Posted by JD Seller on January 04, 2014 at 07:45:21 from (208.126.196.144):
Until MarkB_MI posted a link to a post from Hanky I did not know anything about the damage Typhoon Haiyan or Yolanda caused in the Philippines. The typhoon hit them Nov. 8Th. It had the high wind speeds for a typhoon ever recorded at land fall. That was 190 MPH.
There are over 6000 confirmed dead and another 10-15K missing(Government estimate. Some sites list much higher numbers)in the Philippines alone. Several other South East Asia countries took a hit as well.
In the Philippines Eastern Visayas had over 5600 dead and over 1700 missing, alone. Tacloban City was 90% destroyed. Estimated damage at just under a trillion dollars in US dollars.
I posted that I had friends there. It would appear they did not get hit too bad as they live north of Manila and that is north of the worst damage.
Here is the part that bothers me:
1) They had/have deaths and damage as large or larger that 9-11 was to us. I never heard much if anything about it. No major new reporting that I saw. So the death and destruction of a major portion of a Friendly country is not very important it would seem. That is just not good.
1) Joseph Stalin " One death is a tragedy, a million deaths are just a statistic" would appear to be accurate. That bothers me on many levels.
I don't recognize the poster Hanky. It sound like he is over there helping they with the damage. I applaud him for helping them out.
I can't help them directly but I will be donating to the effort ASAP. May those that can do so too.
The people of the Philippines are a wonderful people. Most of them have warm feelings toward the US. The ones that do not are a small minority.
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