The tragedy in Jiman? was caused by Man. The River Silli? ( a creek in Texas or West Virginia) enters Dominican territory from Hait?. In the watershed of the little creek there are no trees. They have all been cut down for firewood and charcoal.
Each little raindrop of the 254 mm (about 10 inches?) that fell in the area over the prior 24 hours, raised up just a tiny amount of mud. There was no escape from the wall of mud and water that rushed down the Silli?. Just last night the National Geographic channel had a show on mudslides and land slides.
There will be hundreds of dead. We will probably never know exactly how many.
If any person in the Dominican Republic needs a message about the value of the forest cover, let this be it. Pictures of the dead stacked like cordwood should be in every school, in every office in every house....all because There were no trees
HB
Each little raindrop of the 254 mm (about 10 inches?) that fell in the area over the prior 24 hours, raised up just a tiny amount of mud. There was no escape from the wall of mud and water that rushed down the Silli?. Just last night the National Geographic channel had a show on mudslides and land slides.
There will be hundreds of dead. We will probably never know exactly how many.
If any person in the Dominican Republic needs a message about the value of the forest cover, let this be it. Pictures of the dead stacked like cordwood should be in every school, in every office in every house....all because There were no trees
HB