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ceebeegee80,000 dead right now from the earthquake/tidal wave. I can't even react to this crisis yet because I'm still in information-gathering mode--the numbers keep changing. 80,000. On Monday, when the numbers were still at 20,000, I told Doug I had a hard time with even that--my "disaster" frame of reference was around 3,000 (the approximate number of 9/11 victims)--that I can sort of comprehend. 20,000 is almost three times as many victims as we had on 9/11. But 80,000? That's...four times 20,000. I can't comprehend it.
There's an article on CNN saying how the quake literally shook the planet. That's like when the Long Island Express (an extremely fast-moving category 3 hurricane that hit Long Island in 1938) made landfall--it registered on seismographs across the country. The storm literally shook the continent.
There's an article on CNN saying how the quake literally shook the planet. That's like when the Long Island Express (an extremely fast-moving category 3 hurricane that hit Long Island in 1938) made landfall--it registered on seismographs across the country. The storm literally shook the continent.
