Nocere – Earth Disasters

While some areas are receiving too much rainfall, Somalia is suffering from a drought. The drought is causing farm animals to die, crops are dieing, cereal prices are going up and many children are not getting enough to eat. It has been estimated that 2.4 million residents of Somalia could loose their livelihoods and possibly loose their lives.There are 241,000 children in Somalia that are acutely undernourished and 57,000 of them are seriously undernourished.

Even though the area is use to having droughts, this year has been extremely severe. Some residents have lost everything.

One farmer was doing well, he had 250 cows roaming his pastors. Now he no longer has cows but only carcasses. He lost it all in only four months time.

This is not uncommon. Many have lost their livelihood and more will follow.

Without the income from their farms, they are unable to provide for their families.

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In just one days time, there have been 71 deaths contributed to the heat in Russia. The temperatures are recording highest ever throughout the country, but the hottest temperatures are being seen in Moscow.

People trying to escape the heat, to get some kind of relief are taking swims in waterways that are unfamiliar to them. At this time, there have been 1,244 people that have perished and nearly 300 of this number just this past week.

71 of the deaths occurred in the Russian Federation according to the Ministry of Emergency Situations. This was all in a one day period.

People are taking risk. Just last week, 178 people were saved by emergency personnel and just yesterday there were 20 saved.

While some areas in the world are experiencing heavy rainfall and flooding, Russia is having the worst dry spell in 130 years.

Already nearly 20 per cent of their grain crops have been destroyed by the heat.

There is no relief in sight from the heat. They are saying there will be at least another week of these scorching temperatures.

The government is working on helping out the farmers who won’t be making the money on their crops they need to. They are lowering the price on fuel and issuing loans to ones who need them.

They have assured the people that the cost of bread will not increase since they had enough grain stocked up that will take care of this loss.

The only people that are possibly gaining through this crisis are the taxi drivers. Some are charging more for an air conditioned ride and of course not many want to walk any distance in the heat.

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The drought has caused more then just crops to die. Thousands of livestock and other animals have died from lack of water and food.

The last drought that was as bad as this one was 10 years ago.

Elderly people and infants are the most at risk. The elderly people are given food and water after everyone else has been cared for. They are being given so  little. The young children are getting sick from lack of proper nourishment and water. Diarrhea is a risk.

There are 7 countries suffering from the drought and it is estimated that 23 million people are suffering or going to suffer from it’s ill effects.

Changes in the climate and the numbers of people now dwelling in the countries is part of the problem. There have been 4 years of harvest that haven’t been so good. Trying to stock up to prepare for times like this has been impossible.

There is fear that if it does start to rain next month, that it could be yet another bad turn for the countries. El Nino could play a part in the climate changes and cause torrential rainfall and not the slow steady rains that is mostly needed.

The govenment is trying to help it’s people. They feel they have done all they can do. Even as bad as it seems, there are figured to be less people in need of help then there was in 2008.

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In Keyna, more then 29 people died and many more hurt during a cattle bust. The continuing drought has cause tensions to grow as people are trying to survive.

The battle was between the ethnical Pokot cattle thieves and the Samburu herdsmen. The cattle thieves attacked an area where the herdsmen had their cattle grazing in the pastures.

Amongst the people who died were adult females and children. There were 21 Samburu inhabitants and 8 of the rustlers that died in the battle.

People have started fleeing the area and officials have brought in hundreds of police authorities to try and remedy the situation.

Just last week there were 15 people that died in asame attack and  approximately 100 families had no place to go.

There are many factors contributing to the tension. The drought, violence brought on by members of groups using illegal weapons, and the government not being able to control the use of these weapons.

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Late Monsoon and excess heat are taking its toll on the common man in India.
Reports have been pouring in with more than 100 people losing their lives and many more admitted to the hospitals to the wrath of the sun.

The most effected states are Orissa, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and Andhra Pradesh. Out of which Orissa had the bad luck of tasting the bitter taste.
More than 50 cases have been reported from Orissa alone. And sad news being most of them are daily labours, rickshaw pullers etc,.

Orissa has always been the hub for the extreme climates during the summer season, the run continues in the early monsoon too with the monsoon delayed and expecting 90% less rainfall the state is in need of aid.
Officials in Orissa have decided on declaring it a National Climate disaster so that the families who lost their loved ones atleast get compensated for their loss.

In the other parts of the country plans of cloud seeding operation are considered, if the situation continues to increase the damage.

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Heatwave now lingers in South-eastern Australia, with temperatures reaching a peak of 43C. Health officials have blamed the heat as the cause of sudden rise in deaths among elderly. Among the 19 who died in the state capital of Adelaide, 14 of them were elderly.

The sweltering heat has triggered bush fires, which destroyed at least 10 homes in Victoria state. Another 500,000 people in the state have their electricity source impaired, followed by severe pressure on electricity grid. This has since been the most damaging since 1908. Residents are forced to evacuate their homes, after wildfires caught the west of the state, destroying 2,000 hectares of forest and grassland.

In Melbourne, the second largest city of Australia, an explosion was reported at a substation. Extreme heat has also buckled railway tracks, causing much inconvenience to commuters.

The heat wave is expected to last for another few days, with high pressure moving to south.

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Its that time of October when the snow starts making its way into many parts of US, all the northern parts are experiencing this, but unfortunately eastern states of US have a different story.
An area of high pressure off the western coast of the US has brought abundant sunshine and warm temperatures to much of Southern California.
While cities like New York were facing power shortage problems due to cool and fast winds, parts of Calfornia was having temperatures higher then usual October end temperature.
Temperature in Los Angles reached 34C (94F); nine degrees above the typical temperature for the end of October. The last time temperatures were this high was in 1931, when downtown Los Angeles equalled Wednesday’s high.

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Heat waves in Italy make several city’s to be on red alert. Bologna replaces Florence in the alarm system for the prevention of health effects of heat waves, Florence is back to ‘level 1′, Perugia, Rieti, Civitavecchia, Rome, Latina, Frosinone, Reggio Calabria, Messina and Palermo are still on ‘level 3′. Perceived temperatures will reach 38 degrees in Latina, the hottest city in these three days, the same level will be reached by Messina tomorrow.

Source: AGI News

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