inEl Nino arrives, likely to last until winter-Japan weather agency
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The last severe El Nino was in 1998, when the phenomenon caused more than 2,000 deaths and wrought billions of dollars in damage to crops, infrastructure and mines in Australia and other parts of Asia.
(Reporting by Risa Maeda; Editing by Aaron Sheldrick and Chang-Ran Kim)
(Reporting by Risa Maeda; Editing by Aaron Sheldrick and Chang-Ran Kim)
Wildfires devastate the West
A lightning-sparked wildfire roared unchecked
on Aug. 19 through tinder-dry grass, brush and
timber in north-central California, where an
estimated 3,000 people were forced from their
homes in several small, rural communities,

helicopter drops water taken from
the adjacent Yakima River onto a wildfire
Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012, on Highway 10 near Cle Elum, Wash.
The fast-moving wildfire has burned 60 homes
across nearly 40 square miles of central
Washington grassland, timber and sagebrush.
No injuries have been reported but more than
400 people have been forced to flee.
(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

A small plow moves ahead of flames Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012, on Bettas Road near Cle Elum, Wash. The fast-moving wildfire has burned 60 homes across nearly 40 square miles of central Washington grassland, timber and sagebrush. No injuries have been reported but more than 400 people have been forced to flee. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)


They have to stand up ....sometimes by them selves alone....get own Linga Faith in own
A man sits on the roof of his home at a flooded village in the Thar Pound township delta area, in the Irrawaddy Division August 21, 2012.
More than 700 villages and 200,000 acres (80, 940 hectares) of rice fields were flooded, according to local media reports.
REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun (MYANMAR - Tags: SOCIETY DISASTER)
Swiss farmer Kari Gisler sits outside his mountain shelter after doing wild haying on a steep hillside on the mountain Rophaien in the Swiss village of Flueelen, some 75 km (47 miles) south of Zurich August 20, 2012.
The tradition of wild haying in Central Switzerland dates back around two hundred years and is practiced from mid July until mid September on higher grounds with steep hillsides which cannot or only hardly be reached with animals.
In the background is the Lake Urnersee. Picture taken August 20, 2012. REUTERS/Michael Buholzer
(SWITZERLAND - Tags: AGRICULTURE SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
_Tow photos as above were sent by Jishin-Do Kukure Tentasu. Thank you_
Thank for letting us be to live
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