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I saw the Balinese on TV, and Gaido's too.. I think they are both a pile of rubble. Was the Strand a strip mall? They showed a strip mall that looked like a very sad game of pickup sticks.
When the media was covering Katrina, I remember seeing bodies.. and thinking "they shouldn't be showing this on TV". They were saying that they couldn't access the West End at all, but they were going other places in boats, rescuing people. I too fear the casualty count will be high. I did hear one reporter say that much of the West End consists of vacation homes and rentals and the hope was that not too many people were actually there at the time. I hope that was the case.
It's truly heartbreaking. I was going to Obama's website today to make a donation and the first page it took me to this morning was a "Donate to the Red Cross or Save the Children" page for victims of Ike. I realized then that, oddly, after other extreme events, there were big pushes to donate and I haven't heard any this time. I went right to the Red Cross page and made a donation. I decided that donating to Obama and the Red Cross was more important than paying off the credit card.. it can wait til next month.
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