You also have to calculate how much infrastructure was destroyed in each -- in the case of the tsunami, whole seaside towns were swept away, f'r'instance.
Heather, the one thing I most care about with renaming is that noone else chooses 'Connie' because I'm already too confused as it is.
I have been to yoga, so go team me. Unfortunately, the instructor had us practicing the run up to headstands, and I really don't have the upper arm strength to get very far with those. (Conversely, once you get
up
into the headstand, it's easy on the arms, since your body weight is balanced through your head and neck. It's the lifting up part that does me in.)
And in other news, Crack-addict squirrels terrorize Brixton
Yup, crack dealers and addicts have apparently taken to burying their stashes in people's gardens in the streets around the centre of Brixton after a police clampdown drove them from the thriving commercial heart of the popular London district. Locals have spotted squirrels digging in the same gardens, prompting speculation that they are already addicted to rocks and will in due course take up semi-automatic weapons and launch a violent challenge for the whole trade in illicit narcotics, as is the local custom.
One fearful resident, who asked not to be named, told Life Style Extra: "I was chatting with my neighbour who told me that crack users and dealers sometimes use my front garden to hide bits of their stash. An hour earlier I'd seen a squirrel wandering round the garden, digging in the flowerbeds. It looked like it knew what it was looking for. It was ill-looking and its eyes looked bloodshot but it kept on desperately digging. It was almost as if it was trying to find hidden crack rocks."
The RSPCA said it had no reports of the "Brixton Crack Squirrel", but did not completely dismiss the idea. A spokeswoman said: "We have not had any dealers reporting the theft of their stash by squirrels but the animal is attracted by smell and if it detects something it likes it will dig it up. If a squirrel did open a bag of crack and start consuming it there is no doubt it would die pretty quickly. I suspect that nobody has reported it because they are a wild animal and when they are found dead no-one cares."
I heard a story about the mudslides in Guatemala this morning.
I agree with ita that Bailey was brilliant on GA this week.
Wikipedia death tolls by natural disaster (wars and other disasters also on page).
Heather, we
are
low on Davids these days.
Heather, a few ideas:
Trinity Rising
Fashionista
Greenville
Damn, I shouldn't have read that disaster list.
Not that I wouldn't be honored to be in the company of the buffista 'belles, I'm not nearly as nice as they.
I was listening to NPR this morning and it was pretty much all disaster, mudslides, earthquakes and Katrina. Driving into work was horribly depressing. (Except for the part where India was one of the first to offer Pakistan aid, and while the negotiations are delicate, it's lovely and human)
Quick, everybody. Say your favorite of stroppet, Veronica and Daisy Jane.
