What To Say?!
I'm really at a loss of words for what is happening in Asia right now. It's really interesting that a lot of us think similarily...I share Suzanne's Anger about the US media chosing not to give adequate coverage to a story of such significance (but hey, in all fairness FOXNews reported that 1 person died in a snow storm out East, nice job FOX!), and the ponderings of Asha and what it all means..I was flying back home from Detroit yesterday and was taking a shuttle from LAX to the LBC and people were complaining about delayed flights, indirect shuttle routes, early morning work schedules, etc. and I found it all to be quite trite and trivial..esp given that 23,000- to date- had just died, with over a million people displaced. But then again, people in Los Angeles freak out when it rains, so I guess you can't expect too much for them;)
This whole thing reminds of last year, around this time, when 25,000 people died in Bam, Iran, although this quake quickly seems to much, much bigger in terms of destruction and death...
but check this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4128135.stm
"Port Blair councillor Pratima Madhukrishnan, in Madras, said there had been no news from Great Nicobar, home to 45,000 people and close to the earthquake's epicentre." WTF.
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