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Rats escaping New York floods could infest homes Rats scurrying to escape rising floodwaters in New York could spread diseases as they infest new areas, according to a nature expert. A 13ft wall of water caused by the storm surge and high tides have caused severe flooding to subways and road tunnels in the city and torrents of water poured into city streets. The rising [...] A radiation alarm went off at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima nuclear power plant before the tsunami hit on March 11, suggesting that contrary to earlier assumptions the reactors were damaged by the earthquake that spawned the wall of water. A monitoring post on the perimeter of the plant about 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) from the No. 1 reactor went off at 3:29 p.m., minutes before the station was overwhelmed by [...] Roche Percee was inundated after water from two dams came flooding over dikes on Sunday. ((Courtesy Christina Turnbull)) The mayor of a flood-ravaged Saskatchewan village says he and other residents evacuated from their homes earlier this week have been hit by looters. “They’re taking my stuff and destroying my stuff and my friends and neighbours’ stuff,” said Roche Percee Mayor Reg Jahn. Most residents of the village of 150 [...] April 9, 2011 11:36 a.m. EDT Tokyo (CNN) — A brief video clip released Saturday captures the massive tsunami that crippled Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi power plant, showing the wall of water that slammed into the facility and created an ongoing crisis. The video shows the giant wave generated by the historic March 11 earthquake crashing over the plant’s seawall and engulfing the facility, with one sheet of [...] Once this road was thronged with traffic: an expressway, one of the arteries of a nation’s economic life, as familiar and modern a sight as you would find anywhere in Japan. The only barriers on the route to Fukushima Daiichi were the other people heading in the same direction. Today the journey is different. It is a journey to the heart of a catastrophe. About 10 kilometres [...] by John Nyaradi Global meltdown. Scary words, indeed. However, as we look around our world, it certainly does appear that a global meltdown is in progress. At Wall Street Sector Selector, we are nearly fully positioned on the “short” side of global markets and so were fortunate to have had a pleasant day, unlike so many investors and citizens of our small world. I sincerely [...] |
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