Nothing Wrong Here...

interesting post on Urban Survival....
[link to urbansurvival.com]



Going Bump In the Night

A 7.3 quake down in Vanuatu.



Smokin'

Russia's fires continue edging toward more nuclear facilities.

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A great reader email:

We're basically in a media blackout (effectively) concerning anything really meaningful, so here's a snapshot of what's really going on in the world:

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August 9: Katla Volcano, Iceland - Twelve earthquakes in the past 48 hours.
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August 9: Deadly Russian Heat Wave Gravest Over Millennium
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August 6: Sacramento running 10 degrees below average
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August 5: Snow in Brazil, below zero in the River Plate, tropical fish frozen. For a second day running it snowed in Southern Brazil and in twelve of Argentina’s 24 provinces including parts of Buenos Aires.
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August 3: Coolest July in San Francisco since 1971
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August 3: More than six million fish and thousands of alligators, turtles, dolphins and other river wildlife are floating dead in Bolivian rivers, the cruel aftermath of the extreme cold in South America.
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August 3: Argentina colder than Antarctica
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August 1: Peru declares state of emergency
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August 1: Worst flooding in Pakistan history
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July 31: July rainiest month in Mexico history
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July 29: Record cold in San Diego
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July 10: Record cold at LAX