9% Nancy is bringing back 'the claw' to the WWF!
Not the craw...
Posted on 02/26/2010 11:01:09 PM PST by dragnet2
Death toll appox 700 but that’s not counting the village of 1000 wiped out in FR thread
I don’t like where things are going between Nostradamus & the Mayans
HMMMM . . . WILL CHECK IT OUT.
After the main quake here in Santiago, the aftershocks were nothing.
Heard on the radio shortly after that it was an 8.5, and couldn’t believe it considering that where I live, in the financial district (think Manhattan), there was very little damage to be seen.
In Santiago, most of the damage was cosmetic, although there have been buildings that didn’t hold up as they should have.
Things are looking much worse in the south, and they’re still working on basic communication, food and water.
Plan on going to work tomorrow, as things seem pretty normal for the most part here in Santiago.
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Typically humans have always settled along coastlines
Events there can be disasterous but not unexpected
Inland the tornados and big river floods get big headlines but do not kill as many
My niece lives in a historical home on the Strand and they are still repairing. At least you know a hurricane is coming and few people are killed.
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Your family was in harm’s way there
Anywhere along the Texas coast will affect someone in my family, and it’s a BIG coastline.
Hi Nully,
Have made contact with pals still living in Chile...have heard back from a couple living in Santiago...said it was, (is) pretty crazy.
Cheers
Thanks.
Not the craw...
Glad you are okay, prayers for all.
What does Chile need in terms of donations?
(I have a new keyboard today so I will be making less and less typos with every character.)
One wonders who will get the winter Olympics in 3010? One can't ever see enough curling.
They need to start cracking down on looters in the worst way possible (I would prefer shooting...they could shoot them in the leg like The Terminator if killing makes people uncomfortable) just like Charleston, SC did after Hurricane Hugo in 89. The police cheif came out and said they would shoot and ask questions later if they caught looters. Guess what, the looters stopped!
Only in the epicenter is it a disaster (but make no mistake that it is reaching a disaster, especially with the way the people are behaving). As they say, “poor folks have poor ways.”
They are getting regional support with most needed items (field hospitals, bottled water, etc), and Clinton just brought down some 20 sattelite radios which is going to be a huge help (that is not sarcasm).
More is on the way...but I wish the new conservative could take over sooner than the official date of the 11th. He campaigned as being tough on delinquency...I think most people would support a show of power here.
I know people down there, and the looters not only sacked a clothing store, but they also set it on fire (some have suggested that this was done to distract security so they could move on to the next store). The store was one block from where these people I know are living.
Even if it only stopped flowing south in a stretch of the lower Mississippi, it would be catastrophic today. Many take flowing backwards too literally. It was definitely disturbed and distracted from its normal flow
Well, anything is possible. We could get struck by a comet or large asteroid killing everyone in the U.S.
My point is, hurricanes and tornadoes kill many times more people in the U.S. than earthquakes.
This is just a simple fact.
INDEED. INDEED.
THX.
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