The events what you describe are just a couple out of many from around the world and I do believe that many if not most of them are the results that once again we are heading into the 3600 year repetitive cycle. A good site which is updated daily to keep up with some of these destructive events is SOTT.NET and you will find it under EARTH CHANGES I do believe you my find it interesting.
What a lot of people do not realize or even heard about including the Chinese is, that once again we are heading into another 3600 year repetitive cycles described in literature, historic accounts as well in great detail by Emanuel Velikovsky. It is the same cycle which give or take about 3520 years ago produced the TEN PLAGUES and drove the than Pharaoh nuts who eventually conceded to Moses demands and freed the Jews what went down in the annals of history as the EXODUS. From ancient Chinese historic accounts we know that about the same time China experienced very similar problems as they did in ancient Egypt such as flooding, severe storms as well as quakes etc. in other words what was taking place was on a worldwide scale, quite like what we are experiencing right now on a worldwide scale including China with more water than they know what to do with.
As we look around on a worldwide scale all these crazy weather events seem to back this up. From an unusual heat spell in the arctic region to camels stumping around in snow in some areas in Saudi Arabia, to excessive flooding in other areas receiving several month worth of rain in just a few hours, or severe droughts in others along with an increase in quakes as well a volcanic eruptions and so far we are just partially into this cycle. As I have stated on several occasion in the past, so far the US has been relatively fortunate escaping some of these devastating events, aside from the last storm which did a number on Iowas crop or last years flooding in Nebraska. And I hope that our luck will continue, but I am afraid there will be more to come.. As far as The Three Gorges Dam is concerned with a little luck it may hold, short of an earthquake what is always a possibility. I for one could not sleep very well living downstream knowing that this dam is holding back a lake give or take 340 miles in length.
Earth axis tilt
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