They are not rains, they are storms

The rains or rather the storms have brought many disasters to the urbanism closer to the mountains. People sometimes build where they can, without making any kind of study of the environment around them.

They build near rivers, and springs, which were once great receptacles of water from the mountains, but as we live in a country where it hardly rains. There are years when the rains come from far away. This is not the case this year, the storms, which are many, have entered the Caribbean and have hit my country.

In some cities even where there are supposed to be urbanizations made by trained engineers or even architects and personnel that are supposed to see the environmental details for urban planning. They have also been affected by landslides that have come down from the mountains and become destroyers of everything in their path. Trying to recover the path that was taken away from them before.

Nature knows which are its ways to spill its waters and at the same time with its fury, it makes the roads open again.

This is what has been happening in my country. Roads are isolated by avalanches of earth, rocks, and plants that have fallen from the mountains. Now they make communication difficult on roads that once were the only communication between one state and the other. Long lines of cars waiting for the roads to be cleared.

In some cases, the people trapped on the road themselves decide to personally clear the road to continue on their way to their destination cities. It is not easy, there are huge rocks, very old trees, and slippery mud.

Other towns have not been so lucky and heavy torrential downpours have dislodged enough organic material from the mountains to bring down entire houses and towns, burying them in mud, in many cases with family members themselves inside the houses.

These landslides sweep away immense trees of many years of life, dragging houses, cars, even trucks, motorcycles, and any object that resists their movement along the path. We have seen how their force has dragged human lives, that is the most regrettable thing that my eyes can see.

These are unfortunate situations that we see, we hear and we can only ask God to see for those people who today suffer the onslaught of the weather and to protect the rest of us away from these places of disaster.

We keep asking God to minimize the force of nature on the environment itself and hope that he will hear us...

but why don't we listen to the experienced ones who point the finger at ourselves as the culprits for all that we cause to nature?

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