Interesting to see tho how this relief effort one day after this unexpected earthquake seems to be coordinated and going pretty good considering these countries limited resources... But I guess only developing countries could manage to do that..
Oct-09-2005 11:06
NeoPhono
Übermensch
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: In Orbit
Katrina death toll (worst natrual disaster in US history) = 1,033
Asian earthquake death toll = nearly 20,000
I guess only in a developing country could an earthquake kill so many.
i remember reading an article from news.google the other day saying "huge quake hits Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India - 19 dead"
Oct-10-2005 00:24
Trancer-X
mutatis mutandis
Registered: Jul 2001
Location: Shambhala
May they all rest in peace.
Oct-10-2005 01:06
Fir3start3r
Armin Acolyte
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
Wow.
Hopefully the surviors will all get the attention and help they need...
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The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all change to silver glass...and then you see it...
...white shores...and beyond...the far green country under a swift sunrise."
Oct-10-2005 01:36
hardcore trancer
Mystic Mind
Registered: Jan 2002
Location: Toronto,Canada
quote:
Originally posted by Fir3start3r
Hopefully the surviors will all get the attention and help they need...
ya lets hope they get enough attention just like the Americans did from Katrina.
im sooo sorry about what happened i hope we'll all help them they need us
Oct-10-2005 11:36
Fir3start3r
Armin Acolyte
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
quote:
Originally posted by hardcore trancer
ya lets hope they get enough attention just like the Americans did from Katrina.
Let's not.
That was a major screw up...
___________________
"...End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path...one that we all must take.
The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all change to silver glass...and then you see it...
...white shores...and beyond...the far green country under a swift sunrise."
Oct-10-2005 15:51
trancaholic
Danish Prophet of Doom
Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Aalborg
I saw that India had offered Pakistan some help on this, but that pakistan was reluctant to accept it. Just like Cuba and the US - strange how even third-world conuntries can afford to turn down offers of help for political reasons.
Oct-11-2005 07:41
NeoPhono
Übermensch
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: In Orbit
Current list of aid donors.
quote:
Aid donors
Britain: £1m
United States: £50m plus helicopters
European Union: €3.6m plus aid workers on the ground
Originally posted by trancaholic
I saw that India had offered Pakistan some help on this, but that pakistan was reluctant to accept it. Just like Cuba and the US - strange how even third-world conuntries can afford to turn down offers of help for political reasons.
it's sad. The only problem after all of this, I don't mind giving out aid to any country who need it, but whenever we have bad disasters, some of the people affected (Mainly from heavy flooding in winter) get no help whatsoever.
19 000 Dead in Pakistan
