Here are several articles that show extreme weather events that are occuring through out the world. Again, these are part of the birth pains that are meant to wake us up to turn back to God. These will continue to get more and more severe until the final seven year tribulation. The Good News is Jesus promises to save His followers prior to the worst with the rapture, where He will call us up to be with Him in heaven.
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Muscovites Flee Worst Heat ‘in 1,000 Years’ from Bloomberg
(by Denis Maternovsky and Maria Levitov)
Aug 9, 2010 9:47 AM CT
Muscovites fled the Russian capital in record numbers as extreme heat combined with acrid smoke from wildfires, slowing trading on the city’s main stock exchange and emptying restaurants.
More than 104,400 people flew out of Moscow yesterday, topping the previous 2010 record of 101,000, according to the Federal Air Transportation Agency. On Aug. 7, 95,000 left the city by plane, 20 percent more than the year-earlier date, agency spokesman Sergei Izvolsky said by telephone today.
Moscow set a daily heat record of 35.5 degrees Celsius (95.5 degrees Fahrenheit) today, the seventh such record this month and the 19th of the summer, said Tatyana Pozdnyakova, a spokeswoman for the city’s weather service. The city reached 38.2 degrees Celsius, the highest ever, on July 29.
The heat wave, smoke from forest fires across central Russia and the Volga River region, and the country’s worst drought in half a century have combined to hobble agriculture and slow the services industry and manufacturing. Financial companies are now affected.
The BBC’s Chris Hogg decribes the devastation in Gansu province
More than 700 people are now known to have died in a massive landslide in north-west China – making it one of the deadliest incidents so far in the country’s worst flooding in a decade.
A frantic search is continuing for the more than 1,000 people still missing
Muscovites fled the Russian capital in record numbers as extreme heat combined with acrid smoke from wildfires, slowing trading on the city’s main stock exchange and emptying restaurants.
More than 104,400 people flew out of Moscow yesterday, topping the previous 2010 record of 101,000, according to the Federal Air Transportation Agency. On Aug. 7, 95,000 left the city by plane, 20 percent more than the year-earlier date, agency spokesman Sergei Izvolsky said by telephone today.
Moscow set a daily heat record of 35.5 degrees Celsius (95.5 degrees Fahrenheit) today, the seventh such record this month and the 19th of the summer, said Tatyana Pozdnyakova, a spokeswoman for the city’s weather service. The city reached 38.2 degrees Celsius, the highest ever, on July 29.
The heat wave, smoke from forest fires across central Russia and the Volga River region, and the country’s worst drought in half a century have combined to hobble agriculture and slow the services industry and manufacturing. Financial companies are now affected.
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China landslide: More than 700 people confirmed dead from BBC News
10 August 2010 Last updated at 06:32 ET
<Click link above for the video of the devistation>
The BBC’s Chris Hogg decribes the devastation in Gansu province
More than 700 people are now known to have died in a massive landslide in north-west China – making it one of the deadliest incidents so far in the country’s worst flooding in a decade.
A frantic search is continuing for the more than 1,000 people still missing.
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The entire northwestern Swat valley, where Pakistan fought a major campaign to flush out Taliban insurgents last year, was cut off at the weekend as were parts of the country’s breadbasket in Punjab and Sindh.
“This disaster is worse than the tsunami, the 2005 Pakistan earthquake and the Haiti earthquake,” Maurizio Giuliano, a spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), told AFP.
He said the 13.8 million affected outstripped the more than three million hit by the 2005 earthquake, five million in the 2004 tsunami and the three million affected by the Haiti earthquake in January this year.
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