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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is reporting that the combined average global land and ocean surface temperatures for the period March-May 2008, ranked seventh warmest, with May being the eighth warmest since worldwide records started in 1880. This is according to an analysis by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.
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3:00 PM (EDT) – Not since 1993, has Des Moines, Iowa seen a flooding disaster of this degree. Only this time it is worse then it was back then. One resident referred to it as “our version of Katrina”.
As of this writing, the University of Iowa Art Campus has been abandoned despite residents best efforts, and it has succumbed to flooding from the already over-swollen Iowa river.
Despite officials’ best attempts to forestall the flooding with a sand berm, the effort has been abandoned and hundreds of additional homes not already flooded are now at risk from the natural disaster that has gripped the city over the last few days due to unprecedented torrential rains.
Cedar Rapids has already succumbed to massive flooding and city officials are saying it will take days before the 400 city blocks that are under water can begin to be pumped out. Nearly 20% of the city’s nearly 120,000 residents have been forced to evacuate from their homes.
Additional quakes/aftershocks continue to hit Honshu, Japan which yesterday received a massive 6.9 earthquake that killed 6 people and injured over 144 people.
The additonal quakes ranged in magnitude from 5.0 – 5.5 and occured near midnight last night and as early as 10:42 AM this morning (EDT).
