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Severe snow storms cuts power, closes roads and schools in New Zealand

Severe weather has closed roads and schools, cut power, disrupted flights and caused flooding in Otago, Southland and the West Coast. Methven out in the heavy snowfall. Photo: Twitter / @demileesinclair Temperatures plummeted as a deepening low moved across the…

Strong winds causes power outage, halts high-speed rail in NE China

Strong wind in northeast China’s Liaoning Province caused a power outage on the region’s rail networks lasting nearly three hours on Sunday afternoon, forcing dozens of high-speed trains to suspend operations.   High-voltage transmission lines fell on the rail network’s…

Train falls into a collapsed bridge in Koochiching County, Minnesota just South of the Canadian border

COURTESY KOOCHICHING COUNTY A crucial timber rail bridge burned and collapsed just early Wednesday in Koochiching County, tipping two rail cars onto the banks of the Rat Root River and blocking a Canadian National rail artery that connects the Pacific…