Hungry Earth Chronicles - What the Earth Ate This Month

What the Earth Ate this Month

                              08/01/2013 - Cottondale, Alabama - Sinkhole Closes Only Road In Town

                              08/04/2013 - Sharon Springs, Kansas - 200 FT Sinkhole Opens Up

                              08/05/2013 - Miami Beach, Florida - Sinkhole Nearly Swallows Car

                              08/07/2013 - Kingston, New York - Sinkhole Swallows Section of Street

                              08/09/2013 - Pittsburg, Pennsylvania - Sinkhole Swallows Intersection

                              08/10/2013 - Montgomery Township, Pennsylvania - Sinkhole Opens Up In Pond

                              08/11/2013 - Fort Drum, New York - Sinkhole Found in Residents Backyard

                              08/11/2013 - Clermont, Florida - Sinkhole Swallows Part of Resort

                              08/13/2013 - Niles, Massachusetts - Sinkhole Opens Up Street

                              08/13/2013 - Simi Valley, California - Sinkhole Swallows Up Intersection 

                              08/14/2013 - Butte-Silver Bow County, Montana - Sinkhole Opens Up in Mans Backyard

                              08/15/2013 - St. Genevieve, Missouri - Car Falls Into Sinkhole, Trapping Woman 

                              08/15/2013 - Granby, Massachusetts -  Sinkhole Collapses Yet Another Street

                              08/19/2013 - Gulfport, Mississippi - Sinkhole Collapses Street

                              08/19/2013 - Palm Desert, California - Sinkhole Traps a Car on Cook Street

                              08/20/2013 - Elizabeth, New Jersey - Sinkhole Closes Two Lanes on Highway

                              08/20/2013 - Clarksville, Tennessee - Sinkhole Swallows Highway Lane

                              08/20/2013 - Ocala, Florida - Sinkhole Swallows 5 Acre Lake

                              08/21/2013 - Bayou Corn - Louisiana - 1 Year Old Sinkhole Swallows Some More Trees

                              08/22/2013 - Hellam Township, Pennsylvania - Two Sinkholes Discovered on Route 30 W

                              08/23/2013 - Dade City, Florida - 30 FT Wide Sinkhole Swallows Road

                              08/23/2013 - Truckee, California - 8 FT Sinkhole Swallows Highway

                              08/24/2013 - Madawaska, Maine - Truck Falls into Sinkhole

The Science Behind Sinkholes
 

Are you in a sinkhole prone area?
Find Out Below!

Courtesy of USGS Water-Science School

Gaia's been awful hungry this month.
xoxo disaster girl

P.F.S. Links For The Curious

USGS Sinkholes 101 

Sinkhole Wiki 

HowStuffWorks: Sinkholes 

 

4 Things the Media Really Wants You to Believe

Over the last couple of years as Disaster Girl, there were several instances where something was brought to my attention in a 'Oh- this happens all the time, don't be alarmed' sort of fashion. Usually warranting a side eye, and fasting typing fingers to figure out how I could have possibly missed this bit of claimed 'truth'. Below is my list of the top things that the media would like to you believe is relatively normal and  completely true...

Yeah... Right.

4. We normally have several named winter storms a year.

This is a flat out lie from a well known and possibly most listened to

weather service in an attempt to 'alter' meteorological terms.

...And no one's happy. There was no Nemo, remember that.

The Weather Channels Plans to Name Winter Storms Causes Controversy

Naming a winter storm? Meteorologists are appalled.

TWC Press Release Statement

3. Sinkholes developing is a pretty run of the mill thing.

While this isn't an incredibly rare thing to happen; the level, frequency,

and depth at which it is currently happening is a cause for alarm.

7 Sinkhole Disasters

Sinkholes Far More Normal Than Thought, Researchers Say

The Abnormally Normal Science Of Sinkholes

ATS Sinkhole Watch 2013

2. April is now fireball season.

Really? I mean come on media, you have got to be kidding me.

News Coverage

NASA: Fireball Season Set to Light Up Sky

Alternative Views

Fireball Season Cover Up

1. Aliens aren't real.

Yet every major land holder in the world has at least

one government agency handling extraterrestrial matters.

List Of Countries that have Disclosed Alien/UFO Documents

UN Appointing Ambassador to Alien World?

CIA agent speaks out on 65th anniversary of Roswell 'UFO' landings

BRAZIL ALIENS HIT FRONT PAGE OF WALL STREET JOURNAL

The UFO Files: Tony Blair briefed on alien defense policy

UFO X-Files Released By U.K. Reveal Desire To Weaponize Alien Technology

FBI Confirm Aliens Exist - Released Declassified UFO Documents & Files

PM Dmitry Medvedev: Russia has top secret files on aliens

So why do they want so desperately to convince us that these lies are truths? There could be a million difference angles at play here, but why speculate and avoid the real issue at hand? The fact of the matter is that winter storms are getting bigger and badder. A sinkhole could swallow your bedroom at any moment. Fireballs are raining from the sky at an alarming rate. And aliens are f*cking real.

Need I Say More?

xoxo disaster girl