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Massive Fla. wildfire spreads smoke across state

Written by Dan
Monday, 19 May 2008
The Associated Press South Florida residents were warned to stay indoors and a state prison and federal detention center were evacuated Monday as smoke from a massive wildfire in Everglades National Park billowed their way. No structures were in danger, though officials said the fire was burning in the only known habitat for the endangered Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow. The 36,000-acre blaze was about 30% contained. The smoke was blowing to the northeast, said U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Nina Barrow. Smoke and fog advisories were issued for Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Glades counties. Moderate to "unhealthy" air quality conditions were expected throughout the week, according to the Miami-Dade County Department of Environmental Resource Management.
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Tornadoes leave at least 19 dead in Mo., Okla.

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Sunday, 11 May 2008
PICHER, Okla. (AP) — Many have fled this depressed, pollution-scarred mining town. Those who have chosen to stay or have not yet relocated face a new heartache. A tornado ripped through a 20-block swath of Picher, Okla. late Saturday afternoon, killing at least seven people. The same storm system then moved into southwest Missouri where tornadoes took the lives of at least 12 others, authorities said. Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. George Brown said Picher's victims included an infant. He said at least three people were confirmed missing. "We've seen homes that were completely leveled to the foundation," Brown said. "In a few of these homes you would have had to be subterranean to survive." Ottawa County Emergency Manager Frank Geasland said dozens of people were injured, some seriously.
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Storm Chaser Arrested

Written by Dan
Thursday, 08 May 2008
By Victor Lopez NewsWest 9 CRANE COUNTY--Chasing storms is what Brian Barnes does for a living. And it was while he was doing just that, that he says he found himself in a difficult and strange situation involving a Crane County Sheriff's Deputy. Barnes was out on Tuesday in Crane County as severe weather moved across the region. Crane County was under a tornado warning for about an hour Tuesday night. "I told him that I was helping out the National Weather Service in San Angelo, and they were relaying my reports to Midland. He told me he didn't care, and that I needed to go." Barnes thought it was his obligation to stay put and follow the storms, a decision that landed him in jail. "He jumped out and put me in handcuffs. I turned around and I remember him slamming me up against his vehicle, and then it all got kind of scary." Among the witnesses was Dennis Greer, who had a similar run-in, with the same deputy, just minutes earlier while he was shooting picutures of the same storm for the local newspaper. "His first words to me were, 'are you a blankety-blank idiot?' He told me if I didn't leave, I was going to jail, flat out," Greer said. Barnes was arrested at a road side park on Highway 385 and charged with obstruction of a highway or other passage way. According to witnesses, there is plenty of room on on the road in front of the park for a vehicle to get by. That's why they are questioning the validity of the charge. Dennis Greer says, "The guy wasn't blocking anything. He was able to drive a full size truck by with no problem." In addition to the charges, people were taken aback by the deputy's attitude. "He came down there, and was just very abusive in his language. Never once did he state to me why he would arrest me, or why he was doing anything", Greer says. Barnes adds, "He continued to say that I was the example why people were stopping and that I was putting those other people at risk, because they were stopping behind me." Barnes says that during his years of storm chasing, this is the first time anything like this has ever happened to him. And despite this one incident, he has good things to say, about West Texas. "I have to say that everytime I come to West Texas, the people here are outstanding. They are the most friendly people I've ever met," he said. Barnes was released on a $2,000 bond. He plans to hire a Dallas attorney to handle his case. Calls to the Crane County Sheriff's Office for comment were not returned. Click More to see this storm chasers blog entry
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Lack of radar hampered cyclone warning in Burma

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Wednesday, 07 May 2008
GENEVA — The government of Myanmar told the United Nations it warned its population of the devastating cyclone that struck over the weekend, but it lacked a radar to predict the high tidal waves that caused most of the fatalities, the U.N. weather agency said Wednesday. "The storm surge was the major cause of the disaster," said Dieter Schiessl, director of the World Meteorological Organization's disaster risk reduction unit. Myanmar's meteorology department started to send out warnings six days before Cyclone Nargis hit the coast, based on information from World Meteorological Organization offices around the world, Schiessl told reporters in Geneva, where the agency is based. The wind speed was correctly forecast, he said. But "the problem was the lack of a radar network to monitor the storm," Schiessl said.
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Va. tornado survivors return to destroyed homes

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Wednesday, 30 April 2008
By Bob Lewis, Associated Press Writer SUFFOLK, Va. — Residents gathered at a school Wednesday, carrying black garbage bags and backpacks as they waited to be taken to their tornado-ravaged neighborhoods to gather necessities from their homes. Several said they were upset that officials were allowing them only 10 minutes at their houses. "I understand the need to make sure more people don't get hurt but it's still frustrating," John Catania said. Catania got his first look at his flattened house Wednesday, and said it "looked like somebody took a broom and swept the pad clean." Worried state officials had said earlier they didn't know if residents would encounter new dangers, including damaged power lines and natural gas mains. "These guys don't know what's under the debris, but that's the way it is in these situations: We like to do these things ourselves," state emergency management spokesman Bob Spieldenner said Tuesday. Police listed condemned homes that homeowners wouldn't be allowed to go into Wednesday. Tuesday, the day after tornadoes struck the region, firefighters poked through mounds of rubble sometimes 6 to 8 feet high to make sure no one lay beneath them, and utility crews worked around the clock to make sure electricity and gas lines presented no danger.
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