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THE MUDSLIDE

Ventura Rodrigues

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TALES ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING

Miss maria Moran a gypsy lady of about forty, fortune-teller and clairvoyant steps out of a building she is wearing a black and blue dress she always does when she comes out from her home to open her little store. The witch's broom! Just around the corner one-minute walk from where she lives! She follows this path every day, in her way to work, it's her profession, and she likes to leave that very clear to all who know her, everybody knows she is very proud of what she does for a living, it's with her work of clairvoyance and fortunetelling that all her bills are paid home.

Come to the witches' broom store and I give you a discount on hand reading!

You can read these words in the witches' broom store window just beside the witch with a broom image in the store window. For the pedestrians who pass by walking the witch's broom store reminds them of Halloween all year! And of course, she has a lot of customers, especially for hand reading! she is a very respected person in the neighborhood because sooner or later everybody wants to take advice from her! She knows about work and love problems, and she knows how to solve their health as she has had a lot of customers asking for her advice on their health! Sometimes she even gets visits from politicians, and she has been working as their advisor too! The main goal is to avoid the loss of human lives and prevent certain things from happening!

Every year there are humans whose lives are at risk… of dying because their houses stand so close to nature. They are victims of fires, water flooding, and landslides! Maria Moran the gypsy knew that her town was waiting in a row, to be hit next by one of these natural catastrophes! Perhaps because just Behind the city, a gigantic mountain built by nature, like a natural ancient wall stands scaring the population! The TV announced another stormy event was coming for the weekend with heavy rains! So Maria Moran the gypsy, like before every storm likes to look at her crystal ball, to see if she can predict the future! And this time she was very surprised with what she was seeing a major cataclysm was approaching! Yes, sir in did it was! She could see it clearly in her crystal ball. Amidst the smoke, a huge part of the mountain was about to collapse and form a gigantic mudslide and rock downfall which empowered by the heavy rains will take down everything in its way! Maria the gypsy clairvoyant called immediately the mayor's office. And told them what see-saw in her crystal ball. It wasn't the first time the mayor's office asked Maria for predictions, so she was accredited, and some immediate measures were taken!

— -Has I been looking into my crystal ball! I heard a voice saying the buildings are being destroyed, and the people are being taken by the floods! Part of the mountain collapsed, and the landslide is taken everything in its way, destroying a lot of property and killing many human lives ! all the buildings that stood right in front of the mountain are now flooded with mud and some partially destroyed! Many locals never had a chance to escape, so they were caught in the mudslide!

Thank god maria warned the mayor's office in time! And in the next day, emergency measures for evacuation were approved, and taken! When the storm arrived all the people, in the risk areas were in safe places the government gave orders to civil protection to build shelters for all! And the mountain collapsed a few hours later as maria predicted .some said that this event was bound to happen because of the human presence so close to nature. Others never knew what happened, but they were grateful because their lives were saved right in time! These were the good news, the bad news is , that cataclysms and climate change got a tendency to increase in the immediate future, causing an increase in human deaths! On one hand, but maybe, on the other hand, something is being made right now and at the same time to prevent that from happening!

THE END

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