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The long term is pretty scary too, as the country's prime rice-producing region was pretty much destroyed.

I shudder to think of such a grotesquely awful government's response to such a disaster.

Oh, I don't think it will come as a surprise. I suspect that they would prefer to just let the whole area die, and the repopulate it with more pliable subjects. Keep in mind, this was the same site as the monk riots.

I suspect it will get a lot worse, only due to the Burmese troops, not the weather.

Hank Rearden wrote:

Now there's a country that could have been preemptively invaded!

Why? They seem to be killing people just fine.

everlong205 wrote:

...... And you know what the relief agencies can do? NOthing. because its an act of nature beyond our power to control.

I believe that's why they are called "relief" agencies and not prevention agencies.....they come along after the cyclone etc. and offer relief. I could be wrong though.

It will be interesting to see how the government copes though...to see if the only thing they can do with any effectiveness is the oppression of their own people.

Farmerkev wrote:

Possibly 100,000 dead.

Its hard to even fathom the figure in any concrete way. Its truly horrible. It seems very distant from our collective consciousness over here, its reality is almost nonexistent on the news, just a sort of far away factoid.

The Cajuns in NOLA just WANT you Canadians to think they like you.  Then, once they have you where they want you, they will take back Acadia and flood Ottawa with  jambalaya.

I'm splitting this Katrina stuff off.

Pithecanthropus wrote:

Now the UN has halted transfer of aid to Myanmar because the Militray Junta government has seized the aid cargo that has landed there.  They also suggest to the world on the whole to only sent goods, but no personnel.

There are people starving in the street, there are thousands of people who are in need, and there are people who are trained to deal with such hardships willing to help, yet the Myanmar government would obviously rather let them die.

I just don't get it!

It's an evil military dictatorship that doesn't really give too squirts or a giggle about the people. What don't you get?

Please, let's not interfere with the internal affairs of a sovereign nation. The aid will be used-- don't worry yourself about it.

Just got some satellite imagery at work put online:

Before cyclone

After cyclone

Crazy smurf.

Let's not bring religion into this.

Always interesting to see before and after. That tidal surge was a mother.

The Burmese junta is still preventing supplies and SAR personnel from entering.

What the smurf?