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Crimson Tide: Residents stunned as Russian river turns red
cnn ^ | September 8, 2016 | Madison Park and Radina Gigova, CNN

Posted on 09/09/2016 11:56:49 AM PDT by Morgana

(CNN)A Russian river located by the Arctic town of Norilsk turned bright red Tuesday, looking more like an enormous blood vessel than a body of water. Stunned residents shared photos online of the bizarre scene at Daldykan River.

Authorities are trying to determine why the river changed colors and are evaluating possible environmental damages.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: red; river; russia
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To: BipolarBob

We think in a similar vein, I regret to inform you.

If this isn’t a sign, it sure is a wonder!


21 posted on 09/09/2016 12:32:02 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: Morgana

My first thought when I read the headline was there’s a Russian River in Tuscaloosa?


22 posted on 09/09/2016 12:33:29 PM PDT by Fair Paul
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To: Morgana

Red Algae bloom?

Similar to this:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/salt-lake-turkey-turns-red-algae-bloom/story?id=32590572

Explained here:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/algal_bloom.htm

Similar occurrence takes place in the Chesapeake Bay in the spring and fall.


23 posted on 09/09/2016 12:39:25 PM PDT by Madam Theophilus (iI)
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To: Morgana

Holy Cow!


24 posted on 09/09/2016 12:39:34 PM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: Morgana

Blame it on Climate Change/Global warming


25 posted on 09/09/2016 12:40:10 PM PDT by Henderson (blood is thicker than only water)
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To: Morgana

Screw Bama!


26 posted on 09/09/2016 12:50:39 PM PDT by cdga5for4
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To: cdga5for4
Screw Bama!

How bad did your team lose to the Crimson Tide?

27 posted on 09/09/2016 12:52:27 PM PDT by numberonepal (First they came for Sarah, then they came for Herman, and now they've come for Trump.)
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To: Talisker

From the looks of the countryside around the river, the land isn’t doing a whole lot better.


28 posted on 09/09/2016 12:54:56 PM PDT by Kommodor (Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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To: Morgana

It’s downstream of a huge sulfate ore (with mercury and arsenic traces plus chromium sulfate) smelter which has created the most polluted acreage in the world by some estimates. I wouldn’t live downstream let alone work there. The Soviets did nothing to mitigate the damages and neither have their successors.


29 posted on 09/09/2016 12:59:33 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: ken in texas; All

Belatedly it’s the blood of the millions murdered by the communists in that icy hellhole.


30 posted on 09/09/2016 1:04:23 PM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
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To: JimSEA

I’m surprised to see anything alive and growing within 500ft of the riverbanks.


31 posted on 09/09/2016 1:12:50 PM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: Morgana

Red River Valley

From this valley they say you are going,
We will miss your bright eyes and sweet smile,
For they say you are taking the sunshine
Which has brightened our pathways a while.

Chorus

Come and sit by my side if you love me;
Do not hasten to bid me adieu,
But remember the Red River Valley,
And the girl that has loved you so true.

I’ve been thinking a long time, my darling,
Of the sweet words you never would say,
Now, alas, must my fond hopes all vanish?
For they say you are going away.

Won’t you think of the valley you’re leaving,
Oh, how lonely and sad it will be,
Just think of the fond heart you’re breaking,
And the grief you are causing to me.

From this valley they say you are going,
When you go, may your darling go too?
Would you leave her behind unprotected,
When she loves no one other than you.

As you go to your home by the ocean,
May you never forget those sweet hours,
That we spent in the Red River Valley,
And the love we exchanged ‘mid the flowers.

I have promised you, darling, that never
Will a word from my lips cause you pain,
And my life, it will be yours forever,
If you only will love me again.

They will bury me where you have wandered,
Near the hills where the daffodils grow,
When you’re gone from the Red River valley,
For I can’t live without you I know.


32 posted on 09/09/2016 1:13:21 PM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: cdga5for4
Screw Bama!

Did you leave out the "O"?

33 posted on 09/09/2016 1:18:40 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and no, I don't have any heart strings to tug)
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To: paddles
it’s the pockyclipse.

Revelation 16:4 The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.

34 posted on 09/09/2016 1:23:18 PM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: Kommodor
From the looks of the countryside around the river, the land isn’t doing a whole lot better.

Yeah I noticed that too...

35 posted on 09/09/2016 1:26:01 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Via5VgRatdE


36 posted on 09/09/2016 1:51:50 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Morgana

Whew! For a second there, I thought it was a huge wine spill in the Russian River in California.


37 posted on 09/09/2016 2:02:52 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: carriage_hill

That’s some tough undergrowth! I was born in a town with a smelter. The smelter closed in 1972 and the desert has recovered since then pretty completely. Not having SO2 pumped into the air helps. It was a pretty neat looking old plant though. It had had a machine shop that could make most anything as the railroad had steam locomotives and the rest of the mine used equipment that was out of date.


38 posted on 09/09/2016 2:18:20 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Talisker

The Borsch Belt!!


39 posted on 09/09/2016 2:34:36 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Morgana

Anyone bother to check the algae bloom before all the knee jerking?


40 posted on 09/09/2016 2:36:23 PM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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