China braces for possible lake bursts

[dipsydoodle]

Source: Yahoo News

DUJIANGYAN, China (Reuters) - A Chinese lake damaged by an earthquake may be about to burst its banks, state media said on Saturday, as President Hu Jintao headed for the epicentre with the death toll expected to rise to 50,000.
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It did not give details but Hong Kong cable television said some 1.2 million people were being evacuated in Qingchuan, about 90 km (55 miles) northeast of Beichuan, as rising waters threatened to burst a lake's banks there.

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[gateley]

1. My God -- those poor people!

They're still reeling from the shock of the quake and its aftershocks. :grouphug:

[aquart]

2. Yes, but they have been standing together and for each other.

Everyone who is still whole is helping. That, in the end, is what they will take from this. And that, now, is where their comfort is coming from.

The Valley of the Shadow of Death is easier when you aren't abandoned or alone.

I just wish I believed it was the last horror they, or we, will have to face. Or that there won't come a time when we are too numb and too familiar with disaster to lift a finger.

[dipsydoodle]

3. Now up on BBC News too - with video

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7406109.stm