۷Berkeh: Gerash was not afflicted with the anticipated flood from the monsoon in last month, though it gained as much rain as predicted. Although there are a lot of differences, not surprisingly, in the data provided by different organizations, it can be said that the region has gained nearly 30 ml of rainfall in July and the beginning of August 2022, elevating the crop year rainfall of Gerash to 277 ml. The average amount of rainfall in Gerash has been 194 ml in previous crop years.
This amount of rainfall has not come without causing damages. Flash flood caused damages in parts of the city, especially in the margins. Also, more than 450,000$ is the estimated damage to gardens and agricultural fields in Gerash county, according to the manager of Agricultural Jihad Office. This includes damages to the palm tree groves and citrus tree gardens as well as to cotton and sesame cultivation fields.
The word for rainy weather in summer afternoons in Gerashi dialect is “Chel-Pasin”, literally meaning 40 afternoons. Grandparents say that, in previous decades, they used to witness rainy weather for almost 40 afternoons during summer. Now the climate has changed and in the past several years, Chel-Pasin has given its place to torrential rains causing floods. See images of the flood beginning of the year in Gerash here.
, Hi Mr. Masoud
I am an avid reader of your work. My family introduced me to your articles as a way for me to learn about my dad’s home town, Gerash. My farsi is not good, so its been a pleasure being part of the community through your English articles. Thank you!
With that said, I hope you don’t mind me asking what you mean by “۷Berkeh”. I am assuming you mean SEVEN berkeh, but “V” in roman numeral is FIVE. Unless you mean “V”, the farsi SEVEN? which would be inconsistent and difficult to understand if you don’t know farsi. Don’t you think it would make more sense to either call it “VII-Berkeh” or “7Berkeh”?
Again, thank you for all you do! I can’t wait to catch the next one
Hello Nazy,
Thank you so much for the kind words. It is our utmost desire to make contact with those who want to know about Gerash outside of the city. I wish I had more time and stories to tell in English.
About your question, I’m afraid its a technical issue we should look into. the V you see is actually number 7 but in Persian! Unfortunately, the layout of the website does not recognize English numerals and paragraphs well, and it turns them into Persian.
Also, it’s our choice to use “7Berkeh” for the name of news outlets (this website as well as our pages on Instagram, Telegram, etc.) and use “HaftBerkeh” as the name of our institute, Haft-Berkeh Art and Culture Institute of Gerash. Of course, the two words mean the same in Farsi but we thought this distinction would be useful for our audience in English.
Please keep in touch.
Regards,
Masoud