Southern California was cleaning up after Sundays El Niño driven winds caused damage and power outages Thousands of households were left without electricity as storms downed trees and power poles in Southern California. Gusts of wind up to 115mph were recorded as heavy rain hit the west coast, causing massive outages and flooding on Sunday night.
A pipeline for gas used to generate 50% of the electricity in Iraq’a Kurdistan region was blown up on Friday, knocking out power and leaving many without electricity. The explosion hit the pipeline in the Qader Karam district of Kirkuk, as a result of two homemade bombs being detonated, according to local police. “The gas pipeline that stretches to Erbil was blown up near the sub-district of Shwan last night,” the Kurdish Regional Government’s Interior Ministry said in a statement. Alarabiya.net reports: It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack.
Submitted by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World blog,
What is ahead for 2016? Most people don’t realize how tightly the following are linked: