Devastating Pacific Northwest Flood

Atmospheric River Brings Massive Flooding To Pacific Northwest

The rainfall has been described as one of the most impact flooding to hit the region in a century, the outcome of this flood was a very critical to all of the people who lived in this region. "Floodwaters across western Washington state and British Columbia swamped homes, swept away vehicles, destroyed roads and highways, and cut off railroads. At least four people were killed by mudslides and nearly 20,000 were displaced by the floods". When something like this happens i feel like you lose hope and forget all the good things that's going on in life, you rarely see stuff like this happen and when it does occur, you can't sit back and be like "wow i lost everything", life doesn't stop and it's almost like you have to quickly readjust and get back on your feet to fix the problem you have now and think of ways to survive again. 

"The storms that caused last week’s flooding were brought by a weather system known as an “atmospheric river”—a narrow band of moisture streaming through the air. Atmospheric rivers can stretch long distances across the globe, and they’re known to dump heavy rain or snow when they make landfall."

One of the Canadian officials called this tragedy "Once in a 500 year event" and that's perfectly stated, you never really think of preparing for this stuff, it just kind of appear and you have to work your way around it and think of ways on the fly on how you can defeat this challenge. 

With that being said the aftermath of all this could end up being good for you because you dealing with this already will only make you a strong minded person i feel like. If another awful flood was to happen again, you'd be prepared and have some knowledge on how you can take care of it.

                                                    My Personal life

For me personally i never had to deal with something like this in my life but by reading this and something i took from the reading is you can't take the things in life for granted, you never know what's next but for me, I was always taught to stay prepared and maintaining a good level of knowledge on what's going on around the world, so if a huge flood was to happen right now while I'm at school, I feel like i got the right group of people around me to figure out how to work around this obstacle to survive. Obviously it won't be easy but one thing I do know is I won't quit until me and my partners make it out the situation we have to go through.

                            People trying to survive during a huge flood outbreak

http://earth-chronicles.com/natural-catastrophe/flooding-in-the-united-states.html

http://earth-chronicles.com/natural-catastrophe/flooding-in-the-united-states.html

 

Application #2 Protecting Hula Painted Frog

                                                     Hula Painted Frog

In this world you see a lot of different things, it could be strange or it can be very unique, and that's what I see when I look at the Hula Painted Frog. The Hula Painted Frog has a dark belly with small white spots, a sort of rusty color above with dark-olive-grey to greyish-black on the sides. The Hula Painted frog has only been found in the vicinity of a single pond in Israel and found terrestrially in detritus among reeds. This frog is one of the most extinct species ever, it's the only member left of the genus Latonia (a subfamily of frogs in the family Alytidae). This species was believed to be extinct as a result of habitat destruction during the 1950s until the species was rediscovered in 2011, right now the current population is unknown. 

"Nature and Parks Authority warden Yoram Malka set out Tuesday for a routine patrol to monitor the birds in the Hula Nature Reserve, but he was also keeping his sharp eyes peeled for a specific type of frog". That specific type of frog is obviously The Hula Painted Frog, however what makes this interesting is they saw something special in that frog, similar to what I see in it, I feel like for as rare as this thing is these people got to make a better effort on gathering all the informations they can and to figure out more ways to find more of The Hula Painted Frog so maybe one day it can produce and we can have a special thing going on for the future. 

According to https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/6715/177694004#assessment-information 

"Listed as Critically Endangered given that its extent of occurrence (EOO) is estimated to be below 5.6 km², but its area of occupancy (AOO) is estimated to be between 8-12 km², hence the EOO is set to be the same as the AOO following the Red List Guidelines. It is known from one threat-defined location; its population may be severely fragmented; there is a continuing decline in the quality of its habitat at the most important known site; and also a likely ongoing decline in the number of mature individuals due to heavy predation pressure by the waterbird population in the Hula Valley area. The largest known subpopulation consists of fewer than 250 mature individuals and this may represent the majority of the surviving population; consequently this species may be close to, or may qualify for, listing under criterion C1. The effective population size is considerably lower, and potentially below 50 individuals." 

Probably from reading what I have up top you can figure out some of the threats that have a major affect on this frogs living situation but if u can't no worries. Housing and Urban areas is one of the significant threats to the Hula Painted Frog, other threats include Annual & perennial non-timber crops, which all makes sense to me, in the Hula Valley there aren't any surrounding buildings around, it's all filled with marshland and this species need enough of the marshes so they can have an Habitat.

                                               A Picture of a Marshland

 Although the nature reserve is well-managed, it functions as a refuge for many water birds, and elevated predation pressure is thought to be a major threat to the remaining amphibian populations. The Hula Painted Frog is protected by national legislation in Israel and there are plans to undertake a monitoring effort on this species from what I'm hearing and i couldn't agree with that any more.

Because of the draining of "Lake Hula" and its marshes in the 1950s was thought to have caused the extinction of this frog and to me hearing about that made feel some type of way, Having a what if feeling, like what if habitat destruction never happened in Israel and we got to see more and more of The Hula Painted Frog. Not too many times you see something so different in this world and if u have a chance to keep on making more of that something, you try your best to do so in my opinion. In this article I was reading about the frog the lady had a reaction I'm sure we all would've had, she says "I saw something jump that didn't look familiar,"I rushed over and caught a frog, and when I turned it over I saw that it had a black belly with white spots, the identifying mark of the painted frog." 

                                                               

https://www.haaretz.com/1.5210449?_ga=2.82061205.2023127756.1639334055-1771572860.1639334053

                                                             Lake Hula

A role someone in Keene can have on something like this is being able to use the resources we have to figure out other ways on how we can fix this problem, how we can be able to put together a plan to get more information about this unique species. Clearly this solution won't be happening overnight but whatever we can do as a group to dilemma this problem moving forward we should try and do.

https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/6715/177694004#threats

https://www.haaretz.com/1.5210449?_ga=2.82061205.2023127756.1639334055-1771572860.1639334053

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29615810/

http://www.edgeofexistence.org/species/hula-painted-frog/

https://theworld.org/stories/2011-11-18/hula-painted-frog-rare-species-thought-extinct-rediscovered-israel-video