May
17
2008
May
12
2008

Chengdu

Geez….this blog went from being the “life is good” blog to the disaster blog!

10K people dead in Chengdu, China. I spent 2 weeks there back in November, and still have a couple of nice friends there that I have not been able to get in contact with since. I got to know the guest house owner and some of the workers at Sims and wonder how his brand new building survived.

It is scary stuff knowing that people you were clinking glasses with a few months ago might be under a pile of rubble at the moment.


Posted in travel |
May
09
2008

Disaster in Myanmar

I have to give the Myanmar regime (Junta) in Burma credit….every time I start to think that they couldn’t get more blatantly, disgustingly evil, they find a way to prove me wrong.

If you didn’t hear, the recent cyclone that hit Myanmar has killed an estimated 60,000….most of which are still lying around contaminating the remaining food and water. Educated men are guessing that 100K people will be dead in a month because of no clean food/water.

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