$35 million in aid ($20 million "credit") for folks in need is a good thing.
$40 million for a party is obscene.
Such is the United States.
That's not the point. The United States does lots of noble things. And there's no reason the country shouldn't take credit for that. But we do more because we HAVE more.
Also, if the aid in question is a line of credit, it's only a loan. Which is still a risk since these damn things never get paid back.
But yeah, I'm sick of conventions and parties that go to the extreme while people could use that money in a much more constructive aid.
, hand out a few more Pell Grants instead.
I went to the Tsunami Center in Hilo two years ago while in Hawaii.
There's no way to track the "waves" until they hit land - out in open ocean there is nothing to distinguish them from normal churning of the ocean. The prediction of tsunami waves by the Warning Center is all they can go on, and they can forecast a warning for a period of time (which would have been more than enough to give warnings in most of the Indian Ocean region).
The Pacific Tsunami folks forecasted tsunamis after the quake the other day, and their message was relayed worldwide. If you're gonna bemoan something do it at the governments involved who have failed to develop systems to notify their people, or chose not to act on the information that the PTWC gave them.
Sri Lanka Before
After
No, the Pacific Tsunami Center thought the quake was only an 8.0 (10 times less severe as it actually was) so they thought there would only be damage locally in Sumatra. They only knew it was much more powerful when they got damage reports from Sri Lanka.
60,000 +
Tsunami vids.
the first one is really messed up, but gives you an idea of how fast it rose.
http://jlgolson.blogspot.com/2004/12/tsunami-video.html
Supermodel Petra Nemcova was also injured in the tsunami (shattered hip), boyfriend missing...
http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/200...=home&SEC=news
CNN's 360 was 2 hours all about it tonight. Crazy ass . I'm amazed.
70,000.....................
I was watching the end of ABC news today this is only gonna get worse, with measels and cholera popping up in different areas. Also a freaky thing that they mentioned, very few animal carcasses were found.
These kind of events put in perspective what's really important in life. No one knows when they're going to die. This is shocking and tragic. I can't even believe it.
I just wanna say that after watching ABC last night, I am VERY VERY VERY sorry that I made any insensitive remarks about this.
Aftershocks are now being felt along with false tsunami alerts. They, however, could be possible, so they can't afford to ignore them. Sad situation for all involved. We should realize just how fortunate we are. Makes Florida hurricanes look small in comparison. God forbid it should ever happen to us and our loved ones. Death toll now 114,000 and still rising.
Series of images from Space Imaging (Linked from Sky News) of the tsunami hitting Sri Lanka...
Calm before the storm
Tsunami sucking the ocean out to sea
Water going inland
Flooding
More flooding
New estimates out today put the toll at 400K.
wtf? 400k? Jesus!
Omg...
400K? It's being said that the casualties are at 116K+, but not 400K. That might be an estimate of after disease and such, but nowhere near that right now.
As if things were not bad enough this guy takes it a step further
That guy should be send to Indonesia to help out with pooling teeth from the dead people right away.
This is so sad, how can a tsunami take so many lives?
this thread's name is 11,500 killed!
Even if you add another zero to the end of that number, you still aren't clost to the number of deaths.
I believe that's based on a report that both India and Indonesia may be "underreporting" figures of dead and missing because, frankly, they no ing idea how many people lived in some of the affected areas BEFORE the tsunami hit.New estimates out today put the toll at 400K.
I have a very good friend from Stockholm who is missing. She is 20 years old and I met her and her family 2 years ago in Cozumel, Mexico.
My prayers go out to all thousands of tourists still missing and the families, and also to all the natives of the Indonesia Area who have lost loved one's and the missing.
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