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Welcome to our blog of Mother Nature warning
and this post, my new way of thinking
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New way of thinking
Dear readers, it has been a while
since I posted in this blog of Mother Nature challenge, but now I would like to
resume my activities and write some more articles about these issues; I know
that sometimes we the people behave in a strange way and so do I; Anyhow, strange
as it may seem, when people have nothing much to say to each other, they talk
about the weather, but when it is necessary to talk about the weather, because
the weather is causing problems in the entire world, they just keep postponing
those discussions indefinitely; the point that I would like to make here is
that we need to discuss a lot more about the weather problems; because every
time that something terrible happens we want to do something about it, a while
ago I started to write this blog, I have always the intention of writing
something about the climatic change that is taking place in the world, now
because I want to do that, I am looking for news that would serve to highlight this
issue. So today I have found in the news this article about this cyclone in the Philippines, here under is a photo that shows some people straggling to save themselves.
Here under is the report that I found on the internet and I quote;
CABANATUAN, Philippines (AP) — Army, police and civilian volunteers
rushed Monday to rescue hundreds of villagers trapped in their flooded homes
and on rooftops in a northern Philippine province battered by slow-moving
Typhoon Koppu, officials said.
The typhoon blew ashore
into northeastern Aurora province early Sunday, leaving at least 11 dead,
forcing more than 65,000 villagers from their homes, and leaving nine provinces
without electricity. By Monday afternoon, Koppu had weakened into a tropical
storm over Ilocos Norte province with winds of 105 kilometers (65 miles) per
hour and gusts of up to 135 kph (84 mph).Several of the affected provinces, led by Nueva Ecija, were inundated by floods that swelled rivers and cascaded down mountains, trapping villagers in their homes, said Nigel Lontoc of the Office of Civil Defense.
"There were people who got trapped by the flood on their roofs, some were rescued already," Vice Mayor Henry Velarde of Nueva Ecija's Jaen town told The Associated Press by telephone, adding that about 80 percent of 27 villages in his farming town of more than 45,000 people were inundated by flood.
When a flooded river swamped the villages, residents scrambled to safety
but many failed to save their poultry and farm animals. Out of more than 5,000
ducks, for example, only about 1,000 were saved and many rice crops ready to be
harvested in a few weeks turned into a muddy waste, he said.
"Our rice farms looked like it was ran over by a giant flat
iron," Velarde said. "All the rice stalks were flattened in one
direction."
Erwin Jacinto, a 37-year-old resident of Nueva Ecija's Santa Rosa town, said the flooding turned his farmland into "nothing but mud."
Jacinto spoke from atop a high bridge where dozens of farmers stayed in the open overnight with their families, and their pigs, goats and chickens.
At least 11 people have died. One man was buried by a landslide while
checking his farm on Sunday in the mountain town of Bakun in Benguet province.
Two men drowned in Nueva Ecija, while a 14-year-old boy was killed when a tree
branch fell on his family's shanty in suburban Quezon city in metropolitan
Manila.
Seven people died when a passenger motorboat capsized in bad weather in
the central Philippines, but the government's disaster-response agency has not included
the deaths in the typhoon toll because the central region was not directly
affected by the storm.
Rain dumped by the typhoon in the north may rampage through rivers late
Monday to Tuesday and put at risk about 800 downstream villages, where
residents have been urged not to return home. "They think it is safe
already to go back to their communities but we are preventing them right
now," Aquino told reporters.
Koppu, Japanese for "cup," is the 12th storm this year to hit
the Philippines, which averages 20 storms and typhoons each year.
In 2013, Typhoon Haiyan leveled entire towns in the central Philippines
and left more than 7,300 people dead or missing.
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Associated Press writers Jim Gomez, Teresa Cerojano and Oliver Teves in
Manila contributed to this report.
End of Quote;
Anyhow, what I would like to point out here
is that we need to keep in mind these world problems that the expert say they
arise from global warming, therefore we need to talk about them more often, in
the hope that one day we may find a solution.
I believe that I have said enough in this
post, so see you in our next post when I find time to write it.
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Mother Nature Challenge
my new way of thinking
IS TO BE CONTINUED:
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my new way of thinking
IS TO BE CONTINUED:
Next time with another thread.
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