Monday, August 10, 2009

Morakot

ehhh..um, well, it does suck indeed. hundreds of ppl homeless now, and hundreds still missing. very sad and devastating.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QPO3fXxpa0

thankfully, taipei (city but not county) relatively unscathed. watching tv is scary though. lots of crying on the news. its hard to imagine all that destruction and flooding only less than a hundred miles away on the same island.

3 comments:

  1. Oh no...:( I shouldn't have taken it so lightly previously! Hang in there TW!! And who the heck named it Morakot (aka emerald)?!

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  2. seriously. its a horrible name! and doesnt the root of the word "mor" means death? why would anyone do that?!!

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  3. it will be interesting to see the kind of media attention and civil engagement that comes out of this, and compare with Katrina, earthquake in China, tsumani in SE Asia... are we really the only ones looking out for our own peeps?

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