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
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
Fire Earth 