Death toll in Sierra Leone mudslides rises to 467

[oberliner]

Freetown, Sierra Leone (CNN)Sierra Leone is facing significant health challenges after this week's devastating mudslides claimed at least 467 lives, a government health official said Friday, with the number of dead expected to rise.

The death toll includes those killed in mudslides on the outskirts of the West African nation's capital, Freetown, and fatalities from flash floods in other provinces, Deputy Health Minister Madina Rahman told CNN.

The country also must battle cholera and malaria, Rahman said, in the wake of one of the deadliest natural disasters to hit Africa in recent years.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/18/africa/sierra-leone-mudslides/index.html

[shenmue]

1. ...

[malaise]

2. Damn

and it will get worse.

We forget that large numbers of the systems that come off the African coast as our weather systems pass through Sierra Leone. The earlier the storms, the more rain they face. Additionally way too many folks ignored instructions to evacuate before the worst happened.

[oberliner]

3. Agreed

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Of course, the jerk in the White House has said?????