Leggy Linda said:
maybe Im I just being overdramatic?
but its almost like the world is coming to an end
mud slides in California
all the floods in Europe
all the Earthquakes and hurricanes
mothernature has been very nasty latley!
wasnt all this predicted for sometime in the year 2000?
its very scary!
Leggy Linda, the island of Sumatra Indonesia is surrounded by Volcanos below the ocean and Tectonic plates, so get earthquakes often, just not this scale. The Imax movie Rings of Fire has a lot of simulation and eruption footages. Glad I put off my Asia trip, even thought the Phuket hotel I would have stayed at, is on a hill.
With Asian, property insurance is a luxury for biz and the rich. So will take a lifetime for many to rebuild.
With information age, we quickly find out global events without leaving our living room. It's not end of world. Unfortunately, natural disasters happens often around the world, hurrricanes, typhoons, mid-west flood, ice-storms, etc. Many websites track disasters and preventions. It's one reason we have a once elite DART (Disaster Assistance Response team), but such a shame with Gov. cut-backs, there are no planes to transport DART and their equipement. Now they realize DART is too late getting to Sri Lanka, so DART is just a gorified M.A.S.H. unit. Such a shame. If there were disaster on the west coast, it would take a week for DART to hire Russian planes to fly over Canadian soil to get the heavy equipment out.
BTW, some or most of 9/11 was preventable. Few high level U.S. fools had the intelligence (remember the first World Trade bomb attempt), their big ego were thinking, who would dare to mess with big mighty Uncle Sam...