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.
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.
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/
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