large hail smacks Colorado

      A fierce weather system featuring baseball-sized hail and multiple tornadoes ripped through Colorado on Wednesday afternoon, spurring warnings to people in and around Denver to take cover. The frenzy was tied to a dangerous super cell thunderstorm that, in addition to heaps of hail, produced a number of twisters, according to storm chasers on the scene.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/21/us/colorado-severe-weather/

Wildfire races toward San Diego hillside suburb

A wall of flames dozens of feet high advanced on a hillside community near San Diego on Thursday, threatening to destroy upscale houses as eight other major blazes burned in Southern California, keeping thousands of people out of their homes. The destructive cluster of fires comes as California enters its peak fire season in the midst of one of its worst droughts in decades, setting the stage for what state officials worry could be particularly intense and dangerous year. California state university was evacuated due to the fire. 


http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/15/us-usa-wildfires-california-idUSBREA4E0V920140515

Colorado mother rescued after 5 days in wrecked car will lose feet

A woman in Colorado was missing for 5 days until they found her trapped in her wrecked car for 5 days. The woman's feet are being amputated due to her injuries and the doctors will not be able to save her feet. The woman's was found by a man who they don't know who he was called in saying he found and wrecked car off the highway with possible bodies inside. The woman thanks the man for finding her even though the man was not spotted. The woman was trying to signal cars by writing notes on an umbrella. She's a singal mother of 4.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/05/us/colorado-woman-rescued/index.html?hpt=us_c2

At Least 15 Dead as Tornadoes Rip Through Central, Southern US

Rescuers sifted through the rubble today looking for survives after a powerful tornado carved a path of destruction flattening homes and businesses and downing power lines. At least 15 people were killed in Central and Southern United States by the storm system with 14 of the victims being in Arkansas and one is Quapaw. One of the storm trails stretched 30 miles. Some houses were damaged and some were completely destroyed. Tornado's also touched down in Arkansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/12-dead-tornadoes-rip-central-southern-us/story?id=23493933

84 year old nun, sentenced to 35 months for nuclear break-in

     An 84 year old nun was sentenced to 35 months in prison on Tuesday for breaking into a nuclear facility. In May a federal jury in Tennessee found sister Megan Rice guilty of destroying U.S government property and causing more than $1,000 in damage to federal property. 

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/18/justice/tennessee-nun-sentenced/index.html?hpt=us_c1 

Eight vintage Corvettes swallowed by 40-foot sinkhole inside National Corvette Museum

     Eight vintage corvettes were on display in the National Corvette Museum when a sinkhole formed taking eight corvettes down with it. The sinkhole was 40 feet wide and about 25 feet deep. It happened at 5:55 am and the police were there right away. No one was hurt. Much of the western Kentucky region is underlain by karst, limestone that has been eroded to produce springs, sinking streams, caves, and sinkholes.


 http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/12/5404326/eight-cars-swallowed-by-20-foot-sinkhole-in-national-corvette-museum

Students stranded by Southern winter storm spend second night in schools, as authorities work to clear roads

More than 200 student stranded in schools throughout Alabama cause of a rare winter storm spent the second night camping out in the classrooms at their schools. Authorities working to remove hundreds of abandoned cars on the icy roads. They hope by today that authorities will have the cars cleared off by today. Police safety patrolled all night to make sure nothing happened to abandoned cars. 



http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2014/01/30/students-stranded-by-southern-storm-spend-second-night-in-alabama-schools/