The Flood
I've been watching the TV news over the last few days with mounting horror. From the first reports of the largest ever recorded earthquake on Sunday, to today's estimate of a possible death toll of over 100,000 people killed by tsunami in the Indian Ocean.100,000 men women and children, wiped out by a single "natural" phenomenon.
100,000 - It beggars belief.
That figure represents the total population of the Metropolitan Borough where I live. In fact 2 neighbouring towns had to be cobbled together to create a political unit containing that many people.
When the old Wembley stadium was filled to the brim with ecstatic cup-final fans, it didn't hold as many people as have just been killed. The Hiroshima atomic bomb didn't kill, immediately, as many as that. It is a stupendous number. It's a number the average brain cannot comprehend. Even the sheer logistics of burying so many corpses is mind blowing, providing of course that all the bodies can be found. I seem to remember reading recently that not all the victims of the Twin Towers atrocity have been fully accounted for.
Meanwhile, we in Britain have been reassured by our news services, that, as of today only 26 of those poor people were British, although that total is likely to rise.
posted by Eddie @ 7:15 am
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