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To: Our_Man_In_Gough_Island

Why didn't these people get out? I live on a river that floods frequently and have enough sense to watch the weather and act with any hint of rising water.


2 posted on 08/05/2005 6:43:10 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
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To: mtbopfuyn
Bombay is one of the largest and most built up cities in the world. That's like telling the entire population of London to move. Further, this year's monsoon has been of devastating intensity and has even changed the shape of the Indian coastline farther south in Kerala, an unusual weather pattern to say the least.
3 posted on 08/05/2005 6:48:47 AM PDT by Our_Man_In_Gough_Island
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To: mtbopfuyn

They don't have the same comforts and tools as you - radio and TV may be there, but foot and cart make up a lot of their transportation options. Add that to a horrendous 37+ inches of rain in a 24Hr. period and it is easy to see where they couldn't be prepared. Prayers would be more useful than scoffing at their lack of Boy Scout skills.


4 posted on 08/05/2005 7:00:48 AM PDT by trebb ("I am the way... no one comes to the Father, but by me..." - Jesus in John 14:6 (RSV))
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To: mtbopfuyn
At least they weren't all on one bus.

This is a scheduled event. If there isn't an annual devastating flood, then India goes in to a drought famine.

6 posted on 08/05/2005 7:35:13 AM PDT by Deguello
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