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DISASTER
Fishermen
hit
hard by windy
conditions
.
The
fisherman who hails from
Kanyakumari in India said winds of this strength were a rare
occurrence and were usually felt from mid- December to the beginning
of January.“However, this time all our calculations went awry,”
he said.One of his friends, Sarto also said the windy conditions
threw had upset their plans. Fishermen follow the forecasting
guidelines of the Met office religiously. Since almost all larger
fishing vessels are equipped with Global Positioning System (GPS)
devices, news on weather spreads quickly.
by Ramesh
Mathew,
Gulf Times,
02/03/2008
Dozens
injured, 2 die
in Georgia
storm
.
TWO
people in rural northwest Georgia
died and dozens were injured after a series of severe storms moved
through the state, producing the firstever tornado to hit downtown
Atlanta. A woman was killed in Polk County on Saturday afternoon when
a storm demolished her home and threw her and her husband into a
field, while an elderly man in neighbouring Floyd County was killed
by flying debris as he sat in his home, The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution reported. Officials have not released the
victims' names. Calls to the Polk and Floyd County sheriff's
departments were not immediately returned.
The
Deccan Herald,
17/03/2008
Gujarat
hits by
tremors
A
moderate earthquake of intensity 5.2
on the Richter scale shook Gujarat late on Tuesday. The quake struck
at 11.50:46 pm. The epicentre of the quake was believed to be
Bhachau, near Bhuj, which was flattened by the January 26, 2001,
earthquake. Tremors were also felt in Bhavnagar, Ahmedabad, Rajkot,
and Surat. "My building shook," an Ahmedabad resident said.
"Kitchen utensils fell." An official at the Indian
Meteorological Department in New Delhi confirmed the tremors.
DNA, 20/03/2008
Worried
Missouri
Residents Watch as
Floods Rise
The
Meramec River, which snakes through
the hill country before feeding into the Mississippi, had crested
here, about 30 miles west of St. Louis, and in nearby Eureka. In the
afternoon, the National Weather Service reported that the river had
peaked in Valley Park at 37.83 feet, less than two feet shy of the
record, about 20 miles west of St. Louis. by Malcolm Gay,
The New
York Times, 23/03/2008
Heavy
fine planned
for out-of-state
trawlers
Foreign
trawlers and hi-tech mechanised
vessels from neighbouring states may soon pay heavily for fishing in
Maharashtra's territorial waters. The state fisheries department has
proposed a slew of amendments to the Maharashtra Fisheries Regulation
Act, 1981 to prohibit outside vessels from fishing in the 1.32 lakh
sq km territorial water area of the state and a proposal to this
effect is likely to be taken up by the state cabinet at its meeting.
The move is aimed to protect the livelihood of the fishing community
from Mumbai, Thane and coastal districts of the Konkan region which
has been affected due to illegal fishing by foreign trawlers and
those belonging to states such as Karnataka and Gujarat.
by
Nitin
Yeshwantrao, The Times of India, 07/03/2008
Rain
kills 9 in N
Karnataka
Incessant
rains lashing northern
Karnataka claimed nine lives on Sunday even as extensive damage to
standing crops in vast swathes of fields has been reported in the
region. Several instances of house collapses poured in from across
Bombay- Karnataka and Hyderabad- Karnataka districts. Four persons
were killed in house collapses in Gulbarga district alone. While an
eight-year-old girl and a 60-year-old woman died in house collapses
in Belgaum district, a man was crushed to death after he came under
the trunk of a tree which was uprooted in Bijapur district.
Nine-year-old Ravi died at Chandrabanda in Raichur taluk after
lightning struck him, while an old woman reportedly died in a house
collapse at Jakkaladinni village in Manvi taluk of Raichur district.
The Deccan Herald, 24/03/2008
Forest
fire engulfs
tiger reserve
A
DEVASTATING forest fire has engulfed
around 100 sq km of forests and wildlife area in Melghat-Gugamal
tiger reserves in Amravati district, approximately 250 km from here.
The areas that have been badly affected are: Dhakna, Wan, Sonala and
Somthana forest ranges of the region. Sources said most of the forest
officials, particularly middle-ranking and senior personnel, are on
leave since March 21. "The absence of staff has affected fire
fighting efforts. Even incessant drizzle over the last two days, it
has not helped us in any way to bring the fire under control,"
an official said.
by
Pradip Kumar Maitra, The Hindustan
Times, 26/03/2008
