Freak Floods Devastate Atacama Desert In Chile

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Freak Floods Devastate Atacama Desert In Chile (Video)

Thunderstorms and flash floods moved into the usually bone-dry Atacama desert, causing the Copiapo River to overflow its banks.
Fears of mudslides prompted authorities to evacuate thousands from their homes, many of which are mining communities situated in narrow valleys that cross the desert.

RT reports: Dramatic footage of cars, trucks and whole buildings being washed away in muddy water has emerged online after thunderstorms and abnormal rainfall in Chile’s desert Atacama region caused the Copiapo River to break its banks last week.

At least 25 people were killed and 125 others are missing as the floods ravaged the area known as one of the driest places on Earth.

The authorities evacuated thousands from their homes in what was described as “the worst rain disaster to fall on the north [of Chile] in 80 years.”

About 2,700 people are currently being housed in emergency accommodation, with around 30,000 people affected by the disaster, the National Emergency Office said.

 

 

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  1. Dan Britt, M.S. in Geology and Ph.D. in Astronomy, did the Greenland ice core spetrograph work while working as a Grad Asst; they were done 3 times due to the eccentric readings that were found. He can tell you that we just finished “a warming period in a cooling down period.” and that the only reason we are not cooling is the “large amount of methane gas and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.” However, the cooling cycle will eventually kick back in…

    The earth will be shortly going into a cold cycle again; and be prepared for more erratic weather like this. The Sahara Desert has also received in the last few years than it had in the last few hundred years, further indication of this continuned shift in weather worldwide.

    Millionaires are buying up large tracts of desert in Arizona and New Mexico, in preparation for the land having enough future water to grow crops… China is alos buying up all the land they can along the equator in both Africa and Cengtral America, and will able to feed their people throuhgout the next ice age.

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