Cyclone rips out by the roots
07.05.2008
Hundred of thousands of people were left homeless due to the Nargis Cyclone in Myanmar. Myanmar's military government has announced that they are willing to receive conditional aid. The death toll has been claimed to have reached 30,000 with a further 41,000 missing, nearly all of them from a massive storm surge that swept into the Irrawaddy delta.
Myanmar is now facing one of history's worst natural disasters. Myanmar's state radio has announced the death toll as a result of the Nargis cyclone as reaching 30,000. Forty-one thousand people are still missing. The cyclone that hit Myanmar levelled the nation's biggest city Yangon as well as the Irrawaddy region. Some villages were erased from the map. In the regions most affected by the cyclone there is no electricity or water and access is compromised. The United Nations' World Food Program began doling out emergency rice in Yangon and the first batch of more than $10 million worth of foreign aid arrived from Thailand on Tuesday, but a lack of specialized equipment slowed distribution. Despite the magnitude of the disaster -- the most devastating cyclone to hit Asia since 1991, when 143,000 people died in Bangladesh -- France said the ruling generals were still placing too many conditions on aid. "The United Nations is asking the Burmese government to open its doors. The Burmese government replies: 'Give us money, we'll distribute it'. We can't accept that," Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told parliament. Of the dead, only 671 were in the former capital, Yangon, and its outlying districts, state radio said. The rest were all in the vast swamplands of the delta. "More deaths were caused by the tidal wave than the storm itself," Minister for Relief and Resettlement Maung Maung Swe told a news conference in the rubble-strewn city of five million, where food and water supplies are running low. ewspaper English edition>
Yesterday, Marcello and his friends has lifted back the tree back to its place..
But today,this strong wind has Kaputed my tree again!! Don't think it can be save this time :(
Which for this cause, my tree and my 'baby Frangipani' Kaput!!!
What can I say*sigh*
Save the Tree!!!What can I say*sigh*
Yesterday, Marcello and his friends has lifted back the tree back to its place..
But today,this strong wind has Kaputed my tree again!! Don't think it can be save this time :(
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