[Windflier]

Then we have the problem of pestilence. Lots of unburied corpses.

Good point. Some of those rubble piles are ten feet thick, and go on for miles. No way are they going to be able to get to all of the corpses before they begin rotting.

How on earth are they going to deal with that? Chemical disinfectant sprayed over the rubble piles? Burning?

[Eye of Unk]

We all know where the debris went from the 1906 San Fransisco earthquake.

[BunnySlippers]

I just read that of the 230,000 killed in the Indonesian tsunami, that only 184,000 bodies were found.

[knittnmom]

Even for the ones they can get to, crematoriums are running out of body bags and such, and one crematorium owner said his facility can only handle 18 bodies per day.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110314/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earthquake_132

[bgill]

I imagine it’ll be burning. There’s no way they can sift through it all. It’ll have to start happening by the weekend or there will be the danger of disease.

[FrogMom]

Maybe there is a reason it started snowing day before yesterday. Gives the clean up workers more time to find the dead, both people and farm animals.

We were all reeling from one more punch at these poor people (earthquakes, tsunami, no food, no heat, no water, then SNOW), maybe it wasn’t a punch at all.