The Black Death #1

Now I know what you're thinking, "But Jared!!! The black Death (or as some people call it the black plague or bubonic plague) isn't a natural disaster!!! What are you? Some sort of person that's not as smart as me?" First of all, you're right. I'm not as smart as you. Congrats!!! But I'm way smarter person with below average intelligence. Second of all, the plague happened naturally. Even though it's a disease, it's still considered a disaster so be quiet and let me finish my last post geez.

    Here is a picture of the doctors that helped treat the plagues at that period in time. They were called

    plague doctors for their ability to fight the plague more effectively than other doctors.

It had begun in 1346 and ended in 1353. Named one of the most deadly plagues known to earth and now it has become my number one natural disaster! Ooh, shouldn't get excited about this.... This plague killed over 200 million people in Europe.

   The plague would leave buboes all over the body and they were very contagious. The guy spreading confetti over there is happy for them dying! No that would be horrible. They believed that the disease was spread by bad odors and so he's probably spreading smelly soap particles to clean up dirty Europe. 

Like I said, they believed that good smelling things was the way to ward off the disease and save them yay! Oops, looks like they were wrong, and dead. One of the reasons which makes this disaster very deadly. By thinking that was the way to cure the plague, they stopped or at least slowed down the process to finding what really stopped the plague in which case made it so more people became infected by it and made it last longer. In all truth, they found out eventually what really caused the plague. It was rats who carried it and spread it.

 Just a picture to up my visuals in the blog unit. It's of a rat which carried the black plague in Europe. 

 Rats are one of the big reasons why the plague was so deadly.

Just as I said the rats have greatly affected how deadly the plague was compared to if it started on human beings. Boats were major modes of transportation in the 14th century. If people were infected, they'd get thrown off the boat. Since they can't tell and didn't know it was rats carrying the disease, it was hard to stop it. Also, rats are quite the nimble, cunning and quick rodents so their capability to spread the virus was greatly increased. Which brings un to our next point why it was dangerous, the speed. This plague quickly covered Europe and infected many people. The plague caused people to become bed ridden which stopped the speed at which a cure is found which makes this very deadly.    

                                                  An image showing the year by year play on

                                                   the spreading of the virus. What speed!!!

That is why, I think, the black plague, deserves, to be, number 1, on my list, of the worlds, worst, disasters. Thank you to all my viewers and yes this is the last post once again. I'm happy to see people have learned off of my blog and maybe get a laugh or two. I hope you all enjoyed. See ya!

Sources:

-Personal knowledge 

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death

-http://www.historytoday.com/ole-j-benedictow/black-death-greatest-catastrophe-ever

-http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/plague.htm

Afghanistan Blizzard #5

I'm excited that we are halfway done this whole blog thing. In a way, it makes me almost sad. Ha! Not at all, this project has been tedious and long and I can't wait until it's over. We should've just had a test that takes an hour then do this whole big project that takes over 10 hours to do total. I feel that in a way, our teacher is trying to help us. But knowing him, well, it explains it'self. Enough talk, let's get down to the graded stuff.

I've decided to take a U-turn with this next blog post. The last post was about a volcano eruption, which must have been very hot. But now, I'm going to do a blizzard this time, the Afghanistan Blizzard to be precise, Which you could imagine, is very cold. So we go from hot as hell, to cold as, well... Afghanistan I guess.

           Can't see the picture very well? That's because of all the snow and that's exactly what the
           people in Afghanistan could see and worse because of the cold and the snow in their faces.

It had begun February of 2008, and just to mention something that this had happened during the soldiers were in the Afghanistan war so that becomes a factor. Afghanistan temperatures can drop to the amount of -9 degrees Celsius during the winter so it does get very cold. The soldiers have obviously prepared for this so the chance of them bringing winter  gear is very likely so that isn't really a factor or concern but it's not the cold or the snow that's the biggest bother to them in this situation. The biggest problem caused by this blizzard is all the snow that's falling and being kicked up by winds. Like in the picture above, it's very hard to see detail and even differentiate people from trees. To add on to the viability thing, to tell the difference between a friendly soldier trying to help or a hostile soldier trying to blow your brains out. Because there is war going on there! A factor I'd like to add is that this probably caused a lot of death to American soldiers because they probably didn't think there'd be a storm and the soldiers stationed in Afghanistan probably had some sort of protection against this to be able to increases their visibility so they can be more proficient.

                                          A short video of some of the visuals of the storm.

In my third paragraph I describe how it's not the cold or snow that's the killing factor. I wanted to clarify saying yes, that's a fact. For only the soldiers, not the people living in Afghanistan. For them it was a living nightmare. As you may have seen in the video, their conditions are already horrible and it's a very poor country so not many people can afford things to keep warm in the winter so a lot of people freeze to death because of that. The snow could've helped them in some way to be honest. But I know a lot of you are thinking "But Jared!!!  Snow is bad, it's cold how could it possibly be helpful for them?!?" That's an easy one Tommy, snow itself is a natural insulator meaning it keeps in heat very easily. That's why igloos were very effective because it'd get covered in snow and keep the eskimos warm.

That'll do it for today kiddos. I'll wrap it up. Next post will be the last one and it's going to be a good one. Sorry for skipping from 5 to 1, don't complain none of us had to do 3 more blogs so be happy. Until next time!

sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Afghanistan_blizzard
https://prezi.com/zkzw2tixgg4w/2008-afghanistan-blizzard/