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and this post, where are we heading now?
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Where are, we heading?
Where are, we
heading?
Today, when we look at what is happening
around us, we see that there are so many problems in the world, that we cannot
help asking ourselves whether we are going to be able to cope with them. This
may sound alarming to some of you, and wish that I did not say anything about
them, because they sound bad news and bad news bring anxiety and discomfort.
But to be on the safer side, I believe that it is better to know what is
happening around us, than to ignore it, because, then we can do whatever is
possible to do to minimize any danger, which these problems may bring with
them. You see, most times if we ignore them, then we might be sorry later, if
one day we suffer the consequence. So, it would be wiser to know, where we are
heading, and what we can do to save ourselves the troubles that might be coming
our way.
So, you may ask, what has prompt me to start
this alarming article now. I am going to tell you that I was already thinking
about some of these issues, because they are all issues that we are exposed
every day of our lives. Anyhow, today while I was watching the news, they
started to tell us about this fire warning in NSW Australia. What is worrying
me most is the fact, that the fire authorities already admit that tomorrow the
fire danger will be catastrophic, which is the highest warning, that can be
issued. They are warning the people of these regions to leave, while they can,
like tonight or early in the morning, because they cannot guaranty their
safety. The hot temperature of tomorrow that will be over 40 degrees in these
zones of NSW will make it very hard for the fire fighter to control the fires,
so they are warning the people about these dangers, at the same time their
warnings seem endless, since they pop back again and again to issue these warnings,
which means that they want the people to understand this danger, that they
would be facing tomorrow.
So, tomorrow would be the most dangerous day
on record for NSW for fires, because of the extreme heat and the state of the
drying vegetation that can burn easily, we can only hope and pray God that
there is no loss of life, in these dangerous circumstances. So, we hope that
those people affected make the right choice.
I should say here that I would be terrified if I had to choose what to
do, if I was living in these regions of NSW that are going to be affected so
badly, by the heat and fires. Anyhow, I don’t live in those regions of NSW,
because I live in Brisbane, but even here it is going to be a scorcher, as the
weather forecast says that it is going to be 39 degrees, and that is hot enough
for anybody. So, people are worried and on edge, my wife is complaining to me
already, because she hates hot weather.
What is worrying me also, it is the fact that
these extreme heat waves that are lasting a long time these days, may be due to
global warming, which most authorities agree that we are causing them, because
we are using too much fossil fuel. Just to show you how the Weather Bureau has
reported this heat wave that is coming in the other day, let me quote and paste
the following:
(Pity the poor souls who
live in Bourke, Birdsville and Moomba.These rural towns are all about to endure four days above 40 degrees. Birdsville and Moomba will suffer through three days above 45.
This summer's most extensive, and brutal, heatwave is building over central and eastern Australia.
Inland parts of Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and northern Victoria are set to swelter through at least four days of extreme heat, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
Meteorologist Andrea Pearce said "pools" of hot air had been hovering over the centre of Australia, leading to the build-up of heat.)
end of quote.
Anyhow, here above we have talked about the
extreme heat temperature, which is affecting part of Australia right now, and
the fire dangers that they are causing. But I believe that this is not all,
because today the weather seems to be different from what it is supposed to be
like, so, after we finish reporting about the heat wave and the fire, we are going
to talk about the excessive cold weather, the rain floods and other things,
because we believe that they come from the same cause, which is causing changes
in the weather temperature.
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Extreme heat and freezing temperature
Dear readers, at the beginning of this
article, we have talked about the extreme hot weather temperature that has
increased the fire danger, and now there are several fires burning in NSW
Australia, but there is more to say about these extreme weather changes. So,
here under we are going to talk about the opposite, we are going to talk about
the cold weather.
You see, it seems to me that everywhere we go
we find this problem about the extreme weather temperature these days, it may
be the extreme heat, it may be the extreme cold, it may be the excessive
rainfall and flooding, it may be the snowing for days and the extreme cold,
these things are affecting most of us in many ways. Sometimes unfortunately
this may involve also loss of life. Here I am sorry to say that, one of these
sorry events has happened last month in central Italy, when this avalanche
destroyed this Hotel Rigopiano, and killed 29 people, we have written about
this in our hub, The Italian homeless, where we were also talking about the homeless that were affected from the
extreme cold weather temperatures, and the earthquake.
Anyhow, since
we are talking about the extreme weather here, I would like to point out that,
also in Italy they have classed these huge amounts of snow and cold weather as
very extreme and rare. They were so extreme that the authorities have not been
able to cope properly with it, even though over there they are ready to handle
the snow and cold weather, but this time it was just too much of it. And it was
made worse because of the earthquakes, that have devastated this region.
This is just a photo taken somewhere to show you that this year is a very cold year, and there is so much snow that people cannot move from one place to another.
Of course,
over there is also the earthquake victims that need looking after, and many
other things that the earthquake has destroyed, this includes also roads that
cannot be used in a normal way, especially if you cannot see the surface
properly under the snow, as there could be large cracks in the road surface, or
rocks that have fallen and block the road, so, those people that are living
over there are in all sorts of troubles, and the weather is making it worse.
These unfortunate people that have lost their houses in the earthquake, now
they are living in makeshift accommodations, so, they must be feeling very bad,
since they are like emigrant in their own native land. The authorities are
doing what they can, but it looks like that it will take a long time before
things are back to normal for them. So, every day of their lives, they must be
thinking and asking themselves, where are we heading now. Some of them may even
ask themselves, why all these things are happening? Whose fault, is it? And if
anything could be done? Some people may have some strange views, that might be
worth mentioning here before we finish.
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Oroville Dam
Dangerous
situation in USA.
In this
article, we have talked about the heat wave in Australia, the cold weather in
central Italy, now we are going to talk about the excessive rainfall in
Northern California that are endangering Oroville Dam. Hereunder I am pasting
some of the report, as reported in the Google News, and I quote;
(Oroville Dam Could Fail, Experts Fear; 200,000
Ordered to Evacuate 2:20
Mandatory
evacuations remained in effect Monday afternoon for nearly 190,000 people in
Northern California after a spillway serving the country's tallest dam
developed a hole that threatened to release uncontrolled floodwaters, officials
said.
The
emergency spillway off the Oroville Dam was the second to fail in a matter of
days, after the dam's primary spillway developed a 200-foot-long, 30-foot-deep
hole last week.
Officials
and contractors were working feverishly to get as much water out of Lake
Oroville as possible by Thursday, when another round of storms is expected to
sweep across the area.)
End
of quote.
We
hope and pray that they can save the dam, and there is no loss of life.
Anyhow, I cannot help thinking that the situation in Northern California,
is very much alike the situation that we had in Brisbane Australia a few years
ago, which I have written in this hub about it, Playing the game, who is
to blame, where after what happened, as usual people will try blaming somebody that
happened to be in charge. It is hard for everybody involved, when we try to
blame somebody, because that somebody could not have known, what Mother Nature
had in store for us. So, let us stop there, and instead of looking at who is to
blame, let us look at some of the reasons, why these extreme weather events
happen.
Some people believe that what has happened, in the three events that we
have written above, the hot weather, the cold weather and the excessive rain,
they are all caused from global warning, which we are very likely causing it,
because we are using too much fossil fuel. Well if that is the only cause, we
need to do something about it as soon as.
But not everybody is convinced that this is the only cause. Because some
religious people like to think that this is the beginning of the end of time,
as written in the Bible Revelation, and many other religious theories. Some
other people that are partly religious like my wife, they reckon that God is
tired to see so much violence, like the terrorist blowing things up and killing
people, and the Islamic State slathering innocent people, and these unwanted
emigrations that is like invading another country without going to war.
So, God being tired of what people are doing, sets things rolling in a way
that will destroy some of us, if not all on us. So, are we heading for
self-destruction?
I believe that I have said enough in this article, so see you in our next
article, where we are going to talk about the refugees and unwanted emigration.
See you soon.
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