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Yangtze River in China turns RED.
The Yangtze River, the third longest river in the world traditionally known as the "golden watercourse," mysteriously blushed for the first time on Sept. 6. Residents in the surrounding area near the city of Chongqing, where the Yangtze connects to the Jialin River, literally stopped in their tracks when they noticed their once golden river had turned a shocking shade of red.
Nobody is quite sure what caused the color change, but residents carefully crept down to the riverbanks on Thursday and Friday to save some of the red river water in bottles, likely for posterity's sake. When they lifted their bottles from their water, Chinese citizens were surprised to find the water was completely opaque and had a similar orange-red appearance as tomato juice.
Even though the water doesn't look too safe, the new beet-red color of the river didn't stop people from going about their business. According to the Daily Mail, workers who rely on the Yangtze as their main source of income, including fishermen, continued about their daily work as if nothing were unusual. Officials are investigating the river's transformation, as nobody is quite sure what caused it.
Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/3821...-chongqing.htm
Reminds me of this verse from the Bible:
Revelations 16:3 "And the second angel poured out his bowl upon the sea, and it became as the blood of a dead man, and every living soul in the sea died."
And the first of The 10 Plagues:
Plague #1: Nile Turned to Blood
"Moses and Aaron, Moses' spokesman, met the Pharaoh on the shore of the Nile River. Aaron had earlier turned his walking stick into a snake but the King's magicians had been able to duplicate that. Moses told Pharaoh that he would show him God's power.
Aaron held his stick over the river and the water turned into blood. The fish all died and there was blood everywhere in Egypt where there should have been water. The king's magicians were able to duplicate the feat and Pharaoh refused Moses' request."
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