Hundreds die in pan-Asian 8.9 earthquake

docmercer--banned · Dec 28, 2004

Gameface:

It is how one is brought up ... I hear a lot of folks say to "nuke the camel jockeys" when talking about the Middle East ...

Americans are no better than Iraqis, Russians, Australians, etc... the avg American has no clue how lucky they are ...

Human beings are human beings .. we saw that in Florida this past summer with fellow Americans looting homes of fellow neighbors after the hurricanes hit

GAMEFACE · Dec 28, 2004

Doc,

This situation is becoming a circus act with silly UN officials calling for more money from Americans and if the stupid Americans would just agree to pay more taxes we could feed and cloth the world.

I would handle it much like I do with Landass. I do not send him cash because he'll lose it to the book on his first bet, I sent rations, blankets and thunder bird direct to his wife. It's the same over there, send medicine, tents, blankets, asprin, thunder bird, bandages, cots and MREs. DO NOT SEND THE CORUPT LEADERS A DIME BECAUSE THE PEOPLE IN NEED WILL SEE NO MORE THAN 10%.

lander · Dec 28, 2004

Game,
You are an ignorant piece of sh*t. If a tradegy needs to occur I wish it could be limited to dog crap scumbags like you.

eek. · Dec 28, 2004

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=629 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD colSpan=3>Tsunami among world's worst disasters

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Hurricanes occur annually, but some are worse than others

</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>The massive sea surge in Asia has been described by relief experts as one of the worst natural disasters in recent history.

With a magnitude of 9.0, the undersea quake off the coast of Sumatra is the worst for 40 years and the fourth strongest since 1900.

It is also notable for the extent of its reach - killing tens of thousands of people, from Malaysia in the east to the African coast in the west.

As the number of dead continues to rise, this tsunami may well earn itself a grim place in the record books.

According to the Guinness Book of Records, the highest death toll from a tsunami until now happened in 1896, when 27,000 people were drowned following an earthquake off the coast of Japan.

But while natural catastrophes of this size are thankfully not frequent, they are deadly - wiping out whole communities and leaving billions of dollars' worth of damage behind.

One of the most memorable disasters of recent times is Hurricane Mitch, which devastated much of Honduras and Nicaragua in Central America in 1998.

More than 10,000 people were estimated to have been killed and some two million left homeless as the torrential rain caused mudslides that swept away whole villages.

Bangladesh was even harder hit in 1970, when a cyclone killed up to 500,000 people. Winds of up to 230 km/h whipped up massive waves that took away entire villages.

China suffered similar losses when an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.3 almost obliterated the north-eastern city of Tangshan in 1976. The official number of people killed was put at around 250,000, although some said the figure was more like 750,000.

No borders

And almost exactly a year ago, a 6.3 quake devastated the Iranian city of Bam, killing more than 50,000.

China, and indeed Asia as a whole, has had its fair share of natural disasters over the centuries.

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Whole communities are left devastated by natural disasters

</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Shanxi and Henan provinces lost more than 800,000 people when they were hit, in 1556, by one of the worst earthquakes in history.

In 1887, about 900,000 people died when the country's Yellow River burst its banks in the worst-ever recorded flooding.

A volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora on Indonesia's Sumbawa island in 1815 claimed the lives of more than 90,000 people as a blanket of lava and ash covered all around it, leading to agricultural devastation, famine and disease.

And one of the worst monsoons in living memory claimed the lives of 10,000 people in Thailand over the course of three months in 1983. Some 100,000 people contracted waterborne diseases as a result of the storm.

Snow storms, forest fires and avalanches have all proved deadly. A single landslide in Peru in 1970 killed more than 18,000 people in the town of Yungay.

Most of these disasters were isolated to one area or one country. But, as the Asian tsunami has shown, nature knows no borders.

The droughts that swept across sub-Saharan African in the 1980s led to the starvation of an estimated one million people. They are threatening to do the same again.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4128509.stm

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blueedwards · Dec 28, 2004

Elephant said:
What the F*CK has this to do with us on this board, its only 60,000 people killed in some place we dont even where it is

if you are a human being with any sense of compassion, this should move you to help out in some way. even a $25 donation to the red cross or world vision can bring relief to someone and prevent the spread of disease. if everyone gave $25, it would be more than enough.

or, you can just do nothing and say "doesn't affect me, i don't know those people".

blueedwards · Dec 28, 2004

GAMEFACE said:
& we are nothing more than the great satan to most of them.

doesn't matter. we should still do anything we can to ease their suffering. who cares what muslim governments around the world call the u.s.

they are our brothers and sisters...regardless of the politics, race or religion.

blueedwards · Dec 28, 2004

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More than 23,000 people have been killed throughout Asia, and tens of thousands more are feared dead. Millions of children and families are homeless and have lost everything. World Vision staff members have been working around the clock in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Thailand, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and other stricken areas.

Our staff report that beaches are littered with bodies. And the UN is warning of deadly epidemics within days due to contaminated water supplies.

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blueedwards · Dec 28, 2004

links in above post do not work for some reason.

this one does:

www.worldvision.org

docmercer--banned · Dec 28, 2004

how disgusting of post:

Originally Posted by Elephant
What the F*CK has this to do with us on this board, its only 60,000 people killed in some place we dont even where it is

You should be ashamed to actually call yourself a member of the human race .. Americans do not know how blessed they have it and far too many Americans think they are a better race of human being than folks living in 3rd world countries

The avg American should be forced to live in a 3rd world country ... I did for a month and it makes ya realize just how lucky you are to live in this country

Real nice flappin post ... Class Act

GAMEFACE · Dec 28, 2004

Blue,

I agree we should send rations, tents, water and medicine. NO CASH.

Landass,

Fukk you,

You have a problem with sending them supplies over cash to the corrupt leaders I don't you low life pos. The people in need will see very little if we send cash.

GAMEFACE · Dec 28, 2004

I don't want to see another scam pulled here by a few corrupt 3rd world war lords, that's all. Supplies over cash is the way to go.

docmercer--banned · Dec 28, 2004

Latest estimates ... 100,000 dead

xpanda · Dec 28, 2004

doc mercer said:
Latest estimates ... 100,000 dead

And 1/3 of them children.

Game, you are a first-class prick.

Phaedrus · Dec 28, 2004

For those interested, CNN has compiled a list of aid agencies working on relief efforts.

Phaedrus

GAMEFACE · Dec 28, 2004

xpanda said:
And 1/3 of them children.

Game, you are a first-class prick.

XP,

I'm wise and right here. If you send over cash to these 3rd world warlords the people in need will see very little. I'm certain you are aware of how these things go. Check Haiti for instance Billions sent and the people basically saw none of it. Supplies are the only chance the needy will see aid. That's all, I tell the truth and I expected a few idiots to call me a name or 2. I'm not shaken.

xpanda · Dec 28, 2004

GAMEFACE said:
XP,

I'm wise and right here. If you send over cash to these 3rd world warlords the people in need will see very little. I'm certain you are aware of how these things go. Check Haiti for instance Billions sent and the people basically saw none of it. Supplies are the only chance the needy will see aid. That's all, I tell the truth and I expected a few idiots to call me a name or 2. I'm not shaken.

Maybe in a thread like this one, you should simply shut your mouth.

lander · Dec 28, 2004

GAMEFACE said:
Landass,

Fukk you,

You have a problem with sending them supplies over cash to the corrupt leaders I don't you low life pos. The people in need will see very little if we send cash.

Are you sure you didn't forget an extra 'k' fuKKK you, you nazi piece of sh*t. You truly are one worthless sack of crap.

GAMEFACE · Dec 28, 2004

Fukk both of you, what specifically do you disagree with? Do you believe the warlords will spend the cash wisely? I don't, they never do. So both of you can go fukk yourself. Send supplies, whatever we can do. Just don't hand over cash to an Arafat type. The people see very little when cash is sent. Mark my words the crooks will steal 75% of all the cash sent. Of course it will come out 10 years later. UN?

xpanda · Dec 29, 2004

In the first place, you twit, the CIA fed cash to warlords and their ilk in Afghanistan, yet you wave that around like it's a beacon of goddamn wonderfulness. So pick a side and stick to it.

In the second place, 100,000 people may well be dead in an event that happened in a matter of minutes. These people are completely innocent of that which killed them. Show some fúcking compassion or shut your mouth. Nobody needs to hear your bullshít right now.

blueedwards · Dec 29, 2004

you send cash to the red cross, world vision, etc. they buy the food, blankets and medicine. you can't send the goods...you have to give money to a reputable organization and they buy the goods and fly them into the country. nobody is advocating making checks out the the county of sri lanka.