From: Jim Webster (james.webster@iomartdsl.com)
Date: Fri Dec 31 2004 - 04:58:31 PST
everette wrote:
> The USA had a similar disaster several years ago when a hurricane washed
> Galveston, Texas away, deaths were in the thousands, so many that the bodies
> were piled on beach and burned - did not work- tide came in and scattered
> the scorched bodies down the coast.
>
> There was not much aid to the survivors from anyone outside US.
That was in 19 freakin hundred - there wasn't exactly international aid
to anywhere from anyone back then.. It would have taken a week for the
news to reach the outside world for a start.
TTFN
Jim
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