Major Quake in SE ASIA
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How did anyone relay that story? Did he also jump on a lifeboat or does his wife tell the story of how he was having a high ball as she was lowered to safety?
Dang.....ATC Control Tower Collapsed at Naypyidaw Airport. All personnel killed. Can you imagine being in an air traffic control tower when that thing started shaking?
Mother Earth is pissed and she will get retribution for us f'ing around and not taking care of her
Geez, obviously I don't know anything about that airport except what I just read on the internet, but doesn't that seem like something you would engineer to withstand a massive quake?
Sure
But you need to make sure you don't have government officials that let the contractor cut corners for big kickbacks that you figure no one will ever notice, anyway...
Are you starting a religion? It sounds like you're starting a religion.
I don't think too many people died on that ship, he eventually got on a lifeboat
The more footage I see, the worse it gets.
I suppose USAID would have been helpful
I suppose USAID would have been helpful
The ladies of Thailand can stay with me if they need a place to crash. @McLovin32 can have the lady boys.
That’s the idea, not sure it was the case for Haiti.
Published 7:13 PM EDT, March 16, 2023
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. Agency for International Development built only half of eight major projects meant to help Haiti recover from a devastating 2010 earthquake, a federal audit report said Thursday.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office also found that most of the agency’s projects were delayed, had to be scaled back or turned out to be more expensive than planned.
The report is the newest one to scrutinize how billions of dollars were spent to help Haiti in the aftermath of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that the Haitian government estimates killed some 300,000 people.
Not that help isn’t needed, but how good a vehicle and steward USAID is for that help is a fair question.
My question is… after an earthquake of that magnitude, do buildings (specifically skyscrapers) need to be checked to make sure they won’t collapse in the hours or days or weeks following? Meaning, do they evacuate everyone until an inspector deems them safe? Or do they just carry on business as usual hoping they didn’t suffer any major structural damage that will turn them all to rubble at some point soon?
Sadly I think the toll goes quite a bit higher given some of the footage, and knowing some areas that are hard to get to haven't been touched, yet.
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