jannes_z-28
12-29-2004, 07:15 AM
With the major catastrophe in Asia I will encourage all of us to give $$$ to the help organisations.
We can wait with that new stuff for our cars for a while and give some of that money to people who needs it better.
www.redcross.org is a good place to start.
This catastrophe is something so huge that it is impossible to comprehend it. For me it started to sink in when the Swedes who had been there came home. Some didn't have anything more than a blanket wrapped around their shoulders, everything else was gone. The survivers stories that is coming thru are just amazing.
A lot of Swedish tourist goes there over the holidays and many families have been decimated, small kids without parents and vice versa.
Over 2500 Scandinavian tourists are still missing and I know about a few :(
AND
All the people living in those countries, we will see death numbers going over 100.000 before this has seen an end to it. Kids without parents, what future will they have? Just think about that.
They initially need fresh water, blankets, tents, cooking appliances, you name it. The latest I just heard on the radio was an extreme need for refrigerating containers to store the bodies in. If they can't solve that issue they have to start burning the bodies to prevent diseases spreading. And that is terrible because most of those bodies have not yet been identified.
It is a terrible catastrophe and every soul on the planet has to make a contribution!
This will be remembered as a sad time in our history.
Jan
We can wait with that new stuff for our cars for a while and give some of that money to people who needs it better.
www.redcross.org is a good place to start.
This catastrophe is something so huge that it is impossible to comprehend it. For me it started to sink in when the Swedes who had been there came home. Some didn't have anything more than a blanket wrapped around their shoulders, everything else was gone. The survivers stories that is coming thru are just amazing.
A lot of Swedish tourist goes there over the holidays and many families have been decimated, small kids without parents and vice versa.
Over 2500 Scandinavian tourists are still missing and I know about a few :(
AND
All the people living in those countries, we will see death numbers going over 100.000 before this has seen an end to it. Kids without parents, what future will they have? Just think about that.
They initially need fresh water, blankets, tents, cooking appliances, you name it. The latest I just heard on the radio was an extreme need for refrigerating containers to store the bodies in. If they can't solve that issue they have to start burning the bodies to prevent diseases spreading. And that is terrible because most of those bodies have not yet been identified.
It is a terrible catastrophe and every soul on the planet has to make a contribution!
This will be remembered as a sad time in our history.
Jan