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LK2018 @Letranknight2015 (52665) • Philippines 1 Oct

Last week the eye of the storm was supposed to hit south of Luzon island (Philippines) means our neighborhood was supposed to be hit. But it went to Visayas Island instead and they suffered floods. You'd think it was over, until...

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Jack Fruits

Always smiling @allknowing (153544) • India 1 Aug

It was a pathetic year for us this time. The heavy raina and not having anyone to harvest the jack fruits meant collecting rotten jack fruits that started falling The compost pits were filled with these rotten fruits. In...

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I adjudicated moot court competition on labour laws

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23230) 26 Jul

I was invited to adjudicate the different rounds of moot court competition. Many schools competed in this competition. The problem was related to natural disaster in mines and the compliance requirements of the companies in...

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How I think the Texan Disaster Will Play

kay lar @jaylar (3665) • Kingston, Jamaica 8 Jul

Considering the cuts to the Meterological Service, the disaster in Texas had a very human element...that is the lack of humans. Considering Elon Musk was in charge of DOGE and made the cuts, Trump has a sharp blade. I suspect...

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Anatomy of a trump negotiation (with himself)...

Mark-Paul @MarkPaul (302) 10 May 25

He starts by recalling and getting worked up over how in his childhood (when his father never hugged him) foreign countries imposed tariffs on the USA. To resolve those feelings of unresolved conflict, he arbitrarily imposes a...

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My Dad's Area Got Drowned

Jim Bauer @porwest (112717) • United States 7 Apr 25

Even where I live, in an Illinois city close to St. Louis, Missouri about 20 minutes away of about 65,000 people, we are prone to flooding (although in the 11 years I have been here we personally have not experienced anything...

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Lost Fruit

Kandase @Kandae11 (57233) 3 Apr 25

It 's that time of the year again when l begin to wonder what kind of hurricane season we will have. - the atlantic season starts on June 1 and ends on November 30. Last year the first storm came early - and it was disastrous. We...

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Actress Kristen Bell doing her part to assist the California fire victims

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122067) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 12 Jan 25

I am not that familiar with actress Kristen Bell in the first place. However she and an internet star named Tommy Marcus who uses the alias Quentin Tarantino to work together on a social media site to donate money through a...

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Delivery Truck was the Culprit!

LK2018 @Letranknight2015 (52665) • Philippines 4 Jan 25

This evening I went outside so I can finally patch what's left of that crack on the sidewalk. But then I saw this huge HOLE , even BIGGER. Then the staff on the burger stand told me they had a deliver that evening...

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The acrylic painting I did yesterday.

Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30756) • Lichfield, England 11 Oct 24

I'm not going down town shopping today because of my cold, so I'm staying in and watching TV! My Mum has gone to the house group that meets at Church. Yesterday I did the painting of the still life with jug which I showed you...

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Shouldn't Our Citizens Be Our First Priority

DB @dgobucks226 (37621) 4 Oct 24

No response is necessary. Just read and learn some "real facts" kept from you by most mainstream media that you watch. This is Information you should know about concerning the hurricane destruction and this administration's...

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Hit The Hardest

Kandase @Kandae11 (57233) 22 Sep 24

Suppose there is a disaster which impacts almost all the countries in the world, and certain foodstuffs become short or non-existent - which would hit you the hardest. Protein is a very essential nutrient and l get my share from...

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Running after Godman sometimes can be disastrous

Anindita Sengupta @aninditasen (18198) • Raurkela, India 4 Jul 24

Recently in a small town in UP 121 people died due to stampede just because they were crazy to touch the feet of a self styled Goldman. The so called "Baba" as the called him is absconding. We should keep faith in God and his...

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Today is the 118th anniversary of the San Francisco quake in 1906.

Michele @Aquitaine24 (12000) • San Jose, California 18 Apr 24

The great earthquake in San Francisco happened 118 years ago today in 1906. It was commemorated in San Francisco today with some people wearing period costume from 1906. Former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown spoke at the...

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Very long rain and flooding in several places

dikatama @anggunwk (74) 10 Apr 24

The last few days where I live there has been heavy rain which lasted for a very long time. It rained from 5 pm until noon the next day. This slightly hinders residents' activities, especially since we are celebrating Eid al-Fitr....

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Two Disasters in Japan: January 2024

Shavkat @Shavkat (141906) • Philippines 3 Jan 24

It was a sad thing that Japan experienced a killer earthquake on January 1st. The killer earthquake's magnitude was 7.6 and affected the Noto Peninsula. There were five deaths and two injuries yesterday (January 4), but the death...

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Is ignorance bliss?

Ken @kanuck1 (4424) 2 Sep 23

Have you ever been told that "ignorance is bliss"? That expression can mean that a person does not want to know about something to avoid having to think or take any action about a problem or a warning. However, living that way...

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That Time Again.

Kandase @Kandae11 (57233) 5 Jun 23

Have you ever been caught in the midst of a natural disaster? I have , on many occasions over the years. I usually do not think about them until this time of year comes around. From June 1 to November 30 it is the start of the...

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Fire!

allen0187 @allen0187 (59642) • Philippines 28 Mar 23

Got quite the scare yesterday. A fire broke out near my parent's house. I had stayed here for a long time before moving out to my own place. Spent the weekend there and then went home to my own place in the morning. At around...

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Where To Run?

Kandase @Kandae11 (57233) 1 Dec 22

Have you given any thought to what you would do in the face of a global disaster or Apocalypse? Where would you run ? Where could you hide? Some have given it much thought - so much that a number of entrepreneurs are remodeling...

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