Re: [californiadisasters] 2010's World Gone Wild: Quakes, Floods, Blizzards

Yes. This post was the very model of self-control.

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Subject: Re: [californiadisasters] 2010's World Gone Wild: Quakes, Floods,
Blizzards

Get you going?

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On Dec 19, 2010, at 16:02, newnethboy <kef413@gmail.com> wrote:

> Don't get me going about the media! This is typical:
>
> 1. "The earth struck back" What!?
>
> 2. Apples and turnips (at least apples and oranges are both fruit): Death
> toll of natural disasters can't possibly compare to that of terrorism. So
> far, at least, terrorists haven't learned how to completely devastate
> hundreds of square kilometers at one time.
>
> 3. "Record number of events"? What, for FEMA, which has existed for only
> about 30 years?
>
>
> [Rant aborted; don't get me going.]
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kim Noyes" <kimnoyes@gmail.com>
> To: "CaliforniaDisasters" <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2010 1:39 PM
> Subject: [californiadisasters] 2010's World Gone Wild: Quakes, Floods,
> Blizzards
>
>
> 2010's world gone wild: Quakes, floods, blizzardsBy SETH BORENSTEIN and
> JULIE REED BELL, Associated Press Seth Borenstein And Julie Reed Bell,
> Associated Press – Sun Dec 19, 11:26 am ET
>
> This was the year the Earth struck back.
>
> Earthquakes, heat waves, floods, volcanoes, super typhoons, blizzards,
> landslides and droughts killed at least a quarter million people in 2010 —
> the deadliest year in more than a generation. More people were killed
> worldwide by natural disasters this year than have been killed in
terrorism
> attacks in the past 40 years combined.
>
> "It just seemed like it was back-to-back and it came in waves," said Craig
> Fugate, who heads the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency. It handled
a
> record number of disasters in 2010.
>
> "The term '100-year event' really lost its meaning this year."
> <SNIP>
>
> View entire article here:
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101219/ap_on_sc/ye_sci_disastrous_year
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