Nebraska Nuclear "Situation:" Less Worries By Almost Half, And Yet..

I've been a tad bit concerned about developments along the Missouri River in neighboring Nebraska regarding the safety of both Ft. Calhoun Nuclear Plant near Omaha, and Cooper Nuclear Plant, near Brownsville. 

Washington's Blog is cautiously optimistic about Fort Calhoun, at least at the moment.

Dr. Tom Burnett has a more pessimistic view..

And then there's Cooper Nuclear Plant's own set of problems..

And then, there's the related Worst Case Scenario that turns these two nuclear plants into Worst Case Scenarios of their(and our) own./  So if Fort Peck Dam collapses, the recipe for Apocalypse involves massive radioactive release/dispersal, and catastrophic flooding of biblical proportions.

Enjoy your summer.  Party hard, and don't forget to update your bug out bag..

Mid South Flooding: From Desperate To Devastating

More Rain for Already Flooded Arkansas, Ohio Valley

More flooding is inevitable from Arkansas to the Ohio Valley since the already water-logged region will not be able to handle the additional rain that will pour down through Tuesday.

The potential exists for 3 to 5 inches of rain to soak the corridor from northeastern Texas to the Ohio Valley tonight into Tuesday.

That amount of rain would alone raise concerns for flash flooding. But with the ground already saturated and rivers severely flooding, new flooding issues are inevitable.

Army Corps prepares to blow up Missouri levee

The Army Corps of Engineers on Sunday began moving barges into position to blow up a levee along the Missouri side of the Mississippi River after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to intervene, removing the last legal barrier.

Floodwaters could be released as early as Monday afternoon.

Missouri had tried to stop the levee's destruction but lost in lower courts. The high court decided not to hear the state's appeal, said Robyn Ziegler, spokeswoman for the Illinois attorney general's office. ..
Army Corps Maj. Gen. Michael Walsh ordered a start to preparations to blast a 2-mile-wide section of the levy near Birds Point, Mo., as rain continued to swell the Mississippi past already record levels, spokesman James Pogue said.

 No place else for floodwaters to go -- Mississippi now past 41 feet

The officials emphasized that the last chance to stem the rising Mississippi River ran out today, as reservoirs that hold the Tennessee River back from the Ohio River filled to capacity

The Ohio flows into the Mississippi River, which is expected to crest Wednesday in Cairo at 61.5 feet.

The perfect storm of heavy rain combined with the rising Mississippi River is causing the local tributaries to flood areas around the county. The Mississippi was at 41.44 feet as of 6 p.m. Sunday, and its high waters are now colliding with the inflow from swollen tributaries, giving that surge of water no place to go.

Remember, this is only the first days of May.  There will be much more water in our future.  The situation is way past dire, and the outlook continues to deteriorate as the water continues to rise.. 

Australian Flooding Update: It's Still Happening..

'Amazing' Australian floodwaters enter new towns Excerpts:

Surging floodwaters broke levees in disaster-hit Australia on Monday to inundate more properties in the southeast, as residents sandbagged homes against the spiralling crisis.

Swollen rivers in the southeastern state of Victoria have created a flood zone measuring an estimated 90 kilometres (56 miles) long and 40 kilometres wide, the State Emergency Service said.

"This area has seen unprecedented flooding," SES spokesman Kevin Monk told AFP. "This is just amazing."

As the floodwaters rushed towards the Murray River, evacuation alerts were issued late Sunday and early Monday for the small communities of Pental Island and Murrabit West, home to about 400 people each.

In an emergency alert the SES said that levees around Murrabit West were failing, warning that the area would be inundated in the next 12 hours.

Australian province map for reference..
Descriptions of an "inland sea" aren't an exaggeration..
Meanwhile, in other parts of Australia..

Widespread inundation is still occurring across the north-west and west of the southern state of Victoria. Further north, floodwaters from Queensland are heading downstream to threaten towns and farms in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales.

More torrential rains, of the kind that have deluged parts of Queensland, NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia in recent weeks, are possible over the next few months because of the prevailing La Niña weather pattern. So far, 33 deaths have been attributed to the flooding and nine people are still missing in the Lockyer Valley—just west of Brisbane, the Queensland capital—where homes, vehicles and their occupants were swept away in flash flooding.

Now that the water has started to subside in Queensland(Just.. Queensland, mind you..), the adjustments and the adjusters and the assessments for this monumental disaster begin to begin.. And already, the bidding begins high..

So, when the food price crisis occurs, here's a "negative outcome" scenario to chew on, provided by the Huffington Post.

More rainfall is predicted. Much more.

Holy Crap! Is Indonesia Really Sinking?

Indonesia's land mass has been sinking for several years now, but seems to have accelerated in the last two weeks. Check this shit out(Some freaky ass 2012 like video at the link..), and you tell me what's happening here. This thread sums up The Scary nicely, although some will be turned off by the "Planet X" reasoning. Personally, I am not. I don't know what the hell's happening, but Nibiru can't be ruled out.

And where's the Mainstream Media? Oh yeah; right here.. In other words, no where to be found regarding anything Indonesia.. Huh.

Epic Flooding: Brazil Edition

Brazil Flood Disaster Kills Hundreds Excerpts:

Torrential rain this week has triggered deadly
flash flooding and landslides in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, leaving a death toll of at least 348 as of Thursday.
And:
The two hardest-hit cities were Teresopolis and Novo Friburgo, located in the highlands north and northeast of the city of Rio de Janeiro.

Cloudbursts pelting already-saturated ground triggered walls of water that reportedly burst through homes as people slept. Whole families died and hundreds of homes were either swept away or buried beneath earth and rock.

Weather observations from the area show rainfall of 3 to 6 inches,
or 75 to 150 mm, beginning Tuesday. But Metsul, an online weather blog, indicated that rainfall may have reached 12 inches, or 300
mm, within a few hours at both Teresopolis and Novo Friburgo, during the disastrous height of the event.

Brazilian Gallery here: Australian update here: Bonus: Short term economic impact to Australia and its trading partners. Another possible explanation for the continuing and widespread weather weirdness here.

These really are the "interesting times" the cookie spoke of.

Webbots: Yeah; About That Flooding..

Latest from Clif High at halfpasthuman. As Clif is very quick to point out, this could be about any flooding occurring anywhere in the world. But wow, Australia certainly sounds like it fits.. I hope the people of Brisbane stay safe from what approaches.. Excerpts in italics, and my emphasis in bold and color:

Our data sets over the past year have had lots of instance of descriptors for the kinds of flooding activity that is now overwhelming the humans and animals and plants in Australia. The damage has already reached serious and impacting levels. The nasty part of the forecasts from both 2009, and 2010*** relative to [floods in places that NEVER flood], is that we had also seen references within those same data sets for [dams failing]...and also curiously, for a [dam saved]. This last set included specifics going to [at the last minute], and [through (close/detailed) attention].
*** Note: The further back events appear, and continue to appear, without manifestation, the bigger their impact. There are some events that first appeared at least as early as 2005, and when the time comes, they will be felt..

While looking through the most recent immediacy data, i came across several [dam] references that *could be* forecasting future happenings within the chaos of the Australian floods. Noting that our geographic references are right down there in the in-accuracy levels of numbers and are usually discarded as untrustworthy, and further noting that there are several regions of the planet that are experiencing [freakish flooding] at the moment, i still feel compelled to state that the current data sets have a set going to a [dam (nearly) collapses], and a set that is a [dam 'scooting' off its base].
Now.. Pay attention..
Without regard to one or more dams, the data shows in the detail sets that the [dam scooting off its base] is [discovered (prior to the movement)] by [sharp eyes]. So i figured to help out with what descriptors we have available at this point. These details include the [right side] of the dam when facing it from below, and that set also is internally cross linked to [bubbling up]. Within the [bubbling up] set are supporting linguistics for [trees (specifically fruit trees though that can also mean trees of a commercial nature)] that are [snapped/damaged]. These [trees] are either the [cause] of the [bubbling up] due to [root penetration under the dam] or are [pointers to the place of the bubbling up], again, we cannot tell from the data set due to the ambiguity of language. In our referential integrity checks on the data, the timing clues suggest that as of this point of time (early morning, on January 11, 2011 here in Pacific time zone, north america), the [bubbling up], that is the sign of or a contributing factor to the [dam scooting off its base], is in the [initial stages]. Further descriptors include a curious group going to the idea that the [water (bubbling under) the dam] will [become as fog (obscuring)]. Further details include sets for [yielding] and [solid (structure) on weakened base].

Clif's latest run began just before the new year(scroll down to Another HPH SOTTC), so flooding language within this *immediacy data* run is to be expected, and if you're following the growing destruction, the flooding language is already present, and it's pretty intense.. Excerpt from the "Another HPH SOTTC" article in italics:

"I'm in the state of Queensland, which is basically the top right corner of Australia. The state capital is Brisbane, on the coast in the lower right corner of the state. I'm in Toowoomba, about 90 miles west, inland, from Brisbane. Toowoomba is on top of a range, around 1500' ASL. It has no river, and is the last place on earth I ever expected to see a flood.

But yesterday we had an unprecedentedly heavy downpour for a couple of hours, and our couple of tiny creeks, which I normally literally step over, became 'inland tsunamis', sweeping away cars, people & houses, with death toll about 9 & rising. Locals who've lived here all their lives said they'd never seen anything like it. (Fortunately, I'm still unaffected.) (Bot snippets: " Along with the [flooding] that will impact [unusual places] {ed note: areas not known to flood, ever}" "Other parts of the planet are also not to be immune from [rains beyond understanding], or [excessive rain loads]")
..
The "[destroyed dams]" is more topical than I would've thought. I discovered the water authority here is having to carefully manage Brisbane's main dam, Wivenhoe, right now. It holds 7 Sydney harbourfulls & yesterday was receiving 2 more harbourfulls a day inflow, and was up to 200% of capacity. If it flows over the top of the wall it risks destroying itself (and washing Brisbane right off the map), so they have the dilemma of having to release enough thru the sluice gates to protect the dam, but what they are releasing is only adding to the worst flood for 118 years now rising in Brisbane.

As you can see, some portions of October's report are being fulfilled right now, both from past and present runs. Double-quick, catastrophic, cataclysmic flooding that by no means is over, and so not finished destroying all in its path. 75 percent of Queensland is a disaster zone NOW. Even if Wivenhoe holds, Queensland will not ever be the same; not in our lifetimes, at least..

And the rest of the world watches, helplessly, as the water comes, and continues.