communication satellites. These satellites are vulnerable to strong solar storms.

 

“In terms of day-to-day life, if communication satellites become disrupted then you can imagine that you may not have as easy access to banking or charging your credit card, so things like that become more important, especially as we become more dependent on satellite communication in our daily lives.”

 

“The companies that provide us with communications and navigations really consider this in their overall picture in how they are going to provide the service, but as a solar storm happens that service becomes more and more stressed. So you may go a few days without having navigation if a big solar storm impacts the Earth.”

 

Historically, have there been any storms that, if they were to happen today, would have been a major problem?

 

“Going back to the 1700s, when Carrington saw this huge flare on the sun, if an eruption like that had an impact on the Earth now, people estimate that there would be trillions of dollars-worth of damage to the power grids, navigation systems and to communication systems. So its kind of a gamble that we’re taking, if we’re on the hairy edge of protecting our systems and we get a big solar storm, it could cause a lot of damage, so maybe its better to be safe.”

 

So have there been any regulations for people launch satellites to protect them from solar storms?

 

“I don’t think there are any hardware constraints on satellites to protect them from radiation, something that people may not know is if you are flying on a high altitude flight, particularly if you go over the pole, you can get a large dose of X-Rays, basically equivalent to a chest X-Ray if there’s a solar storm that’s going on and this is something that flight crews, that manage those flights or working on those flights have to deal with. Some of them could be exposed if they were allowed to fly as much to more radiation than nuclear workers, I never really realized this but that’s the kind of level that even flying in a high altitude airplane, as your job, you can be exposed to.”

 

Here in Southern Arizona, scientists have great weather, and a great resource at Kitt Peak to observe the Sun.

 

“So one of the good things about observing the sun from Kitt Peak at the McMath-Peace Telescope is that the telescope is sensitive to inferred light, and that has allowed us to make really sensitive measurements inside the sunspots, so we can measure the complexity and the twist of these magnetic fields and hopefully be able to predict flares and eruptions better.”

 

Sunspots might look small even through a telescope, but these fast moving spots are much larger than they appear.

 

“Sunspots, the ones that we are looking at now are about two or three times the size of the earth, so these are huge things. The Sun is a hundred earths across, so any dot that you would see is about the size of the earth.”

 

For more on Sunspots and on the work of NSO here in Tucson please visit: http://nsokp.nso.edu/

 

Are you as prepared for this type of event as you could be?

Icelandic Volcano…set to go off….

Once again another huge volcano in Iceland is set to go off and could disrupt air travel again…

 

Icelandic Volcano Threatens Mass Disruption

 

A huge Icelandic volcano long overdue an eruption is showing signs of activity – threatening disruption to air traffic, experts have said.

 

There have been more than 500 tremors at Katla in the south of the country in just the last month.

An increase in activity at the site since July has also been causing volcanologists concern, when increasing temperatures and seismic activity caused a flood, washing away a road bridge.

The last major eruption at the volcano was in 1918, and caused such a large glacier meltdown that icebergs were swept by the resulting floods into the ocean.

Significant activity at Katla – which has a huge 6.2 mile (10km) crater – usually occurs every 40 to 80 years.

It is feared when it does eventually erupt, it could be the most powerful activity the country has seen in almost a century.

Catastrophic flooding could result as the frozen surface of the volcano melts, sending vast amounts of water into the Atlantic Ocean.

 

Volcano expert Andy Hooper, from Delft University, said although there had been increased activity at the site, it was difficult to predict if and when Katla would erupt.

However, he told Sky News Online that the implications for Iceland if an eruption did occur would be “major”.

“Because of the glacier on top, massive amounts of ice would melt, washing away the roads.

“There could also be a big ash fallout on people living in the area and that will affect the farms.

“There could be big implications for people there.

“In terms of the rest of the world, it really depends on the weather at the time of the eruption.

“If Katla erupts, it will erupt higher (than recent volcanoes) and that means the ash will stay around longer – that could impact on air traffic.”

A statement on Iceland’s Met Office website warned there was no imminent threat but that “given the heightened levels of seismic activity, the situation might change abruptly”.

“Monitoring teams at the Icelandic Met Office are following the ongoing activity closely, and sensor-based networks around the volcano ensure that all seismological, geodetic, and hydrological changes are detected.”

 

You can bet that the Icelandic people are prepared for this event!

 

Declassified Memo Hinted of 1941 Hawaii Attack

Three days before the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt was warned in a memo from naval intelligence that Tokyo’s military and spy network was focused on Hawaii, a new and eerie reminder of FDR’s failure to act on a basket load of tips that war was near.

In the newly revealed 20-page memo from FDR’s declassified FBI file, the Office of Naval Intelligence on December 4 warned, “In anticipation of open conflict with this country, Japan is vigorously utilizing every available agency to secure military, naval and commercial information, paying particular attention to the West Coast, the Panama Canal and the Territory of Hawaii.”

The memo, published in the new book December 1941: 31 Days that Changed America and Saved the World went on to say that the Japanese were collecting “detailed technical information” that would be specifically used by its navy. To collect and analyze information, they were building a network of spies through their U.S. embassies and consulates.

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Known Carcinogen Spreading Through Groundwater in New Jersey, Hundreds at Risk

What really happens when a county goes broke?

Most of us lament what is happening in the world economy with it would seem one European country at a time falling to debt heavy burden. However few of us pause to consider what really happens when a county goes broke???

Watch this following video below to gain a better understanding!!! on you tube.

Tornadoes hit Southern States…again

Disasters happen, are you prepared in case one hits close to you?

 

Possible tornadoes cause damage in Southern states

 

By Kathy Finn

NEW ORLEANS | Wed Nov 16, 2011 12:34pm EST

 

(Reuters) – Severe storms and suspected tornadoes caused damage in several Southern states early on Wednesday, and more rough weather was expected across the region.

 

The cities of Mobile, Montgomery and Birmingham in Alabama; Atlanta, Columbia, South Carolina; and Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina were at risk for severe weather, according to AccuWeather.com.

 

Possible tornadoes struck in two southeast Louisiana locations early Wednesday, said Freddie Zeigler, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Slidell, Louisiana.

 

The National Weather Service had received no reports of injuries resulting from storms that hit near the towns of Houma, an hour south of New Orleans, and Kentwood, about an hour north of the city.

 

A series of deadly tornadoes battered the Southeast in April, killing an estimated 364 people in states including Alabama and Mississippi.

 

Weather officials received reports on Wednesday that a two-story house was lifted from its foundation and moved about 10 feet, and an unoccupied semi-truck was thrown around in winds that struck three miles south of Kentwood.

 

Southwestern Alabama was experiencing widespread rain showers and thunderstorms, said National Weather Service meteorologist Aaron Gleason in Birmingham.

 

The band of severe weather was tracking to the northeast through central Alabama with tornado watches in effect, and the threat of severe weather was predicted to continue throughout the afternoon and evening for the eastern portion of central Alabama, Gleason said.

 

“We have enough wind shear to be conducive to tornadoes,” he said. “There were reports of tornadoes over in Mississippi this morning, and we have damage reports from Sumter County in southwest Alabama for a possible tornado.”

 

Gleason said the affected areas had seen downed trees and damaged homes. In the city of Demopolis, strong winds overturned a boat at a boat dealership and caused roof damage in town.

 

An elderly individual who had been trapped inside a damaged home in southwestern Alabama was transported to a local hospital, said Yasamie August, spokeswoman for the Alabama Emergency Management Agency.

 

(Additional reporting by Peggy Gargis in Birmingham, Ala; Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Greg McCune)

 

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2 more Earthquakes in Oklahoma

Things just keep getting stranger…

 

Two small earthquakes recorded east of Oklahoma City

The U.S. Geological Survey reports that two earthquakes struck near Meeker shortly after 3:30 a.m. Sunday.

 

Two earthquakes struck Sunday morning about 40 miles east of Oklahoma City.

 

The U.S. Geological Survey reported that the 3.2 and 2.2 magnitude quakes hit near Meeker shortly after 3:30 a.m. Sunday. The quakes were about 4 miles from Johnson and 9 miles from Shawnee.

No damage was reported in Lincoln County, a sheriff’s dispatcher said.

Oklahoma was rattled by a 5.6 earthquake on Nov. 5, the largest ever recorded in the state since 1952. It caused damage to several homes and buildings in Shawnee, Prague and Sparks.

The two quakes Sunday were aftershocks.

While it’s difficult to determine a precise length of time that aftershocks will occur, it’s typical for them to occur for at least a week or two after a major seismological event, U.S. National Earthquake Information Center geophysicist Rafael Abreu said.

“As time goes by, they do keep tapering off,” he said.

If another earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 or greater hits, it will be considered a separate main event and another series of diminishing temblors will be expected to occur, Abreu said.

 

Read more: http://newsok.com/two-small-earthquakes-recorded-east-of-oklahoma-city/article/3623022#ixzz1ddi3yuTy

 

The question is are you prepared for something like this?

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