Tsunami Donation

[bluntman]

Lying in bed watching the news, I found out today was the last day that the Federal Government would match your donation dollar for dollar. I immediately fired up my laptop and donated some money to the Red Cross to get in on this offer. What was really strange was that throughout the day I was thinking that if I won the 6/49 lottery, how much would I donate to aid the tsunami relief? A couple thousand? Tens of thousand? A million? Well, I didn\'t win the lottery, but as soon I got home I checked the mail and low and behold I received my refund cheque from my cancelled car insurance policy. What the hell, it\'s like free money, I know someone out there can use the money more than I can. It\'s a weird end to the day.

[kl7402001]

yah crazy!! .. what a disaster .. i have a friend just came back from shrilanka... i thought he was dead until his mom called and said he is safe in land tracking elephants and not surfing ..thank GOD! ...

He said while in the jungle all of a sudden animals were stampeeding around him and like 10 flocks of ducks flew over head ... then the cell phones rang and found out about the disaster!!! ... he spend 1 1/2 week doing aid work .... he said he never seen so many dead ppl ... so unfair tho .. if only humans can sence things like the animals not so many would died ..:(

[majic]

it is sad, but interestingly why did humans NOT pick up on the clues from stampeding animals?

ok so MAYBE their technology isn\'t up to snuff, but i\'m sure there are some old school people who look at the trends of animal migrations.

[wtom]

I believe it was in Thailand, some officials had word of a Tsunami heading their way, but they didn\'t want to scare away the tourists so they didn\'t send out an evacuation notice. As for human nature vs animal instinct... we sure suck at avoiding disasters! We\'re more prone to be curious about the sights and go closer to check things out, while animals are heading in the opposite direction, saving their hides and laughing at us.

EDIT: Here\'s a \"good\" way to think about the disasters. For those countries\' areas that are literally p*ss poor and affected by the Tsunamis... think now, all of a sudden, they\'re getting millions of dollars in aid... those people that survived are probably praying and thanking the Tsunami/Earthquake Gods/Goddesses for the sudden wealth of food/shelter.

[Newlook]

Originally posted by wtom

EDIT: Here\'s a \"good\" way to think about the disasters. For those countries\' areas that are literally p*ss poor and affected by the Tsunamis... think now, all of a sudden, they\'re getting millions of dollars in aid... those people that survived are probably praying and thanking the Tsunami/Earthquake Gods/Goddesses for the sudden wealth of food/shelter.

Is it really wealth of food and shelter? It is going to take more than 10 years to clean up and rebuild villages/cities and infrastructures that got wiped out by the disaster. Survivers lost their jobs, homes, love ones, friends... Their lifes got completely changed in minutes. Even if they don\'t know anyone who\'s dead, seeing thousands of dead bodies (many of them are kids) of their people would create permanent psychological scar. I really dunno why you think they\'re \"lucky\" to get millions of $$$ aid from all around the world. :(

[wtom]

Other than surviving, it would be the only other good way to think of the event if I was in one of those countries and still alive.