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Spectacular avalanche in Sunndal, Norway on March 5th ( A note on the above video of bus in sinkhole - it dates from 1984)

 
12 March
Miles-Long Lake Pops Up in Death Valley
Miles-Long Lake Pops Up in Death Valley

Following a storm, a miles-long lake formed in California's Death Valley National Park.
Credit: Elliot McGucken Fine Art

A 10-mile-long (16 kilometers) lake just popped up in the middle of the hottest place on Earth.
Last week, a storm blew through Death Valley National Park in California, drenching the desert and the rest of Southern California. Now, amid the desert's echoing landscape, there sits a very misplaced lake.

The lake formed near Salt Creek, an area near the eastern edge of the park, according to SFGate. It's unclear exactly how big the lake is, but representatives from the park estimated it to be around 10 miles long. [Hell on Earth: Tour Death Valley]
Death Valley is not only the hottest place in the world, with temperatures that can reach 134 degrees Fahrenheit (57 degrees Celsius), but also the driest place in North America.


Death Valley is a desert that has dry, compact soil which doesn't absorb water very well.


Death Valley is a desert that has dry, compact soil which doesn't absorb water very well.
Credit: Elliot McGucken Fine Art

On average, Death Valley receives less than 2 inches (5 centimeters) of rain a year, according to the National Park Service. Typically, about 0.3 inches (0.76 cm) of that rainfall comes in March, but within a single day last week, 0.84 inches (2.13 cm) of rain fell in the park, according to SFGate.

This isn't much when compared with the rainfall in the rest of the country, or even the rain that this storm brought to other parts of Southern California. But unlike other areas, the desert has dry, compact soil that doesn't absorb water well, a National Weather Service meteorologist Todd Lericos told SFGate.

In the aftermath of the storm, California-based photographer Elliot McGucken captured just how bad California's famous desert is at absorbing water in his gorgeous images of the pop-up lake.

Editor's Note: This story was updated to correct the amount of rainfall that fell in Death Valley. It was 2.13 cm, not 213 cm.
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NEBRASKA FLOODING 3-13-2019



Crazy Flooding in Nebraska and Iowa, USA (March 15, 2019).


Yankton, South Dakota flooding 2019. Published Mar 13.

 
18-19/03/19

Sheets of rain at Dubai Intl airport
https://twitter.com/x/status/1107551022044643328

Latest from Popocacatapetl - SOTT reports: Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano suffers largest eruption in years
https://twitter.com/x/status/1107875813330960384

The plague of locusts predicted for the Middle East:
"The #السعودية

site is the road between Badr and Yanbu Al Nakhl filming yesterday from the people of Deira via Aloats"
https://twitter.com/x/status/1107592662562029568

Flooding US
City to close Falls Park due to flooding



Published 5:16 PM EDT Mar 18, 2019

Falls Park will be closing as the city prepares for upcoming flooding expected to follow the melting of snow into the Big Sioux River.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1107674910564982784
https://twitter.com/x/status/1107685939235704833
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Apparently the below was due to rusty foundations, but i'll post it here anyway because it may be that the "excessive moisture" wasn't due to neglect but a change in conditions below ground - the same type of event was reported last year:

Floor suddenly collapses inside a supermarket - 15/03/19

https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/b1657s/floor_suddenly_collapses_inside_a_supermarket/ said:
В петербургском супермаркете провалился пол

====================================== Here's a follow-up:

Spar fell victim to metal corrosion

The floor in the Spar supermarket on the Petrograd side was not brought down by the fatigue of the supporting structures, but by the corrosion of the metal beams. They begin to rust, including due to high humidity.

As reported by the State Housing Inspectorate on March 15, the day before, the GZHI inspected the premises on Bolshoi Prospect, 69, and recorded a partial destruction of the ceilings between the first floor and the basement of approximately 20 square meters. It has been established that their integrity was damaged by the corrosion of metal beams.

The metal gradually turns into dust under the influence of bacteria, aggressive chemical elements and alloys, but the most common cause is excessively wet storage conditions.

Zhilkomservice No. 1 of the Petrogradsky District, which controls the building, is instructed to install rack mounts for emergency structures, as well as to involve specialists, to conduct a survey of the ceilings and repair the damaged ones.

Emergencyly strengthen the premises of the FSW immediately after the emergency, and today the staff took up the planned plumbing work and began to dry the basement . According to the residents of the five-story building, the water usually stands there, and moisture adds melting snow, which flows through the hole in the ground to the foundation.

Жилинспекция назвала причину обрушения в доме на Большом проспекте. Spar пал жертвой коррозии металла

Жилинспекция назвала причину обрушения в доме на Большом проспекте. Spar пал жертвой коррозии металла
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Raw video of the aerial tour of flood and storm done by the Governor of Nebraska on Saturday afternoon. Published on Mar 17, 2019

 
Fireball event uploaded by Y.Wang to AMS website (March 19th, Qujing, China):
Edit: AMS event #1239-2019
 
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