Jayne ,'The Message'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
The Maoist regime also wasn't so big on talking about what was going on in China.
That too. I remember when I was first looking up big natural disasters in the Guiness Book of World Records (which I purchased religiously as a kid) and being surprised by the 1931 floods in China being the worst with 2.5 to 3.1 million people killed. That's about four times the population of San Francisco.
Whew. Home. Done working for now. Wow. I feel like crap.
The 1970 Bhola cyclone killed between 300,000 and 500,000 people in Bangladesh (then East Pakistan).
I only know of this disaster because of the Ravi Shankar concert for Bangladesh. We must have had that record when I was growing up. But I fully admit that I had absolutely no conception of the kind of destruction it must have wrought.
Aha! Wikipedia validates me.
"The 2000s experienced some of the worst and most destructive natural disasters in history."
"The 2000s experienced some of the worst and most destructive natural disasters in history."
That's not a good thing, you know.
It'll never beat 65 Billion years BC. That was a real disaster. Disasters these days don't know shit.
ita just made me laugh--in the face of disaster even!
That's not a good thing, you know.
My "aha!" was only (selfishly) concerned with proving I wasn't delusional.
Interesting, Germany is shutting down all seven of its pre-1980 nuclear power plants.
For a safety review in light of the Japanese accident. The worldwide nuclear industry will be going over the Japanese event with a fine-toothed comb.
"The 2000s experienced some of the worst and most destructive natural disasters in history."
I wonder if part of that isn't that we're all letting our infrastructure go to pot.