I almost thought we wouldn’t get it this year 
Last evening’s clouds turned into something soggy.
But it’s not really THAT bad yet.
When it gets really bad, you go outside and you are drenched.
Right now it takes a few minutes to get there 
Jul 292011
A few days back I came across this project in the works and it has touched me. Maybe it will touch you as well.
Still in my mind are the words of one of the tribal elders:
“When the people change, the weather will follow.” -Nick Tom
Text courtesy Estephan Wagner
VANISHING WORLDS portraits 3 families around the Globe loosing their home and land, and being forced to migrate by changing climates.
- Nick’s hometown is a remote Yup’Ik village in Alaska, and it is literally sinking. Now he is helping to build America’s first climate-change refugee camp, his future home.
- In their Lifetime the old cousins Binodini and Durga have lost 8 houses to the Indian Ocean. But now that their island is being eroded away, there is no land left to escape to.
- The surrounding desert in northern China has dried Zhou’s land, and sandstorms poison the air. His neighbors have left, but how will he survive now that the government has prohibited people to migrate?
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May 132011
Whale Shark, Marina Mall, Kuwait
A young, female Whale Shark is trapped in the Marina in Kuwait since yesterday (Wiki).
The Kuwait Diving team has tried to get her out in the ocean again, but she seems to have ‘lost’ her sonar due to the brick walls and the boats.
Marina Mall, May 13th
The boats are moored for now, nobody has permission to move the boats around and the entrance to where she swims is blocked, so nobody accidentally drives in there.
Marina Mall, May 13th
On Sunday a rescue team will somehow try to lift her out and set her free again, equipment etc. is on it’s way.
Until then, she has to endure the small harbor, people looking at her, but worst of all, people throwing plastic bottles, one moron a bike and another a** a Harpoon at her. The harpoon thrower worked somewhere in the Marina and got instantly fired. Thanks for that!
Marina Mall, May 13th
Marina Mall, May 13th
I wonder, what these signs mean,………………..
Marina Mall, May 13th
I hope she’ll be fine until Sunday and that she will get enough food.
Whale Shark, Marina Mall, May 13th
Update May 15th: As far as my information goes, she got out today by herself. One of the reasons she was ‘trapped’ in the marina was to try to raise money for a tag. Tagging is a way to try to figure out the movement of these rare specimen. I don’t know if they succeeded to raise the funds and to tag her. Maybe I will know more later.
If you ever get to see a Shark in the Arabian waters, please kindly report it to Sharkwatch Arabia !
