18 SEPTEMBER. PAPUA NEW GUINEA: CLIMATE.
This is a status report from some friends that live in PAPUA New Guinea,
I will try to have them send me more information directly from the Newspapers.
"...this El Niño we are having is really doing a number on this
country (PNG). There is really bad drought and frost in the highlands,
and they are actually running short on food and water. It has been a very
long time since it has been this bad I guess. This country is a very abundant
country with food. They rarely have problems with hunger like some of the
other third world countries. They have really been hit hard. Where we are
at (Madang) we have been one of the more fortunate places in that we got
2 inches of rain a few weeks ago which topped off all the water tanks,
so we will make it through the course without having to cart water up from
the river. Many other places around us though are much much drier."-- Pat
Earley <earl@nosc.mil>.
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