Topaz Posted February 22, 2011 Report Posted February 22, 2011 While reading the article on this earthquake that hit NZ yesterday, I couldn't help but relay it to many movies I've seen on TV. There's 65+ people dead and there are some missing, which are some Japanese students. There's buildings down, no hydro, and this is the second time in 5 months they have been hit. BTW, the comments coming at the end of the article is very interesting also. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/magnitude-6-3-earthquake-strikes-near-christchurch-zealand-20110221-162107-954.html Quote
bush_cheney2004 Posted February 22, 2011 Report Posted February 22, 2011 Gee...didn't the same thoughts occur when over 200,000 people died in Haiti's earthquake last year? New Zealand will be fine....Haiti, not so much. Quote Economics trumps Virtue.
jbg Posted February 22, 2011 Report Posted February 22, 2011 Gee...didn't the same thoughts occur when over 200,000 people died in Haiti's earthquake last year? New Zealand will be fine....Haiti, not so much. Exactly. Current status on Haiti (link, excerpts below): A Year Later, Haiti Struggles BackBy DEBORAH SONTAG PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — In 2010, Daphne Joseph, a slim, shy teenager, took a pounding from life. She watched with horror as her mother’s mangled body was carted off in a wheelbarrow after the Jan. 12 earthquake. She fell in with a ragtag group of orphans taken under the wing of a well-meaning but ill-equipped community group. She left them unwillingly when a self-proclaimed relative took her away to use her as a servant. And then last fall, not long before her 15th birthday, Daphne found herself in an actual home, reunited with the other orphans stranded after the disaster they all call “goudou-goudou” for the terrible sound of the ground shaking. She wore a party dress; she blew out candles; she smiled. “I believe that Daphne was a fragile, sensitive girl even before ‘goudou-goudou,’ ” said Pierre Joseph, a psychologist who counsels her. “After, she was like a glass that got filled to the brim and then overflowed. You could say she is still in shock. But she is finding her equilibrium.” After a year of almost unfathomable hardship in Haiti, there is little reason to be hopeful now. More than a million displaced people still live under tents and tarpaulins. Reconstruction, of the build-back-better kind envisioned last March, has barely begun. Officials’ sole point of pride six months after the earthquake — that disease and violence had been averted — vanished with the outbreak of cholera and political unrest over a disputed presidential election. Somehow, I doubt life in New Zealand will look this way one year from now. Quote Free speech: "You can say what you want, but I don't have to lend you my megaphone." Always remember that when you are in the right you can afford to keep your temper, and when you are in the wrong you cannot afford to lose it. - J.J. Reynolds. Will the steps anyone is proposing to fight "climate change" reduce a single temperature, by a single degree, at a single location? The mantra of "world opinion" or the views of the "international community" betrays flabby and weak reasoning (link).
fellowtraveller Posted February 22, 2011 Report Posted February 22, 2011 just got an update from NZ from my SIL in Auckland. 38 confirmed dead, 100+ missing. Quote The government should do something.
jbg Posted February 22, 2011 Report Posted February 22, 2011 just got an update from NZ from my SIL in Auckland. 38 confirmed dead, 100+ missing. Is there Haitian or Pakistani-like chaos with this earthquake? Quote Free speech: "You can say what you want, but I don't have to lend you my megaphone." Always remember that when you are in the right you can afford to keep your temper, and when you are in the wrong you cannot afford to lose it. - J.J. Reynolds. Will the steps anyone is proposing to fight "climate change" reduce a single temperature, by a single degree, at a single location? The mantra of "world opinion" or the views of the "international community" betrays flabby and weak reasoning (link).
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