Are you in a safe?
The earthquake that hit Venezuela made me think.
To express my condolences to the families, relatives and friends of the victims. And to pray for all of them.
Unfortunately, there are victims, I don't want to speculate with numbers, I've never liked that, and one lost life is a lot.
Geographically, we are very far away, Southeast Europe and South America, and Venezuela appeared on the news more or less because of some political issues. Because of oil, drinking water, economic crisis. But this news about earthquakes surprised me, because I had no idea that there were earthquakes there at all.
And they say that there were two earthquakes, both stronger than 7 on the Richter scale. Of course, the rule is that after every earthquake there are aftershocks.
All of this made me think about where I live, am I in a safe place?
Although is there a safe place, due to climate change....
We humans even like to classify it, to give it a number. I would go so far as to describe whether we are in a safe place and what dangers may be lurking around us.
Nature really knows how to be unpredictable and to unleash all its wrath on us within a few seconds and minutes.
I'll start with myself. I live in a plain. A place that was inhabited before canals and embankments were built and the two great European rivers, the Danube and the Tisza, were controlled.
From that side, I'm not worried about floods, but there is certainly always a danger of high water levels. The last major flood was in the 1960s. As for earthquakes, there is a minimal danger of them here. The southern parts of the country and neighboring countries have a greater danger of earthquakes.
Fires, well, there are no large areas of forests and forests are next to rivers.
Perhaps the greatest danger is these weather changes.
Large heat waves, currently one of those waves is affecting us, the temperature will go up to 40 degrees Celsius. And it usually ends with supercell storms that can be extremely dangerous and cause great material damage, of course there is also a danger to human life. Because all material damage can be compensated somehow, but lost life cannot.
As I said, there are no large areas of forest, since in our regions in the last fifteen years ,the area under forest has decreased by 50-60 percent if not more.
The smaller area of forest is therefore ideal for the creation of supercell storms. There is nothing in the way of converting potential wind power into kinetic, such as a forest barrier. At least that's what we were taught in elementary school.
We are far from the sea, there is no danger of tsunamis.
Are you in a safe place, do you have any of the dangers I have listed or not listed?
Perhaps we are too wrapped up in the comforts of life to even think about where we live.
What dangers may threaten us, literally just around the corner.
Thanks for reading.
Until next time.
Stay healthy.
Markone85.
*The images are a screenshot from last year's post after the storm @markone85/supercell-storm
