----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 2:56 AM Subject: Re: [lace-chat] the Disaster
> Cearbhael > > I can't believe that the greatest natural disaster to have hit the earth in > "modern" times, at least, is not deemed worthy of much coverage by your media. > Last I heard there were over 80,000 people known dead and thousands more > missing. When the Yangtzi river flooded in China 3.7 million died and we hardly heard anything about that. There have been 4 other disasters in modern times with greater loss of life including a tsunami in Bangladesh in the '70s with a loss of 200,000 but this may be the most widespread. Yvonne. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
