Let's save the Earth... Natural Disasters in USA, UK, and South Africa

Let's save the Earth... Natural Disasters in USA, UK, and South Africa | Global Warming

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Hello! This is Pagoda One👋
Today we came back with a more serious topic
Global warming, and the natural disasters that happen because of it😣
What is happening around the world?
Please share what you've experienced
and what you are doing to save the environment🌏
Let's save the Earth!
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@shelbyfries8304 7 ай бұрын

Where I live, there is very little if nothing to facilitate recycling.🙁 So, most of us make daily efforts to reduce and reuse.🙂👍 Wildfires are the most common and destructive natural disaster in our area. A slow, widespread drought over the years in California and the 4 corner states of the northwest on into the lower parts of Canada has made the fires very hard to prevent and contain. My family and friends who own equipment and tractors help each other, and our neighbors maintain our properties throughout the year. Creating and maintaining firebreaks all around your property, regularly clearing overgrown land, and thinning out wooded areas can really make a difference! Also, those who are wise will build and maintain "backroads" so firefighters can have access to their plots and acreage.

@Cassxowary 7 ай бұрын

ok nice, that’s good too, but are you vegan?

@persephonebasilissa5109 7 ай бұрын

Here in eastern Washington State USA, we've had years of drought with much less winter snowpack to supply water melt during the rest of the year. This leads to lots of wildfires. We also sometimes get lightning storms with very strong rains and winds that can start the wildfires or lead to flooding. On the west side of our state, Oregon, and California, they also sometimes lead to landslides. I'm slowly changing my yard from grass lawn to xeriscape with drought-friendly plants. I'm also making the land next to the house more fire-resistant by moving flowers & bushes into beds away from the house and putting rocks in the beds next to the house. We also recycle aluminum, steel, cardboard and paper, and have switched from plastic to glass food storage. I'm starting to look into ways to work with nature more and be less vulnerable, like getting solar-powered chargers for our phones and computers, composting, rain barrels, berms between the creek and our house, solar panels on our roof, and so on. In addition, we have started looking into moving from gas cars to electric and from gas cooking to induction. It's all a slow process though, because there's a lot of research, money, and logistics involved.

@Cassxowary 7 ай бұрын

ok good but apparently your state isn’t really vegan, so y’all are completely missing the point… and fossil fuels too…

@persephonebasilissa5109 7 ай бұрын

@@Cassxowary Yeah, lots more to do

@ganapatikamesh 7 ай бұрын

I’m from Oklahoma and yep what she says is what we mostly get if we get any winter weather. It’s primarily why I don’t like winter is because that’s what I think of. That said, winters are normally mild. I mean, it’s 18°C right now where in live in northwestern Oklahoma. I often joke that I live as far south as I do because I don’t want to experience the harsher winters of up north and the extreme heat further south…..which is why I definitely complain when the jet stream moves and brings the arctic air down to us in winter or the hot dry air up to us in the summer. My house is well insulated and I have central heat and A/C, it’s just that during those moments it costs more to use that central heating/cooling system (last summer when it got above 50°C here my electric bill went from $80 to $200 because the system was working so much to try and just keep my house cool (and my house is shaded by trees). And likewise my natural gas bill is normally $40-$60 during the winter, but after the weeks of arctic air that happened last month my natural gas bill jumped to $150. As the arctic air dropping in winter and hot dry air rising in summer has basically become a common thing now I’ve learned to budget for it, but as a kid, teen, and young adult growing up these types of weather things were a lot rarer. I mean I do laugh at the journalists who still use the phrase “once-in-a-lifetime” or “once-in-a-decade” event since these things have been consistently happening now for two decades do they’re no longer “once-in-a-anything.” FYI: under no circumstances should you get under a bridge during a tornado. Meteorologists have consistently warned people to not get under bridges and overpasses during tornadoes. The winds actually increase under them. Lots of deaths every year occur because people think it is safe to do, but it’s not. If you’re outside, you’re supposed to get in a ditch or inside the nearest building, to the center of the building, and get up against a wall, head down, hands and arms over your head, tuck your legs under your body like in the fetal position. Make your self as small as possible and as low to the ground as possible. Every year when severe weather happens and the local tv and radio meteorologists and storm chasers go to uninterrupted coverage they try to remind people of how to be weather aware and safe and that includes reminding people not to go under bridges or overpasses. The safest place to be is underground, but if you can’t get underground there’s still ways to be safe. If in a car, get out of your car. Cars are easily thrown by tornadoes and are very unsafe. And don’t try to outrun a tornado, their paths can change quickly. As an Oklahoman I’d the worst disaster we’ve had was the 2013 Moore tornado. It was an EF5 tornado (the highest winds a tornado can have), over a mile wide at its base, it was a long-tract tornado (meaning it was on the ground for a really long time), and it hit in the late afternoon as people were starting to get off work and schools were preparing to let out. Two elementary schools were directly hit by the tornado. It was so damaging that it is the reason why all new school buildings and houses built in the state have safe rooms or shelters built (they’re not required by law to have them, but there in high demand after this). We just hadn’t ever had any tornado that was that bad and the 2013 tornado followed the same path as the 1999 and 2003 tornadoes, also EF5s, that hit Moore also but in the evening times. I mean, Moore is part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, which is the state’s largest population center. Prior to 1999, I don’t remember tornadoes ever hitting the densely populated areas of Oklahoma City (the tornadoes usually just hit the edges of the city where it’s still mostly rural or the smaller villages and towns just outside the metro area, but since 1999 the number of tornadoes that hit within the urban area has continuously increased and climbed change is cited as the reason.

@hiley.english 7 ай бұрын

Yes! Thank you for the clarification on bridges. It's honestly been a LONG time since I've been home for Tornado season because I usually plan my vacations around that time lol But hello to a fellow Oklahomie!! Hope you stick around and watch more videos!!!

@Cassxowary 7 ай бұрын

ok good to know, thanks for sharing, but don’t forget the most important way to make it better! are you vegan?

@Cassxowary 7 ай бұрын

and of course fossil fuels too, so watch out for that

@eideanbotha8655 7 ай бұрын

I remember the drought in Cape Town. I was there. At its worst, they had billboards counting down to the day when the city would run of water. We were rationed to 54l of water per person per day. That was a 1.5 minute shower, no water for plants, 4l of cooking water, one flush of a toilet, and a bit left over for cleaning. You ended up showering in a bucket to catch all the water from your shower, and you would use that to flush the toilet. Most gardens dried up. They also had "Songs to Shower to" that were 1.5 minutes long. They had dry carwashes, people used their poolwater to clean stuff with. It felt very doomsday. When the rains finally came it was amazing. P.S. The drought lasted for about 3-4 years.

@Cassxowary 7 ай бұрын

which is ridiculous considering it’s right beside the ocean… like the loadshedding, as if hydro power wouldn’t be possible wena…

@Cassxowary 7 ай бұрын

but things will keep getting worse if more people don’t start using their hearts&brains we’ve all been given and go vegan and cut down fossil fuels too

@awsomerobyn2603 7 ай бұрын

Let’s save our earth! 🌍 Every bit counts ❤

@Cassxowary 7 ай бұрын

indeed! are you vegan then?

@DLVNO 6 ай бұрын

My family, we always try to bring our own shopping bags for shopping. I think we reduced a significant amount of disposable plastic bag over the years