Severe Weather and Natural Disasters

• Amazing Lightning in Wind Point, Wisconsin
  Lightning streaks across Wind Point Light House on Lake Michigan as severe storms hit south eastern Wisconsin.
  
  
  

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• People Watch as Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano Erupts
  People watch from a viewing area as an explosion takes place at the base of the plume where molten lava is pumping into the ocean on the Island of Hawaii. Kilauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, has been erupting since Jan. 3, 1983. Surface flows emerge near the ocean on the southeast side of the Big Island, where people can see the lava from a viewing area a few hundred feet away.
  
  
  

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• Lava from Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano
  A fountain of lava erupts from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano's in July 2008. Fountains of red-hot lava spewed up to 30 feet high, but the flow into the sea has once again slowed to a trickle according to the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.
  
  
  

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• Hurricane Ike Moving Through The Caribbean Towards The US
  Young cubans are hit by a big wave at the Malecon waterfront as high wind and rain move through Havana, Cuba as Hurricane Ike passes on September 10, 2008. Almost 2.6 million Cuban people sought refuge from Hurricane Ike, which killed four as it swept across the length of the country.
  
  
  

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• The Reventador Volcano Erupts
  Located in the Napo province, 62 miles east of Quito, the volcano has been spewing lava since Sunday. According to experts at Ecuador's Geophysics Institute, it does not pose a threat to surrounding villages or oil pipelines in the area.
  
  
  

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• Severe Thunderstorm in Kansas
  An old barn stands in a wheat field as a severe thunderstorm passes in the distance near Ogallah, Kan., Severe thunderstorms dropped tornadoes across much of northwest Kansas in 2008.
  
  
  

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• Deadly Fog Outside Dubai
  A car drives through heavy fog in the early hours of October 16, 2008 along the highway that lead Abu Dhabi to Dubai. Fog in the UAE drops visibility to almost zero sometimes, causing massive car accidents. More than 300 cars were destroyed last March when they collided along the highway linking Dubai to Abu Dhabi after visibility went down to zero.
  
  
  

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• Avalanche in the Hautes-Pyrenees
  People help pedestrians to cross a road after an avalanche cut the main road leading to the village of Gavarnie. The snow slide of 15m high and 50m large did not cause any casualty according to local authority.
  
  
  

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• California Lightning
  An early morning monsoon storm moves north up the coast near Malibu, California.
  
  
  

  Gene Blevins, AP

• Soputan Volcano Spews Thick Smoke in Minahasa, Indonesia
  A volcano erupted on Indonesia's Sulawesi island on June 6, 2008, spewing smoke and sending heat clouds of debris down its slopes, a volcanologist said. Mount Soputan in North Sulawesi started to erupt June 6 at around 9:59 am sending heat clouds as far as four kilometers (2.5 miles) and throwing ash two kilometers into the air.
  
  
  

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