December 31, 2004
Tsunami Update
The toll keeps climbing, and it would not be surprising for it to clear 175,000 before all is said and done. Right now, it stands in excess of 134,000 and there are a number of areas where surveys of death and destruction have yet to occur.
Please continue to do what you can. Go here, here, here, here, and here to donate or to choose ways to help.
Or, Kathy has the latest, including regional ways to help here. She has also said she will try to get information from friends on local ways to provide direct assistance. Stay tuned, do what you can, and keep all those affected in your thoughts and prayers.
LW
Posted by wolf1 at December 31, 2004 01:52 PM | TrackBackI'm afraid it's going to be a lot higher than 175,000 when all is said and done. I hope I'm wrong.
Posted by: Kathy K at December 31, 2004 02:50 PMLike you, I am afraid it will be much, much higher. I hope that all of us are wrong, and the forecasts from Indonesia are wrong, but I fear we will see 250k-500k.
Posted by: Laughing Wolf at December 31, 2004 03:14 PMWhen there's a disaster in the west, we tend to over-estimate (early estimates of 30,000+ dead on Sept 11th, 2001 being a case in point).
Over there, estimates pretty much consist of body counts. As more bodies are found, those counts are going to rise. And there are places so badly hit they can't even get there yet.
Posted by: Kathy K at December 31, 2004 11:37 PMTrue, and then you have what used to be Burma, and is now just a state of paranoia. There is good cause to doubt that we have any sort of accurate figure from them yet, and that it is much higher than they are saying. Sigh. It may be months, or even years, before we understand the full scale of what happened.
Posted by: Laughing Wolf at December 31, 2004 11:42 PMComments are Closed.
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