Fighting Forces 100,000 People Flee in Darfur

DISASTER CALENDAR SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,134 Days Left 

[February 2, 2013] Mass die-offs resulting from human impact and the planetary response to the anthropogenic assault could occur by early 2016.

• SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,134 Days Left to the most Fateful Day in Human History
• Symbolic countdown to the ‘worst day’ in human history began on May 15, 2011 …

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Global Disasters/ Significant Events

Up to 100,000 displaced or severely affected as war rages over Sudan gold mine

Fighting between local tribes over gold in the Jebel Amer area in North Darfur has displaced or severely affected 100,000 people, the United Nations reported.

“Many of these people are living in the open in appalling conditions,” the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.

• Most of the refugees have fled to the town of El Sireaf, where all public offices and schools have been closed to shelter them.
• Meantime, hepatitis E outbreak in Upper Nile State refugee campsites in South Sudan has infected more than 3,000 people killing about 70 since July 2012, UN said.

Other Global Disasters

Mozambique: Severe flooding in Mozambique has displaced up to 200,000 people, killing more than 60, as torrential rains continue to spread flooding.

Botswana: Flooding due to extreme rain events in the North-East and Central Botswana has severely affected about 10,000 people since mid-January 2013.

Zimbabwe:  Extreme rain events since early last month have affected about 10,000 people across Zimbabwe, with  half of the victims requiring humanitarian assistance.

GLOBAL WARNINGS

• WARNING: Human impact 2.85 x Earth’s diminishing carrying capacity
• WARNING: RAPID DECLINE IN PROGRESS!
• Europe: The First Phase of Collapse Has Started 
• United States: The First Phase of Collapse Has Begun

Global Disasters: Links, Forecasts and Background

• The First Wave of World’s Collapsing Cities
• Back to the Primordial Future
• The Fate of Energy Dinosaurs
• Mass Die-offs

Flooding in Mozambique Displaces 70,000, Killing Dozens

DISASTER CALENDAR SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,141 Days Left 

[January 26, 2013] Mass die-offs resulting from human impact and the planetary response to the anthropogenic assault could occur by early 2016.

• SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,141 Days Left to the most Fateful Day in Human History
• Symbolic countdown to the ‘worst day’ in human history began on May 15, 2011 …

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Global Disasters/ Significant Events

“We are eating grasshoppers”

Severe flooding, triggered by week-long extreme rain events in South Africa and Zimbabwe,  continued to spread across southern Mozambique.

“The number of displaced people now stood at 67,995 while nearly 85,000 have been affected by the raging waters in recent days, the UN said, urging donors to urgently make more funds available ‘to help deal with this emergency’ in the impoverished southeast African nation.”

Hunger is setting in among tens of thousands of the victims who are waiting for help to arrive, said a report.

“We are eating grasshoppers,” a flood victim told AFP, adding that she believed they were the “lucky ones.”

“We have family in the town, our aunts. They must be on the rooftops now,” she said.

“We left at midnight without taking food. We have nothing to sleep under.”

• Mozambique Floods Threaten 50,000 January 22, 2013

The Great Crocodile Escape

A crocodile farm in northern South Africa was forced to open its gates after being inundated, letting loose at least 15,000 crocodiles.

Australia

Several ‘mini-tornadoes’ spawned by the remnants of cyclone Oswald have hit the Queensland coast injuring about two dozen people, as severe weather and flooding batters the disaster state.

The tornadoes have damaged scores of homes and forced the evacuation of towns around Bundaberg, reports said.

• Tornadoes  caused severe damage to coastal townships of Bargara and Burnett Heads, both of which have since been declared disaster areas.

Further north, severe flooding in Gladstone led to the city (population ~ 30,000) being declared a disaster zone, and the authorities told at least 2,000 people  to evacuate.

• Back-to-back Australian Disasters [index page]

Oklahoma, USA

The drought in Oklahoma has caused more than $2 billion in damage in the past two years, said a report.

Oklahoma Drought Map. Source: Drought Monitor Archives

• “Cities are facing water rationing, and Tulsa residents will see dying lawns, trees and plants.”
• It cost twice as much to feed the livestock. “A load of feed, which lasts about a month, has gone from about $3,500 to $7,500.”
• USDA has declared 917 counties as primary and contiguous drought disaster areas including the entire state of Oklahoma and parts of 25  other states, in January 2013.

High Plains Drought Map. Source: Drought Monitor Archives

• Drought 2013

GLOBAL WARNINGS

• WARNING: Human impact 2.85 x Earth’s diminishing carrying capacity
• WARNING: RAPID DECLINE IN PROGRESS!
• Europe: The First Phase of Collapse Has Started 
• United States: The First Phase of Collapse Has Begun

Global Disasters: Links, Forecasts and Background

• The First Wave of World’s Collapsing Cities
• Back to the Primordial Future
• The Fate of Energy Dinosaurs
• Mass Die-offs

Mozambique Floods Threaten 50,000

DISASTER CALENDAR SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,145 Days Left 

[January 22, 2013] Mass die-offs resulting from human impact and the planetary response to the anthropogenic assault could occur by early 2016.

• SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,145 Days Left to the most Fateful Day in Human History
• Symbolic countdown to the ‘worst day’ in human history began on May 15, 2011 …

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Global Disasters/ Significant Events

Thousands flee as severe flooding threatens Mozambique

Mozambique authorities  are planning the mass evacuation of at least 50,000 people after yet another extreme rain event swamped the Limpopo Valley in southern Mozambique, forcing many to abandon their homes.

• About  6,000 have been displaced so far, mostly in the capital, Maputo after heavy rain swamped the city’s drainage system, prompting authorities to issue an “orange alert.”
  

• At least eight major rivers are currently well above alert levels in the coastal Mozambique.

• “From Sunday to Monday over 184 millimeters of rain fell at Combumune, on the upper Limpopo, and 163 millimeters at Xai-Xai, capital of Gaza province, near the mouth of the river,” said a report.

• Flooding has left 35 dead since the start of the rainy season in October—13 in January alone.

• “The alert level is 5 meters (16 feet). Yesterday it reached 6m. If it will go one more meter then it will create a big problem,” a UNICEF employee told reporters. “If this scenario happens, the community that is going to be affected is around 50,000 people.”

Zimbabwe

Across the border, in Zimbabwe’s Beitbridge District, floods have destroyed many homes and much of the infrastructure.

• Floods and lightning strikes have killed more than 120 people since the onset of the rainy season in October.

Botswana

In northern Botswana, severe flooding triggered by extreme rain events has inundated dozens of shelters in the Dukwi Refugee Camp, UN reported.

South Africa

Severe flooding in South Africa’s northern Limpopo Province has left at least a dozen people dead and many hundreds stranded after the Limpopo River burst its banks.

GLOBAL WARNINGS

• WARNING: Human impact 2.85 x Earth’s diminishing carrying capacity
• WARNING: RAPID DECLINE IN PROGRESS!
• Europe: The First Phase of Collapse Has Started 
• United States: The First Phase of Collapse Has Begun

Global Disasters: Links, Forecasts and Background

• The First Wave of World’s Collapsing Cities
• Back to the Primordial Future
• The Fate of Energy Dinosaurs
• Mass Die-offs