Sad about Gonu?

Frightening Gonu cyclone picture from s_nuss on Photobucket

2007-06-10T05:48:00.000+04:00

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Water shortage in Muscat

2007-06-10T05:42:00.001+04:00

This video shows several men crowding around a water tank on a truck hoping to fill up their buckets as water supply has still not been restored in Muscat.

Video/slideshow of Gonu aftermath in Muscat

2007-06-10T05:39:00.000+04:00

Widespread destruction in Muscat

2007-06-10T05:35:00.001+04:00

This 5 min home made video shows widespread destruction around Muscat, particularly in the Al-Qurum area.

Gonu photos from arthi on flickr

2007-06-10T05:31:00.000+04:00

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Gonu photos from VK Narayanan

2007-06-10T05:23:00.000+04:00

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Gonu photos from sanddeep from flickr

2007-06-10T05:17:00.000+04:00

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Gonu photos from omania_86 from flickr

2007-06-10T05:15:00.000+04:00

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Gonu photos from faith-7 on flickr

2007-06-10T05:06:00.000+04:00

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Gonu photos from vpuempin from flickr

2007-06-10T05:04:00.000+04:00

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Gonu photos from ReeHan Hoossein

2007-06-10T04:53:00.000+04:00

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Gonu photos from Zadjali on flickr

2007-06-10T04:51:00.000+04:00

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Gonu photos from Far7at on flickr

2007-06-10T04:50:00.001+04:00

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Gonu photos from Herbert Fernandes

2007-06-10T04:48:00.001+04:00

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Gonu photos from AlMeer on flickr

2007-06-10T04:46:00.001+04:00

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Gonu photos from flotaz on flickr

2007-06-10T04:41:00.000+04:00

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Gonu photos from simultaneous_illusion on flickr

2007-06-10T04:36:00.000+04:00

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Gonu photos from David Blades

2007-06-10T04:22:00.000+04:00

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Gonu photos from Jamie Johnson

2007-06-10T04:20:00.000+04:00

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Gonu photos from Anna Aghajanyan

2007-06-10T04:16:00.000+04:00

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Gonu photos from evert_r on flickr

2007-06-10T04:15:00.001+04:00

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Gonu photos from panache1 on flickr

2007-06-10T04:10:00.000+04:00

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Gonu photos from Martin Cargnelli

2007-06-10T03:58:00.000+04:00

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Watch trees falling during storm

2007-06-10T03:43:00.001+04:00

Road or river?!

2007-06-10T03:40:00.000+04:00

Streets and homes flooded

2007-06-10T03:39:00.003+04:00

Watch storm from Shangri La Hotel in Muscat

2007-06-10T03:36:00.001+04:00

Beautiful beach covered in debris

2007-06-10T03:33:00.000+04:00

Roads in Seeb completely destroyed

2007-06-10T03:22:00.001+04:00

Wild sea during the storm on Muscat beach

2007-06-10T03:19:00.000+04:00

Cars piled up in Muscat

2007-06-10T03:13:00.000+04:00

Shopping centres destroyed in Muscat

2007-06-10T02:45:00.001+04:00

Click on the image below to view the slideshow on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9LWhiVo8h0

See the Gonu storm in action

2007-06-10T02:42:00.000+04:00

Devastation in Qurum

2007-06-10T02:41:00.000+04:00

Roads flooded

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Extensive damage to roads

2007-06-10T02:35:00.000+04:00

Scientist's coverage on Gonu

2007-06-10T02:23:00.000+04:00

Simon Donner, a Canadian scientist studying how climate change affects people and the environment agrees that mainstream media coverage has been poor:

In this case, I'm writing about the storm because it is a rare event, because of the human impact, and because, frankly, the North American news coverage has been just abominable. CNN.com interrupts its coverage of the human toll to discuss oil prices.

Click here to read his post in full:

http://simondonner.blogspot.com/2007/06/more-on-gonu.html

Link to BBC video

2007-06-10T02:15:00.000+04:00

Please click on the image below to view the BBC's brief coverage on Gonu (the BBC do not allow their videos to be embedded in third party sites):

Flooding after cyclone

2007-06-10T02:09:00.001+04:00

Cyclone effect on Qurum Beach Road

2007-06-10T01:55:00.000+04:00

Sad about Gonu? - please share your experience with us

2007-06-10T00:59:00.000+04:00

This blog has been set up to aggregate information on the web regarding the recent tropical cyclone Gonu that has struck Oman and Iran. Please submit your stories, comment freely and post links to videos, pictures, blog articles and news articles for the benefit of all those affected.

It is very unfortunate that large international media organisations such as CNN and the BBC (!) have failed to provide the public with decent coverage of such a catastrophic event, except for detailed analysis on how their oil supplies might be affected. It appears that their priorities are to serve the idiotic masses who are more interested in knowing what happens to a false celebrity and her imminent charges for drunk driving.

In this day and age if you want real news coverage, YOU, the reader, have to participate and contribute directly. Thanks to the world wide web, and publishing platforms that allow you to post articles online (blogs) and photo/video sharing sites (Flickr.com, Youtube.com) this is now possible.

At the time of starting this blog, note these stats for search term "Gonu":

Blogsearch.google.com shows 5,710 links to blog posts.

Flickr.com search for "Gonu" shows 768 photos.

Youtube.com shows 132 videos.

Wikipedia.org already has a detailed entry on Gonu with several hundred edits by users from around the world.

Aljazeera.net shows 44 links to articles under "غونو" (Gonu).

BBC.co.uk shows 9 links to articles about the storm, the top link is titled: "Oil prices drop as storm weakens".

CNN.com shows 10 links to brief articles covering the event.

Where will you go next time you want up to date coverage of an important world event?