Photos: Louisiana 'Swamped' by Severe Storms, Flooding

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Accuweather.com - Meghan Evans, 5/11/13

Flooding occurred in Baton Rouge, La., early Friday morning as severe storms unleashed heavy rain over a short amount of time.

 

A line of violent thunderstorms hammered southern Louisiana early Friday morning, unleashing several inches of rain over the course of a couple of hours, damaging wind gusts and large hail.

More than half a foot of rain deluged some communities in southern Louisiana. Sulphur, La., was inundated by 7.83 inches of rain over the 24-hour period ending at 1:30 p.m. CDT Friday.

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American Attitudes Chill on Global Warming

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Weather.com - Eric Zerkel, 5/10/13

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After months of plummeting temperatures, winter storms, and climatic anomalies, it's easy to say Americans are fed up with 2012/2013's brutal winter. But according to a new study released by Yale University, that mindset may extend well beyond the realm of thick winter coats and into attitudes about global warming.

Researchers found that the percentage of Americans who believe global warming is happening dropped seven percentage points since Fall 2012, to 63%. The study concludes that this attitude shift is due in large part to personal experience relating to winter 2012/2013.

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Officials confirm Stoughton tornado

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The Boston Globe - Lauren Dezenski, 5/10/13

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The National Weather Service confirmed that a tornado briefly touched down in Stoughton during a fast-moving storm Thursday afternoon.

The Category 0 tornado moved a quarter of a mile up Washington Street at 4:31 p.m., with winds reaching 85 miles per hour, meteorologists said. Category 0 tornadoes register wind speeds between 65 and 85 miles per hour, the Weather Service said.

Video and more: The Boston Globe

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Severe Storms Hammer Houston Area - Rain, High Winds, Hail, and Flooding

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Weather.com: Flooding Rain Hammers Houston
"A line of severe thunderstorms swept through the Houston metro area just before midday, bringing high winds, hail and street flooding."

 

YouTube.com: Drivers stranded in Houston floods YouTube
"Up to 7 inches of rain across parts of Texas"

 

 

CBS Houston: Rain Pounds Houston Area; Causes Flooding, Power Outages
"Many in the Houston area also woke up to no power as well as flooded streets."

 

Locust Swarms Could Spell Disaster in Madagascar

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Weather.com - Jess Baker, 5/10/13

According to studies, there are currently a hundred locust swarms similar to this one in this region totaling around 500 billion locusts, eating around 100,000 metric tons of vegetation per day. (Image: BILAL TARABEY/AFP/Getty Images)

 

Brood II Cicadas that are poised to invade the eastern U.S. have nothing on the plague of locusts that are threatening the food supply for more than 13 million people.

Madagascar needs more than $22 million by June to put an end to the severe locust plague that is devouring crops - and the food supply - for more than 60-percent of the nation, according to the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (F.A.O).

More: Weather.com

 

Creepy Ghost Town Comes Up for Air

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Weather.com - 5/10/13, Paul Byrne/AP

In this May 6, 2013 photo, a young tourist stands on stairs protruding from the rubble of homes in Epecuen, which once was submerged in water in Argentina. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

 

EPECUEN, Argentina -- A strange ghost town that spent a quarter century under water is coming up for air again in the Argentine farmlands southwest of Buenos Aires.

Epecuen was once a bustling little lakeside resort, where 1,500 people served 20,000 tourists a season. During Argentina's golden age, the same trains that carried grain to the outside world brought visitors from the capital to relax in Epecuen's saltwater baths and spas.

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Ships and Visitations

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*disclaimer*: First-time blogger here. For those of you who notice, i dont capitalise "i" because i dont belive its worth bothering to denote self importance, and i dont use apostrophes in contractions because i believe theyve been around long enough to be words in their own right.

 

I recently had a brief encounter with my twinflame (we discovered we werent quite ready to be together yet) but on the last night i spent at her house (which was last night, actually) i went outside around 10 or 11 and looked in the region of the sky she had pointed out to me earlier. There i saw what she had told me she saw every night, a ship!

 

i knew it was, because when i looked at it it was steadily, faintly blinking white and blue, but when i thought "hello" at it it flashed solid red and in my head i heard the "hello" from Dragonette's song Hello (link here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMINnQNpcnc if youre interested). I could feel the joy and excitement i felt resonating with the beings on the ship.

 

I couldnt stay out there long, even in May northern Minnesota nights are cold enough to chill this southern boy right through, lol. But before i left to go to my little basement room i gave them a message. First i poured all the love and welcoming gratitude i could into a shape i use often, a heart with an infinity sign inside it, that i held energetically in my hands. then i threw it up as high as i could, expanding it as it rose, while i told the ship's crew that if they wanted to visit me, i wasnt sure i could articulate how happy id be. Or words to that effect, telepathy is rather grammatically mutable. ;)

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