EARTH MATTERS MAGAZINE
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ReplyDeleteI've been in a really cold wheater in Florianopolis, in 2004, where i felt 5°C during on event of trainning. What i did there was buy two hot jackets and two pairs of gloves.
In addition, the wind conditions was terrible. I felt my ears freezing all the time. I thought that we have to change our attitude with the climate changing. The global warming is an essential issue to care.
Since 2004, Florianopolis had a plenty of problem related to the global warming such as flooding, tornados and others desasters.
We can consider that is an demografic problem. There are a lot of people living in slums, in higher and higher mountais. Global warming is not the providence of God. It is because of bad attitudes of people worldwide. We can remember the last tsunami in Indonesia.
So, it isn't a goog moment to be in a sever weather condition. I tasted it and it is hard to describe.
Well, i really don't like to remember how it happens, but i'll tell you. Once i was in London - Canada - and i was comming back home to sleep. It was round to 11 pm. I was with my friends and we were walking down the street when sudentlly starts to rain. We thougth that if we stayed under a three we'll be safe, but it doesn't happend. The rain starts to get worse and when we saw we were under a storm, and we doesn't have a place to go. It was so cold and the sky starts being black, and all of us were afraid. However when we think that nothing worse could happend the streets started to get flooded. We were desperate. We didn't have any cellphone, anyone was in the streets and all the houses next to us were closed, and even thougth we started to scream no one come out of their house to see what's going one. So the three saved us. We climbed up the three cause if we didin't do it, we'll go with the whole water, and something worse could happend. For our happiness the storm continue about fifteen minutes, time enougth to make us desperate. But sudentlly it stopped and we could come home in safe.
ReplyDeleteOnce I was in a farm, spending holidays with my family. It was January, that is Brazil's summer, which means rain!!
ReplyDeleteIt was about 6 pm and the sky starts to get black, with lots of clouds. The wind was so fast and strong that we could hear it!! About 30 minutes later, it started to rain. And it was not a rain, it was a storm! There were lots of lightening, and thunder all the time. The water starts to enter the house, it was frightening!
And the worst was when the ligths went off. We spend about 2 hours in the dark, completely dark. Thank God I was not alone, but despite of it I was frightened!
The storm caused fall of many trees, but we were safe inside the house. In the day after, we could see what actually happened. Lots of trees on the floor, thousands of leaves and mood wherever we could step. It was not a good experience.