Thursday, December 30, 2004

Topping Six Figures and Growing

As of this writing, the death count resulting from Sunday’s tsumanis is over 100,000. There are about a half million reported as injured and countless more still missing, including up to 3000 Americans. This before disease begins to take its toll as well. This is a disaster beyond fathoming.

I tried to put it into perspective yesterday. I lived in Manchester, NH, where the population in 2000 was calculated to be 107,006 for the City of Manchester. Add the surrounding communities that also count as Manchester and the figure was 198,378. I lived within the city limits, technically.

I have a hard time imagining a whole city population gone in the blink of an eye (or the crash of a wave, as it were). Yet that is essentially what happened on Sunday morning for the unfortunate souls in southeast Asia. Dear Lord, help them. Help us to help them more effectively.

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