Rain rain rain, how prepared are we for disasters?

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Whether we accept it or not, effects of climate change/global warming are here to haunt us. Just two months ago we were going through the worst drought in 10 years and now there is a threat of floods from the heavy rain we have received everyday since last week.

According to some elderly people it is normal for Botswana to receive such heavy rains at this time of the year. "Yes, this is the right time for heavy rains. In the past we used to receive such heavy rains either late September or early October. But because things have changed, these days we receive rains as late as January and February," said headman of records at Gabane customary court Moatlhodi Moatlhodi.

 

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