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These are some extreme measures.

Private investigator Leon Hart, from UK-based  InTime Investigations Ltd ., has busted more than 5,000 two-timers who prove the lengths cheaters go to to knock their socks off.

As a managing director of the company, Hart oversees 250 detectives worldwide, who use GPS, listening devices and other surveillance technologies to track targets, with evidence used to collect reports, according to the Mirror.

With 15 years on the job, Hart has revealed the five craziest things cheaters do to hide their infidelity.

Live a double life

Deceitful spouses want to   have their Kate and Edith, too, even if that means living a double life with two families in opposing homes.

“A man was suspected of cheating on his wife of 50 years; they had three children and seven grandchildren,” Hart told  the Mirror . “After utilizing surveillance, we identified that he was living at another address with a female in the exact same village as his wife.”

Once Hart shared his discovery with the suspect’s wife, she confronted him — and the cheater confessed to living a double life for nearly as long as he had been married to his wife of five decades.

He also admitted to having a family with the mistress, with whom he fathered two children and had three grandchildren.

Business trips

Another fellow decided to keep his affairs far from home — even if that required him to hop on a plane to see his lovers.

The London detective unveiled how a wicked geezer struggled to maintain one relationship, so he developed three others who were unaware of each other.

“A wife suspected her wealthy husband of infidelity, as he would disappear on ‘business’ for a few days every week. The husband owned a small aircraft and also had a pilot’s license,” Hart shared.

The cheater was flying from island to island to get what he considered “work” done.

“He was found to be having an affair with three different families at once, all scattered around the nearby islands, alternating between the families equally for many years,” the detective added.

Cellphone location service

Meanwhile, some adulterers prefer working smarter, not harder.

Hart recalled a scenario in which a grimy husband used his cellphone location services to his benefit.

“We once had a target that would park at his local golf course, put his phone in a plastic bag and place it discreetly in a nearby bush,” he said.

Since the cellphone location shows the man on the golf course all day, he could gallivant to nearby hotels and meet his mistress without raising any suspicions.

Wearing disguises

There are cheaters who enjoy mischief under a disguise, whether it’s a name change, hairstyle, wardrobe or eyewear.

A survey conducted by  Illiciten Counters , a marriage dating site, polled 2,000 participants, revealing 42% had even experimented with disguises, including 8% who had dressed up as the opposite sex.

Fake a family member’s death

Cheaters, desperate for pleasure outside of their homes, would prefer to off a family member to have an excuse to be promiscuous.

Illiciten Counters poll results showed that 38% of cheaters have lied about a family death to hide their infidelity.

As previously  reported by The Post , an expert in detecting deceitful behavior in relationships revealed some ways to spot if your partner is cheating on you.

Private investigator Charlotte Notley from Norwich, England, advises clients to listen to their gut feeling, watch their partner’s internet usage and make surprise visits to work.

“You know your partner the best, so if something feels off, then it probably is,” the PI told NeedToKnow. “Most clients who come to us know there is something not right and they usually are correct.”

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The first myth I want to disprove is that getting to Kamchatka is extremely costly. It’s not. Going between February and April, a return flight from Moscow can be had for 11,000 roubles (US$380 / £220). Not bad for 18 hours total flying time. In summer the flights are more expensive but still, if you book them a few months in advance, can be got for 16,000 roubles return.

It’s true, many people will tell you that March and April are the worst months to visit because the snow is starting to melt and everything’s a bit sloshy and dirty in settlements. On the other hand, these are great months for the independent traveller! During winter zimniki (temporary winter roads made of compacted snow or simply frozen river surfaces) open up all over Kamchatka, granting access to communities that in summer are totally isolated. Hitch hiking is possible right from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the very north of the peninsula. Alternatively, vehicles can be hired in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky from tour firms. Also in the winter or early spring months places can be reached that are away even from the zimniki, either by snowmobile or by the use of cross country skis. For example, Klyuchevskaya Sopka, Eurasia’s largest active volcano, can be accessed from the village of Klyuchi without the need even for a guide by a traveller with a pair of cross country skis. Bears do not wake up until mid-April so this is not a danger, but bears almost never attack anyone anyway.

The main disadvantages of winter travel in Kamchatka are that it is cold, there is no greenery and there are no bears, which some people come here especially to see.

The second myth I’d like to dispel is that travel around the peninsula requires hiring a helicopter. As mentioned above, in winter you can get almost anywhere by hitch hiking. I even hitched a lift with bear hunters on snowmobiles from their village to a reindeer herder encampment 100km away. In summer snowmobiles are replaced by horses, and transport is reduced from long distance ice-road journeys to irregular inter-settlement all-terrain vehicle trips. Hitch hiking is possible on these all-terrain vehicles though.

Throughout the year there are fairly expensive public helicopter flights to all settlements which are nevertheless much cheaper than hiring your own helicopter. There is also one permanent, year-round dirt road leading halfway up the peninsula. Some distance after the town of Milkovo, about 350km north of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky , it forks. The right fork leads to Klyuchi , site of Eurasia’s largest active volcano, and further to the port town of Ust-Kamchatsk. The left fork leads to the indigenous Even villages of Anavgay and Esso. Daily buses go from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Klyuchi , Anavgay and Esso, costing about 1000 roubles each way. In winter a zimnik passable by lorries heads north from Anavgay 36 hours to the otherwise isolated town of Palana. From Palana more zimniki head further north to yet more isolated settlements. From the peninsula’s very northernmost settlements there are even EXTREMELY irregular snowmobile and all-terrain vehicle connections with Magadan Oblast and Chukotka. Another zimnik, only passable by all-terrain vehicle, heads from Anavgay to the village of Ust-Khayryuzovo on Kamchatka’s west coast.

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Wilderness homes far from civilisation

Sometimes the frantic pace of modern life can make you want to retreat far away from civilization, with nothing but a warm fire and Mother Nature for company.

From a handmade yurt nestled deep in the Canadian wilderness to a solitary house teetering on a towering stone pillar, these extreme homes make do with only the bare necessities.

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Gridlessness family home, British Columbia, Canada

Nestled in the north of British Columbia, Jeff and Rose live in this idyllic country home with their five daughters. Determined to forge a debt-free, nature-filled life for their family, they built the wooden house themselves for just $25,000. 

The family documents their adventures on their YouTube channel,  Gridlessness .

Inside, the bespoke home is steeped in character. The main living space is pared back yet welcoming and cozy, with vast picture windows that draw the outside in. 

While it may be rustic, the house has all the modern amenities you'd expect, from a washing machine and a toaster oven to outlets for phone chargers. The difference is that the family generates power from solar panels, meaning their emergency generator runs for less than 40 hours a year.

Jeff and Rose homeschool their daughters, so the dining table, pictured here on the far left, is where the family eat, socialise and also study.

There's no running water in the dwelling, so rainwater is collected and stored underground before being brought into the main house in buckets. It's filtered through a Berkey filtration system to make it suitable for drinking, or heated on the wood-burner for washing.

Without plumbing, the family uses eco-friendly compost toilets, which they sprinkle with sawdust after use.

There are three bedrooms in the house, with a snug double bed for mum and dad and bunk rooms shared by some of their five daughters.

Impressively, two of the couple's daughters, Sarah and Abigail, built their own tiny house on the acreage where they now live. The girls milled all of the timberwork in the two-storey property, which includes a snug sleeping loft tucked away in the eaves.

Keen to make the most of the great outdoors, in the summer of 2023, the family built their own beautiful outdoor kitchen. Complete with a suspended retractable roof, LED fairy lights and an old family pizza oven, the alfresco cooking station is the perfect place for summer gatherings beneath the tree canopy.

Sally’s round house, Yukon, Canada

This round little house in the snowy wilderness was built in Canada's Yukon Territory by pioneering homeowner Sally Wright. She had dreamed about living in a rustic house in a remote spot for years and finally realised her long-held ambition.

Sally made a  short film  to document the extensive construction process. Impressively, the film made its international debut at the Dawson City International Short Film Festival in 2013.

The property was built from white spruce wood but Sally was careful to ensure her use of the material was as sustainable as possible. Wood was only taken from trees that were already dead, due to the ravages of spruce bark beetles. What's more, all the trees selected for the project were harvested within a 500-foot radius of where the house sits.

Recycled glass bottles embedded within the walls provide ingenious openings for daylight, as well as unique decorative focal points.

As the property is 37 miles away from civilisation and the electrical grid, the house is powered by solar energy. The array generates enough power to support the property's minimal electrical needs, including LED lights and laptop chargers.

The secluded, woodland location of the house is picturesque but it also presents some logistical problems. At the time of filming the documentary, Sally shared that even an ordinary everyday task like buying groceries was complicated by her isolated locale. When she needed to stock up on food, Sally had to drive a shared truck to the nearest town, which is more than three hours away.

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The house is heated using the same material it was built from. Sally chops wood from dead trees in the surrounding area to fuel her hearth and keep the home cosy and warm in the coldest months.

As shown here, Sally obtains water for the property by drilling down through the ice. Canisters are then filled up and transported back to the house.

Ariel’s tiny house, Wyoming, US

This miniature cabin on wheels belongs to  Ariel McGlothin  and is nestled way up in the Wyoming mountains. She shared her minimalist off-grid lifestyle in a  video tour  with filmmakers from  Tiny House Expedition .

The cosy interior layout of the tiny home  was cleverly designed to make the most of the small space. The snug kitchen features a bank of countertops for preparation and utilises an external propane gas tank for cooking.

The rest of the appliances run on electricity generated from solar energy, making the pocket-sized property relatively green to run. 

Every space in the tiny house works double-time. Ariel’s sitting area quickly transforms into a double guest bed – great for accommodating visitors.

Storage is plentiful and in addition to useful shelving tucked into the eaves, there's also extra space beneath the seating area. The dining table can even fold away when it’s not in use.

When the winter nights roll in, Ariel can climb up the stairs to her snug, loft-style bedroom. The sleeping space is surprisingly spacious and houses a double mattress and more storage cabinets at the foot of her bed.

Keeping the home running day to day is no easy task. Ariel must continually shovel the snow from around the house to keep vents clear to allow propane fumes to escape.

To provide her home with running water, she has to fill up the service tanks from outside her house, where she also has a swing set and barbeque to enjoy in the warmer months. 

Agafia’s hut, Siberia, Russia

The Lykov family fled persecution in the 1930s and made their home deep in the Sayan mountains. Agafia Lykov was born in this secluded dwelling in Siberia, 160 miles away from the rest of civilisation.

For more than 70 years she called the property home and continued her traditional way of life there. She shared her story of living in the wilderness in a documentary  for  VICE  back in 2014.

As captured here, Agafia’s home was pared back to the bare necessities, without running water or any modern electronics.

Day to day, Agafia told the filmmakers that she looked after livestock, foraged for food and went fishing. To ensure the home's fire was always stocked, she chopped wood and heaved it home. And to protect herself from approaching bears she made a makeshift drum that she beat to scare them away.

The hut's interior furnishings and possessions existed only for necessity. Agafia told  VICE  she would hate to move to a city. Although not an easy lifestyle, she said she'd rather stay in the mountains as she's well-equipped for her life here.

In fact, not even a visit from the Russian space agency in 2019 to inform her about an impending space launch that could cause debris to fall in her vicinity could persuade her to leave her isolated home.

Devoutly religious, Agafia's sparse decorations in the hut included pieces of religious memorabilia and the 400-year-old holy book from which she prays.

Agafia shared her morning routine with the film crew: she rises before sunrise and comes to read prayers before she begins the day's chores.

Without trucks, cars or any other form of modern transport, Agafia navigates the local terrain by foot. She showed the filmmakers the pair of clever homemade skis that enable her to traverse the rugged landscape to fetch wood, food and water.

Agafia finally said goodbye to her long-time home in 2021. During a welfare check, officials found the hut to be in a poor state of repair. Following a public appeal, Russian billionaire industrialist Oleg Deripaska funded the construction of a new cabin nearby. Given the remote mountain locale, the structure had to be built off-site and reassembled piece by piece. 

According to The Siberian Times , Agafia still has a modest lifestyle in the single-storey wooden home, which features a small stove and a veranda.

Katskhi Pillar, Imereti, Georgia

Nestled in the western Georgian region of Imereti, the Katskhi Pillar takes extreme living to new heights. Towering 130 feet, the stone column is home to a church built in the 6th to 8th centuries, a burial chamber and a cottage.

An iconic religious landmark in the area, the precarious spot has also housed one devout monk for over 20 years.

Father Maxime Qavtaradze was the column's sole resident, and the last monk to live on the column. Previously uninhabited since the 1400s, Maxime revived the religious tradition of the stylite  –  a spiritual person who lives on a remote pillar, enduring the elements to show their devotion to God.

The ladder back down to ground level takes 20 minutes to traverse, so during Maxime's tenure, supplies were winched up via a pulley system.

While the pillar is remote, it is not completely isolated. At the foot of the column lies a monastery where priests and troubled young men seek solace.

Maxime would travel down once or twice a week to offer guidance, having served time in prison himself in his youth before finding God, according to an interview given to photographer Amos Chapple in 2013.

Each day, monks living in the complex below would make the vertical climb up the pillar to the church to say prayers. Pictured here, the journey wasn't for the faint of heart. 

Accommodation at the top of the pillar was kept modest and pared-back as a sign of devotion – Maxime, along with priests and monastery guests, would've broken bread in a simple dining space with bare plaster walls. 

For the first two years after he moved to his elevated home, Maxime slept inside a refridgerator to protect himself from the harsh conditions. Then, following the construction of a cottage, he had a humble space to call home.

Maxime also rebuilt the column's derelict church, restoring it to its former glory with bright religious tableaus and iconography during his time here. Talk about a head for heights!

Self-reliance cabin, Ontario, Canada

Hidden in the snowy Canadian wilderness lies a woodland cabin built by outdoorsman and self-reliance coach Shawn James. Shawn has since moved into another remote log-built home, but he lived in this isolated property with his dog for years.

While Shawn's wife and daughters spend time with him in the wilderness, he maintains a mostly secluded existence, foraging for wild food and relying on his well-honed survival skills. Shawn shares his way of life through his  Instagram channel  and website,  My Self Reliance .

Inside, the  log cabin  was homely and warm, with exposed wood walls and floors. Shawn kept it toasty amid the snow with a wood-burning stove, which he also used for cooking.

Shawn built his snug dwelling by hand in 2017 using traditional construction techniques and equipment, without a modern power tool in sight. Impressive!

A sturdy, handmade table and chairs offered a comfortable dining space for Shawn and his family when they visited the cabin.

Most days, Shawn forages for food in the surrounding wilderness, fully embracing every aspect of his self-sufficient lifestyle. But for a sweet treat, he enjoys making pancakes with lashings of his homemade maple syrup.

During his time in the cabin, Shawn harvested maple sap from the surrounding trees using metal 'spiles.' He has acquired a complex knowledge of the exact time and temperatures for the best harvest and says the sweet liquid can be drunk straight from the tree.

Pictured here in a video on his YouTube channel , he boils the sap down over an open fire to make his own maple syrup, which he then stores in jars.

Living out in the woods may seem idyllic, but the realities of everyday life are no walk in the park. Chopping wood, building fires and searching for food are all part of a daily routine, no matter the weather.

Shawn has his furry pal, Cali, to keep him company in his snowy outdoor endeavours and she features regularly in his video updates.

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Storms caused extreme hail damage not often seen in the Carolinas including ripped-off siding, stripped trees and shredded fences. The largest preliminary hail spotter reports were 4.5 inches in diameter.

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Published Apr 22, 2024 1:33 PM PDT | Updated Apr 23, 2024 7:52 AM PDT

Large hailstones and high winds collided in parts of South Carolina over the weekend, causing severe thunderstorms that left homes, yards and cars destroyed.

Severe thunderstorms crept across the Carolinas Saturday evening, dropping accumulating small hail and large hailstones that damaged homes and cars.

Extreme hail damage, not often seen in the Carolinas , was caused by the storms, including ripped-off siding, leaves stripped from trees and shredded vinyl fences. Sunday morning, piles of hail had not yet melted in some of the hardest-hit areas.

Hail spotter reports in the Carolinas on April 20, 2024.

The largest preliminary hail spotter reports were 4.5 inches in diameter at Lumberton, North Carolina, and 4.0 inches at Rock Hill, South Carolina. "This is a storm that will go down in history," one X user from Rock Hill said .

The National Weather Service also confirmed that a swath of 90-mph straight-line winds from the same storm caused damage from York, South Carolina, to Rock Hill and onto the Lancaster County line.

Corey Davis, from the North Carolina Climatologist's office, told AccuWeather that, if confirmed, the 4.5-inch report would tie the unofficial state record for the largest hailstone diameter.

"Based on the Storm Prediction Center (SPC)'s official records for North Carolina dating back to 1955, there have been seven other hailstones with a diameter of 4.5 inches, but none larger than that. The most recent of these occurred on May 24, 2000, in Burke County," Davis said.

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The day after that record was set on May 25, 2000, storms from the same weather system moved into South Carolina, dropping another 4.5-inch hailstone in the town of Florence, causing over $6 million in damage . The state record was tied again on May 10, 2011, in several counties. Saturday's report of 4 inches would not challenge that South Carolina state record.

As residents surveyed the damage Saturday evening, hail fog, a rare phenomenon after heavy hail during warm temperatures, was also documented in Rock Hill.

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An international team of researchers found that heavy rains had intensified in the region, though they couldn’t say for sure how much climate change was responsible.

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Scenes of flood-ravaged neighborhoods in one of the planet’s driest regions stunned the world this month. Heavy rains in the United Arab Emirates and Oman submerged cars, clogged highways and killed at least 21 people. Flights out of Dubai’s airport, a major global hub, were severely disrupted.

The downpours weren’t a total surprise — forecasters had anticipated the storms several days earlier and issued warnings. But they were certainly unusual.

Here’s what to know.

Heavy rain there is rare, but not unheard-of.

On average, the Arabian Peninsula receives a scant few inches of rain a year, although scientists have found that a sizable chunk of that precipitation falls in infrequent but severe bursts, not as periodic showers. These rains often come during El Niño conditions like the ones the world is experiencing now.

U.A.E. officials said the 24-hour rain total on April 16 was the country’s largest since records there began in 1949 . And parts of the nation had already experienced an earlier round of thunderstorms in March.

Oman, with its coastline on the Arabian Sea, is also vulnerable to tropical cyclones. Past storms there have brought torrential rain, powerful winds and mudslides, causing extensive damage.

Global warming is projected to intensify downpours.

Stronger storms are a key consequence of human-caused global warming. As the atmosphere gets hotter, it can hold more moisture, which can eventually make its way down to the earth as rain or snow.

But that doesn’t mean rainfall patterns are changing in precisely the same way across every part of the globe.

In their latest assessment of climate research , scientists convened by the United Nations found there wasn’t enough data to have firm conclusions about rainfall trends in the Arabian Peninsula and how climate change was affecting them. The researchers said, however, that if global warming were to be allowed to continue worsening in the coming decades, extreme downpours in the region would quite likely become more intense and more frequent.

Hot oceans are a big factor.

An international team of scientists has made a first attempt at estimating the extent to which climate change may have contributed to April’s storms. The researchers didn’t manage to pin down the connection precisely, though in their analysis, they did highlight one known driver of heavy rain in the region: above-normal ocean temperatures.

Large parts of the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans have been hotter than usual recently, in part because of El Niño and other natural weather cycles, and in part because of human-induced warming .

When looking only at El Niño years, the scientists estimated that storm events as infrequent as this month’s delivered 10 percent to 40 percent more rain to the region than they would in a world that hadn’t been warmed by human activities. They cautioned, however, that these estimates were highly uncertain.

“Rainfall, in general, is getting more extreme,” said Mansour Almazroui, a climate scientist at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and one of the researchers who contributed to the analysis.

The analysis was conducted by scientists affiliated with World Weather Attribution, a research collaboration that studies extreme weather events shortly after they occur. Their findings about this month’s rains haven’t yet been peer reviewed, but are based on standardized methods .

The role of cloud seeding isn’t clear.

The U.A.E. has for decades worked to increase rainfall and boost water supplies by seeding clouds. Essentially, this involves shooting particles into clouds to encourage the moisture to gather into larger, heavier droplets, ones that are more likely to fall as rain or snow.

Cloud seeding and other rain-enhancement methods have been tried around the world, including in Australia, China, India, Israel, South Africa and the United States. Studies have found that these operations can, at best, affect precipitation modestly — enough to turn a downpour into a bigger downpour, but probably not a drizzle into a deluge.

Still, experts said pinning down how much seeding might have contributed to this month’s storms would require detailed study.

“In general, it is quite a challenge to assess the impact of seeding,” said Luca Delle Monache, a climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif. Dr. Delle Monache has been leading efforts to use artificial intelligence to improve the U.A.E.’s rain-enhancement program.

An official with the U.A.E.’s National Center of Meteorology, Omar Al Yazeedi, told news outlets that the agency didn’t conduct any seeding during the latest storms. His statements didn’t make clear, however, whether that was also true in the hours or days before.

Mr. Al Yazeedi didn’t respond to emailed questions from The New York Times, and Adel Kamal, a spokesman for the center, didn’t have further comment.

Cities in dry places just aren’t designed for floods.

Wherever it happens, flooding isn’t just a matter of how much rain comes down. It’s also about what happens to all that water once it’s on the ground — most critically, in the places people live.

Cities in arid regions often aren’t designed to drain very effectively. In these areas, paved surfaces block rain from seeping into the earth below, forcing it into drainage systems that can easily become overwhelmed.

One recent study of Sharjah , the capital of the third-largest emirate in the U.A.E., found that the city’s rapid growth over the past half-century had made it vulnerable to flooding at far lower levels of rain than before.

Omnia Al Desoukie contributed reporting.

Raymond Zhong reports on climate and environmental issues for The Times. More about Raymond Zhong