http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index.php?smp=&lang=engMelting ice in southern Chile caused a glacial lake to swell and then empty suddenly, sending a ''tsunami'' rolling through a river, a scientist said Thursday. No one was injured in the remote region. Glacier scientist Gino Casassa said the melting of the Colonia glacier, which he blamed on rising world temperatures, filled the Cachet Lake and increased pressure on the ice sheet. The water bored a five-mile tunnel through the glacier and finally emptied into the Baker River on April 6. ''The remarkable thing is that the mass of water moved against the current of the river,'' Casassa said the Center for Scientific Studies in the southern city of Valdivia. "It was a real river tsunami.'' The lake was nearly full again by late Wednesday, he said. Casassa said temperatures were unusually high during the recent Southern Hemisphere summer. ''This is a phenomenon that occurs periodically during the summer season, caused by the melting of large masses of ice that swell some lakes,'' he said. "The basic cause is global warming.'' The Tempano lake in Chile's Bernardo O'Higgins National Park abruptly disappeared last year, and has since recovered just some of its former volume.)
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and look who helped after a terrible thunderstorm in Malaysia
A thunderstorm damaged 22 houses, seven of them with their roofs blown off in Kampung Keda in Sungai Semiar and Kampung Bukit Hangus, here yesterday.
In the 4.45pm incident, some villagers had to run for cover when uprooted trees fell on their houses. Forty-six people from 21 houses affected in Kampung Keda and another in Kampung Bukit Hangus were sheltered at the multi-purpose hall at their villages. A victim, Zainab Saad, 56, she held her two children tightly when the roof of her house was blown off by a strong wind. Another victim, Mohd Shahrul Nizam M. Rasmi, 22, said she, her mother and six siblings watched helplessly when the roof of their house became loose and carried off by the wind. “After scrambling for safety, we tried to cover our furniture and electrical appliances from being drenched in the rain,” he said. His mother, Azainah Dolah, 47, said the thunderstorm was the worst she had experienced since living in Kampung Keda 10 years ago. “Thank God nobody was injured,” she said. The Welfare Services Department provided the victims with food, mats and blankets last night. The victims’ houses will be repaired by the 19th battalion of the Royal Malay Regiment, Sungai Petani. Its B Company head Kapten Mohd Azamri Abdullah said 35 personnel would begin repairing the houses once they received the building materials.)
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New Orleans needed a B Company
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