• YokweOnline
  

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  Posted: Feb 09, 2012 - 03:27 PM

  Annual ‘k…pting schools
  
  

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  MAJURO — Two Marshall Islands secondary schools were forced to close Wednesday and Thursday when king tides washed out portions of a seven-mile-long causeway, preventing school buses from transporting students to school.
  
  “Education: Rolling with the Tides” is the definition of choice of Gary Elaisha, Director of Queen of Peace Schools on Kwajalein Atoll, in describing substantial tidal flooding on the Ebeye-Gugeegue causeway due to this week’s king tides.
  
  “The tides are dictating the school schedule,” he said of conditions along the seven-mile-long causeway....
  
  ....Ebeye was the first island to report problems from the high tides this week. “We had to suspend school early Wednesday to beat the tides,” said Elaisha. The buses for both Kwajalein High School and Fr. Hacker High School have suffered breakdowns this week after traveling through salt water on the tide-damaged causeway.
  
  Kwajalein Atoll Local Government workers were out early Wednesday morning attempting temporary causeway improvements with heavy equipment, Elaisha said. But anticipated problems with Thursday’s high tide caused both high schools to cancel classes Thursday.
  
  The causeway linking the population center of Ebeye Island, home to about 12,000 people, with Gugueegue Island, seven miles to the north, was first constructed in the early 1990s. Two high schools and a few residences are located on Gugeegue. But the causeway was never paved or properly reinforced, resulting in ongoing damage from storm surf and high tides.
  
  Kwajalein’s Gugeegue causeway has been a boon and a bust for the community, offering a viable travel route to Gugeegue for school attendance, but causing serious maintenance challenges to expensive vehicles transporting students.

  
  
  ALSO:
  
  READ -->ARTICLE- Marshall Islands: High Surf and Coastal Inundation Projected
  
  VIEW -->DATA - Components of “Forecast of the Potential for High Sea Level At Majuro, Marshall Islands”
  
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• Neen_JekEiin
  

  • Registered: Jan 04, 2008
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  Posted: Feb 10, 2012 - 04:39 PM

  Anyone knows where will be be relocating to incase our ilsands sink? and who is the person that represent RMI on issues regarding global warming? Does he or she know, and whats the bottom line here?

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• laddrik
  

  • Registered: Apr 07, 2011
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  Posted: Feb 12, 2012 - 04:53 AM

  Still under debate!

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