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Post by Jazz on Mar 13, 2011 23:48:13 GMT 1
I don't think anyone watching the news, pictures etc of the Japan disaster will ever take nature lightly again. It takes your breath away and somehow the idea of Armageddon doesn't seem like a distant, remote possibility. It should give us all a deep humility and immense respect for our planet. Treat it right and hopefully it will do the same for us humans (and animals).
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Post by Shadow on Mar 14, 2011 19:51:25 GMT 1
Agreed Jazz-shocking seems an understatement to say the least. And it still isnt over-along with the aftershocks still being felt theres a very real danger from one of the nuclear reactors too.I truly hope they manage to contain it-because dealing with a nuclear fallout on top of everything else-well I just cant imagine how they will cope  |
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Post by Ann1 on Mar 14, 2011 19:57:35 GMT 1
They reckon there is a possibility of another quake sooner rather than later!! They're saying another reactor is a bit dodgy now as well. The mess is unbelievable, it doesn't look like the quake itself did much damage, the killer was the Tsunami. Was listening to the radio in the car on Saturday, and the newscaster was calling it a toon army - it was hilarious, he couldn't seem to say ts ;D
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Post by patsie on Mar 14, 2011 21:19:09 GMT 1
I've just watched something on Facebook - from a cameraman in Japan. God help them - I couldn't imagine being caught up in that, when water can move buildings and vehicles, what can it do to a human being?
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Post by Roma on Mar 14, 2011 21:22:44 GMT 1
In the paper today it showed a hovercraft stuck on a rooftop  I'm glad I don't live anywhere like that. |
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Post by Ann1 on Mar 14, 2011 23:51:38 GMT 1
And we whinge when there is a "puddle" on the road!!! Puts things in perspective really. Even the floods in Morpeth and Cumbria is nowt compared to what they have over there!!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2011 7:42:28 GMT 1
BE WARNED!
There are some email going around claiming to be official charities and asking you to donate on line. These are fraudster just after your bank details.
It make one wonder how low some people can go.
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Post by Roma on Mar 15, 2011 15:42:38 GMT 1
Hopefully nobody is daft enough to fall for somethig like this Milky.
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Post by Shadow on Mar 15, 2011 20:13:29 GMT 1
BE WARNED!There are some email going around claiming to be official charities and asking you to donate on line. These are fraudster just after your bank details. It make one wonder how low some people can go. Some people are beneath contempt  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2011 20:25:20 GMT 1
Hopefully nobody is daft enough to fall for somethig like this Milky. Roma remember the Haiti Disaster Scam Warning put out in early January 2010 by the FBI. Huge sums of money never saw the light of day nevermind going to help those in desperate need. The earthquake disaster there has almost been completely forgotten about simply because the place was so poor to start with. The people behind these things make them look very official hence they work. CWL  |
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Post by Shadow on Mar 15, 2011 20:39:15 GMT 1
Its a disgrace that Haiti was forgotten so quickly.I was reading recently that despite millions being pledged very little of those pledges have actually materialised and the Haitian people are not much further on than they were last year. This is how it was as of January this year according to one report A year after the quake, workers are still finding bodies in the rubble. About a million people remain homeless. Neighborhood-sized camps look like permanent shantytowns on the fields and plazas of the capital. A cholera epidemic that erupted outside the quake zone has killed more than 3,600 people, and an electoral crisis between President Rene Preval's ruling party and its rivals threatens to break an increasingly fragile political stability. Less than 5 percent of the debris has been cleared. What's left would be enough to fill dump trucks parked bumper to bumper halfway around the world. It took until Wednesday for Haiti's government to lay the cornerstone for a new National Tax Office. The earthquake shattered the old building, where many workers were killed in one of the blows to the public sector that helped paralyze the government following the earthquake. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton attended the cornerstone-laying ceremony with Preval. Later Clinton joined Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive to update reporters on a reconstruction process they jointly oversee through the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission — a process many Haitians and observers think has failed. More than $5.6 billion was pledged at a March 31 donors conference for a period of 18 months, but some $3.2 billion in public funding is still owed, according to Clinton's U.N. Office of the Special Envoy to Haiti. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2011 20:54:21 GMT 1
I knew things are bad in Haiti, however like so many other parts of the World it just gets left behind as time moves on. CWL  |
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Post by chris63 on Mar 15, 2011 22:56:07 GMT 1
I think it's great we live in a world that's immenntly going to fall to bits but hey it's ok so long as we've got no polish or Muslims here will we all find separte placed to huddle as we due
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Post by chris63 on Mar 15, 2011 22:59:55 GMT 1
Oops I meant die
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Post by Shadow on Mar 15, 2011 23:21:52 GMT 1
Well it puts these things into perspective chris. After hearing about real human tragedies I found it a real jerk of the senses to read about the cock up for our Olympic launch for instance. Britain embarrassed eh? |
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I'm glad I don't live anywhere like that.