In Germany, the lack of water is exposing inscriptions that warn: “If you see me, cry”
US police reported Thursday the discovery of a weapon in a dry lake bed in Las Vegas, near where they found a corpse inside a barrel that detectives link to the mafia.
The rapid recoil of the lake mead has brought out numerous corpses this year, prompting speculation that the body inside the barrel may be the work of gangsters in this gambling paradise.
Police have released few details about the finds, but the victim discovered in May was shot in the head and concealed in the barrel before being thrown into the lake, in typical Las Vegas hit man style of the 1970s and 1970s. 1980.
“A firearm has been recovered at Lake Mead National Recreation Area on August 17, 2022, very close to where one of the human remains was found,” Las Vegas police tweeted.
Days after the barrel was found, another body was found. A third was found in July and this month two sets of bone remains have been discovered in the Swim Beach area.
The drought hysteria plaguing much of the western United States is straining water sources, with reservoirs and lakes falling to minimal levels.
Lake Mead was once 365 meters above sea level. But after more than two decades of drought, it is shrinking fast, falling to 317 meters on Thursday.
Scientists say man-made climate change, fueled by uncontrolled burning of hydrocarbons, is exacerbating the natural cycle of drought.
the hunger stones
The severe drought in Germany is exposing the so-called Hungerstein -Stones of Hunger- that contain warnings in some centuries-old cases related to the danger of famines that the low level of the rivers brought in the past.
“If you see me, cry” says the inscription on some of the stones that can be seen again and that they are part of a tradition that dates back to the fifteenth century.
This legend appears, for example, on a stone found in the Elbe River, dating from 1616.In the 19th century many travellers, in times of drought, registered the Hungersteine and wrote about them.
The current drought in Germany has brought the level of the rivers to historic lows, which has found Hungersteine that were completely forgotten.
In Saxony (eastern Germany) dozens of Hungerstein. Usually those who write the warning also write the date of the drought.
on the elbe the oldest inscription dates from 1417. The admonition, “If you see me, cry,” has been linked to the fact that one of the consequences of the drought was crop failure, which in turn could lead to famine.
Several years are recorded in many stones in which the drought caused them to come back to the surface.
Currently, the problem is not so much the threat that the drought implies for agriculture as the problems that the low level of the rivers brings for river transport, which, according to the Confederation of German Industry (BDI), is a threat to supply chains, which can affect all economic activity.
In addition to the problems for the industry, the drought and the low level of the rivers represent a ecological threat.
The increase in water temperature and the low level of the rivers create, according to experts, a toxic combination for fish and other animals.”
We have little water in the Rhine due to the drought. In addition we have high temperatures in the water and the combination of the two factors is somewhat toxic for the inhabitants of the Rhine,” climate expert Karsten Brandt told “Der Spiegel” magazine.
According to Brandt, what is happening is that what the climate change models have been announcing for years, although for a while there was hope that Germany and Central Europe would be less affected by the crisis.
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