Showing posts with label Wodonga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wodonga. Show all posts

Thursday, March 3, 2016

OMEN: Plagues And Pestilences In Asia - Farmer In China Discovers Chicken With Extra Set Of Legs; And Lamb Born With Seven Legs In Kyrgyzstan?! [VIDEO]

Chicken in China has an extra set of legs

March 3, 2016 - ASIA - A farmer in China said one of his chickens escaped being slaughtered when he discovered the bird was born with an extra set of legs and feet. A bizarre mutant lamb born with two penises and seven legs in Kyrgyzstan, has been trampled to death by its own flock after other animals refused to accept it.

Farmer in China discovers chicken with extra set of legs

Li Guanglin, 67, a chicken farmer in Hefei area, said he was preparing to slaughter the hen last month when he discovered it had four legs and four feet.

The chicken, born last August, walks on two legs while the others are folded near its bottom.

The farmer said he is keeping the chicken in its own separate living quarters to prevent it from being bullied by the other chickens.

Li said he has been offered more than $100 for the chicken, but he decided to keep the unusual animal and have it continue to produce eggs, which he believes could prove especially valuable. - UPI.



Lamb born with seven legs in Kyrgyzstan

Bizarre: The lamb was born with two penises and seven legs

Farmer Batyrbek Sulaymanov was stunned when he went to help a ewe giving birth and found that the lamb he pulled out had more than four legs.

However, he found that the newborn was able to walk easily around his farm in the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan.

It also appeared to be healthy apart from three extra non-functioning legs.


WATCH: Mutant lamb in Kyrgyzstan.




The man from the village of Kyzyl-Ay then decided to put it back with the rest of the flock after feeding it fresh milk.

But when he went back the next day, he discovered that the lamb had sadly been killed by its own flock.

He said: "I was shocked to find that the other animals had killed it.

"They simply didn't accept it because it was so unusual and therefore trampled it to death." - Mirror.







Saturday, February 20, 2016

OMEN: Plagues And Pestilences - Rare Two-Headed Python Hatched In Wodonga, Australia?! [VIDEO]

A two headed snake was hatched in Australia.
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February 20, 2016 - AUSTRALIA - Snakes are creepy enough, but a python that hatched with two heads is taking the Internet by storm.

The baby snake is only a week old, born last Saturday.

Owner John McNamara, who is an Australian snake breeder, thought he just had twins, but it was more.

From the tail to the neck, the little coastal carpet python looks like any other snake, but from the neck up, that's when you see four eyes, two mouths and two heads.

As The Border Mail described it, the snake looks like the mythological hydra.


WATCH: A snake with two heads has been born in Wodonga, Victoria.




"There would have been two yolks and they just haven't split properly ... and I ended up with this," McNamara said.

The breeder's daughter has already become attached to the little baby, calling it the Twin Destroyers.

McNamara said he is talking to media to get publicity just to get some veterinary help.

"Just to see which head is the dominant head and which goes down to the stomach and what organs and other things are joined or can cause complications," McNamara said. - WPXI.





Thursday, November 10, 2011

EXTREME WEATHER: Tornado Terrorizes Victoria, Australia!


"I’ve never seen anything like it in my life. It was very scary."


Victorians in Australia are recalling the terror that grip them, after a tornado hit the state's north, ripping roof off home and snapping beams like matchsticks. The state was also hit by hail the size of golf balls and flash flooding.

A man has described the terror of being in his living room when the roof ripped off as a tornado hit the Victoria's north early this morning. Bellbridge man Bruce Ballosch had to kick his doors in to escape shards of flying glass and wood when the freak storm touched down at about 1am. Mr Ballosch, 53, said he’d never seen anything like it as wooden beams snapped like match sticks and his roof peeled off as the storm battered his two-storey Allen Cres home. “I was standing in the middle of the house and it just came through the house like nobody’s business. I’ve never seen anything like it in my life. It was very scary, there was that much glass flying around the place. The roof’s in the paddock at least a kilometre away. There’s a big sewerage pond behind me and half the roof’s in that as well,” Mr Ballosch said.

Weather bureau spokeswoman Andrea Pearce said the bureau’s Doppler radar picked up a cyclone briefly travelling through the area. “The observation is really what we call a strong mesoscyclone which is what we’d get with a tornado,” she said. “Certainly the damage is what you’d expect to see with the passage of a tornado.” Wodonga SES communications officer Pam Henry said there were reports the tornado shot across Lake Hume before carving a narrow path through the small town. “From what we were told it just came down. They can just appear these things, there’s no warning of them they can just appear out of nowhere,” Ms Henry said.


The roof of Bruce and Rowena Balloch's house was ripped off by a mini-tornado in Bellbridge. Picture: Simon Dallinger. At least four houses have been deemed uninhabitable after trees were uprooted, walls blown off, roofs peeled off and windows smashed in, with about 15 properties damaged. Nearly two-thirds of Victoria's State Emergency Service units were called into action last night as wild weather lashed the state. Hail the size of golf balls, flash flooding and strong winds smacked Victoria, leaving a swathe of damage. The SES had 1100 calls for help from 12pm yesterday. Spokesman Lachlan Quick said almost one-third of those were for flash flooding, including 270 in metropolitan Melbourne. Another 170 calls were for building damage. Rainfall in excess off 50mm drenched a range of areas around Victoria including Frankston and Bunyip. Mt Hotham endured the worst of the rain, with 65.8mm recorded over the last 24 hours.

The couple's home suffered extensive damage. Picture: Simon Dallinger. Planes were grounded at Melbourne airport during the brunt of the storm. An airport spokeswoman said no flights came in or out of the airport between 7.20pm and 8.15pm. Some flights had to detour around the storm but all landed in Melbourne eventually, an Air Services Australia spokesman said. An ambulance spokeswoman said the storms had not caused an increase in car accidents. “Thankfully a lot of people got out and heeded the warnings early,” she said. This storm picture was taken in Caroline Springs by reader Simon Jakovac. Melbourne resident Paul Robinson said his street was covered in golf-ball sized hail after it hit around 7.15pm. “It was a bit like a cyclone, it got very quiet then a big gust of wind came and then the hail just hit,” Mr Robinson said. “It was very intense, it would have taken no more than five minutes. “I just can’t believe our windows didn’t break..there’s golf balls (hail) all over the street, it’s unbelievable.” - News Australia.
WATCH: Tornado terror in Victoria.


Wednesday, November 9, 2011

EXTREME WEATHER: Storm Wrecks Havoc in Victoria & Melbourne!


"It was certainly one of the fiercest thunderstorms I've seen."... "It's an absolute shambles, our couch from upstairs is out on the grass, there's bits of roof everywhere, broken glass, bits of wood and steel everywhere."

One of the wildest storms of the year has lashed Victoria and Melbourne, as the SES celebrates National SES Week.

Around 500 SES volunteers are working through Wednesday night trying to answer more than 800 calls for help, with houses unroofed, flash flooding, hail damage and trees blown over. SES spokesman Lachlan Quick said that until 6.30pm (AEDT) the service had taken 150 calls from midnight but as the storm hit calls for help skyrocketed in the next two hours and reached just over 800. "Most of those have related to flash flooding in the metropolitan area and the bulk of those have been in the Frankston bayside area," Mr Quick said. There had also been around 200 reports of damage to buildings caused by hailstones and heavy rainfall.


There were 150 reports of fallen trees, many in towns northwest of Melbourne including Castlemaine, Woodend and Maryborough, while in Wodonga a number of houses had their roofs ripped off, making two of them uninhabitable. "We've got 53 units out working, around 400 to 500 volunteers, and I'd expect them to be going through the night," Mr Quick said. Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster James Taylor said at Oakleigh, in Melbourne's southeast, 12 to 14 millimetres of rain and hail fell in just 10 minutes. He said hail the size of golf balls hit Ballarat at the height of the storm. "We also had a water spout reported off Black Rock (in Melbourne's bayside)," Mr Taylor said. The rain was expected to persist in Melbourne until the early hours of Thursday morning, he said. A Metropolitan Fire Brigade spokesman said crews were busy attending fire alarms set off by the wild weather. - Yahoo Australia.
Emergency services received more than a thousand urgent calls for help as heavy rain and wild winds damaged houses and closed roads across the state. Melbourne's south-east bore the brunt of the storms, with East Bentleigh receiving 23 millimetres of rain in just six minutes. Frankston received about 30 millimetres within an hour during the early evening. State Emergency Service spokesman Lachlan Quick said regional Victorian towns near major rivers could face some flooding in coming days. ''We would expect rivers to go up to moderate flood level,'' he said. Mr Quick said hundreds of SES volunteers had worked through the night. He said the Frankston SES unit was among the state's busiest, tending to flooded and damaged houses. ''It was certainly one of the fiercest thunderstorms I've seen,'' he said. Police closed the Moorooduc Freeway in Frankston due to flooding, while fallen trees forced the closure of the Sunraysia Highway and several roads in Maryborough. - SMH.
A 'mini cyclone' has ripped roofs off houses and flattened trees in north east Victoria this afternoon, damaging 12 homes at Bellbridge and other properties at Bethanga and Tallangatta. The State Emergency Service says a severe storm front hit the area at about three o'clock, with dozens of homes and a church damaged. Bellbridge resident Trish Chapman's home suffered serious damage. She's been told she can't re-enter her home until it's declared safe. "It's an absolute shambles, our couch from upstairs is out on the grass, there's bits of roof everywhere, broken glass, bits of wood and steel everywhere." Trish said thankfully no one was at home when the storm hit. "It didn't get every house, it was very much like a tornado." Lorraine Craig from Bethanga returned home from an appointment at about 1pm to find her property had been hit. "We've got at least ten trees down. There's just mess everywhere. According to my neighbour it came through like a hurricane. So here we are cleaning up and hoping we can get back to normal again." - ABC.
WATCH: Flood Alert.


WATCH: Severe weather warning / Australian Radar.


WATCH: Storm over Melbourne.