Thank you everyone for reassuring me and restoring my faith in the innate
goodness of people (well, most of them), and thank you Cearbhael, for
explaining
your local situation.
Tamara, on our news last night the broadcast put the US givernment's donation
into perspective. Now, I'm not so
Apart from having made a financial donation there isn't much I can say
or do about this terrible disaster and the enormity of the suffering of
so many people.
Some of the islands were moved 160 feet south, the earth's axis
shifted by
about an inch, and the earth spun faster for a few seconds
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. So presumably people don't know that bodies are
At 07:56 AM 12/30/2004, you wrote:
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.
I'm on the West Coast of USA, and this disaster is on every TV or radio
news program I hear. I don't have
In a message dated 12/30/2004 10:57:42 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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the British people have
also donated 5 million GBP by lunchtime today and that sum will continue to
rise.
I assume the same is happening in many other countries. But, presumably,
not in yours
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Cearbhael
I can't believe that the greatest natural disaster to have hit the earth
in
modern times, at least
We in the Northwest are seeing reports on every news cast. I am not here
during the day so I don't know if there are any interruptions or programming
during the day or not. But each news program has more graphic pictures than
the last.
Lorri
I can't believe that the greatest natural disaster
Dear Friends,
I must say I've been amazed that in the past 3 days all we can find to talk
about is what Santa brought us, when the world's worst ever natural
disaster has just occurred in the Indian Ocean!!!
Hopefully many of you have been following the news and will know that there
are some
David said - I'm really annoyed at the coverage we aren't getting. When 9/11
happened all programmes on TV were suspended for about 3 days. For this
disaster we have to wait for hourly news bulletins on the radio.
Hi David In the UK it's on 24 hours a day on all our news channels, they are on
As I've said in the past, DH meets up with friends of similar age (the Last
of the Summer Wine crowd) at a coffee stall on the shore in Poole. The owner
of the coffee stall closed for two months to go off to Thailand - he goes
there or to the Phillipines every year over Christmas, and no-one hears
David Collyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Friends,
I must say I've been amazed that in the past 3 days all we can find to talk
about is what Santa brought us, when the world's worst ever natural
disaster has just occurred in the Indian Ocean!
I think it's more a matter of taking refuge in
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Subject: [lace-chat] the Disaster
Dear Friends,
I must say I've been amazed that in the past 3 days all we can find to
talk
On the morning of the 27th, we got the following email from a close friend:
Our son, Curry, called to tell us they are all okay!
Dec. 14th, our son left Marysville with his wife, Desi, to spend Christmas
with her family in Sri Lanka--the first Christmas the whole family would be
together in 23
Hi All, Well, I've seen some of the coverage and our paper has had it on
the front page. Like Tamara, I will do what I can but that's not much.
Sulochona was going to be in Calcutta and Chinsurah so I hope she and her
family are okay. What a tragedy. DH saw satellite photos of the tsunami
and
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