floods

Sorta makes the challenges we're facing seem.....barely worth mentioning when contrasted against this...

Kosi breaks embankment, renders 2 million homeless
26 Aug 2008, 0433 hrs IST,TNN

The day after Big Oil buddy Sen. Ted Stevens is indicted for hiding gifts from an Alaskan oil company, Sen. Lamar Alexander, who has received money from Sen. Stevens but has not said whether he will return the money or not, is again on the record opposing alternative energy:

Mr. Graham has said more in this piece than I have in 1100 posts. Please read it...

Odd to hear that from a journalist. I spend about 5-8 hours a day combing the Internet for news stories, and frankly, most of it is just so sad or bad, we all need a break from it.

Here's your news in shorthand today:

You may have already seen this, but I thought these questions from my sister-in-law's email were worth passing along . . .

--Where are all of the Hollywood celebrities holding telethons asking for help in restoring Iowa and helping the folks affected by the floods?

Tennessee’s proud of you, Al.
Saturday, May 3, a cyclone strikes Myanmar (Burma), with a storm surge that floods and overwhelms the Irrawaddy River’s delta. Today, sources say the death toll may reach 100,000…
Only a handful of U.N. aid workers had been let into the impoverished Southeast Asian country, which the government has kept isolated for [...]

Tennessee's proud of you, Al.

Saturday, May 3, a cyclone strikes Myanmar (Burma), with a storm surge that floods and overwhelms the Irrawaddy River's delta. Today, sources say the death toll may reach 100,000...Only a handful of U.N. aid workers had been let into the impoverished Southeast Asian country, which the government has kept isolated for five decades to maintain its iron-fisted control

We've all seen the faces of those ravaged by the floods of Sri Lanka and New Orleans.....
This "award-winning" photograph of the recent flood waters rising in Ireland captures the horror and suffering there.