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‘They Just Washed His Blood Off and Then Re-opened’: Father of Two Killed By Security Guard After Allegedly Shoplifting 25-cent Cupcakes from a Milwaukee Convenience Store – Yahoo News
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18 dead as heavy rains lash north India; shops, cars washed away in Himachal; waterlogging in several parts of Punjab, Haryana – The Tribune India
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Hurricane Nicole: Beachfront homes in small Florida community washed away
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Trip Valigorsky’s beachfront home in a tight-knit community in Volusia County, Florida had been in his family for nearly 15 years before it was washed away this week, as the dangerous storm surge and powerful winds caused by Hurricane Nicole swept across Florida.
“This home was my grandma’s favorite place,” Valigorsky told CNN. “Some of the best memories with her were here.”
Valigorksy is just one of many residents in the beachfront neighborhood of Wilbur-By-The-Sea whose homes were damaged or destroyed by the storm.
In Volusia County, at least 49 beachfront properties, including hotels and condos, have been deemed “unsafe” in the aftermath of Nicole, which hit Florida’s eastern coast south of Vero Beach as a Category 1 hurricane early Thursday before weakening into a tropical storm and eventually becoming a post-tropical cyclone Friday afternoon.
Video from the county shows homes crumbling, reduced to wreckage, as Nicole’s waves erode the coastline. Separate video shows the county’s beach safety office collapsing into the rising water.
Sea level in this part of Florida has risen more than a foot in the past 100 years, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and most of that rise has occurred in the past three decades.
Scientists and researchers have long warned that sea level rise is leading to more erosion and high-tide flooding — particularly during extreme coastal storms.
This has put even more stress on seawalls that are meant to protect coastal communities from high waves and water levels, many of which were destroyed this week by the storm surge. One seawall that was put up on Tuesday, which Valigorsky and his neighbors had hoped would protect their properties from damage, crumbled into the ocean by Wednesday, he said.
“It was stressful wondering if it would fall, and here we are,” Valigorsky said.
On Wednesday morning, Valigorsky decided to grab his essential belongings and his dog to evacuate the area as he watched the storm become even more severe. By the time he returned, all that remained of his home was the garage and the front foyer.
As his community begins to rebuild their neighborhood in the aftermath of Nicole, Valigorsky said he plans to reconstruct his home alongside his neighbors who also lost theirs.
Another resident, Phil Martin, lost his entire home during the hurricane this week.
“It was the most devastating thing to see,” Martin said. “We didn’t think it would be this bad.”
Martin said he has lived in the area for two years and the home was his permanent residence where he spent time with his children and grandchildren, playing soccer in the backyard or walking down to the beach.
“There’s no politics at the beach, everyone gets along,” Martin said, adding that his community and those surrounding Wilbur-By-The-Sea are keeping his spirits high.
“Everything happened very fast with this one,” he said. “But we’re going to rebuild, we’ve got this.”
Just six weeks ago, Hurricane Ian’s storm surge eroded parts of Florida’s eastern coast, hitting the area where a seawall was built behind Martin’s home as well as his neighbors’. Now, he said, that seawall is gone.
The back-to-back nature of storms is making seawalls – which are already aging – more vulnerable, Brian McNoldy, a senior research associate at the University of Miami’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, previously told CNN.
“It doesn’t really take a strong storm – you just need high tides or storm-agitated tides to wash away or put extra stress on the walls,” he said. “Having these two storms six weeks apart, if you don’t give places any time to repair or replenish, each storm definitely leaves its mark.”
Arlisa Payne, who has been a resident of the beachfront community for most of her life, told CNN affiliate Spectrum News 13 that she’s “never seen anything like this” after assessing the damage caused by Hurricane Nicole.
Although her home survived the storm, Payne said that she is concerned the seawall in front of her house is at risk of collapsing.
The mother of four children said many of her neighbor’s homes were not damaged by Hurricane Ian but they were hit hard by Nicole, making it difficult for the community to prepare for such storms.
“I think this caught a lot of people off guard,” she said. “How do you prepare for this? People can’t prepare for it.”
100-year-old Greenland shark that washed up on UK beach had brain infection, autopsy finds
The super-rare Greenland shark that washed ashore in England last month had a brain infection when it died, according to an animal autopsy of its remains.
Pathologists discovered evidence of meningitis, an inflammation of the protective membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord, according to a statement from the Zoological Society of London (opens in new tab) (ZSL). This is the first reported disease-related death in a Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus), an elusive, long-lived species that lives in the deep waters of the Arctic and North Atlantic.
“During the post-mortem examination, the brain did look slightly discoloured and congested and the fluid around the brain was cloudy, raising the possibility of infection,” James Barnett, a pathologist with Cornwall Marine Pathology Team, a part of the U.K. Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP) and ZSL, said in the statement.
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A microscopic examination of the Greenland shark’s brain fluid revealed Pasteurella, a species of bacteria. “This may well have been the cause of the meningitis,” Barnett said.
The Greenland shark was likely about 100 years old when it died. This may sound old, but it’s quite young for a Greenland shark, making this individual a juvenile female. While it’s unknown how long these sharks can live, they can make it to at least 272 years of age, a 2016 study published in the journal Science (opens in new tab) found.
The deceased shark, which measured 13 feet (4 meters) long and weighed 628 pounds (285 kilograms), stranded near Newlyn Harbour in Cornwall, in southwest England, on March 13, but the tide swept the animal’s body back out to sea, Live Science previously reported. A recreational boating company recovered the shark’s body on March 15, making it the U.K.’s second recorded Greenland shark stranding to date.
The meningitis found during the necropsy, or animal autopsy, likely explains why the shark had ventured out of its natural deep-water habitat and eventually stranded, according to the statement.
The shark’s body was damaged, and there were signs of hemorrhaging within the soft tissue around the pectoral fins, which, coupled with the silt found in its stomach, suggested the shark was still alive when it washed ashore, Barnett said. “As far as we’re aware, this is one of the first post-mortem examinations here in the U.K. of a Greenland shark and the first account of meningitis in this species,” Barnett said.
The shark’s death gives “insight into the life and death of a species we know little about,” Rob Deaville, CSIP project lead, said in the statement. “Ultimately, like most marine life, deep sea species such as Greenland sharks may also be impacted by human pressures on the ocean, but there is not enough evidence at this stage to make any connections.”
The team plans to publish a research study on the shark’s postmortem report.
Originally published on Live Science.
11 strange things that washed ashore in 2021
Beaches across the globe saw their share of weird blobs wash ashore. Sometimes this shoreline debris was small and weird, like a tangled rope coral that found its way onto a beach in Texas, or the tar balls that dotted Israel’s Mediterranean coastline in February. Other times, the organisms numbered in the millions, such as the by-the-wind sailor jellyfish whose corpses stranded across shores; and in other instances, the beached animal itself was a behemoth, such as the rotting body of a nearly 10-foot-long (3 meters) “river monster” spotted near the Gulf of Mexico this year. Here’s a look at the wild and strange “things” that washed ashore in 2021.
Millions of ‘sailor’ jellyfish
Every year, millions of by-the-wind sailor jellyfish (Velella velella) wash up and die on beaches around the world. These jellies float near the top of the ocean, and have a little sail on their backs that catches wind and pushes them from one feeding ground to the next. When wind patterns change with the seasons, huge colonies of the jellies can end up stranded on the shore. Sometimes, those colonies include thousands of individual jellies; other times, they include millions.
Why are some Velella stranding events so much more massive than others? A study published in March 2021 found that the biggest stranding events occurred in years with record high ocean surface temperatures, driven by a phenomenon known as “the blob.” The blob warms surface waters in the Pacific Ocean, fostering larger colonies of Velella at sea; when the winds change, those massive colonies end up on shore, littering beaches with millions of jelly carcasses. This trend of mass die-offs will likely continue as global warming escalates over the coming decades.
Read more: Millions of dead jellyfish are washing up around the world. ‘The blob’ could be to blame.
Young killer whale strands on Scottish beach
A juvenile killer whale was heroically rescued in January after getting stranded on a Scottish beach. A group of trained medics from the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) and helpful locals carried out the rescue on Sanday, an island off the coast of Scotland. After determining the animal was healthy and old enough to survive on its own, they managed to get it off its side and onto a special dolphin stretcher. It took eight people to lift the 11-foot-long (3.4 meter) orca into deeper water. Then, it suddenly headed off and was never seen again.
The entire rescue took just over an hour, but BDMLR area coordinator Neave-Webb, who led the rescue, believes it was only possible because of the team’s newly acquired dolphin stretcher and the help of the locals. “It was a lucky animal to strand on an island with people who knew what they were doing and had the equipment to save it,” she told Live Science. “It definitely chose the right place to throw itself on the beach.”
Read more: Young killer whale rescued after stranding on Scottish beach
A truck-size basking shark
A male basking shark measuring 26 feet (8 meters) long washed up on the coast of Bremen, Maine in January, stunning local fishermen with its pickup-truck-sized body. Basking sharks live in warm waters across the world, and are the second largest fish in the sea; Only the elusive whale shark, which measures up to 60 feet (18 m), is longer. Despite their formidable size, basking sharks are harmless to humans. They mainly prefer to cruise through the water with mouths open, filtering tasty zooplankton and tiny invertebrates through their complex gills. As for the Bremen shark’s cause of death? Marine researchers still aren’t sure.
Read more: A truck-size shark washed up on a Maine beach. How did it die?
Twisted ‘rope pile’ on a Texas beach
It might look like a tangled snarl of yellow rope, but this knotty pile that washed up on a beach in Texas is really a type of coral known as a colorful sea whip (Leptogorgia virgulata). Colonies of soft-bodied coral polyps lend sea whips their vibrant colors, in shades of yellow, red, orange, purple, lavender and violet. After a National Park Service (NPS) guide found the partly-buried “rope ball” at the Padre Island National Seashore near the Gulf of Mexico, she shared the image on Facebook. Several commenters remarked that they had seen colorful sea whips on the beach before, but had always assumed that the creatures were trash, such as discarded cord or part of a fishing net.
Read more: ‘Pile of rope’ on a Texas beach is a weird, real-life sea creature
40 refloated whales in New Zealand
Hundreds of people assembled on a remote beach in New Zealand when 49 long-finned pilot whales stranded there on a February morning. Nine of the whales died during the stranding, but conservation rangers, locals and volunteers from the marine rescue group Project Jonah tended to the surviving whales throughout the day, keeping their skin cool and moist and preventing their fins from being crushed beneath their beached bodies. High tide rolled in by evening, allowing the group to guide the whales back into deeper water. The volunteers herded the whales back into a pod and then formed a barrier to usher them away from shore; once the animals reached deep enough water, boats began patrolling the shoreline to keep the whales away from the beach.
Read more: 40 beached whales ‘refloated’ in New Zealand
Toxic tar balls wash up on Israel’s coastline
In February, strange balls of tar began to wash up along Israel’s Mediterranean coastline. Over 100 miles (160 kilometers) were affected by the tar balls which were the result of an oil spill 31 miles (50 km) off the coast. Normally, oil spills form a slick across the sea’s surface and washes up on beaches in a more liquid form. The Israel spill, however, turned into tar balls because rough sea conditions from a storm broke up the slick and mixed it into the seawater for several days creating small concentrated blobs of congealed oil. It was described by officials as “one of the most serious ecological disasters” the country had ever seen. Beaches also had to be closed to the public after several cleanup volunteers had to be taken to hospital after inhaling toxic fumes given off by the tar balls.
Read more: Mysterious oil spill covers Israel’s coastline in toxic tar balls
Amazon ‘river monster’ turns up dead in Florida
When Florida locals found the rotting body of a dead Amazon “river monster” near the Gulf of Mexico, many worried that this beast might become the state’s latest invasive species. But this so-called monster, the arapaima (Arapaima gigas), faces many hurdles before it can call Florida home.
The arapaima is one of the world’s largest freshwater fish, and can grow to be 10 feet (3 meters) long and up to 440 lbs. (200 kilograms). But it has a few quirks: It breeds only in nests on flood plains, spends valuable time and energy caring for its young, and doesn’t reach sexual maturity until it’s about 5 feet (1.5 m) long and at least 3 to 5 years old, Solomon David, an aquatic ecologist at Nicholls State University in Louisiana who wasn’t involved with the recent arapaima sighting, told Live Science.
What’s more, it would take many arapaimas to set up a viable population in Florida, and just one dead arapaima has been found so far, David noted. But wildlife officials should still be on the lookout just in case these fish get a foothold in the Sunshine State, he said.
Read more: Amazon ‘river monster’ turns up dead in Florida
Majestic moofish surprises Oregon beachgoers
The dazzling remains of a 100-pound (45 kilograms) moonfish washed up on an Oregon beach in July, where it surprised beachgoers with its girth and glistening hue. The 3.5-foot-long (1 meter) fish (also called an opah) showed off a mix of silvery and bright reddish-orange scales with scattered white dots covering its flattened body. And it sported golden eyes.
Even more surprising than its appearance was finding the fish hundreds of miles from home. These pelagic, or open ocean, fish are typically found off the coast of California and near Hawaii, so finding one so far north is extremely rare. As for why the hefty fish had meandered so far north, global warming could be the culprit; as ocean temperatures heat up, opah are leaving their too-balmy homes for once-colder dwellings. “We are seeing some marine organisms moving northward as ocean temperatures increase,” Heidi Dewar, a research biologist with NOAA Fisheries who was not involved in the recovery, told The Washington Post.
And the fish’s “life” wasn’t over quite yet: Scientists at the Seaside Aquarium in Oregon froze the beached opah so that students this year could dissect its scaly remains.
Read more: Majestic 100-pound moonfish washes up on Oregon beach
A fish inside a jellyfish
Dead jellyfish dotting the shoreline are typically nothing to stop and look at. But in August, a peculiar blob caused beachgoers in the U.K. to take notice. This cnidarian had an undigested fish in its translucent bell for all to see. The juvenile fish must have been consumed right before the hungry compass jellyfish (Chrysaora hysoscella) — named for its brown, V-shaped markings that are reminiscent of a compass — met its end as well.
The unfortunate fish could have been hiding out in the jelly’s tentacles, a known behavior, when its protector struck. The jellyfish likely stung the fish to death and would have continued to slowly digest the snack in its rudimentary stomach had it not washed ashore and met its doom, Live Science reported.
A local photographer who spotted the beached jelly while walking his dog near Padstow in Cornwall on Aug. 4, said “It’s not something you see every day,” according to The Daily Mail.
Read more: Translucent jellyfish, with fish trapped inside it, washes up on UK beach
Record-breaking sawfish ‘mom’ a boon to science
This toothy invertebrate never got to bask in the glory of breaking a world record for largest smalltooth sawfish ever recorded. That’s because the animal was dead when scientists found (and measured) it in the Florida Keys in April. Perhaps on the bright side, the 16-foot-long (4.9 meters) specimen was a boon to science. The fish had softball-size eggs in her reproductive tract, meaning scientists could study the carcass to learn more about this individual’s age and reproductive past, as well as that for her species,
“Although it’s a sad occurrence when a big animal like that dies, from a scientific standpoint we knew we could learn a lot from it,” said Gregg Poulakis, a fish biologist at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. “That makes us feel a little bit better about having lost such a big female.”
The fish could also be one of the oldest of its kind ever recorded. “We’re excited to see how old the 16-footer that we got this week is,” Poulakis said. “My guess is that she is older than [14],” which would mean she would be tied with the current record-holder for the oldest sawfish Poulakis’ team had ever caught.
Read more: Largest recorded smalltooth sawfish washes up dead in Florida
‘Death in a dumpster’ washes up in Plymouth
Some beached animals garner attention for their looks, while others just smell really, really bad. That was the case for a minke whale found dead in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in July, which locals said had such a bad odor it was “like death in a dumpster,” according to news reports at the time.
Typically, a whale carcass like this one would be left on the beach to naturally decompose, where it could serve as a buffet for scavengers before the nutrients seep back into the ecosystem. But this 21-foot-long (6.4 meters) carcass was way too smelly and way too close to town.
“I live up the hill over on the other side, and there are days when you walk outside hoping to smell sea air and all you can smell is dead whale,” local resident Lynn Holdsworth told NBC Boston in July. “And it’s like death in a dumpster. It’s horrible.”
NOAA Northeast/Mid-Atlantic worked with the nearby homeowner’s association (HOA) that was responsible for the beach to figure out a disposal plan. The HOA then got heavy equipment to haul the whale to the nearby Bourne landfill.
Read more: Stranded minke whale stinks so bad it’s like ‘death in a dumpster’
Originally published on Live Science.
Lucedale Mississippi highway collapse: Two dead and 10 injured after road washed away by heavy rain
The incident occurred on the two-lane Highway 26 in George County, Trooper Cal Robertson of the Mississippi Highway Patrol told CNN on Tuesday. The washout was likely related to the rain from Hurricane Ida, he said.
Seven vehicles went into the hole created by the washout, according to Robertson. It’s about 50 feet in length and 20 feet deep, he said.
“I’ve never seen anything in my 23 years in law enforcement like this,” he said.
Three of those injured were in critical condition, he added.
Highway 26 is a main artery between Mississippi and Louisiana, the George County Sheriff’s Office told CNN.
Mississippi has been battered by torrential rain from Ida, which made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 4 storm on Sunday. As of 10 p.m. Monday, the system was about 80 miles north northeast of Jackson, Mississippi, as a tropical depression and heading toward Tennessee, according to the National Hurricane Center.
More than 58,000 people in Mississippi remain without power due to the storm, according to PowerOutage.US.
Please check back for updates on this breaking news story.
Whale That Washed Up on Florida Beach Turns Out to Be an Entirely New Species
A 38-foot-long (11.5 meters) whale that washed ashore in the Florida Everglades in January 2019 turns out to be a completely new species. And it’s already considered endangered, scientists say.
When the corpse of the behemoth washed up along Sandy Key – underweight with a hard piece of plastic in its gut – scientists thought it was a subspecies of the Bryde’s (pronounced “broodus”) whale, a baleen whale species in the same group that includes humpback and blue whales. That subspecies was named Rice’s whale.
Now, after genetic analysis of other Rice’s whales along with an examination of the skull from the Everglades whale, researchers think that, rather than a subspecies, the Rice’s whale is an entirely new species that lives in the Gulf of Mexico.
The discovery, detailed January 10 in the journal Marine Mammal Science, also means that there are fewer than 100 members of this species living on the planet, making them “critically endangered,” according to a statement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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According to the study, the researchers looked at records of the Bryde’s whale in the Caribbean and greater Atlantic Ocean and concluded the whales they spotted were evidence “of an undescribed species of Balaenoptera from the Gulf of Mexico.”
The lead study author Patricia Rosel and her co-author, Lynsey Wilcox, both at Southeast Fisheries Science Center, completed the first genetic tests of this whale in 2008, finding that the skull of the Rice’s whale was different than that of Bryde’s whales.
In addition to having different skulls, Rice’s whales are slightly different in size than Bryde’s whales, the new analysis showed. They can weigh up to 60,000 pounds (27,215 kilograms) and grow up to 42 feet (12.8 meters) long, according to NOAA, whereas Bryde’s whales have been known to reach upwards of 50 feet (15.2 m) and weigh more than 55,000 pounds (24,947 kg).
Rosel and her colleagues think the whales in the new species can live approximately 60 years, but given that there are so few in existence, researchers need further observation of the whales to get a better idea of their life expectancy.
Given their location in the Gulf of Mexico, Rice’s whales are particularly vulnerable to oil spills, vessel strikes and energy exploration and production, NOAA added.
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Big Sur road collapse: A huge piece of California’s Highway 1 was washed out
California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) officials said in a statement Friday a debris flow from the hillside above the roadway “overwhelmed drainage infrastructure, flowed across the highway, and eroded the road resulting in the complete loss of a segment of Highway 1” at Rat Creek, about 15 miles south of Big Sur, a mountainous stretch of the state’s central coast.
California Highway Patrol Officer John Yerace said he was in the area on Thursday around 4 p.m. when he noticed “this section of roadway, specifically the southbound lane, had fallen off into the ocean.”
Images and drone footage from the scene show a huge gap in the scenic highway, which runs along much of the California coast.
Caltrans crews discovered the debris flow on Thursday, and issued an emergency contract to Papich Construction in San Luis Obispo County to assist with the repair. At daybreak Friday, Caltrans crews and emergency contractors arrived at the scene and found “both lanes of the highway had washed out.”
The damage assessment team will continue to work through the weekend, Caltrans’ statement said. It’s unclear how long the repair could take and the road will remain closed in the meantime.
Officer Yerace said upon discovery of the washed out road he stayed at the scene to keep motorists safe until he was relieved. He later returned.
“Some time overnight, prior to 6:30 this morning, we responded back to the scene with the assistance of Caltrans access and realized that the roadway is now gone,” he said.
The area where the road collapsed is about a mile south of the burn scar left behind by the Dolan Fire, one of the wildfires that ravaged the state last summer, Caltrans said.
Another stretch of Highway 1 reopened in July 2018, after a massive mudslide in May 2017 heaped tons of rocks on a quarter mile section of the highway, making it impassable and adding 13 acres to the coastline.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency for Monterey and San Luis Obispo counties in response to winter storms that “threatened to cause mud and debris flows,” forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents, according to the declaration.
At least 25 structures in Northern California have been damaged as a result of mudslides and debris flow caused by a powerful atmospheric river-fueled storm. Most of the impacted areas are where burn scars exist from earlier wildfires.