Kenya dam burst causes ‘huge destruction of both existence and property’

The Kenya Red Cross said it had rescued 39 people thus far, while numerous humans feared being trapped in the thick dust from the reservoir.

Heavy rainfall and severe flash floods in East African nations have left more than 300 humans dead and displaced hundreds of others over the last months — with Kenya and Rwanda the worst hit.

A dam in Kenya has burst its banks after weeks of heavy rainfall, inflicting “big destruction” and killing at least 27 humans, in line with local media.

The breach occurred inside the town of Solai, approximately twenty miles northwest of Nairobi’s capital, overdue on Wednesday.

Regional police leader Gideon Kibunja confirmed to a neighborhood radio station in Nairobi on Thursday that the death toll had risen in a single day to 27 people, even as 40 others needed medical treatment in the medical institution.

“The water has precipitated the big destruction of each existence and property. The extent of the harm has but to be ascertained,” Lee Kinyajui, governor of Nakuru county, said in an announcement thru Twitter.

The Kenya Red Cross stated it had rescued 39 humans rapidly after the dam burst, even as numerous people feared being trapped in thick mud that had spilled over from the reservoir — spreading over a radius of simply over 1 mile.

Kenya’s Daily Nation suggested that neighborhood citizens had heard an “explosion” from the Patel Dam shortly before the water started gushing out, sweeping over many homes.

Heavy rainfall and excessive flash floods in international locations throughout East Africa have left more than 300 human beings lifeless and displaced many others over the last months — with Kenya and Rwanda the worst hit.

Kenya’s authorities said Wednesday that the ongoing torrential rains have killed 132 people and displaced greater than 220,000 people in 32 counties since March. Rain and flooding have also prevented or limited humanitarian access to the affected areas.

The intense climate comes at a time when the united states of America are likewise looking to address a cholera outbreak and a plague of the mosquito-connected chikungunya virus.

Extreme Sports – Dam Dropping

Let me introduce you to the new “recreation” of dam dropping.

Now the very call is sufficient to place an ordinary, sane, feet-on-the-floor sort of man or woman (inclusive of I am) without delay on the alert.

The process is described as a “form of river browsing, more commonly realized as river sledding,” it entails going “over an eight-meter drop down the dam maintaining wall, descending powerful rapids and surfing the standing waves” … On a plastic or foam sled.

Yep, you hurl yourself off a dam’s spill wall on a chunk of plastic.

Bet you one million quid you cannot guess what state idea up this little deal with.

Oh …

Yes, you are right … The Kiwis.

The identical those who introduced the world to the delights of tying a rubber band around their ankles and throwing themselves from suspension bridges have to give you yet any other way to preserve the clinical profession gainfully hired. They love their severe sports!

Not content with convincing crazy tourists to pay appropriate money for the privilege of being a dangly toy on a string or trusting their lives to a bit of foam, the Kiwis have also dreamed up a couple of other doozies.

One I noticed was strapping the unlucky sufferer {Er… Vacationer into a harness inside a large plastic ball. Once its inmate was tightly limited, the ball changed into rolled to the brink of a hill wherein it became given a piece of a shove, so it hurtled to the bottom, bouncing off the perimeters all of the banners down. For extra amusement, you can add a bucket of water to the combination and get a nice tumble rinse at the manner.

Fun?

That’s not anything … What approximately strapping yourself and two associates into a cocoon while a crane hoists you 40 meters above Mother Earth, then pulling the ripcord to ship you and the buddies above plunging landwards at speeds of up to 130km/hr? And then swinging lower back the alternative way, the first manner, and then the … Well, you realize enough about elementary physics and kinetic energy to get the photograph. Let me inform you it is no longer a quiet sight. (This little hobby goes by way of the innocuous name of ‘swooping.’)

What amuses me approximately these operators is the way they tout the superb perspectives you get from the systems … Who’s going to provide a rattling approximately the rolling hills, snow-clad mountains, and sweeping vistas while they’re preventing to keep their breakfast in which it belongs and no longer redecorating the spectators ogling from below?