Tornadoes Swat Southeast; Seven Injured

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Weather.com - Becky Kellogg, 10/19/12

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This NOAA satellite image taken Thursday, Oct. 17, 2012 at 1:45 a.m. EDT shows a line of strong and severe thunderstorms along a cold front moving into the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys. A warm front extends across the northern Great Lakes to New York with areas of showers and rain. Scattered showers and thunderstorms are near the Florida Keys. Weather Underground — AP Photo

Thunderstorms swept through the lower and middle-Mississippi Valleys Wednesday night into early Thursday morning with damaging winds and tornadoes. An EF1 tornado was confirmed in the Arkansas town of Clarendon. 

Seven more tornadoes were confirmed in Mississippi. This includes a strong EF3 tornado that struck Scott and Newton Counties. The EF3 tornado is only the second tornado of this intensity to strike Mississippi in the month of October.

Large Portions Of MN Under Extreme Drought

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CBS Minnestota - Rachel Slavik, 10/18/12

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The lack of rain in Minnesota has left most of the state under extreme drought conditions, according to the Department of Natural Resources.

According to a drought condition map, large portions of the northwest, west central, southwest and south central areas of Minnesota are in the extreme drought category. Nearly half of Minnesota is under extreme or severe drought.

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Latest Volcanic Activity - October 20, 2012

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Source: VolcanoDiscovery.com

 

Unrest at Raung volcano (East-Java, Indonesia)

Friday Oct 19, 2012, BY: VOLCANOBULLETIN

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Raung volcano (not to be confused with Ruang volcano in the Sangihe islands), Eastern Java began to show increased seismicity since the 17 September. Small white plumes were seen rising to heights between 50-75 M above the crater.

The Alert Level was raised to 2 on a scale of 1-4 be the VSI on 18 September.

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U.S. officials turn attention to the possibility of volcanic eruptions in southwest

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Source: The Extinction Protocol, 10/20/12

 Experts in volcano hazards and public safety have started a conversation about volcanoes in the southwestern United States, and how best to prepare for future activity. Prior to this meeting, emergency response planning for volcanic unrest in the region had received little attention by federal or state agencies.

 

Though volcanic eruptions are comparatively rare in the American Southwest, the states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah host geologically-recent volcanic eruption deposits and are vulnerable to future volcanic activity. Compared with other parts of the western U.S., comparatively little research has been focused on this area, and eruption probabilities are poorly understood.

 

Peru landslide kills 11 in jungle village

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BBC - 10/18/12

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At least 11 people have died and another 10 are missing after a landslide in northern Peru.

At least a dozen homes were swept away as mud and rocks crashed into the village of El Porvenir in the province of San Martin.

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Heavenletter #4348 The Grand Inquisition II, October 20, 2012

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Heavenletter #4348 The Grand Inquisition II, October 20, 2012 

 

God said: 

 

Children ask endless questions of their parents: ”What color is the sky? Why is it blue then? Why isn’t the sky green and the grass blue? Can I go to the circus Sunday? Why can’t I go to the circus Sunday? Can I go Saturday? Why did I fall down and hurt my knee and cry? Why does it hurt? You can fix it, can’t you? You’re my mother, aren’t you?”

And you don’t like the answer: “You are too young to understand.” You don’t like that answer at all.

And you turn to Me and ask: “God, why do I hurt? And why do You allow it?”

You have the same questions, and now you ask them of Me. “When you were a child, you spake as a child.” And you never liked the answer from your parents simply that you are too young to understand.

Beloveds, you do know that you cannot go to an encyclopedia and find answers to your deepest questions. You do grasp that questions for information are one thing, and that the questions you ask are for far more than information. You do already know and understand and accept the concept about levels of awareness. You just don’t like to hear it.

You do understand that a child doesn’t have to have answers to all his questions. What then, beloveds, if the child did? What if the child had instant understanding?

Fear

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Dan And Sheila Gendron – Fear – 19 October 2012

If we were to pinpoint the one pervasive emotion in society today, it would be fear. People all around you are fearful of almost everything. They fear the police. They fear the IRS, ATF, TSA and all the other “alphabet police”. They fear losing their job. They fear losing their house. They fear their city or town government. And they fear the mother of them all — fear of continuing life without enough money to maintain their current lifestyle (or at least the one they remember from a decade ago). Most people rationalize these fears as normal because “everyone has them”.

We are trained from a very early age to act out of fear. We fear our teachers wrath, so we do our homework. We fear clergymen, for they decide if we go to heaven or hell, so we say all the right prayers. We fear older children who may bully us so we cross the street to avoid them. Later on in life we fear the cost and hassle of a ticket, so we fasten our seat belts. We fear losing our house so we work in a job that means nothing, offers us no personal satisfaction other than just enough money to keep us trying to reach the carrot on the stick.

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