{"id":24811,"date":"2024-05-20T11:40:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T11:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=24811"},"modified":"2024-05-20T11:40:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T11:40:54","slug":"24811","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/20\/24811\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Keeping aside the saying that \u201cAfricans believe by seeing\u201d, considering proficient alerts on rainfall patterns helps in mitigating losses of lives and property.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>South Sudan was forewarned of Saturday-Sunday downpours with flash floods that destroyed houses and other property, but Juba residents paid little attention.<\/p>\n<p>According to the meteorological weather focus, between 19<sup>th<\/sup> -21<sup>st<\/sup> May, the country will receive \u201cabove normal\u201d rainfall, which is a dangerous indicator for citizens to brass.<\/p>\n<p>Our adamancy to early warnings and alerts often ends up disastrous and with regrets, over avoidable circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Avoiding inhabiting watersheds and swamps, protection of natural vegetation along valleys, mountains forests and so forth prevents disasters but pieces of advice are seldom heeded.<\/p>\n<p>An assumption that God-given things are free to vandalize without control, is to misconstrue the real purpose of creation. The creator only permits a man to utilize it responsibly, not to exhaust it.<\/p>\n<p>Reciprocate resonance of excessive misappropriation of natural resources is dire, which is at play.<\/p>\n<p>Besides deforestation, environmental degradation and devastation of wetlands and watersheds, unchecked pollution in its numerous aspects, is widespread.<\/p>\n<p>As the Hebrew Prophets shouted their throats sore, to warn the people against God&#8217;s wrath, their calls were never heeded till catastrophe befell, however, this mentality seems to prevail even among the Gentiles to date.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we have experts, political, religious and community leaders, to guide us on better ways of life, but unless we heed their advice, disasters will befall us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping aside the saying that \u201cAfricans believe by seeing\u201d, considering proficient alerts on rainfall patterns helps in mitigating losses of lives and property. South Sudan was forewarned of Saturday-Sunday downpours with flash floods that destroyed houses and other property, but Juba residents paid little attention. According to the meteorological weather<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/20\/24811\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorial","category-gadgets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20-5-2024-4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24813,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24811\/revisions\/24813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}