Tag: "Humanitarian Disasters"
The Most Impressive Tsunami Video I’ve Ever Seen (Or, How the Sea Ate a Town in 6 Minutes)
This is, hands down, the most breathtaking video of the tsunami in Japan I’ve seen. When you watch it, pay attention to two things: 1) the geography of the area at the beginning of the video and how the implacable force of the sea changes it in less than 6 minutes, and 2) the utter [...]
So, Are We Talking “ZOMG MELTDOWN!” or What?
Like many of you, I’ve been watching the breathless news coverage of the potentially-catastrophic situation at Japan’s Fukijima Daiich nuclear plant. Like many of you, I watched the video of the explosion there and thought “Wow…that can’t be good”. But how “not good” is the situation there? Well, there we wade into incredibly murky waters. [...]
Breaking: CNN covered the Nashville flood for two minutes, talked to a Gulf Coast fisherman about the oil spill!
Living in Alabama, I am sandwiched between disasters. Below me, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico; above me, flooding in Tennessee.
Let’s Make Nashville a Big Deal, Even If the President and MSM Won’t
You may know that central Tennessee, and the city of Nashville in particular, has been devastated by what residents are calling a 500 year flood. The flood has killed over two dozen people, left thousands homeless, and caused over a billion dollars worth of property damage. It is, to use Joltin’ Joe Biden’s words, a big [...]
Angels Land in Haiti
My friend Tabitha Hale left last night on a trip to help a relief effort in Haiti. She’ll be working out of a town called Jacmel with the Joy in Hope Ministries for the next few days. She does have internet access and will be sending back pictures and blog posts as she can. Her [...]
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