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Human beings have always suffered under the unrelentless force of Mother Nature. The recent Natural disasters have made me realise that life is just so fragile that you are gone before you know what happened. The deadly tsunami just took away so many lives when the waves came in a split second. This hurricane came at 225km/h and took more innocent lives.
The aftermath of Katrina has been a spate of unhumane actions, with people questioning the government's competency.
All these seem like a Hollywood movie, but reality speaks for itself.
Shocking Death toll.
Couldn't everything be done simultaneously? I don't know what the hell is an organizational chart. But I do know that human aid and food supplies could do more help.
Bush was a great leader when dealing with the Sept 11 attacks. But he has failed in every sense when dealing with this natural catastrophe. The slow response, the lack of governmental action, the poorly organized Rescue operations, ...
It's heart-warming to see the enormous amount of aid.
When disaster strucks, the most cruel thing is to separate a family into life and death.
Human beings have always suffered under the unrelentless force of Mother Nature. The recent Natural disasters have made me realise that life is just so fragile that you are gone before you know what happened. The deadly tsunami just took away so many lives when the waves came in a split second. This hurricane came at 225km/h and took more innocent lives.
The aftermath of Katrina has been a spate of unhumane actions, with people questioning the government's competency.
All these seem like a Hollywood movie, but reality speaks for itself.
VICTIMS of Hurricane Katrina have returned to pick through their battered homes as President George W. Bush promised to fix bungled rescue efforts after a disaster in which the mayor of New Orleans said as many as 10,000 may have died.
Shocking Death toll.
"We wanted soldiers, helicopters, food and water," said Denise Bottcher, press secretary for Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco. "They (federal officials) wanted to negotiate an organizational chart."
Couldn't everything be done simultaneously? I don't know what the hell is an organizational chart. But I do know that human aid and food supplies could do more help.
``Katrina has been just the opposite. It has been a vacuum of leadership and a failure to take the nation and the people of the Gulf in his arms.''
Bush was a great leader when dealing with the Sept 11 attacks. But he has failed in every sense when dealing with this natural catastrophe. The slow response, the lack of governmental action, the poorly organized Rescue operations, ...
Countries large and small have offered aid — from tiny Luxembourg's beds and blankets to half a million food rations from Germany and Britain.
It's heart-warming to see the enormous amount of aid.
A paramedic traveled two days to hurricane-ravaged Mississippi to bring his terminally ill brother home to die.
When disaster strucks, the most cruel thing is to separate a family into life and death.
