Great site, Gary!!! Thank you. I found this one particularly interesting. and the video link shows the internet at work linking surveillance cameras.
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert_read.php?cid=25162 Chris Frandsen On Mar 1, 2010, at 3:04 PM, Gary Nunn wrote: > > > One of the websites I manage, has an rss feed and receives alert emails from > an emergency and disaster information service in Hungary. The site has quite > a bit of near real-time information on everything from pandemic maps, > nuclear events, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, cosmic events, and just about > every reported event in the world. > > Anyway, every now and then an interesting one pops up. The alert email below > stood out because it was listed as "Non-categorized event - Australia". > > Here's their main page: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/ Click on the region > map you want to view. Click on any map icon to read details about any given > event. > > Gary > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of RSOE EDIS > Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 12:50 AM > To: RSOE EDIS AlertMail > Subject: RSOE EDIS: Australia - Non-categorized event - 2010.02.28 > > > RSOE EDIS <http://hisz.rsoe.hu/index.php?lang=eng> > RSOE Emergency and Disaster Information Service > > > Budapest, Hungary > > > RSOE EDIS ALERTMAIL > > 2010-02-28 05:50:18 - Non-categorized event - Australia > > > EDIS CODE: UEV-20100228-25147-AUS > Date & Time: 2010-02-28 05:50:18 [UTC] > Area: Australia, State of Northern Territory, , Lajamanu > > Not confirmed information! > > Description: > > While the Top End and Central Australia have been battered by torrential > rains, a Territory town has reportedly had fish falling from the sky. The > freak phenomena happened not once, but twice, on Thursday and Friday > afternoon about 6pm at Lajamanu, about 550km southwest of Katherine, The > Northern Territory News reports. Christine Balmer, who took the photos of > the fish on the ground and in a bucket, said she had to pinch herself when > she was told "hundreds and hundreds" of small white fish had fallen from the > sky. "It rained fish in Lajamanu on Thursday and Friday night," she said, > "They fell from the sky everywhere. "Locals were picking them up off the > footy oval and on the ground everywhere. "These fish were alive when they > hit the ground." Mrs Balmer, the aged care co-ordinator at the Lajamanu Aged > Care Centre, said her family interstate thought she had lost the plot when > she told them about the event. "I haven't lost my marbles," she said, > reassuring ! herself. "Thank God it didn't rain crocodiles." Lajamanu sits > on the edge of the Tanami Desert, hundreds of kilometres from Lake Argyle > and Lake Elliott and even further from the coast. But it's not the first > time the remote community has been bombarded by fins from above. In 2004, > locals reported fish falling from the sky, and in 1974, a similar incident > captured international headlines. The small white fish are believed to be > spangled perch, which are very common through much of northern Australia. > Weather bureau senior forecaster Ashley Patterson said the geological > conditions were perfect on Friday for a tornado in the Douglas Daly region. > He said it would have been an ideal weather situation to allow the phenomena > to occur - but no tornados have been reported to the authority. "It's a very > unusual event," he said. "With an updraft, (fish and water picked up) could > get up high - up to 60,000 or 70,000 feet. "Or possibly from a tornado over > a large water body - but we haven't had ! any reports," he said. > > > > > Posted:2010-02-28 05:50:18 [UTC] > > > hr <http://hisz.rsoe.hu/images/hr-large.gif> > Please DO NOT reply to this message: replies may be treated as errors and > result in your subscription being deleted. If you have trouble or other > queries, send email to [email protected] RSOE EDIS is operated by the National > Association of Radio-Distress Signalling and Infocommunications (RSOE), > Budapest, Hungary. Because of the complexity of this system and its > dependence on other systems, we cannot be responsible for delays or failures > in forwarding or transmission. > > > You're receiving this AlertMail because you subscribed for the service. > > To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now > <http://levlista.rsoe.hu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hisz-alertmail-eng> . > Contact: [email protected] > > > > > _______________________________________________ > http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com > _______________________________________________ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
