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Myanmar -Devastation in a small country
Myanmar has lost so many people and homes and roads and...and...and...
From the Christian Science Monitor, a great news source from my parent's religion:
In the 2nd World War, 6 millions Jews were genocided (along with gypsies (my people) and those who were disabled or handicapped (my husband - times two since he not only disabled but is a Sefardic Jew.)
By Aung Hla Tun
YANGON (Reuters) - The United Nations estimated 1.5 million people have been "severely affected" by the cyclone that swept through Myanmar, as the United States expressed outrage with the country's junta over delays in allowing in aid.
In Myanmar, despairing survivors awaited emergency relief on Friday, a week after 100,000 people were feared killed by Cyclone Nargis as it roared across the farms and villages of the low-lying Irrawaddy delta region.
"We're outraged by the slowness of the response of the government of Burma to welcome and accept assistance," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad.
Also this was not a "normal" cyclone. It is yet another proof that we have screwed the planetary pattern and may not survive our wreckage.
Deadly Path
Forecasters began tracking the cyclone April 28 as it first headed toward India. As projected, the storm took a sharp turn eastward. But it didn't follow the typical cyclone track, which leads to Bangladesh or Myanmar's mountainous northwest.
Instead, the cyclone swept into the low-lying Irrawaddy River Delta in central Myanmar. The result was the worst disaster ever in the impoverished country.
It was the first time such an intense storm is known to have hit the delta, said Jeff Masters, co-founder and director of meteorology at the San Francisco-based Web site Weather Underground.
He called it "one of those once-in-every-500-years kind of things."
Source: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080508-AP-the-perfect.html
Beyond the calamity of the damages done to the entire people, there is the damage of an unresponsive government (like ours) and a lack of essential needs (United Nations - and other - Aid refused) there is the possibility that this could happen again with the next cyclone.
You see, we have disrupted Nature itself. That is why there are fountains out of the ground here in Ohio and sinkholes in Texas that won't stop in Texas and many, many other cataclysms coming our way.
Many, many, many people are going to die. Much land will be lost. Rivers (the Mississippi which is the following of the Texas sinkhole/plate shift) will widen and take riversides.
Earth changes are not impossible to survive but you must be willing to move.
Stay flexible. Be kind.
Otherwise is is survival at any price. Not what we want, surely.
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