http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/18/americas/colombia-salgar-deadly-landslide/index.html
The article above briefly discusses a deadly landslide that struck Colombia. They said that at least 52 people have died and there are a lot of citizens that are injured. Officials are still looking for bodies. The mudslide has caused massive damage and nobody knows who is missing at this point in time.
This is insane. Where I live there aren't really any natural disasters that are life threatening like this. We get occasional severe thunderstorms and tornadoes but things like this don't happen so it is odd to read about these tragedies. I could not possibly imagine how scary it must be to look outside and seeing a mudslide heading your way and knowing that if you go outside you are, more than likely, in more danger.
It is scary to think about, and it's also foreign to us because we don't receive these natural disasters, like mudslides, in our area.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to grasp how much a big natural disaster like this can effect people when the closest we've had is a big thunderstorm that knocked over a tree or something. It's terrifying to even think about a mudslide going by your house and we can't even fully imagine it
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