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Date: May 12, 2012 at 22:26:02
From: kay.so.or, [DNS_Address]
Subject: 40 die in Chinese hailstorm |
URL: http://news.yahoo.com/40-die-chinese-hailstorm-025545758.html |
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Forty people were killed when a brief but violent hailstorm and torrential rain swept through a mountainous region of northwest China, according to the local government.
Eighteen others remained missing in Min county, a disaster-prone area of Gansu province, while 87 had been sent to hospital, the county government said in a statement on its website.
Officials said 29,300 people had been evacuated after rain and hail battered the county for just 60 minutes late Thursday afternoon.
It had "wreaked havoc" on all of the county's 18 townships and had affected more than two-thirds of its 450,000 residents, the state-controlled Xinhua news agency reported.
"Roads were blocked, houses collapsed, farmland was destroyed, and the power supply and telecommunications services were disrupted by the extreme weather," the agency said, quoting Xu Guangyao, a senior county official.
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Date: May 12, 2012 at 23:54:08
From: Polydactyl in N. Bay, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: 40 die in Chinese hailstorm |
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They evacuated 29+ thousand after a 60 minute hail - unbelievable! Remember the snowstorm the govt created from weather engineering experiments? I wonder if this was man made too? Did they die from blunt trauma or flooding? Truly an amazing story.
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