Wacky Weather
This June, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, we experienced one of the worst, wettest, stretches of summer weather that any of us can remember. By the end of the month, Boston.com was even jokingly providing instructions on how to build an ark.
But as terrible as we had it here, halfway across the world, Uganda was having it even worse. Instead of praying for a bit of sun each morning, the Ugandan rainmakers held sheep sacrifices in an effort to appease the rain god, Ekipe. This has been the fourth consistent year that there has not been enough rain for Nassapir’s harvests – and millions will go hungry. While the locals describe the weather as “very strange”, others would identify it global climate change.
Global aid agency Oxfam reports that all… [view entry]
