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100K+ dead in Haiti?

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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)

The problem is that Haiti doesn't have the infrastructure to do anything
to help the people who are still alive but needing assistance. More
people will die in the days after the event. And, as we have seen in the
past with Haiti the Haitians cannot be trusted to fairly distribute the
aide they receive.

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