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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.

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