Category: Disaster
It's damn near impossible to put a disaster like the earthquake/tsunami that caused so much devastation for our near northern neighbours into perspective. Here's some places to look for short and long term commentary:
- The Command Post has quite a thorough coverage including a reasonably comprehensive list of aid agencies.
- Glenn Reynolds provides a short roundup at GlennReynolds.com and over at Tech Central Station this article about relative risk.
- Alan Brain takes the time to respond thoughtfully to a typically childish letter to the SMH and also gives us some direct coverage with a photo and an email from a friend of his in the disaster zone.
- Tim Blair is logging numerous updates in his post entitled TSUNAMI LATEST
- Hit this link for Number Watch and scroll down to the item labelled Tsunami for John Brignall's take on "the pathetic hubris of mankind in claiming to have mastered nature".
- Another Tim Blair post, this time mentioning a couple who resented having to fly back from Phuket on their scheduled flight. It also mentions a bloke who behaved the way we all hope we would behave in the circumstances; his family, who had been trying to find him, discovered he had been hard to contact because he was helping out at the local hospital. That's at least a little bit inspirational.
- At the risk of making light of a shocking situation, the Iowa Hawk has posted a magnificent coverall for the Religious Green coverage. [thanks Slatts, well spotted, detached retina and all!]
- Arthur C. Clarke's comments are worth reading. Interestingly, Sri Lanka (then Ceylon, presumably) was quite hard hit in a very similar event when Krakatoa went up in 1883. Despite the movie title, Krakatoa is West of Java.
If you read nothing else, the first Brain article referred to above should be read start to finish. |
