See: South Asian Tsunami Coverage Receding
No, but it is on to some other agenda-pushing whatever with the flighty and fancy-free AmeriKan MSM. I guess it's not "news" anymore, although I'm sure the daily suffering is going to be "new" for a while to those whose lives have been shattered.
All BG briefs, readers (and please note the dates of the articles):
"Rains hamper Indonesia quake relief" by Associated Press | October 5, 2009
JUMANAK, Indonesia - Search teams lost hope of finding any more survivors under the rubble left by a massive earthquake as torrential rains held up aid delivery yesterday in the remote hills of western Indonesia, where several villages were wiped out.
The suffering just goes from bad to worse!
Rescue teams focused instead on retrieving bodies from the rubble of the magnitude 7.6 earthquake that hit Wednesday in Sumatra island, setting up tents for the tens of thousands of homeless and providing them food and drinking water.
Vice President Jusuf Kalla said there was little hope of finding anyone alive. “We can be sure that they are dead. So now we are waiting for burials,’’ he said. There is no clear word on the death toll....
The missing include 644 people who were buried alive in four villages in the hills of Padang Pariaman district that were swept away by landslides caused by the quake. Among the victims were 200 to 300 guests at a wedding party in Jumanak village. Hordes of aid workers, military personnel, police, and volunteers finally reached the villages yesterday, bringing heavy earth-moving equipment.But a heavy downpour raised fears of fresh landslides, and police ordered people to leave.
So there ISN'T EVEN ANY HELP there!
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Maybe the rain would at least stop?
"Search for earthquake survivors ends" by Associated Press | October 6, 2009
PADANG, Indonesia - Helicopters dropped instant noodles and other aid to hillside communities that were without food for five days as rescue workers gave up their search yesterday for survivors of last week’s massive Indonesian earthquake....
At least it is something, I guess.
A measure of normalcy returned to Padang, the devastated capital of West Sumatra Province.
They DIDN'T JUST SAY THAT! PLEEZE tell me they DIDN'T JUST REPORT THAT!!!!
Are you effin' kidding? A SENSE of NORMALCY?
I guess that's why the COVERAGE gets DROPPED AFTER TODAY, huh?
Yeah, GO BACK to SLEEP, AmeriKa!! All is right with the world, says the MSM!
Hundreds of children went back to classes in schools set up in tents.
Yeah, THAT is NORMAL!!!
In the old market area, stalls were full of food and bustling with residents stocking up on vegetables, fruit, and fish.
Oh, I guess it wasn't that big a disaster after all.
Rows of stalls were still smoking from fires that broke out after the quake subsided, possibly from electrical short-circuits.
Well, there is normal and then there is normal, 'eh?
Shopkeepers working beside cracked walls and teetering buildings swept up the mess of concrete and broken glass.
Typical shoddy Indonesian building, right -- just like normal!
Can you HANDLE the INSULTS of the AmeriKan MSM, readers?
Am I too scathing?
The city of 900,000 resembled a sprawling demolition site, with houses, mosques, schools, a mall, and hotels brought down.
I know it is different, but I'm starting to think 9/11.
Emergency workers faced difficulty trying to reach remote villages in the hills of Pariaman district, where whole villages were wiped out by landslides.
Hey, why worry? I heard everything was back to normal.
The force of the quake gouged out mountainsides and dumped tons of mud, boulders, and trees, burying hundreds of people alive.
The ABSOLUTE HORROR and TERROR of it all!!!!!!
Pariaman is only 40 miles from Padang, but many villages in the district have remained inaccessible because of landslides that blocked roads. Heavy rain since Sunday and thick, wet mud also made it difficult for aid workers to reach the stricken areas, said Gagah Prakoso, a spokesman for the Indonesian Search and Rescue Agency.
You know, like normal.
One road ended at Kampung Dalam village, after which it had caved in, forcing rescue teams from South Korea, France, and Germany to camp there and hike to villages farther away.
Prakoso said the rain caused another landslide yesterday, but no casualties were reported.
Doesn't mean there were not any.
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Today's update:
You get the point, right, reader?
Okay, let's check on those storms:
"Typhoon Parma kills 16 in the northern Philippines" by Associated Press | October 5, 2009
A man looked over the damage from Typhoon Parma in the town of Marikina, east of Manila, yesterday. Manila, the Philippines capital, escaped the worst of the typhoon, which hit Saturday. (Wally Santana/ Associated Press)
MANILA - Landslides buried two families in the Philippines as they sheltered in their homes from Asia’s latest deadly typhoon, which killed at least 16 people and left more than a dozen villages flooded yesterday.
Related: Philippines Meet Typhoon Parma
Typhoon Parma cut a destructive path across the northern Philippines Saturday but spared the capital, Manila. It headed out to sea, and late yesterday was hovering less than 60 miles off the coast, where it was expected to stay for the next three days, forecasters said.
Oh, crap!!!!
That was close enough to Taiwan to cause heavy rain on the island, where troops were evacuating some villages and loading sandbags in preparation for possible flooding.
Loreto Espineli, senior superintendent of the Philippine Police, said a family of five, including a 1-year-old boy, died when their home in
Officials had earlier listed four people as being killed in the typhoon in the Philippines. Parma hit eight days after an earlier storm left Manila awash in the worst flooding in four decades, killing almost 300 people.
Related: The Philippine Flash-Flood
Saturday’s storm dropped more rain on the capital that slowed the cleanup and made conditions more miserable. Parma was churning over the South China Sea late yesterday and was interacting with another typhoon much father east over the Pacific that caused it to hook back toward the Philippines, chief government forecaster Nathaniel Cruz said.
That can NOT BE GOOD, although what are you going to do about it? \
It is the weather.
It was not expected to hit the coast again, but could cause heavy rain for the next three days, Cruz said.
I'm just curious why the MSM moved away from coverage then. Wait until the full rainfall amount comes in, and then publish three days from now as those put-upon people suffer in silence?
In southern Taiwan, roads were clogged with military trucks and cars taking villagers away from their flood- and mudslide-prone mountain homes.
Okay, remember Taiwan for the next article in this post.
The Central Weather Bureau said Parma would likely miss the island but heavy rains could still cause major problems. Tens of thousands of Filipinos fled to higher ground as Parma bore down on the main island of Luzon on Saturday, packing winds of 108 miles per hour and driving rain, officials said.
And it is JUST SITTING THERE SWIRLING!
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Okay, moving on, let's follow the storm:
"240 die in India as monsoon rains follow drought" by New York Times | October 6, 2009
Flooded-out residents returned to clean their houses as water receded in Kurnool, in Andhra Pradesh state. The fatalities there and in Karnataka are just a fraction of the monsoon's death toll. (Mahesh Kumara/ Associated Press)
NEW DELHI - More than 240 people have died and hundreds of thousands have been left homeless in southern India after four days of heavy rainfall at the end of the monsoon season, the government said yesterday.
The sudden rains, coming after a severe drought, deluged villages and caused widespread disruption in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Floodwaters are now thought to be receding, officials said, but reports have also indicated that crops were ruined, thousands of cattle were dead, and hundreds of thousands of homes were destroyed. V.S. Prakash, director of the Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Cell, said rainfall was catastrophically heavy during the past four days.
And yet it is a ONE-DAY WONDER to the Zionist Globe?
You gotta get your head out of that s***ter, Globe, and give your customers (me) what they want. I mean this is why you are tanking. You..... I don't even know what to say, other than their Zionist bias is showing.
Flooding is an annual event in India, which depends on monsoon rains for agriculture, but it often causes loss of life and property.
Oh, I guess it is old news, huh? Four days of rain and I'm just reading about it, and then it's gone again. It's the BG that's all wet.
The contrast has been especially dramatic this year, with many of the districts now deluged after a drought that had badly damaged the summer crop.
The 240 deaths represented only a fraction of the deaths attributed to flooding during India’s monsoon season. According to the government, 1,184 such deaths have been reported in 127 districts this year.
Makes you wonder if the war-promoting paper even gives a damn about li.... oh, oxymoron.
Flooding worsened in the two states this year after officials released water from reservoirs and dams to prevent them from overflowing. Government helicopters carried food and drinking water packages to hundreds of villages that remained cut off after roads were submerged or washed away.
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That's not Parma.
Today's update:
You get the point, right, reader?
The whole region seems to be going through a wet, hidden, hell right now, doesn't it?
Also see: Sicily's Landslides
