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Nature can be Dangerous

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@RayGarciahawaii, Twitter • Mon 2020 Aug 31, 12:40pm

Four year old' girl found drifting half-a-mile out to sea on a unicorn inflatable…

Nail-biting Twitter video, 1:46
Michael E. Miller, Wash Post • Sat 2016 Jun 18, 11:15am

…Twelve hours earlier, she had been picking mushrooms in the remote Canadian wilderness when she had heard a growl behind her. She turned around and saw Joey, her faithful mutt, locked in a snarling standoff with a skinny black wolf.…

And then there was the mama bear and her cub!
Matthew Abbott, Mirror UK • Wed 2015 Aug 19, 11:46am

…they spotted a 10cm mass growing in her left ovary. …could rupture and kill the 45-year-old… discovered it was her undeveloped unborn twin which had grown inside her from birth. …complete with face, an eye, tooth, and long black hair like Jenny's. … "I feel very lucky that they found it and removed it before it killed me. I try not to think of it too much because I don't want to feel sad about it. If I'm honest, I did feel sad when I first saw it, because of the size and weight of it, it had already been likened to a baby. But I try not to feel sad about it. I try to remember that it had no heart and no brain. …

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K. Querry & KFOR-TV • Wed 2015 May 27, 6:09pm

Health officials say an Oklahoma resident has been diagnosed with a rare tick borne disease. …a Payne County resident tested positive for Bourbon virus. This case is the first detected in Oklahoma and only the second case in the United States.…

Guardian, UK • Mon 2015 May 18, 8:00pm

A tornado outside Tipton, Oklahoma, unleashes hail stones big enough to shatter the windshield of a car from which two people are filming.…

tulsaworld.com • Thu 2009 May 14, 12:01pm

OKC --High winds early Wednesday broke in two a piece of granite that is part of the fallen law officer monument

google.com • Sat 2009 Apr 11, 7:55pm

Twisting TwisterMENA, Ark. — The sirens sounded three times across this western Arkansas hamlet, and residents watched several funnel clouds pass harmlessly over the town. The fourth siren was for another twister that ended up being a killer. ... At least three people were killed, at least 30 others injured and 600 homes were damaged or destroyed. ...

breitbart.com • Fri 2009 Mar 20, 5:55pm

VolcanoA volcanic eruption close to the South Pacific nation of Tonga has destroyed rich birdlife and vegetation, leaving a wasteland of black ash and tree stumps.... frequent explosions hurtling rocks and ash hundreds of metres into the air.... on the small, uninhabited islet of Hunga Ha'apai 63 kilometres (39 miles) northwest of the Tongan capital Nuku'alofa.... "The island itself is totally destroyed.... there is no living thing left there, it's all covered in black ash. ... There are only black stumps where the coconut trees were.... We saw dead birds and fish in the water."