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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Lukewarm response in quake-prone villages |
| 2009-05-08 |
| MADINAH: The Civil Defense teams undertaking awareness campaigns about safety measures at times of natural calamities in and around remote villages in Madinah province, where mild tremors measuring up to 3.3 on the Richter scale were registered, were appalled by the lukewarm response of some local residents. I've seen this movie.. The Civil Defense teams noticed that many people either carried on their normal lives without attending the speeches and demonstration classes conducted by the teams on safety precautions. "Instead, young men continued playing football and other games as usual, laborers did not care to stop their work and listen, and elderly people continued sipping qahwa and smoking sheesha without bothering to listen to the safety teams," Al-Watan newspaper reported yesterday. Dedicated young Civil Defense worker warns of danger, locals yawn and mock him. Is there a beautiful reporter to fill the role of love interest? Al-Muhawwas said that his department was fully equipped and prepared for any emergency. He said 2,000 emergency shelters have been readied for an estimated 60,000 people living in the earthquake-prone area, which is full of extinct volcanoes. |
| Posted by:Classer |
| #4 IMDB agrees |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-05-08 18:39 |
| #3 Another sign is agitated behavior by animals, particularly rabbits and other desert fauna. Maybe the reason the Middle East is in a constant uproar is not due to the Juice, but to underground volcanic activity. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2009-05-08 13:37 |
| #2 A magnitude 3.3 earthquake is not much, unless you live in a house of cards. It get's hard to be excided about it. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2009-05-08 10:43 |
| #1 sipping qahwa and smoking sheesha without bothering to listen Dangerously close to ole Halfs idea of paradise. |
| Posted by: .5MT 2009-05-08 09:55 |