New Jersey and Vermont experienced their worst flooding in 80 years
IRENE damage could reach $20 billion: Economist
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Disaster Calendar 2011 – August 29
[August 29, 2011] Mass die-offs resulting from human impact and the planetary response to the anthropogenic assault could occur by early 2016. SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,661 Days Left to the ‘Worst Day’ in Human History
- The U.S. Atlantic Coast. IRENE has claimed 37 lives in 11 U.S. states in addition to two others in Dominican Republic and one in Puerto Rico.
- An estimated 600,000 homes have been damaged as a result of the storm.
- Many swollen rivers are yet to crest, and more flooding could be expected in the next few days.
- Damage from the storm could reach $20 billion, according to Standard & Poor’s Senior Economist.
- The storm submerged the rural town of Brattleboro, Vermont (pop: 12,000).
- At least 5.2 million customers are still without power along the East Coast.
Other Global Disasters
- Uganda. Landslides triggered by extreme rain in eastern Uganda have killed at least 24 people and left 12 others missing, reports said.
- Ibadan, Nigeria. At least two dozen people have been killed and tens of thousands displaced by flooding in the southwestern Nigerian city of Ibadan and surrounding areas, reports said.
- Guatemala. At least 83 Guatemalans died after being deliberately infected with syphilis and gonorrhoea viruses in the 1940s, according to a presidential commission in Washington.
- “US government scientists infected hundreds of Guatemalan prisoners, psychiatric patients and sex workers to study the effects of penicillin,” a report said.
- About 5,500 Guatemalans were involved in the research, but none had consented.
- Fukushima, Japan. Japan’s education ministry has set a new standard for radiation, allowing up to 1 microsievert per hour in schools, a report said.
- The government is breaching international standards. The maximum radiation allowed under international standards is 0.11 microsievert per hour (1 millisievert per year).
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