"How the Maui wildfire devastated Lahaina, hour by hour"
It's a terrible event and the death toll keeps climbing. As of this moment, over 89 dead, from the fires that devoured Lahaina on Maui.
For two days, National Weather Service employees in Honolulu had been sending out ominous alerts about powerful easterly gusts, whipped up by Hurricane Dora passing 500 miles to the south. They hit Maui at a time when much of the tropical island had been parched by severe drought, including the drier leeward side that includes Lahaina.
The next time Vorpahl woke up, she smelled smoke. The power was out.
A fire had started in the dry grass near her home on Lahainaluna Road, on a slope just east of the highway that bypasses downtown. Power poles fell in the neighborhood, and wires had snapped — leading several neighbors to later question whether electrical equipment had started the blaze.
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So let me review:
- Overturned train in Ohio causing massive environmental damage
- Overturned truck in Arizona
- Turkey death toll from the earthquake surpasses 40,000
- Three dead at a campus shooting for Michigan State (including at least one student who had previously endured a high school shooting.)
- Ukraine still invaded and fighting for independence
Just an unthinkable and overwhelming past two weeks and I am left shaking my head wondering what is going to come next.
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"The world's deadliest earthquakes in the past 25 years, at a glance"
It is hard to overstate the sheer destruction coming out of Turkiye. Over 20,000 people dead. Just atrocious stuff. This article from NPR helps put it in perspective.
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The gruesome tragedy in Turkiye surpasses 4,000 dead
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared seven days of national mourning, and Syria has appealed to the United Nations for help following devastating earthquakes that killed more than 4,000 people and toppled buildings across southeast Turkey and northern Syria.
Authorities fear the death toll from Monday's predawn magnitude 7.8 temblor, followed by a magnitude 7.6 earthquake and several aftershocks will continue to climb as rescuers looked for survivors among tangles of metal and concrete spread across a region already suffering under Syria's 12-year civil war and a refugee crisis.
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My heart goes out to the Turkish people
This massive of an earthquake in the middle of winter for that country is going to be devastating.
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The Waffle House index
If you get there and the Waffle House is closed? That's really bad... - Craig Fugate, Former Head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency
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"A third of Pakistan is underwater from floods"
A third of Pakistan is now underwater amid an unprecedented amount of rainfall since June, Pakistan’s climate change minister, Sherry Rehman, said Monday.
That would mean an area about the size of Colorado is underwater. Pakistan, home to about 220 million, has a land mass of 307,000 square miles.
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Pakistan reports 777 killed during floods over past 2 months
Just heartbreaking. And you'll barely see it reported on US news. And of course politicians will continue to deny climate change.
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