Xynthia hits Western Europe

Author: admin Published: February 28, 2010 Views: 133

Xynthia hits Western Europe

A storm named Xynthia has hit Western Europe today. French Prime Miniter Francois Fillon has declared i a national catastrophe and the storm has claimed at least 45 lives in France.

The storm with hurricane-strength winds has brought down trees and power lines and caused heavy flooding in places. At least 1 million households were without electricity on Sunday afternoon. Winds up to 200 km/h were measured.

Deaths have also been reported from Spain, Portugal, Germany, England and Belgium, mostly caused by falling trees.

The storm Xynthia is moving north towards Belgium, Luxemburg and Scandinavia.

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USA vs. Canada, who gets the Olympic gold?

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Tonight is the big night. USA vs. Canada in the gold medal hockey game. The Canadiens are more or less expecting a gold from their team but U.S.A. have certainly impressed a lot of people in this tournament. But can they beat Canada twice?

In the semi-finals Canada had an unexpectably tough game against Slovakia, who had eliminated the reigning Olympic champions Sweden. In the other semi U.S.A. outplayed Finland 6 to 1.

It’s the final North America has been hoping for and something tells me it will be a tight game.

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Tsunami warning Hawaii

Author: admin Published: February 28, 2010 Views: 129
Tsunami Warning Hawaii

The earthquake outside of the coast of Chile did not just create destruction directly on land with more than two million people affected and around half a million destroyed houses. It also issued a tsunami warning and big waves were expected to hit Hawaii.

The evacuation from the coast line started quickly thanks to the tsunami warning and waves as waves of up to 2.5 metres could hit shore.

Fortunately the big tsunami didn’t appear and the waves were relatively small and did no damage.

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