Nocere – Earth Disasters

 

There were 570 migrants rescued from the choppy waters of the Mediterranean Sea leaving another 250 not found. The boat filled with people fleeing Libya flipped over in the choppy sea water close to Kerkennah. It is not certain as to how many boats there were transporting people. It is thought that the missing 250 people have perished beneath the waves. People fleeing to find a better life, lost their lives instead.

The coastguard and other rescue members worked as quickly as they could managing to save 570 people. All the people saved were from the sub-Saharan Africa. The Kerkennah islands are located in a shallow area of the sea on the east side of the Tunisian coast.

It is possible that only one boat was bringing the migrants to Italy. It is not uncommon to find fishing boats crammed with people trying to get away from the violence in Libya. With possibly 800 people on board one fishing boat, the weight could have caused the boat to turn over in the rough waters. Just the other day, a single boat with 932 people on board it was found off the coastal area of Sicily.

It is possible that the boat actually hit a sandbar Tuesday late evening. There was a report that a boat with 800 passengers on it was stuck on a sandbank approximately 20 miles out from the Kerkennah islands.

Many attempts at rescuing the stranded passengers was fruitless. The water was too shallow for many of the larger boats to go into. Smaller boats were later brought in and were able to get closer to the stranded boat.

Many of the missing may have died when they tried to get to the boats they could see in the distance. Thinking they could swim to them, but didn’t make it.

 

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As an air ambulance was transporting seriously ill patients from Bihar to a hospital in Delhi, it crashed into a home in a community in Faridabad . Faridabad is a town located in the northern state of Haryana. As it was close to hitting the ground, the plane cracked in half and a fire broke out. Sections of the dwelling  were burnt in the flames.

On the aircraft, 7 passengers died. In the house were 3 women that perished.

It happened on Wednesday evening. The airplane had been in contact with air traffic control. Then it just disappeared.

After the crash there were people coming from all over to try and aid passengers and people within the home as a huge fire started.

There were 2 people that were wounded in the crash that had to be admitted into the hospital.

 

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It was Sunday afternoon, some were returning home from a graduation ceremony in the city of 50,000 when the tornado struck. As one father and son were traveling home following the sons graduation, the father instructed his son to pull over. A family member in a car in front of the father and son saw the Hummer H3 that her father and brother were in start rolling. The brother was sucked out of his seat belt and hasn’t been found yet. The Hummer was destroyed.

Rescue efforts started right away. More then 40 agencies were there on Monday to help.  Dealing with down pouring rain out in the stormy weather and getting hit by lightening proved to be obstacles faced by a few of the teams. Their efforts paid off with finding 17 people, but Will Norton, the young man in the Hummer, remains missing.

There are numerous apartment buildings and entire groups of homes are gone. All that is left is piles of debris. There is anticipation that there could be people alive yet that  need to be found.

Many are unable to find out if love ones who live in other parts of the city are still alive or not.

The tornado traveled through a highly inhabited area of the city. It either took out or caused damage to 2,000 buildings. Where once stood a high school, it is no longer. One of the hospitals in the city of two, was hit hard.

Stats at this time put the twister as having winds that were between 190 and 198 mph.

President Obama declared a disaster declaration for the area. This enables the area to get federal help faster.

The help Joplin is receiving has been wonderful. People are coming from all over and offering to help those in need. It has all helped the citizens of Joplin get through things so far.

The weather news isn’t getting any better for those trying to collect and start again after the tornado. News of more possible tornado’s are on the way Tuesday. There is a 45% chance of another outbreak of them. The estimated time for them is between 4pm and midnight. The watches for them are in areas of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Nebraska and again Missouri. Joplin is located in the area that could be seeing more tornado’s today.

 

 

 

 

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A commuter plane traveling to the city of Comodoro Rivadavia crashed on Wednesday night and all 22 on board the airplane died. The plane went down in the southern part of Argentina.

There was a distress call from the pilot and then only a short while later, it was no longer showing up on the radar.

On board the small plane were, 18 adults, a child and 3 staff members.

The plane was located in Rio Negro province, but there was no sign of anyone surviving the crash.

The accident is under investigation.

On Thursday, the Sol Lineas Aereas airlines suspended some flights that were to be leaving the Falklands and had them instead go to the main land of Argentina. There they were to provide transportation for family of the victims.

 

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Tuesday evening, rescue operations are to begin at the northern Mexico mine where 14 miners are trapped inside.

The operation will continue through the night. On Wednesday, experts from Chili are expected to come by the site and help out.

Tuesday morning, there was an explosion at the mine that is just on the outskirts of Sabinas, Mexico according to Mayor Jesus Montemayor Garza.

It is uncertain that the miners are still alive as of Tuesday evening.

There was a 15 year old that worked at the mine that was critically wounded. He was taken to the hospital where they had to remove both his arms.

Mexican Labor Secretary Javier Lozano Alarcon made a post on twitter stating. “having a minor working here” was a “fault of the owner of this ‘mine.”

The mine had only been a working mine for 20 days. There were 25 people that worked the mine that were not yet in the union.

At this time there is no knowledge of if the miners are alive or not. The mine shaft is 197 feet deep and it’s going to be a difficult rescue because of the way the shaft was constructed.

There are 16 people working the rescue operation from the Coahuila state civil protection agency with 20 more in the area to fill in where needed.

The explosion is under investigation.

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There are 100 people missing from the boat that capsized in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The boat was on the Kasai River and it went down in the central Kasai-Occidental province.

At this time there aren’t any details being released.

Boats are used a lot for transportation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. There aren’t very many practicable roads or railroad transportation in the DR of Congo, but there are many large lakes and rivers.

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A ferry accident on the Nile took at least 17 lives.

As the ferry was transporting grieving people to a funeral, the mini-bus they were traveling in slid off the ferry and into the river.

There were about 32 people on the mini bus. 17 drowned, 10 survived but there are 5 that have not been found yet.

Accidents like this are common in Egypt. They are usually caused by poor maintaining of the boats and not enough regulations.

The cause of the accident isn’t clear. The bus may have fallen off the ferry when the ferry landed roughly on the shore or it could have slid off the ferry if the driver did not have the emergency brake on.

Rescuers are at the scene. It happened close to 70 miles on the south side of Cairo.

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In Pleasant Grove, Alabama, there were fire personnel searching through one pile of debris and then others trying to find survivors of the massive tornado and storms that went through the area on Wednesday.

What was once home for local residents has been turned into piles of brick and lumber.

The tornado was the deadliest tornadoes in nearly 40 years. It left possibly more then 290 people dead in the 6 states it hit. Most of the deaths occurred in Alabama.

Even though people had prior warning of the tornadoes approaching them, as much as 24 minutes, there was little they could do to prepare. The tornado was too wide and too strong as it moved into the communities of homes.

If you didn’t have a an extra sturdy room built to survive a tornado, or a basement in an underground area or a storm shelter, and had a direct hit from the tornado, your chances of survival were slim.

The storm systems were very strong super cells. One of the strongest believed ever to be witnessed by some forecasters. There were multiple storm cells that moved through the area, one after another for hours.

It ran along interstate highways and moved like out of control vehicles destroying all in it’s path.

There was a report of one family who survived by staying in the basement of a funeral home while another hunkered down in a tanning bed.

There are many stories of how people found places to hide in and survived the storm only to find the house around them in shambles afterwards.

The governor of Alabama, Robert Bentley has said that there are 204 deaths that have been confirmed in Alabama. In Mississippi there were 33 deaths, Tennessee 33, 14 in Georgia, 5 in Virgina and 1 in Kentucky.

The search continues for the missing in Tuscaloosa. A curfew was implemented on Thursday at 10pm. On Friday it will be 8pm. On Friday they plan on using cadaver dogs to search the rubble.

It is possible that the tornado in Tuscaloosa, one of the hardest hit area was an EF5. That is the strongest rating for a tornado. In a tornado of that category, the winds would be over 200 mph. If not an EF5 then it was the next lower down EF4.

There were possibly one million homes and area business’s in Alabama without electrical power on after the storms. National Guard has been called to action and state of emergency has been put effect in Mississippi and Georgia. for areas of the states.

The rebuilding will start. Lives will move on, but this will be a storm many will never forget.

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