Not much in the news, but last I read is the death toll is 115 and the number still missing is down to 66.
well, time to stand with Libya.... get your flags and ribbons, step right up!!!
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SamSpade
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That's actually amazing. When I was following it, the conjecture was that the thousand or so missing were incinerated.
Well, what I read was on NPR, so maybe there is a no-way to know category.
SamSpade
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I can only hope that's not the case. The image in my head is still an incredibly fast moving and extremely hot fireball, incinerating everything in its path, most of them being children. Every time I think about it, it horrifies me.
The image that bothers me the most is that authorities tried to blockade the escape sending people back into the inferno.
SamSpade
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Hence spawning tons of conspiracy theories that they set it on fire - on purpose - for gentrification purposes.
Other stuff I've read online is that, Maui has had fires VERY OFTEN. None to this extent - but Lahaina is in a rain shadow and is extremely dry - and the end of agriculture on parts of the island has led to overgrowth of nonnative plants.
And years ago they opted out of building desalination plants to get more fresh water because they see it as being too expensive.
"People around the world" What does that mean? And why do we give a chit what some numbnuts in a hut or 4-hour lunch taker thinks of us?
Beating us at what? The loser nation popularity contest?
Grumpy
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Then why are they crashing our borders if we suck??
