Fears Of Up To 20,000 Dead After Catastrophic Libya Flood

[naomi24]

North Africa is certainly suffering..  This is horrendous - and Libya's internal politics don't help the situation.  Let's hope that, unlike Morocco, they will accept all the help offered.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-africa-66805748

[barry1010]

The horror of it is unimaginable.  

[Ken4155]

There but for the grace of Mother Nature

[Samuraisan]

Apparently, I heard on the news this morning, people had told the authorities time and time again that the dam had cracks.

 

[pastafreak]

I first read of this 2 days ago...when the death toll was about 500. This is horrifying and difficult to comprehend. How do they recover from such destruction? 

[Lie-in King]

Absolutely dreadful, more so because of the apparent lack of a warning.

[choux]

This is all beyond my comprehension and so dreadfully sad.
Yesterday's news reels showed vast mass burials and the then forecasted deaths total was (merely!) 5,200.

I cannot equate this news with others on the BBC:
England's rarest species to get £14.5m funding boost - BBC News

It just seems a mad world to me.

[douglas9401]

Apples and oranges, choux. Life goes on.

[pastafreak]

Along with the BBC, I have the DM on my home page. I scrolled all the way down their news page. Not. One. Mention. I know they are a rubbish excuse for a newspaper, but that's inexcusable. 

[choux]

pasta, they devote more column inches to ridiculous zelebrities.

[Old_Geezer]

With all these natural disasters of late, it's surprising that the God Botherers aren't spamming the forums more.

[douglas9401]

They may have coverted to climatism, OG.

[pastafreak]

I just saw a headline referring to "strange lights" seen just before the Morocco earthquake. 

[naomi24]

This from The Independent.

 

//Flashes in the sky above Morocco moments before a devastating earthquake struck the country and killed thousands were captured in social media videos – similar to unexplained lights seen during previous large seismic events as well.

This bizarre occurrence is likely a phenomenon known as earthquake lights (EQL). They were spotted earlier this year during the massive tremors that struck Turkey and Syria, and in 2017 above Mexico after a powerful 7-magnitude earthquake.///

[Old_Geezer]

Stresses in the rock probably creating an electric field somehow, I reckon.

[barry1010]

It's the lead story in the DM's World News section

https://mol.im/a/12517903

[naomi24]

That bit from the Independent says 'they were spotted earlier this year ...'   I wonder if they've been spotted before that or if this is something not seen previously?

[Old_Geezer]

I'm certain I read about these quake lights years ago.

[naomi24]

Oh really, OG?  Got to say it would be very odd if they hadn't been seen before.

[ToraToraTora]

I thought this was about the flood in Libya? That was caused by a dam collapsing wasn't it? Why are we talking about Earthquakes?

[Old_Geezer]

Another natural disaster in Africa at the same time. Not unreasonable to mention it.