Extreme Weather Event In Iraq Causes Sand To Flow Like River

By Okechukwu Okugo

Recently a massive fast flowing "river of sand" was seen in a footage and went viral. Many were astonished to see a pack of sand in Iraq flowing exactly the way a river flows in a fast current, capable of carrying anything thrown into it along as it flows (you can watch it in the video below).









Many people have watched it but they do not know what it is. After all normally how can sand dunes and pebble in a desert flow like river?

We all know that only what is liquid or molten can "flow."

For those that don't know, that flowing sand was a product of extreme weather event that happened in Iraq.

This area has a very dried climate but suddenly it was hit by two or more events of extreme weather change. Ice storms, heavy rains and powerful winds combined and besieged the area.

Hailstones as big as golf balls were reported falling in this area prompting the government of Iraq to declare a state of emergency in the area.

So as those blocks of ice that fell conglomerate and flow, it carried alongside with it sands, stones and pebbles through the desert and was really moving at a very fast pace.

To the eyes what was seen was actually a river of sand flowing.

Who will doubt that in our today's world the weather has really changed, becoming very harsh and highly unpredictable.

Many scientists have linked it to human activities - the heavy industrialization and other activities that release many dangerous gases into the atmosphere and alter it.

For me, I do not need to be a scientist to know that whatever harms our earth must be avoided while whatever that will continue to make it healthy must be pursued, no matter what it takes; after all the earth is more than a shelter to us.

Ask anyone who stays without a roof over their head, how highly uncomfortable that is.

But what is more is that we can make a roof over our heads but we cannot make another earth.