Our issues seem so small today.. The Philippines

[Peacetrain]

http://news.yahoo.com/philippine-typhoon-deaths-climb-thousands-092323892.html

TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) — As many as 10,000 people are believed dead in one Philippine city alone after one of the worst storms ever recorded unleashed ferocious winds and giant waves that washed away homes and schools. Corpses hung from tree branches and were scattered along sidewalks and among flattened buildings, while looters raided grocery stores and gas stations in search of food, fuel and water.

[malaise]

1. Yep

Our problems seem small in comparison

[Peacetrain]

2. Malaise.. it is so heartbreaking

10,000 dead in one city alone.. almost numbing the numbers are so high

[malaise]

3. When we get the real numbers

we will really be numb. The airport in that city has nothing left but the runway.
Word is that a 40ft wave wiped them out.

[enlightenment]

5. Tacloban City is only

10 ft above sea level - how could anything survive a 40 ft storm surge? omg.

[malaise]

17. Check these photos - horrific

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11/10/haiyan-cameron-6-million-aid-philippines_n_4250585.html?icid=maing-grid7|uk|dl1|sec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D221973

[enlightenment]

18. It looks more like a tsunami hit.

I can't even imagine what the next few days is going to be like.

[malaise]

19. That's exactly what two reporterson BBC said

It reminded them of the 2004 Asian tsunami

[laundry_queen]

23. That's exactly what I thought when I saw those pictures.

wow. just wow. Those poor people. I can't imagine either.

[bemildred]

4. Yes. nt

[HappyMe]

6. Yes, our problems are very small compared to that.

[Daemonaquila]

7. Not at all.

I get tired of hearing this stuff. Excuse me - Katrina, Sandy, the dead, maimed, and traumatized people after a decade of illegal war, Detroit, the tens of thousands dying of corporate greed, whether in the health sector or the ag sector or the drug sector, the folks without housing thanks to the banks, the endless lives destroyed in the prison-industrial system... We should care for and help the people of the Phillipines, but it takes a lot of privilege to say that our problems are nothing in comparison. It also proves how accustomed we have become to the suffering and violence around us, that it's all just background noise in comparison to a tragic (mediagenic) storm.

[renie408]

9. I think they meant our personal problems.

Unless you were in Detroit in the process of dying from corporate greed at the moment you wrote that post, your problems are probably a lot smaller than those of the people of Tacloban city in the Philippines today.

[pintobean]

11. Seriously?

Wow. Do you know anything at all about The Philippines?

[sabrina 1]

8. It's hard to grasp tragedies of this magnitude.

[grahamhgreen]

10. This has nothing to do with global warming.

[leftyohiolib]

12. theyre gonna need a lot of money

[SaveOurDemocracy]

13. Why does the media insist on calling desperate survivors 'looters'?

People scavenging for life sustaining products after this type of devastation are NOT looters.

[lunatica]

14. That's exactly what my reaction was when I read that word

They're brown so they must be looters.

[Enthusiast]

15. I got the same impression.

Just as the media did after Katrina. White survivors used their resourcefulness and "found" food and supplies, while brown and black people stole and looted.

[treestar]

16. Indeed.

There is so little control over things sometimes. One day here, the next not.

[TBF]

20. We sure do have control over global warming -

but we've thrown in the towel because we think we need the capitalism more.

It's very sad.

[Uncle Joe]

21. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Peacetrain.

[malaise]

22. From Jeff Masters

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2576

[Uncle Joe]

24. That was a monster and the Phillipines need our help.

Thanks for the link, malaise.