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Myanmar cyclone 200,000 + Feared Dead
| Quote From Source: | The death toll from a tropical cyclone that tore through Yangon and Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta rose to 351 on Sunday, a government official said, citing state media reports in the remote capital, Naypyidaw.
State television, which was still off air in Yangon after the storm, said 20,000 homes had been destroyed on the island of Haingyi in the Andaman Sea, the first part of the country to be hit by Cyclone Nagris, the official said.
As many as 90,000 people were reported to have been left homeless on the island, he added.
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Cyclone kills nearly 4,000 in Myanmar
| Quote From Source: | YANGON (Reuters) - A devastating cyclone killed nearly 4,000 people and left thousands more missing in army-ruled Myanmar, state media said on Monday, a dramatic increase in the toll from Saturday's storm.
The death toll only covered two of the five disaster zones where U.N. officials said hundreds of thousands of people were without shelter and drinking water in the impoverished Southeast Asian country.
"The confirmed number is 3,934 dead, 41 injured and 2,879 missing within the Yangon and Irrawaddy divisions," Myanmar TV reported three days after Cyclone Nargis, a storm with winds of 190 kph (120 mph), hit the Irrawaddy delta.
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Up to 10,000 feared dead in Burma cyclone
| Quote From Source: | As many as ten thousand people could have died in the catastrophic storm which ripped across Burma on Saturday, and the number is likely to rise as aid workers pick their way through rubble, floods and broken roads to the stricken areas of the Irrawaddy Delta.
Foreign diplomats in Rangoon were told by Myanmar's foreign minister that he acknowledges that the cyclone death toll could rise to 10,000, after a day during which the official count had gone from 351 to 4,000 dead.
“The confirmed number is 3,934 dead, 41 injured and 2,879 missing within the Yangon and Irrawaddy divisions,” Burmese state radio reported. Three other divisions have been declared emergency areas after Cyclone Nargis swept across the country's most fertile and densely populated region on Saturday morning at speeds of 120 miles per hour.
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This is inexcusable for this many deaths from a storm they saw coming days ahead on the satellite/radar. Absolutely inexcusable. |
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13000 Now...
I agree, its up to 13,000 now....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080505/wl_nm/myanmar_dc
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how many did we have die in katrina? and that was in one of the richest countries in the world who deals with hurricanes all the time. this death toll doesnt surprise me. |
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I love what CNN.com stated that came from Laura Bush...
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blasted the military government for a "failure to meet its people's basic needs."
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Pot... meet Kettle. Katrina anyone? She should be too ashamed to even open her mouth.
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Myanmar: Death toll more than 15,000
| Quote From Source: | YANGON, Myanmar (CNN) -- The death toll from the Myanmar cyclone is more than 15,000 people, Myanmar's government has said.
Diplomats were summoned to a government briefing Monday as the reclusive southeast Asian country's ruling military junta issued a rare appeal for international assistance in the face of an escalating humanitarian crisis.
A state of emergency was declared across much of the country following the 10-hour storm that left swathes of destruction in its wake.
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Wow...that death toll is going up fast.
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Myanmar cyclone death tops 15,000; many more missing
| Quote From Source: | The cyclone and storm surge that tore through Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta killed at least 15,000 people and left 30,000 missing, officials said on Tuesday, warning the toll could rise in low-lying, remote villages.
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Aid workers fear Burma cyclone deaths will top 50,000
| Quote From Source: | Foreign aid workers in Burma have concluded that as many as 50,000 people died in Saturday's cyclone, and two to three million are homeless, in a disaster whose scale invites comparison with the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
The official death count after Cyclone Nargis is 15,000, and the Thai Foreign Minister says he has been told that 30,000 people are missing. But due to the incompleteness of the information from the stricken Irrawaddy delta, UN and charity workers in the city of Rangoon privately believe that the number will eventually be several times higher.
Andrew Kirkwood, country director of the British charity Save The Children told The Times: “I'd characterise it as unprecedented in the history of Myanmar and on an order of magnitude with the effect of the tsunami on individual countries. It might well be more dead than the tsunami caused in Sri Lanka.”
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Well that jumped up quite a bit since I went to bed last night.
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DEADLIEST RECENT STORMS
Hurricane Katrina, US, 2005 - at least 1,836 dead
Orissa Cyclone, 1999, Northern India - at least 10,000 dead
Hurricane Mitch, 1998, Central America - at least 11,000 dead
Typhoon Thelma, 1991, Philippines - 6,000 dead
Bangladesh cyclone, 1991 - about 138,000 dead
Bhola cyclone, 1970 - at least 300,000 dead
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7384041.stm
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This could go past 60 thousand
| Quote From Source: | YANGON, Myanmar (CNN) -- A Myanmar government radio station said Tuesday that more than 22,000 people are dead and 41,000 missing after the catastrophic cyclone that battered the country.
A news broadcast on the state-run station said Tuesday that 22,464 people had been confirmed dead from Cyclone Nargis. The broadcast added that 41,000 more were missing.
The U.N. estimated up to a million could be homeless.
China's state-run Xinhua news agency, quoting officials, reported a death toll of 10,000 alone in the township of Bogalay.
CNN's Dan Rivers, the only western journalist in Bogalay, said he had seen nothing but destroyed homes for 30 kilometers and people were now sheltering under canvas covers. They had little food bar a small amount of eggs and rice.
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Any one else have the feeling that this year is going to be be a big one for loss of life? |
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sadly - yes. |
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| Quote From Source: | Foreign aid workers in Burma have concluded that as many as 50,000 people died in Saturday's cyclone, and two to three million are homeless, in a disaster on a scale comparable with the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
The official death count after Cyclone Nargis stood at just under half that by 1300 GMT today, at around 22,500 people dead plus a further 41,000 missing.
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They are dumping all the bodies into the River....I'd hate to be downstream. Won't disease and other problems pop up??
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/v...05/06/pkg.rivers.myanmar.cnn
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wow, thats an awful idea. |
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| Quote From Source: | Every day, the extent of the destruction caused by Cyclone Nargis has been revised upwards, from alarming to grim to disastrous — and yesterday it became clear that this is not just a local, but an historic catastrophe. Foreign aid workers in Rangoon have concluded that as many as 50,000 people died in last Saturday's cyclone, and two to three million are homeless, the worst disaster in the country's modern history, and of a scale comparable with the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk...orld/asia/article3883123.ece
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Al Gore Calls Myanmar Cyclone a 'Consequence' of Global Warming
| Quote From Source: | Using tragedy to advance an agenda has been a strategy for many global warming activists, and it was just a matter of time before someone found a way to tie the recent Myanmar cyclone to global warming.
Former Vice President Al Gore in an interview on NPR's May 6 “Fresh Air” broadcast did just that. He was interviewed by “Fresh Air” host Terry Gross about the release of his book, “The Assault on Reason,” in paperback.
“And as we're talking today, Terry, the death count in Myanmar from the cyclone that hit there yesterday has been rising from 15,000 to way on up there to much higher numbers now being speculated,” Gore said. “And last year a catastrophic storm from last fall hit Bangladesh. The year before, the strongest cyclone in more than 50 years hit China – and we're seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated with continued global warming.”
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Ok this guy is like the Reverend Jesse Jackson of weather. Whenever a disaster of nature shows up...so does Gore, blaming the white man for global warming.
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Holy Shit, 100,000
U.S. envoy: Myanmar deaths may top 100,000
YANGON, Myanmar (CNN) -- The death toll from the cyclone that ravaged the Irrawaddy delta in Myanmar may exceed 100,000, the senior U.S. diplomat in the military-ruled country said Wednesday.
"The information we are receiving indicates over 100,000 deaths," the U.S. Charge D'Affaires in Yangon, Shari Villarosa, said on a conference call.
The U.S. figure is almost five times more than the 22,000 the Myanmar government has estimated.
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Wow, from a Katrina sized storm???
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US diplomat says 100,000 may have died in cyclone
| Quote From Source: | WASHINGTON (AP) - The top U.S. diplomat in Myanmar says 100,000 may have died in the cyclone and that 95 percent of buildings in the affected area are demolished.
Shari Villarosa heads the U.S. embassy in the capital Rangoon. She says food and water are running short in the Myanmar delta area inundated by the storm. She called the situation in that area "increasingly horrendous."
Villaros told reporters Wednesday: "There is a very real risk of disease outbreaks as long as this continues."
She said that almost all the deaths are in the delta area. In the capital, some 600-700 people may have died. Villarosa also said she does not think the military rulers in Myanmar are blocking U.S. assistance because of the Bush administration's past strong criticism of the junta.
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This is nuts. India gave them 48 hours notice. I guess the leaders in Burma were too corrupt to pass the word along.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk...orld/asia/article3883123.ece
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UN officials: Myanmar cyclone a 'major, major disaster'
| Quote From Source: | YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Hungry crowds of survivors stormed the few shops that opened in Myanmar's stricken Irrawaddy delta, where food and international aid has been scarce since a devastating cyclone killed more than 22,000 people, the U.N. said Wednesday.
Corpses floated in salty flood waters and witnesses said survivors tried desperately to reach dry ground on boats using blankets as sails. The U.N. said some 1 million people were homeless in the Southeast Asian country, also known as Burma.
"Basically the entire lower delta region is under water," said Richard Horsey, Bangkok-based spokesman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid.
"Teams are talking about bodies floating around in the water," he said. This is "a major, major disaster we're dealing with."
But a massive international aid effort was being kept on hold by Myanmar's military rulers. Internal U.N. documents obtained by The Associated Press showed growing frustrations at foot-dragging by the junta, which has kept the impoverished nation isolated for five decades to maintain its iron-fisted control.
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I have a bad feeling that as badly fucked up as the leaders of this country are, the death toll will continue to climb because of disease and famine. The death toll should have never been high to begin with much less 100,000. This is one corrupt government that is getting thousands of people killed and more will be dead soon if somebody doesn't oust them so help can arrive.
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I don't think this storm was "Katrina sized". I believe I saw a report where sustained winds were 190kph. That's, what, 117mph? Do we even issue voluntary evacuation orders for 117mph?
This is what happens when you have an out-of-control population growth near the sea, and a government that does not give one hot shit about their people. India warned the government at a minimum 2 days before landfall. Wanna make a bet if they told their people to get out of the way? |
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| Quoting MattN - posted on 5/7/2008 at 13:14 |
I don't think this storm was "Katrina sized". I believe I saw a report where sustained winds were 190kph. That's, what, 117mph? Do we even issue voluntary evacuation orders for 117mph?
This is what happens when you have an out-of-control population growth near the sea, and a government that does not give one hot shit about their people. India warned the government at a minimum 2 days before landfall. Wanna make a bet if they told their people to get out of the way?
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Yeah I mentioned a few posts above that India gave them 48 hours notice and posted the link as well. So are you saying Tidal surge killed them all?
Seems to me Katrina when it actually hit was about 140mph. I thought this was a little less but not that much.
Either way there is no reason for this many dead.
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