VIOLENT Derecho Hits Corsica, Italy, & Slovenia – Aug. 18, 2022 [Part 2]

VIOLENT Derecho Hits Corsica, Italy, & Slovenia - Aug. 18, 2022 [Part 2]
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At least five people have been killed after violent thunderstorms hit the French island of Corsica on Thursday morning.

A further 12 people were injured – including one in critical condition – as heavy rain and winds of up to 222 kph were registered in some areas on the island.

The Corsica prefecture said in a statement that a 13-year-old girl died after a tree fell on a campsite in the coastal town of Sagone. The third fatality was a 46-year-old man killed in the town of Calvi.

About 45,000 households were left without power on the island because of the storms, according to the French electricity company EDF.

The country’s maritime authority said it was also conducting around 60 rescue operations along the west coast of the Mediterranean island after several ships were grounded.

After a summer of drought, heatwaves and forest fires, violent storms have hit France and neighbouring countries in recent days.

Read more: https://www.euronews.com/2022/08/18/corsica-storms-three-killed-several-injured-as-hurricane-force-winds-hit-french-island

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  1. 🇬🇧I've never seen such a violent derecho before. My heart goes out to the people who died.

    🇮🇹Non ho mai visto un derecho così violento prima d'ora. Il mio cuore va alle persone che sono morte.

    🇸🇮Še nikoli nisem videl tako nasilnega derecha. Moje srce gre ven ljudem, ki so umrli.

  2. I was camping in corsica that morning. it was goddamn crazy. the following night we had to sleep huddled near a school to stay safe.

  3. I wonder how many of those boats at the marina survived. They were being tossed up and out of the water at times. Then all the hail and rain that fell on them. Yikes!!!
    From 3:014:15 it looks like a huge tidal wave coming towards the shore. Very eerie to watch.
    And I'm guessing that resort on the beach had hail damage to those changing room doors. It looks like bullet holes.
    Mother nature can be beautiful, scary and deadly all at the same time.

  4. Please post Typhoon MA-ON (Florita in PH), that hit the Luzon island in the Philippines, it hit badly last August 22 and 23, especially in Cagayan Province, there were flashfloods, and strong winds, it was already Category 3.

  5. We broke some records here in Slovenia, many roofs and seemingly sturdy trees fell, the strange thing is that the first wave of winds was far more powerful in inner land cities than near the ocean, usually it's in reverse.

  6. I saw some tornadic cells towards the northwest to the island of Corsica at around 9 am local time that day, as indicated by radar. Who would've thought that Austria would have a derecho move from Styria to Czechia on that very same day, packing winds of over 100 mph (160 kph) later in the evening? It did that in just 2 hours.

  7. วันสิ้นโลกจะมาถึงแล้วทั้งนี้เพราะว่าทรัพย์พยากรณ์โลกหมดไปยากที่โลกจะอยู่ได้ดั่งเดิมเตรียมตัวรับมือกับภัยธรรมชาติดว้ยครับขอให้ทุกๆคนปลอดภัยครับ

  8. Those winds at the start may have reached cat 2, the rest cat 1. I wonder how the guys on the yachts fared? Those kinds of conditions are every sailor's nightmare, esp in a marina.

  9. You can’t call a storm a derecho until after the event. That’s why you cannot warn people about a derecho. All you can say is that this a particularly dangerous severe thunderstorm situation. A derecho is defined by the distance that the windstorm ultimately covers. I think the worldwide definition of a derecho is a windstorm-severe thunderstorm complex that causes widespread wind damage over a minimum distance of at least 250 miles or about 400 kilometers. In the US there have been derechos that have covered distances of over 1000 miles. So these derecho complexes can travel very far distances, move very quickly, and have a lifespan much longer than the normal lifespan of most severe thunderstorms.

  10. 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗱
    A few days ago, the papers warned that Europe is facing the worst drought in 500 years. They described the dry and hot weather and the fires that broke out all over the continent and spoke of an apocalypse. Today, they are reporting flooding in London and violent storms in France causing catastrophic flooding, where in some places, more than an inch of rain fell in less than 30 minutes, and in Paris, a storm with 65 mph wind gusts and nearly 2 inches of rain that fell in just 90 minutes flooded the Metro. Clearly, the climate has gone mad.
    However, the climate did not go awry by itself, but because of our madness. Nature’s erratic behavior merely reflects our own agitation toward everything. Our growing narcissism drives us to treat everyone and everything with utter indifference to the needs of others. In fact, we even enjoy hurting others. We think that if we can use others and not see the consequences for our actions right away then there are no consequences, but there are very serious consequences for our wrongdoing toward others.
    In the closed system that is the world we live in, everything we do affects everything else, and that effect returns to us like a boomerang. When we pour so much negativity into the system, it becomes dysfunctional, and this summer, we are experiencing this dysfunction through the smoldering heat waves and torrential rains. If we continue to flood the system with hatred and intolerance, we will not need nuclear weapons to wipe us out; plagues, natural disasters, fires, and floods will extinguish us long before we extinguish each other.
    When the summer is gone, winter will come with its own perils, and lack of gas and power will wreak havoc in Europe. Eventually, we will have to accept that we cannot defeat nature; we cannot outsmart it. We will have to learn to be an integral part of nature, connected to each other and to nature. We will not survive otherwise.
    Since the only element in nature that has bad intentions and an exploitative attitude toward others is us, we must begin to change our relationships. Our attitude toward the rest of nature stems from our attitude toward each other. Therefore, if we are considerate toward each other, we will be considerate toward nature. It turns out that the correction of our tormented planet begins with the correction of our broken ties with one another.
    To mend them, we must put our heads together and discuss solutions on a global level. These solutions must be inclusive and take into account everyone's needs. At the same time, everyone must accept that they cannot receive more than is necessary, since they, too, must be considerate toward others.
    To get such a global initiative off the ground, there needs to be an open discussion about it all over the global media. People must know that we really are running out of time, and unless we ‎ change now, it will be too late afterwards.‎
    I do not know how to keep this move clean from politics and politicians, but it has to be a ‎genuine effort to save humanity and the planet, not a ploy to take control of it. Perhaps a panel of scientists will be able to make this happen, but they, too, must work without ulterior motives.‎
    I realize that this idea may sound naive, but I also realize that if we do not take global action to sincerely improve our connections, the approaching annihilation is certain and near.‎

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