weather

February 23, 2005

Hello Members,

More on weather..It's been unseasonably cool in Hawaii as well.

Venus's recent and somewhat ongoing affliction from Ketu is across the

board. Interesting.

And Professor, you mentioned something about trouble for India as well.

Aloha,

Sally

The number of dead in Kashmir -- split between India and Pakistan

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climbed to 293 after rescue workers found 40 more bodies in

avalanche-hit villages and three people died in a remote forest after

being stranded in a log hut for four days.

In India's portion,

229 people have been killed since Friday, with 150 others missing. On

the Pakistan side, officials said at least 64 people have died in the

past two weeks, most in avalanches. On Tuesday, troops found the bodies

of four soldiers who were buried by an avalanche as they traveled to

their post on Nekro mountain in Neelum Valley, police officer Raja

Ghulam Sarwar said.

Elsewhere, in a village south of

Muzaffarabad, the capital of the Pakistani-controlled portion of

Kashmir, residents pulled the bodies of two men from the rubble of

their homes that had collapsed in recent rains. Large parts of Pakistan

have reported record precipitation, with 346 people dying nationwide

this season, including the heaviest snow in southwestern Baluchistan

province in 13 years.

The cold weather has also hit neighboring Afghanistan, where at

least 260 people have perished, the Red Cross said.

Canada's

ambassador to Afghanistan, Christopher Alexander, said several thousand

may have died, highlighting the continued poverty of Afghans and their

government's weakness three years after the fall of the Taliban.

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Sally Spencer

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