This recent cyclone has us all in shock by the proportions of it. This blogger had an interesting way of putting it:
22,500 dead and 41,000 missing. This number is incredible. I was looking at other death toll figures and the people killed by this cyclone are more than all the US soldiers dead in Irak, plus all the people who died in 911, plus all the Palestinians and the Israeli killed in their wars for 40 years. All of those are less than 15K dead compared to 22,500 and probably 50K dead from this one cyclon
The problem in my mind is how quickly we forget - the 2004 Tzunami killed over 225,000 people, and other than the fact that most people now know what Tzunami means - what difference did this stagering number make in our lives?
Other than a reminder of our fragility - not much.
And of course, by the quote from above - we are powerless in comparison to nature.
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