vendredi 14 août 2009 00:20
just days ago, i remember seeing the news talk about how Taiwan was struggling with the longest drought they have experienced to date.
today, i see the faces of pain and helplessness filmed in the media. Typhoon Morakot hit Taiwan just like that, and within a mere few days more than 600 people are have been buried alive, thousands were presumably dead, and communications to several rural villages have been cut off.
And the numbers go up as the clock ticks by the second.
i hope that they can get through this. really. i have friends in Tainan, Kaoshuing. And the area has already been hit by the typhoon. its scary how sometimes, life can be as equally fragile as dried clay, dried clay that can easily crumble into powder and set sail in the wind.
its terrifying to know of the news of a man, who lost all his ten family members just because the house collapsed.
its heartbreaking to hear of how two sons searched in desperation for their mother, despite the typhoon ongoing, all in hopes of just wanting to find her remains and hold her for one last time.
as we sit comfortably back in our homes; people are crying their lungs out there, lost and buried in total darkness, thinking and reflecting on their lives as the oxygen runs out. and right now, the storm is moving up towards Japan, Kanto.
Let's hope Typhoon Etau won't be as worst.
Libellés : :(, ALFRED, freak accidents
