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- fattestfoot, on 10/08/2009, -1/+1250 years ago, a lot of the natural disasters we've heard about recently would've never been reported. Earthquakes and mudslides in the mountains of central Asia -- how would you EVER know without the internet? There sure as ***** wasn't a newspaper reporter writing about it.
- ultimusgt, on 10/08/2009, -0/+9my mom was there for the Guatemala earthquake she was like 10 I think, she said it was the worst thing she's ever had to expierence, and that minutes before the earthquake all the cats and dogs started barking and screeching, and took off running. They were in a very well built concrete house so they only took little damage but for the rest of the population living in the poorly built shacks and other houses not up to par they were demolished :(
so glad she made it or me and my sister wouldn't be here in Cali :P - Hetman, on 10/08/2009, -1/+7These disasters are horrible. I feel bad for China. Hopefully they learned from the Banquia Damn flood. If something like that happens to the three gorges dam it will be one of the worst tragedies in human history.
- mrMunchies, on 10/08/2009, -0/+4Terrible disasters, it is really brutal when natural disasters hurt so many people
- boogerthecat, on 10/08/2009, -0/+3Some people either aren't paying attention or have a short attention span.
1 to 3 happened in Red China and the USSR during the height of the Cold War. Both had a tendency to minimize anything that went wrong inside their borders for propaganda purposes. Neither regime would have accepted international aid as it would have been a tacit admission that their system couldn't handle things.
For a good example of Soviet Emergency Management, check out the job that they did on Chernobyl- only admitting that there was a problem after being outed by Europeans asking why they were being irradiated by fallout.
Those of us on the Gulf Coast most certainly did hear about Hurricane Stan. The Red Cross was there.
In 1976 many Red Cross volunteers from Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas went to Guatemala to assist with the earthquake disaster. - Alli3388, on 10/08/2009, -1/+41976 seemed to be a bad year.
"And in other news, a bus has crashed in India - 3200 people dead." - rif42, on 10/08/2009, -0/+3But that is an important point. Lots of people talk about how things were better in the old days. In reality they have never heard about or forgotten the bad stuff that took place back then.
- trshtehdsh, on 10/08/2009, -0/+2Add this one: Johnstown Flood, Johnstown, PA, USA -
Johnstown had 3 tremendous floods, but "The" J-town flood of 1889 killed 2,200 people and caused (in today's money) $17million in damage. Ask anyone from flood city (i qualify...), the town's never quite been able to pull it's ass back out of the mud since. Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown_Flood - EddiePotato, on 10/08/2009, -1/+3You mean couldn't care less about?
- msimeth, on 10/08/2009, -0/+2Yeah, that damn flood.
- fadetoone, on 10/08/2009, -0/+2I wasn't even alive for any but one of these and I'm approaching 30.
- 10lbhammer, on 10/08/2009, -0/+1wow man, just wow. say, what happens if your country decides it's going to suppress information to the rest of the world in the wake of a devastating disaster, leaving you without aid and no place to live? would you be okay if everyone else in the world felt that way too?
- SeanRockCity, on 10/09/2009, -0/+1then it would be my problem...duh
- falser, on 10/08/2009, -1/+2These pail in comparison to the devastation of 9/11..
(sarcasm) - avidbuff, on 10/09/2009, -0/+1*****, more than 7 billion dollars were raised for victims of the 2004 tsunami.
- boogerthecat, on 10/08/2009, -0/+13 of 5 were inside communist countries that would have rather lost a few hundred thousand people than admit that anything had gone wrong. For more info see the Chernobyl Disaster.
- inactive, on 10/09/2009, -0/+1boring
- DivideByO, on 10/09/2009, -0/+0Good call on this one... my parents are from that area, and I have done a good bit of research into the 1889 flood... a very bad set of circumstances created one of the worst natural disasters in the U.S.
- bated321, on 10/08/2009, -0/+0Hehe. If any of these disasters happened in the USA, the whole world would be made to know about them.
- FACTSRBITTER, on 10/09/2009, -1/+0It is very unfortunate that government of the country's that faced the natural disasters failed to realize that it was not because of them that people died but of such event that had been beyond their control which did the inconceivable destruc...tion including deaths of human. To obstruct the information to get to the knowledge of the nationals as well as to the world community is definitely an unpardonable offense.
i cannot but mention that events mentioned were unheard of because the authorities responsible willfully suppressed and or obstructed to get to the knowledge of the Media people. But it does not stop here as very recently the world's two best and well known Electronic Media acted in most disgusting and objectionable way when Israel went on a preplanned killing rampage in GAZA.
Probably, many noteworthy Journalists of the world felt like committing suicide as these News Medias intentionally black out the News that was of international importance. What happened to day is Israel went on a preplanned killing rampage in GAZA and getting assured support of the two Electronic Giant Medias support went wild in its mission and landed in having committed Crime
against Humanity. ..... - dpmrpi, on 10/08/2009, -5/+4This article is stupid. Four out of five happened well before the 24 hour news media overload which we current live in. Times have changed making this article's argument irrelevant.
- bignah, on 10/08/2009, -9/+3Of course we have never heard of them. They all occurred in poor countries the majority of members of the western world could care less about.
- SeanRockCity, on 10/08/2009, -18/+1not my country not my problem
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