There was a short break in the never-ending rain this week (above). Like all good things, it didn’t last. Last Friday the storm set a record, dumping more rain in one day than any in the last 50 years. The road outside my school flooded, denying access to the buses that ferry the students home for the weekend. They were not amused. A weekend at school, in class?
I am never without an umbrella.
From the CBC
Soldiers scrambled to shore up soggy levies with sandbags Tuesday in southern China as forecasters warned that heavy rain in the central region could trigger more flooding on the country’s second-longest river.
At least 63 have been killed in the past month, the official Xinhua news agency reported, noting that flooding has killed 171 since the beginning of the year.
This year’s flooding in 20 provinces and the western Xinjiang region has forced 1.27 million people to flee their homes, while crop damage was reported on nearly 1 million hectares, Xinhua said.
Read the entire story at CBC News.
While some countries are dealing with too much water other have enough to wantonly destroy it. From Canadian news:
CBC News has learned that 16 Canadian lakes are slated to be officially but quietly “reclassified” as toxic dump sites for mines. The lakes include prime wilderness fishing lakes from B.C. to Newfoundland.
Environmentalists say the process amounts to a “hidden subsidy” to mining companies, allowing them to get around laws against the destruction of fish habitat.
Under the Fisheries Act, it’s illegal to put harmful substances into fish-bearing waters. But, under a little-known subsection known as Schedule Two of the mining effluent regulations, federal bureaucrats can redefine lakes as “tailings impoundment areas.”
Read the entire story at CBC News.
for the photo geeks:
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Another great red picture (after that one with the sails)!
Rally pretty capture Stevo, very nice…
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Paul, Ron: Thanks. It was a really interesting sight that had to be shot.
A triumph of gorgeousity. And having spent the last week in Quebec near one gorgeous spring-fed lake, I’m sitting here not so quietly steaming…
LFC: It’s a travesty. The idiocy behind the plan is astounding.
You want to shake people sometimes, and go, “Do you not see this is irreversibly foolish? Do you not get that this is stuff that once it goes into the system, cannot be taken out again?”
I suggest they should be allowed to do it as long as they a) live beside said lakes and b) drink and eat out of them.
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LFC: I agree.
Beautiful capture, Stevo.
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That’s pretty scary.
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Jackie: Tis too.
Hello from New York! Don’t see a sky like that here. Thanks for posting the photo 🙂
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I’m torn between enjoying the gorgeous photo, and banging my head on the keyboard.
It’s just more proof that Americans don’t have a monopoly on stupid.
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Mike: Welcome, and thank you.
Shawn: No country has the monopoly on stupid. Scanning the headlines proves that true.
The Canada part sickened me. I could hardly believe it was true.
I understand why you and other have started writing about the political side of the Canadian administration. Ugh.
The picture? Tolkienesque.
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