Peru struggles with devastating El Niño flooding
Yahoo News Photo Staff 21 hours ago
And Life
Goes On….
Such
natural disasters affect us all
But life,
its chores and its meanings continue as if nothing happened
People
still have to go to work the next day
Go to
school, to the market, to sporting events, to the malls, etc.
Taking care
of their families
Absorbing
loss, disaster and tragedies
Often with
immunity and not a lot of after thought
Not certain
when the next disaster will strike
It could be
any of us
We just don’t
know
None of us
has the power to tell life and time to stand still
So we can
take a break and regroup
For life
and time go on and on and on
Regardless and irrespectively
But all of
us, even atheists, believe tomorrow will come
With new
challenges and new hopes
That things
will be better
For life is stronger
than death
Life has no
beginning
And apparently
no end
It must be
respected
It must be
cherished and appreciated
Billions of
ova never fertilized
A matter of
chance, probabilities and possibilities?
Or is there
something or someone greater than life itself
We just don’t
know
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Peru struggles with devastating El Niño flooding
Jairo Vargas, left, and Geremias Fuero clean their flooded home after rivers breached their banks due to torrential rains, causing flooding and widespread destruction in Huachipa, Lima,Peru, March 20, 2017. (Mariana Bazo/Reuters)
Peruvians struggled on Sunday to cope with avalanches, mudslides and extensive flash flooding caused by torrential downpours, and forecasters predicted still more rain ahead, prolonging the country’s woes.
The highly unusual rains follow a series of storms that have struck hard along Peru’s northern coast, with voracious waters inundating hospitals and leaving some small villages isolated. The storms are being caused by a warming of the surface waters in the Pacific Ocean and are expected to continue for another two weeks.
Peru’s government said that 374 people were killed in 1998 during a similar period of massive rains and flooding caused by rains blamed on the El Niño climate pattern.
The rains have overwhelmed the drainage system in the cities along Peru’s Pacific coast and the health ministry has started fumigating around the pools of water that have formed in the streets to kill mosquitoes that carry diseases like dengue.
Lima has been without water service since the beginning of the week. The government has deployed the armed forces to help police control public order in the 811 cities that have declared an emergency. (AFP/AP)
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