Wednesday, November 21, 2007

DROUGHT With Rosemary 21/11/2007

D R O U G H T

Positive ways of coping:

It is helpful to remind yourself of the positive ways in which you personally coped through the last drought or past losses, as this will help you to feel more confident and positive about coping this time. Some positive ways of coping include:
Taking time to be with family and close friends . Trying to keep the rest of your life as normal as possible:

Openly discussing the reasons why household expenditure is being cut back
Looking after yourself – eating properly, exercising etc
Expressing your emotions and letting family members talk about their emotions
Taking more care when driving or working around the farm and home, and
Remembering your sense of humour and laughing.


D - Dry
E - El Nino
H - Hurt
Y - Yearn
D - Distraught
R - Resources
A - Arid
T - Trickle
I - Irrigation
O - Opportunities
N - Needy

This is using all of my words to do with Dehydration.

The people say all of the dry and dusty weather we are having is to do with the El Nino, I personally find this hard to believe. We know the area we live in could become arid, if we have to have a trickle of rain to flow into continual rainfall for a week. The irrigation of the area would be totally different. We could have many distraught farmers who have not many opportunities and are feeling a bit needy in our time of hardship. We have many hurt men in the area who have to tell their families that Christmas will be a bit tight this year and many years to come. We all yearn for happier times and pray and hope for rain. The resources are available if you know who to ask or who to ring.

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