Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Sunday, October 7, 2012
18 Students Die in China in Landslide
18
Elementary school students buried in a landslide were confirmed dead on Friday,
while one person still remained missing a day after a hillside collapsed and
smothered part of a village in mountainous southwestern China. The landslide
smothered the elementary school, three farmhouses and damaged six other homes
in the village.
The
landslide dammed a river, causing it to pool 15 meters across and forcing the
evacuation of 800 other people and prolonging the rescue of the missing peoples
bodies. Rescue teams had to remove the blockage.
A cause of
the event isn’t proven yet, but it’s assumed to have had some correlation with
recent rainstorms and a series of small quakes last month that loosened part of
the mountain.
Wildfires in Washington State
The Summer
of 2012 has been a summer of devastating wildfires in the west. With warm
weather and low precipitation fires have been thriving. Not one state on the
west coast of the United States has gone untouched by a rash of burning forests,
and fields.
Washington
had been hit very hard. With one lightning storm lighting over 65 wildfires.
Dozens of homes have been burned over the last month. Smoke from the wildfires
in the eastern part of the state were drifting into the western part where
alarmed residents were calling 911.
In mid September
over two thousand fire fighters were assigned to the blazes across the state.
Between two fires a combined 92000 acres or roughly 143 square miles these
fires have been acting up more ever since the weather had dried up.
Thiers
really no good ways to try and prevent disasters like these from happening.
These fires aren’t getting set off by humans. It’s mother nature that’s setting
them off. Although climate change probably had an effect on the dry climate
during the summer. All you can do is use smart strategies to put out the fires
fast before they spread.
Deadly Flooding in Nigeria
At least 39
people have been killed with 40 missing in floods in central Nigeria after
heavy rainfall caused a dam to overflow near the city of Jos. Over 200 homes,
most made of mud, were submerged or completely destroyed. Most
of the livestock in the area had been injured or killed putting families in
more dangers financially.
Emergency
responders in Nigeria say that over 3000
people are now homeless. People are being sheltered in government buildings in
the city. Thousands of people lost all their priorities and food. People in the
mountainous city of Jos aren’t used to these events occurring. Nigeria has been
hit with floods in the past but not in areas of such high elevation.
Maybe in the
future people will try and keep the damns at a higher standard of safety precaution
so that events like these don’t happen again.
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