Information for Arizona Homeowners and Buyers Posted: 04 Aug 2009 10:44 PM PDT The Arizona Geological Survey has lots of geologic hazards information for homeowners and home buyers that can be downloaded and viewed immediately for free from their website. Their webpage for real estate hazards includes information on floods, earthquakes, problem soils, mass movements, subsidence and earth fissures, radon, karst, abandon mines, volcanic hazards, radon and [...]  |
| From Mining Town to Ghost Town Posted: 04 Aug 2009 10:35 PM PDT The mining town of Picher, Oklahoma is slowly becoming a ghost town. The lead mines have contaminated the area’s water, soil, and air, and now the government is trying to encourage the 80 or so remaining residents to leave - before the utilities are shut off for good.  |
| Florida Has A “Python Problem” Posted: 04 Aug 2009 08:06 PM PDT Dangerous pythons up to 200 pounds in weight and 12 feet in length are not uncommon in Florida since a reptile farm was damaged during Hurricane Andrew. One expert estimates that over 100,000 pythons are now crawling around the southern portion of the state.  |
| Posted: 04 Aug 2009 07:44 PM PDT CNN has a few photos of the flooding in Kentucky. Storms there dumped up to six inches of rain in the Louisville area.  |
| Posted: 04 Aug 2009 06:00 PM PDT Heavy rains of up to six inches in one hour caused flash flooding in the Louisville area. Cars were stranded in the streets, schools were closed and the National Guard was sent out to rescue people trapped in flooded homes and vehicles.  |
| Posted: 04 Aug 2009 05:55 PM PDT $5 million in stimulus money is being used to remove abandoned fishing nets from Puget Sound. The coastal waters contain about 3,000 nets, which pose a hazard to fish, birds, and humans. Embedded video from CNN Video  |
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