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Staggering
Posted by on Thursday, December 30, 2004 at 5:57 pm

400,000 dead in Indonesia alone? That would exceed even my darkest fears. India may be underestimating the tsunami’s toll, too.




2 Comments on “Staggering”

  1. Joe Loy Says:

    Unbearable.

    Forbid it, Almighty God.

    *******************************

    I am most grateful that in my line of work I only had to miscount the votes, not the corpses. :0

    Of course one aspect of the problem here, as the linked pieces indicate, is that the Officials have no Registry Lists at all for many of the povertystricken precincts now destroyed by the damnable thing.

    The lack of accuracy in counting the dead would complicate the matter when it comes to distribution of compensation, admit officials.

    “We cannot help it. We have to go by our records,” says a Delhi official.

    Yup. / Heaven & Earth may pass away but Bureaucracy shall Never pass away. ;>

  2. Antonia Says:

    My Better Half Jim is from Thailand..
    We knew the little Prince who died…. Jims family in general were safe thank god.

    This is just a terrible End to A terrible year and I for opne can not wait for it to be over.

    This year alone I lost in the following order:
    My 4 year old Dog, My Uncle, My Grandmother and my Father….

    To say the least I want this year to be over

    We have donated money to the Reliefe funds
    but still my heart aches….

    I wish everyone a MUCH better New Year

    Antonia


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