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50,000 by mid afternoon. Nearly as many in one day as in the Vietnam War -- at least our part of it.
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this is so sad!
moe.ron i'm glad to hear your family's ok. on a sad note, a childhood friend of mine moved to thailand as a christian missionary a few years ago - her family hasn't heard from her yet. i don't know if anyone is interested, but if you would like to send a donation to the red cross their information is: American Red Cross International Relief Fund P.O. Box 37243 Washington D.C. 20013 (800) 435-7669 please put "Tsunami Relief" in the note section of your checks, if you want your donation to specifically go to this cause. if you live outside the U.S. i'm sure that the red cross is listed in your phone book, or you can call the operator to get a local number to reach them for their information. let's all pray that this is the worst of it all, and that these countries will be able to recover from all of this! ~beth |
This isht is scary. Apparently the water level rose 4 inches in Alaska after the earthquake - says the Anchorage Daily News. http://www.adn.com/front/story/5954343p-5860104c.html
For Alaskans that lived through the '64 Good Friday earthquake (9.2 on the richter scale for 5 minutes straight), the reports of this brought back memories. My mom was kind of freaking out remembering everything in an e-mail she sent me yesterday. :( I'm keeping the victims in my prayers. |
NEW YORK (SI.com) -- Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover model Petra Nemcova was injured and her photographer boyfriend is missing after the pair were caught up in the Asian tsunami disaster.
Nemcova told the New York Daily News that she survived the tsunami, which has killed at least 33,000 people, by clinging to a palm tree for eight hours, despite a broken pelvis and internal injuries. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...x.html?cnn=yes |
How to help:
ACTION AGAINST HUNGER 247 West 37th Street, Suite 1201 New York, N.Y. 10018 212-967-7800 x108 www.actionagainsthunger.org AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE 45 West 36th Street, 10th Floor New York, N.Y. 10018 800-889-7146 www.ajws.org AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE South Asia Tsunami Relief Box 321 847A Second Avenue New York, N.Y. 10017 212-687-6200 ext. 851 www.jdc.org AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE AFSC Crisis Fund 1501 Cherry Street Philadelphia, Pa. 19102 215-241-7000 www.afsc.org AMERICAN RED CROSS International Response Fund P.O. Box 37243 Washington, D.C. 20013 800-HELP NOW www.redcross.org CARE 151 Ellis Street Atlanta, GA 30303 800-521-CARE www.care.org CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES Tsunami Emergency P.O. Box 17090 Baltimore, Md. 21203-7090 800-736-3467 www.catholicrelief.org DIRECT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL 27 South La Patera Lane Santa Barbara, Calif. 93117 805-964-4767 www.directrelief.org DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS P.O. Box 1856 Merrifield, Va. 22116-8056 888-392-0392 www.doctorswithoutborders.org EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT Emergency Fund P. O. Box 12043 Newark, NJ 07101 800-334-7626 www.er-d.org INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF RED CROSS/RED CRESCENT www.ifrc.org INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS Earthquake/Tsunami Relief 1919 Santa Monica Boulevard, Suite 300 Santa Monica, Calif. 90404 800-481-4462 www.imcworldwide.org INTERNATIONAL ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES Asia Disaster Response P.O. Box 630225 Baltimore, MD 21263-0225 877-803-4622 www.iocc.org ISLAMIC RELIEF USA Southeast Asia Earthquake Emergency P.O. Box 6098 Burbank, Calif. 91510 888-479-4968 www.irw.org/asiaquake MERCY CORPS Southeast Asia Earthquake Response Dept. W P.O. Box 2669 Portland, Ore. 97208 800-852-2100 www.mercycorps.org OPERATION USA 8320 Melrose Avenue, Suite 200 Los Angles, Calif. 90069 800-678-7255 www.opusa.org OXFAM AMERICA Donor Services Department 26 West Street Boston, MA 12111-1206 800-77-OXFAM www.oxfamamerica.org SAVE THE CHILDREN Asia Earthquake/Tidal Wave Relief Fund 54 Wilton Road Westport, Conn. 06880 800-728-3843 www.savethechildren.org UNICEF General Emergency Fund 333 E. 38th Street New York, NY 10016 800-4-UNICEF www.unicef.org |
Casualties reached over 76,000. :(
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I wonder if Aceh will use this to their advantage to gain freedom from Indonesia. They've been fighting for freedom for 28 years, Indonesia has killed over ten thousand people living in Aceh.
Until the tsunami hit there was a ban on foreign media and forign aid agencies/workers in the region. Maybe Indonesia will just accept the aid, withhold it from those in need in Aceh and let starvation/disease wipe out more people so that they can keep the area under control. |
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this is just unreal. unreal
should i be wearing my "end of times" sign, b/c my God. this is just so sad and so scary.....and i just can't really even get my mind around it. prayers to all of these families. :( |
I am also having an incredibly hard time getting my mind around this. I have surfed to CNN while watching TV a few times today and they show piles and piles of bodies just sitting there, some covered in plastic, some not, and people are wandering around aimlessly. It looks like a bad horror film. They were showing some reconciliations of parents and children in hospitals, where neither was sure what had happened to the others, and that was a relief to see. But... whoa. The last "number" I heard was 80,000 and they were saying that 25% of the population of Aceh was dead. Some of the video coverage is so horrifying... I have prayed so many times for these poor people. A local doctor's office has suggested that all doctors donate the sample antibiotics to send over to the areas that are worried about disease spreading.
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I cant even wrap my head around this either. 84,000 today. They are sayign it will easily go over 100,000. Wow. 100,000 wiped out in a day. 6 Billion peopel on the face of the earth and 100,000 perish in a day. I know its a tiny percentile, but to know that .00X% (I am way too tired to do the math) of the worlds population died at once is too much to fathom.
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