The Philippines are mostly Christian, so I doubt Obama feels much need to help them out.
wow
Has the US announced any aid yet? We spend so much on crap, is there anything left?
George Bush doesn’t care about Filipinos.
Dear Lord, I don’t pretend to know why and I don’t understand, so I pray for these people and their souls that they have found peace with You and that those who remain make their peace and rebuild with faith, strength, and courage.
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This will be really bad
Water is always looking for a place to go. If you live near water, at some time it is coming where you are and you can’t stop it.
If you live on an island, the water owns you for it surrounds you and you can’t get off that island once the water starts moving. You will get no help until a plane or ship can get there. If you are on the mainland, help can get to you much faster. You risk your life to live on an island where water rules, you don’t.
The article says, “The nation (the Philippines)is in the northwestern Pacific, right in the path of the world’s No. 1 typhoon generator, according to meteorologists. The archipelago’s exposed eastern seaboard often bears the brunt.”
That group of islands, being where they are, is a disaster waiting to happen over and over and over and this one was the worst that has ever happened.
I’ve lived in Hawaii twice and if ships stopped, Hawaii would stop. At least it’s not in the direct path of where typhoons start like the Philippines are.
“Are we sending help?”
You mean obama/FEMA?
For some thoughts on that take a look at the ‘help’ the Sandy victims in NJ got. And take not of how the national press ignored most of their suffering.
From reading the article, 10,000 is just one island and they know there are thousands more. A logistic question is, what do you do with 10,000 or 15,000 or 20,000 bodies? Try to visualize that many bodies. They need to be dealt with fairly quickly, so what do you do? How long will it take to gather them? How big a trench does it take to bury that many? Burning would be out of the question I think as it’s difficult to burn an entire body unless you have a really hot fire for a period of time.
That is gruesome to think about but any disaster in this country, such as no power for months, would cause more deaths than that. Remember, November 13 and 14, our country will simulate such a disaster. Are they going to include what to do with a massive number of bodies?
100% chance that zero will blame this on globull warming. Never let a crisis go to waste.
I'D BE MORE WORRIED THIS WAS GOING ON !
God help the Filipinos right now.
Just donated to Samaritan’s Purse for direct help to this disaster....AFAIK they are a reputable charity and a large majority goes to the needy...not just administration costs.