That's reality. That's nature. Get used to it. I think people living comfortably in modern industrial societies have become too insulated from the facts of Life and Death.
I agree. As I said, the decision to post it could have gone either way. In the end, I decided to go ahead. Those satellite photographs provided only one dimension of this terrible natural disaster. I provided another.
We lost 3,000 Americans on 9/11. The people of Southeast Asia and Somalia lost more then 30 times that number -- and their disaster relief networks are pathetic compared with ours.