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On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:40:09 -0800, "nom=de=plume"
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How horrible... perhaps those of you on the east coast/south can organize
some sort of flotilla and help these poor people?


MSNBC is saying it might even be 5 times that (~500k).

Disasters in 3d world countries are always bad because they don't have
building codes or the resources to respond to disasters like this.
The building code issue should be a wake up call for the US too. We
have lots of fault lines in the US that are NOT in California. Most of
the US lives with a building code that assumes all loads are going to
be straight down. From a Florida perspective, it is why I am not
shocked when a little dust devil (they call a tornado) goes through
the Mid Atlantic states and rips their houses up. An earthquake that
would not even make a Californian look out the window, would destroy a
large number of buildings in Memphis and St Louis (The New Madrid
zone)


Oh gosh... I haven't been watching the reports. I hope we (as a people) can
help those poor people.

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