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Well, as I predicted, the death toll is at the quarter million mark, and may rise further. You can read about it at the CBC, among other places.
Many people just don't get it. This is *the* greatest tragedy of our lifetimes. The previous worse tragedy was World War II. It doesn't take a great Seer to predict that the death toll was going to reach this level...only a bit of knowledge about Earthquakes, Tsunamis, the population density of the region, and how much of the population makes its living from the sea. Why didn't the media pick up on this? A few minutes on the Internet would have done it.
Of course, the worse part of this tragedy is that it is not over...not by a long shot. This event will be the most important to happen there for the next 50 years, barring another major Quake/Tsunami. And the death toll from this event, directly and indirectly, is going to top out at anywhere between One Million and Six Million people dead. Why? Disease, the stress of having gone through an event like this (Post-Traumatic Stress psychological problems for example), and lack of resources destroyed by the event. And the wars that will be sparked because of these problems.
It will all depend on how well the international community *continues* to respond over the next decade...for relief is not a fire-and-forget type proposition, especially for an event of this magnitude. Think about what would happen if the US/Canada was hit by a similar tsunami...well, for that region, it is the same level of disaster!!! Think about that!
ttyl
Many people just don't get it. This is *the* greatest tragedy of our lifetimes. The previous worse tragedy was World War II. It doesn't take a great Seer to predict that the death toll was going to reach this level...only a bit of knowledge about Earthquakes, Tsunamis, the population density of the region, and how much of the population makes its living from the sea. Why didn't the media pick up on this? A few minutes on the Internet would have done it.
Of course, the worse part of this tragedy is that it is not over...not by a long shot. This event will be the most important to happen there for the next 50 years, barring another major Quake/Tsunami. And the death toll from this event, directly and indirectly, is going to top out at anywhere between One Million and Six Million people dead. Why? Disease, the stress of having gone through an event like this (Post-Traumatic Stress psychological problems for example), and lack of resources destroyed by the event. And the wars that will be sparked because of these problems.
It will all depend on how well the international community *continues* to respond over the next decade...for relief is not a fire-and-forget type proposition, especially for an event of this magnitude. Think about what would happen if the US/Canada was hit by a similar tsunami...well, for that region, it is the same level of disaster!!! Think about that!
ttyl
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