Sick Shit seems to happen every year and 2008 is no exception.

We saw some sick natural disasters in 2008…  floods, fires, earthquakes, cyclones, tsunamis and tornadoes all around the world. At this year end, looks like hundreds of thousands of people have lost their lives to mother nature’s supreme power
The Just Sick Shit year end of 2008, Disaster list, month by month

January 2008 Disasters

January saw three major disasters around the world,
Starting on New Years and going for 4 days Kenya saw riots that burned down homes, businesses, farms and killed an estimated 300 people in the riot. The riots began over a presidential election where Mwai Kibaki (Kikuyu) defeats Raila Odinga (Luo) sending the two Luo and Kikuyu tribes into a tribal battle for 5 days of new years violence.
from the U.S department of State

Protesters run away as riot police chase them in Kibera slums, Saturday, Jan. 5, 2008, as a government statement said Saturday that Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki is ready to form “a government of national unity” to help resolve disputed elections that caused deadly riots. Some 300 people have been killed and around 100,000 made homeless in violent clashes since the recent presidential vote, bringing chaos to this east African nation, and ethnic divisions pitting some tribes against President Mwai Kibaki’s Kikuyu people.

January 7 & 8 US: Tornadoes caused by record-breaking temperatures kill at least six people, including two children, destroy houses, and flood roads.

Jan. 28 - China: 78 million people are affected by severe snow storms and bad weather leaving over 800,000 people evacuated, millions without power, 600, 000 train passengers stranded and 2 dozen dead. This disaster is expensive for China costing an estimated 3.2 billion dollars.

January to Spring Brazil: Brazil starts a fever outbreak that will last for months. By April, more hospitals are opened and people begin education for curbing the mosquito driven dengue fever that has now infected over 75,000 people and by April, killed at least 80. January saw the start on the dangue fever epidemic.

February 2008 Disasters

The disasters just kept going through February…
Feb. 3- Rep. of the Congo: at least 45 people are killed and about 450 more injured after two earthquakes, a 6.0 and a 5.0.

Feb. 5 U.S South.: at least 55 people are killed and hundreds more injured after violent tornadoes rip through the southern United States. According to emergency officials, the victims include 31 people in Tennessee, 13 in Arkansas, 7 in Kentucky, and 3 in Alabama.

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Feb. 7 - U.S.: an explosion at an Imperial Sugar Refinery near Savannah, Georgia kills 14 people and injures many more.
Feb. 21, Venezuela: A airplane from Venezuela crashes into the Andean Mountain - killing all 46 people aboard.

March 2008 Disasters

March 14 - US: Georgia is hit by another disaster, this time it’s bad weather and tornadoes rip through the southern state. 2 people are killed and at least 30 people are injured in Atlanta and northwestern counties of Georgia including Polk County and Floyd County. The tornadoes bring down many large centers including the CNN one and cause millions in damage.
March 17-US: Flooding and bad weather affect states from Pennsylvania to Texas causing road closures, evacuations and the deaths of 13 people.

April 2008 Disasters

April 29, US: Tornadoes in Virginia cover 3 counties, destroy communities and injure many

May 2008 Disasters

May saw 2 of the worst natural disasters of the decade and left over 150,000 casualties, billions in damage, millions homeless and the entire world trying to help.
May 3 - Myanmar: One of the worst natural disasters of the decade hits, Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar. Death and destruction follow leaving millions homeless and an astounding estimated 78,000 people dead or missing. Most of the deaths were caused by water and the huge tidal waves that flooded the land and ripped structures apart.

May 11- US.: 20 people die and many left homeless in southern states because of tornadoes
May 12 - China: A 7.9 earthquake strikes China killing over 67,000 people die and leaving hundreds of thousands more injured. Following the earthquake were more natural disasters in the form of floods and landslides that killed, injured and left many more people trapped.

June 2008 Disasters

June 9- US.: Central states see severe weather and record flooding, 10 people die as the Cedar river rises 17 feet, the highest recorded, and floods Cedar Rapids breaking dams and causing thousands of evacuations.

June 11 -US: In Iowa a tornado kills four Boy Scouts and injures 48 people

June 17 - southern China: the worst flooding in 50 years kills over 60 people, destroys 5.4 million acres of crops, causes landslides, and leaves 13 people missing in nine southern Chinese provinces.

June 21 - Philippines: Typhoon Fengshen crosses the Princess of the Stars, killing most of the 865 passengers and crew. There are 59 known survivors. Almost 500 other people die during the storm.

July 2008 Disasters

July 24 - Japan: 6.8 magnitude earthquake strikes many miles below the earth’s surface in the region of Iwate.
July 27 - Ukraine: 18 people die during 5 days of very heavy rain inthe Ukraine and Romania,

August 2008 Disasters

Aug. 1- Pakistan: a large mass of ice breaks on K2, the world’s second-highest mountain, causing an avalanche that kills 11 climbers.

Aug. 4 - Himachal Pradesh: almost 150 people die in a stampede during a festival celebrating the Hindu mother goddess at Naina Devi temple in northern India. A rumor of a landslide is said to have started the stampede
Aug. 20 - Spain: Over 150 people die when a 160-person passenger plane skids off the runway and explodes while trying to take off at the Barajas airport in Madrid.
Aug. 23 - U.S.: 12 people die, many more are injured and left homeless as Tropical storm Faye hits Florida and other southern states.
Aug. 28 - India: Kosi River floods killing 75 and leaving millions homeless or living in camps.
Aug. 28 - Cuba: Over 130 people die and many more are injured when Hurricane Gustav makes landfall in the Caribbean.

September 2008 Disasters

Sept. 1 - U.S. Gulf Coast: Hurricane Gustav back at work leaving Cuba and now hitting the U.S. Hurricane Gustav devastates the Gulf Coast, kills at least 26 people in Louisiana, Georgia, and Mississippi.
Sept. 5 - Haiti: Tropical Storm Hanna strikes Haiti, killing hundreds of people and injuring thousands.
Sept. 7 - Cuba: Cuba and the islands just got hit with one storm a few weeks back and now they face Hurricane Ike which kills over 60 people in Haiti, 4 more are killed in Cuba, and 80% of homes are destroyed on Turks and Caicos islands.

Sept. 12 - U.S. California: Metrolink commuter train collides with a freight train northwest of Los Angeles, killing 25 passengers.

Sept. 13 - US: Hurricane Ike hits Texas and causes more deaths, evacuations and loss of power, Hurricane Ike travels inland causing severe flooding and power outages in parts of Louisiana, Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois. 17 more people die due to Ike.

Sept. 30 - India: Another religious stampede and a collapsed wall kill over 100 people during the Navratra religious festival. Those Indian religious festivals are starting to look dangerous

October 2008 Disasters

Oct. 6 - Kyrgyzstan: 6.6 magnitude earthquake levels the town of Nura. 70 people die, hundreds more are injured.
Oct. 29 - Pakistan: 6.4 magnitude earthquake hits southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 170 people and destroying around 15,000 homes.

November 2008 Disasters

Nov. 7 - Haiti: School collapses killing 90 students.
Nov. 9 - Sea of Japan: A new Russian nuclear sub has an accident.  20 people die and 21 more are injured when two compartments flood with Freon gas during tests in the Sea of Japan.
Nov. 15 - U.S.: California wild fires

Nov. 22 - Brazil: Brazil is hit again by bad weather and 119 people die and over 80,000 homes are destroyed during heavy rains and flooding.

December 2008 Disasters

Dec. 11-  U.S.: The New England states see tons of ice and snow during storms.  Many power lines are effected, hundreds of thousands left without power causing President Bush to declare a state of emergency in parts of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, getting FEMA to come in with help.

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So I understand people love to take risks for the rush of it and even walk that fine line between living and dying, but this fool is just insane. Talk about extreme sports! Personally, I think playing a poker game with Mother Nature is a bit twisted, you know that bitch WILL win out eventually.

Anyway, check out this crazy video of a snowboarder very willing to take that chance. This fool gets dropped off by a helicopter on top of some crazy steap mountain in some soft snow so he can board down, not once or twice, but over and over.

Thing thats just sickly nuts here, is that between him and the chopper, they keep starting an avalanche that he tries to race down the hill, that seems to be his thrill here. Luckily for him, in this video, the man beat the mother in the race…hmmm.

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These guys who shot this video really have some big balls on them. Most people are driving away from it and running for cover, these guys whip out the video camera and start shooting tornado videos. Thumbs up to the insane, without them we would not have such great footage of roofs being torn off the buildings. I wish we had some flying cows to go with that twister.

This video starts out as some people playing ball, turns into one crazy game when a tornado kinda just lands on them, guess we’ll never know which team won.

This is kinda odd to see, fire tornado

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Yes the list is out. The Blacksmith Institute’s list of the worst places to breathe in

World’s Worst
Polluted Places 2007

• Sumgayit, Azerbaijan
• Linfen, China
• Tianying, China
• Sukinda, India
• Vapi, India
• La Oroya, Peru
• Dzerzhinsk, Russia
• Norilsk, Russia
• Chernobyl, Ukraine
• Kabwe, Zambia

First place - Sumgayit, Azerbaijan

We may not be able to pronounce it, but it has the top spot of being “The most polluted place on the planet”,

Who needs air when they have synthetic rubber, chlorine, aluminium, detergents, and pesticides. While the factories remained fully operational, 70-120,000 tons of harmful emissions were released into the air annually. With the emphasis placed on maximum, low-cost production at the expense of environmental and occupational health and safety, industry has left the city heavily contaminated.

Their prize for such a “green” way of life is… A high percentage of babies are born premature, stillborn, and with genetic defects like downs syndrome, anencephaly, spina bifida, hydrocephalus, bone disease, and mutations such as club feet, cleft palate, and additional digits. Plus a 50% higher cancer rate yhen the norm.

way to go Sumgayit

In second place we have

Second Place - Linfen, China

where is is no such thing as a kid with a clean face due to the thier large coal usage

China, they take third place as well

Taking 4th and 5th place we have India

Where you two can get a clean sip of brownish water. And all this time I thought it was only Mexico we couldn’t drink the water in… silly me.

Number six La Oroya, Peru

The Andes are known for a few things blue skies and extreme lead content

but, look at this. The polluting mines are currently owned by the Missouri-based Doe Run Corporation, the plant has been largely responsible for the dangerously high lead levels found in children’s blood.

I guess the state of Missouri did not want the the shit in its back yard,

so… the American way is, to send our problems somewhere else!

Number Seven and Eight go to the same country Russia, The town names, no one can pronounce, Dzerzhinsk and Norilsk

Type of Pollutants: Chemicals and toxic byproducts, including Sarin, VX gas, etc. Also lead, phenols. Source of Pollution: Cold War-era chemical weapons manufacturing

where 300,000 tons of chemical waste were improperly disposed between 1930 and 1998 and 190 identified chemicals have been released into the groundwater. (I would drink lots of Vodka also with that type of water)

Guess they are still suffering the cold war effects over there in Dzerzhinsk and Norilsk

Coming in at number Nine, Chernobyl

the picture says is all

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Number Ten Zambia

and yes, the name says it all… if you breathe, you may end up a zombie at that from all the lead.

So, one more time, Americans, take a breath of clean air and remember your country fights for a clean environment… mostly by shipping its pollution elsewhere, but hey… that is the American way!

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I already showed this clip on another one of the Just Sick sites, but the clip is so good that it needs to be shared even more. I really have no idea of how to surf, how hard it is to stay up or anything like that… but this fool in this clip has balls of steel. I really gotta wonder if he knew the tidal wave was coming or not, but that poor MoFo rode that giant wave utill it crashed on top of him…. but then you see him still on the surfboard and he keeps going ’till it crashes on him again. Now after the second time the surfer got hit with the 50 foot tall gush of water, well we did not see him get up. Hope he is still alive and well.

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Either way this courageous surfer should get some kind of Guiness book record… let me be so bold as to suggest a few here:

• longest surf ride on a Tidal Wave
• Still alive after riding the Tidal Wave (if he is)
• Largest amount of water to crash on surfer
• speed record for body hitting the beach sand
• Going where no shark would dare
• Balls bigger than brain (there may be too much competition for that record)
• and… dumbfuck of the year

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