Apophis asteroid was placed at four out of 10 on the Torino scale - a measure of the threat posed by an NEO where 10 is a certain collision which could cause a global catastrophe. This was the highest of any asteroid in recorded history.

Water was waist deep and rising fast on the street that runs next to the canal.

More than 1.3 million people are being evacuated ahead of the storms's expected landfall on Friday or Saturday.

Galveston, Corpus Christi and surrounding Nueces County, low-lying parts of Houston, and New Orleans were under mandatory evacuation orders as Category 5 Rita drew energy from balmy gulf waters.

"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 ... ." (Luke 21:25)

National Guard troops in armored vehicles poured into New Orleans on Thursday to curb the growing lawlessness that reportedly included shots fired at helicopters airlifting people out of the Superdome.

Then the third angel sounded [his trumpet]: And a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the water, because it was made bitter.

In all likelihood, the possibility of impact will eventually be eliminated as the asteroid continues to be tracked by astronomers around the world.

So much debris will be thrown into the atmosphere from this comet being smashed in space, scientists likely will be able to see it happen with the naked eye on Earth, 80 million miles away.

Nearly 4,400 National Guard troops have been activated and nearly 2,000 insurance adjusters were handling claims. The American Red Cross established eight mobile kitchens and five feeding centers capable of serving 9,000 meals a day.

Federal Emergency Management Agency (search) director Michael Brown said it could take several weeks to find all the victims.

An unprecedented asteroid scare in January had astronomers worried for a few hours over a rock that had a 1-in-4 chance of hitting Earth during the next few days.

The asteroid turned out to be even bigger than expected, about 1,600 feet wide, but it eventually passed the planet at a distance of about 7.5 million miles, about 32 times the distance from the Earth to the Moon, BBC News reported.

The U.S. Census Bureau said nearly 50 million people could be affected by the large reach of Isabel as its hurricane-force winds extended up to 145 miles from its center.

The Times of India reported that the national intelligence bureau was sufficiently concerned to send its own agents, like Mulder and Scully from television’s X-Files, to investigate the “alien” invasion.

At the same time, military officials say they do not know just what the jets were chasing, because whatever it was disappeared. "There are any number of scenarios, but we don't know what it was," said Maj. Barry Venable, another spokesman for NORAD.

From its brightness, astronomers estimate it is about two kilometres wide, large enough to cause continent-wide devastation on Earth.

Locals described it as the worst hailstorm in at least half a century.

For example, 2002 MN is roughly the size of the object that scientists think blew up over Siberia’s Tunguska forest in 1908, laying waste to hundreds of square miles. A similar-size asteroid, made of iron, blasted out the 4,000-foot-wide (1,200-meter-wide) Meteor Crater in Arizona 50,000 years ago.

The plan has one or two worrying aspects, however. For a start, space engineers would have to be very careful about how they directed their asteroid or comet towards Earth. The slightest miscalculation in orbit could fire it straight at Earth - with devastating consequences.

It is a point acknowledged by the group. 'The collision of a 100-kilometre diameter object with the Earth at cosmic velocity would sterilise the biosphere most effectively, at least to the level of bacteria,' they state in a paper in Astrophysics and Space Science. 'The danger cannot be overemphasised.'

He snapped a Polaroid photo of the triangular object, said to resemble a two- to three-story house with a glowing red interior, as it slowly soared 500 to 1,000 feet over Millstadt.

He identifies comets between just 50 to 100 metres wide as the most terrifyingly destructive, with massive heat and shock waves burning people and crushing buildings. Dr Genge explains that whilst meteors bigger than two kilometres could wipe out humanity, these hits are expected only once every million years or so.

When Hurricane Andrew struck southern Miami-Dade County in 1992, the Category 4 storm brought 150-mph (240-km/h) winds and 200-mph (320-km/h) gusts. Dozens of deaths were blamed on Andrew, which made 160,000 people homeless and caused estimated local damage of $25 billion.

"Andrew was almost the same intensity as this storm, but Andrew was small," said Jarrell of the National Hurricane Center. "This is a huge storm so ... (Floyd) is much more dangerous than Andrew."

Today, irrigation problems are widespread in the grain-growing regions of central and northern China, northwest and southern India, parts of Pakistan, much of the western United States, North Africa, the Middle East, and the Arabian Peninsula.

Water tables are dropping steadily in several major food-producing regions as groundwater is pumped faster than nature replenishes it. The world's farmers are racking up an annual water deficit of some 160 billion cubic meters-the amount used to produce nearly 10 percent of the world's grain. The overpumping of groundwater cannot continue indefinitely.

Astronomers stress that a collision is only one of a range of possibilities for this kilometre-wide chunk of rock. If it did strike, it would cause continent-wide devastation and alter the Earth's climate.

. If it did, the devastation would be continent-wide, with massive global effects for decades. Hundreds of millions of people would die and many animal species would be wiped out.

The direct human impact of this year's weather-related disasters has also been staggering. An estimated 32,000 people have been killed, and another 300 million-more than the population of the United States-have been displaced from their homes or forced to resettle because of extreme weather events in 1998.

To reduce demand for drinking water in the future, the report from The Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health recommended that countries conserve water, pollute less, manage supply and demand of water better and slow population growth.
Now, nearly half a billion people don't have enough drinking water. That number is expected to increase to 2.8 billion people by 2025 - or 35 percent of the world's projected 8 billion people, the report said.
Today, 31 countries, mostly in Africa and the Near East, are facing water stress or water scarcity. By 2025, population pressure will push another 17 countries, including India, onto the list. China, with a projected 2025 population of 1.5 billion, will not be far behind, said the report.

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"Weather Modification" by Steven Wright is taken from his book, Weather Modification & UFO's. He shows that every year, since 1988, not only in America, but worldwide, we have broken all-time records of natural disasters. He says, "World record weather patterns changed so much in 1988 that Time magazine's cover story the week of January 2, 1989 read, 'EARTH: Planet of the Year.'" He goes on to show that that 11 out of the 12 worst natural disasters in America have happened since 1989.

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