OLMERT REJECTS EU CRITICISM

1-Tornado in Colorado. 2-Monsoon floods in South Asia. 3-Blue clouds from space.. 4-Small quake near Vancouver. 5-Olmert rejects eu Criticism.

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Tornado touches down in Colorado Mon Jul 10, 1:28 AM ET

PUEBLO, Colo. - A storm packing rain and a tornado moved into southeast Colorado on Sunday as downpours north of Pueblo briefly closed an eight-mile section of Interstate 25. The highway was closed around 5:30 p.m. and reopened about 90 minutes later. Colorado Department of Transportation officials did not immediately have an estimate of how much water was on the road.

Meteorologist Makoto Moore said there were reports of 3 to 4 inches of rain across the northern part of Pueblo County, where a tornado touched down. Several buildings were damaged, but Shorter said it wasn't immediately clear if it was due to the tornado or strong winds.The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings. Meteorologists reported 4 to 6 inches of rain in southeast Cheyenne County near the Kansas line.In New Mexico, a 15-year-old boy fell into a flooded diversion channel in Albuquerque on Saturday evening, and the turbulent current carried him on a 5-mile ride, said Albuquerque fire inspector Gabe Serna. The boy had dropped his keys and slipped into the arroyo when he tried to retrieve them.It took three attempts before rescue crews could pull him from the swift current, Serna said. He was treated for hypothermia and abrasions at a hospital.

I don't know how many times we tell people, Do not play in the arroyo. We always manage to get one that falls in, Serna said.Thunderstorms dropped an estimated 3 inches of rain in an hour Saturday over Truth or Consequences and the surrounding area, south of Albuquerque, the weather service said.Flooding washed out roads in Rio Rancho, just north of Albuquerque, and 4 feet of water covered an Interstate 25 exit in Socorro.Colorado Gov. Bill Owens issued a disaster emergency order Saturday for Douglas County, southwest of Denver, where rain had washed out roads and flooded homes in areas stripped of vegetation by a 138,000-acre wildfire in 2002.

Monsoon rains trigger floods, death in S. Asia Mon Jul 10, 4:12 AM ET

LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) - Monsoon rains have inundated large parts of Uttar Pradesh state in India, and 21 people were killed in drownings, house collapses and lightning strikes over the weekend, officials said on Monday. In neighboring Bangladesh, at least 12 people have died in landslides or after being hit by lighting over the past two days in heavy rainstorms in the nation's east.Across
India, at least 250 people have been killed since the start of the monsoon season in June.The heavy rains have caused power outages for several hours across Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state with 170,000 million people, including in the state capital, Lucknow.Last week, more than 80 people died in extreme monsoon weather in western and eastern India and normal life in large parts of Mumbai ground to a halt for two days as downpours hit India's financial hub.

In Uttar Pradesh, people slammed the government for not undertaking measures to prevent waterlogging and flooding.It seems officials are only interested in releasing funds every year so they can pilfer while we have to suffer year after year on account of nature's fury, said Ram Chander, a laborer living on the outskirts of Lucknow.Uttar Pradesh Relief Commissioner Renuka Kumar said though the state had an annual budget of 3 billion rupees ($65 million) to deal with natural disasters, it had only spent 800 million rupees.($1=46 rupees)(Additional reporting by Nizam Ahmed in DHAKA)

LUKE 21:11,25
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars;

CLOUDS FROM SPACE
By Kevin Turner

THE heavens turn blue as rare clouds light up a city skyline. The strange, electric blue clouds formed over Glasgow last week - appearing as glowing bands high in the sky. But the noctilucent or night shining clouds still baffle the world's best scientific brains. They lie at the very edge of space - about 60 miles above the Earth's surface - and can only be seen when conditions are perfect. Scots sky watchers often see these clouds two to three times every summer. Global warming may account for the increasing number of sightings. NASA are to launch a probe to investigate the mysterious phenomenon later this year.

Duncan Lunan, a curator at Airdrie's Public Observatory, said: The clouds are beautiful but remain a mystery. They were first reported by astronomers in the latter half of the 19th century. You need to be quite far north to see them, so it's a fairly Scottish thing for that reason. They can be seen for a few weeks either side of midsummer. He added: They always appear electric blue and often take the observer's breath away. By Rebecca Whitney,The Pictorial

A minor earthquake on Tuesday had some people in the Cowichan Valley rumbling in their boots.

Pacific Geoscience Centre reported the quake, with a magnitude of 3.7, was centred in the Strait of Juan de Fuca 20 kilometres off the coast of Victoria. Earthquakes on the scale of Tuesday’s shake do not generally cause damage — and in this instance there was no damage reported although some Victoria residence reported incidences of things falling from shelves. You don’t start to get damage until you get to a 5 or 5.5 and even then only in poorly built structures, said Natural Resources Canada earthquake seismologist Taimi Mulder.

A 3.7 would feel like a truck slamming into your house a real short, sharp jerk, said Mulder. As you move further from the epicenter of the quake, the frequency of the waves lengthen and therefore the quake is felt as more of a swaying of the ground. People as far up Island as Shawnigan Lake and Cobble Hill reported feeling the earth move under their feet, but only very slightly. According to Mulder there were three reports written in from the south Cowichan region stating the quake felt like a strong gust of wind hitting the house and an audible vibration that didn’t cause any movement. Earthquakes of this magnitude occur a couple of times a year in southwestern British Columbia, and Mulder says every couple of months an earthquake will occur that is strong enough to be felt. Mulder asks Vancouver Island residents to report to Natural Resources Canada if they feel an earthquake because people’s experiences are valuable tools in measuring and analyzing earthquakes. People’s experiences provide us with really valuable local information, said Mulder. If you get shaken by a quake log onto www.earthquakescanada.ca and click on Did You Feel it.© Copyright 2006 Duncan News Leader and Pictorial

Olmert rejects EU criticism of Israel's Gaza raids
Mon 10 Jul 2006 3:36 AM ET

JERUSALEM, July 10 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday rejected European Union criticism of Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip, saying the EU should focus instead on Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel.When was the last time that the European Union condemned this shooting and suggested effective measures to stop it? Olmert said in remarks to the foreign press.At some point, Israel had no point but to take some measures in order to stop this thing.The European Union accused Israel on Friday of a disproportionate use of force against Palestinians in Gaza and of making a humanitarian crisis there worse.

Olmert said the Gaza operation Israel launched on June 28, three days after Palestinian militants abducted an Israeli soldier in a cross-border raid, would continue indefinitely.We haven't set a particular timetable for this operation. It will continue in places, in times, in different measures that will suit the purposes that were outlined, he said, repeating remarks he made on Sunday at the weekly meeting of his cabinet.Olmert reiterated he would not negotiate with the governing Hamas movement for the release of Corporal Gilad Shalit. Militants from the group, along with gunmen from two other factions, kidnapped the 19-year-old tank gunner.I
will not release prisoners for the trade of Corporal Gilad Shalit to Hamas,Olmert said.Palestinian factions have called on Israel to free more than a thousand Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the soldier.© Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved.