Tropical Storm Hernan was a short-lived tropical cyclone that caused
widespread flooding and destructive mudslides across southwestern Mexico
in late August 2020. The eighth named storm of the 2020 Pacific
hurricane season, Hernan formed to the southwest of Mexico on
August 26. The cyclone peaked with maximum sustained winds of 70 km/h
(45 mph) and a minimum atmospheric pressure of 1001 mbar (hPa;
29.56 inHg) before passing just offshore western Mexico and dissipating
in the Gulf of California. Despite not making landfall, Hernan dropped
extremely heavy rainfall across several states, peaking at nearly
610 mm (24 in) in Jalisco. More than 305 mm (12 in) of rain fell
across the Costa Grande of Guerrero from August 24 to 27. A total of
1,674 homes and 9 schools suffered severe damage. A man died after
falling off his roof while checking for storm damage. The cyclone caused
MXN$594.05 million (USD$26.91 million) in damage across seven states
along the Pacific coast of Mexico.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Hernan_%282020%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1695:
An earthquake measuring '"`UNIQ--
templatestyles-00000001-QINU`"'Ms7.8 struck Shanxi Province in northern
China, resulting in at least 52,600 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1695_Linfen_earthquake>
1927:
Disgruntled school board treasurer Andrew Kehoe set off
explosives with timers and a rifle (aftermath pictured), causing the
Bath School disaster in the Bath Consolidated School in Michigan,
killing 44 people in the deadliest mass murder in a school in United
States history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster>
1952:
First Indochina War: Viet Minh forces overran a French and
Laotian garrison at Muong Khoua, leaving only four survivors.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Muong_Khoua>
2009:
The Sri Lanka Army killed Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader
and founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, to bring an end to
the 26-year Sri Lankan Civil War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velupillai_Prabhakaran>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
in Minecraft:
(Internet slang, figurative, humorous) Used to supposedly keep oneself
from becoming legally liable for making a certain statement that could
be perceived as a threat, or that may otherwise pose a legal risk.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_Minecraft>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is better to do nothing than to do harm. Half the useful
work in the world consists of combating the harmful work. A little time
spent in learning to appreciate facts is not time wasted, and the work
that will be done afterwards is far less likely to be harmful than the
work done by those who need a continual inflation of their ego as a
stimulant to their energy.
--The Conquest of Happiness
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Conquest_of_Happiness>
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