The unimaginable horror that I have been watching…the images from South Asia…my mind is having a hard time coping with what I’m seeing.
The new death toll (as of 9:30am) is 44 000. These numbers are obscene.
Watching CNN last night was very irritating. All of their coverage repeated the same shots, the same sound bites…and concentrated on 1-will it happen to the USA, 2-how does it affect the USA, and 3-the decorating guy from Oprah survived!
How egotistical can you get? They don’t even have an updated death count.
The CBC has had extraordinary coverage, concentrating on all facets of the human suffering in the region…and some of this morning’s revelations are horrifying:
*A passenger train in Sri Lanka was ripped off its tracks by the wave. All 1000 passengers are dead or missing.
*Land mines have been forced out of the ground, and are now lying scattered across the debris field, threatening even more innocent lives.
*Thailand fears that the death toll of Norweigan tourists alone could reach into the hundreds.
This is becoming more of a Hollywood nightmare than the 9/11 disaster…
I don’t think I can type anything else for the moment — all of this is becoming quite overwhelming to me. I’m going to watch and wait and pray…which is all any of us can do, short of hopping a UN jet and becoming a volunteer.
