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Brazil has so few tornadoes that it doesn’t even have theequipment to forecast them, but the town of Crici

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UPDATE: 01/07/05: The Pinapple Express is slamming intoCalifornia, but fortunately it’s 24 hours too late to set upthe conditions necessary for a three-front faceoff over thecentral US. Thus the rare event that appeared to pose aserious weather hazard in that area will now either nothappen or be delayed until next week.

If it does happen, this rare event is likely to unfold overthe central UnitedStates during the middle of next week. It will bring severestorms involvingsnow, ice, rain and possible rare midwinter tornadoes. 2004was a record year for tornadoes in the US, and in 2005California has already seen tornadoes and waterspouts,previously extremely rare in the far west.
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Two weeks ago, we were reporting unusual lights andexplosions over Indonesia. A month ago, the phenomenonappeared over China and Australia. Now, the phenomonon isbeing reported over Wisconsin

In all three [previous cases, the events were attributed tometeors. In all three cases, they were followed byearthquakes. Last Sunday, an extraordinary 47 quakes struckChina as the horrendous Sumatra ‘great quake’ caused thetsunami that has killed at least 155,000 people and injuredhalf a million. A quake between Tasmania and Antarcticapreceeded the Sumatra quake by four days
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Elephants in Sumatra felt the tsunami coming and startedtrumpeting, alerting local people to the coming danger.Tourists were riding about a dozen of the elephants, whichsuddenly turned and ran away from the beach. Others brokethe heavy chains on their legs and stampeded, but somestopped and picked up people with their trunks, depositingthem on their backs, before they ran.

This is one of a building number of examples of animalstaking action to save themselves and others throughout thestricken region of the tsunami. Clearly, the animals aremuch more in touch with earth than we are. We need to taketheir example to heart.

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