Mozambique: Cyclone Idai destroys 90% of Beira City

[Idris2002]

This isn't good, for obvious reasons:

Mozambique cyclone: “90 per cent” of Beira and surrounds damaged or destroyed

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

This isn't good, for obvious reasons:

Mozambique cyclone: “90 per cent” of Beira and surrounds damaged or destroyed

Nope. Not global climate change at all.....

 

[Idris2002]

The pics in this link look like Hiroshima after its visit from the Enola Gay:

90% of Mozambican city of Beira destroyed by Cyclone Idai – Red Cross | Africanews

 

[Pickman's model]

Nope. Not global climate change at all.....

that was what i thought this morning too, welcome to the new normal

 

[Chilli.s]

2nd poorest country in the world. They need help.

 

[ska invita]

Always painful to see the lack of coverage an incident like this gets in comparison to other world news events, and despite a massive a death toll
Whats the best org to donate to in this kind of situation do you think?

 

[Pickman's model]

Always painful to see the lack of coverage an incident like this gets in comparison to other world news events, and despite a massive a death toll
Whats the best org to donate to in this kind of situation do you think?

Was just coming here to ask the same

 

[Sprocket.]

Access, fresh water and shelter will be priorities,. My knowledge of charities operating in the region is woeful.

 

[Sprocket.]

In crises like this I have known RedR do some incredible work. I have supported them on occasion over the last twenty years. First got interested in their work from an old engineering director who was involved.


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[Pickman's model]

It looks even worse on the news today. The people on hillocks surrounded by water must be terrified fucking thousands must have died, if not tens of thousands, with floods 15 miles or more inland

 

[Sprocket.]

And what really sickens me is this will just keep getting worse as the climate becomes more destructive and millions may be affected. But let one millionaire’s property get damaged and then listen to the bastards start complaining.

 

[ska invita]

Fucking hell, the number of people who arent going to be reached - this is biblical.

“I don’t even know if we’ve made a dent. There are just so many people. The scale is huge. We’re busy doing the best we can,” said Travis Trower from Rescue South Africa, adding that a lot of people had been washed away but those still alive, whom he had seen from helicopter flights, were in a very bad state.

“We’re often a couple of metres off the ground, so we’re really close to them. We see they’re frail, they’re tired, they’re hungry. There’s no water, no food, they’re in the cold at night. It’s devastating.”

and its still raining and the water levels are rising

death toll is going to be enormous, and even if you live to tell the tale, what then?

 

[Sprocket.]

It’s horrific.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

This is horrific

 

[Chilli.s]

Truly horrific, yet our media seem to not be looking too closely as the easy news is much more important (sarky). DEC.org.uk appeal on bbc this morning though.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Disasters Emergency Committee

 

[Pickman's model]

Disasters Emergency Committee

*donated*

 

[Pickman's model]

Truly horrific, yet our media seem to not be looking too closely as the easy news is much more important (sarky). DEC.org.uk appeal on bbc this morning though.

it's really fucking horrific


Mozambique rescue teams struggle to save thousands

so many people are going to die alone in conditions of unimaginable horror

 

[Idris2002]

More on the political background (national and international) to the crisis:

The fragility of the Mozambican state in the face of climate change

 

[Idris2002]

I can't find the link, but someone said the other day that this is the first city to have been completely destroyed by climate change. . .

 

[mauvais]

I can't find the link, but someone said the other day that this is the first city to have been completely destroyed by climate change. . .

Surely not. First modern city by modern climate change, maybe.

 

[teqniq]

Even bigger than the last one only five weeks ago.

Cyclone Kenneth: Mozambique hit by its strongest storm ever

The storm is expected to stall inland for several days and around one metre of rain is expected in the area north of the city of Pemba, more than the usual average for an entire year in the region.

 

[Humberto]

How unfair

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Terrible news - the second storm will heap further devastation on the country.

 

[Idris2002]

"It's a crime to demand sexual favours in return for humanitarian aid" - a poster which Save the Children Mozambique deemed necessary in the present conditions.

 

[GarveyLives]

... while the sexual predators gather, so do the financial ones ...

"A loan from International Monetary Fund allows the African country to rebuild from climate-linked disaster – but drives the poor into debt, campaigners warn ..."

Mozambique ‘faces climate debt trap’ as Cyclone Kenneth follows Idai

 

[Humberto]

It's a narrow field of individuals too, even if it is *gasp* the International Monetary Fund.