FeedsMyanmar Disaster
Here's pretty much the only thing on my mind at this point today: over 20,000 are confirmed dead and over 40,000 "missing" after a cyclone ripped through Myanmar over the weekend. I hold out little hope that the "missing" are alive.
I feel bad that I missed this until now, but I was distracted and out of town attending to a death in the family.
Aid is coming, but I doubt it can prevent a humanitarian disaster. The CNN article, for example, notes how "95 percent of the homes in Bogalay -- a city of 190,000 -- had been destroyed." Huge swaths of the population are both homeless and without food supplies to last more than a few days. There's also an emotional plea over at Daily Kos for help without politics, as people are still dying.
What a horror. What's caught your eye this morning?
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Comments from site editors have a darker background than comments from everybody else.still not understanding why everyone has gone back to calling it myanmar instead of burma.
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Eh, I accept either.
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