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| Aceh: Rescuers Set to Call Off Survivor Search |
| 2005-01-02 |
| With many thousands still missing, rescuers in the part of Southeast Asia that suffered most from last weekend's earthquake and tsunami stood ready to call off their search for survivors. U.S. forces pressed ahead with one of their biggest relief missions ever with the death toll likely to hit 150,000. Hungry Indonesians welcomed a dozen American Seahawk helicopters as they delivered biscuits, energy drinks and instant noodles to devastated villages on the west coast of Sumatra, closest to the epicenter of the largest earthquake in four decades and the first place hit by the walls of water it sent surging across the Indian Ocean. |
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| #2 60 million dead - 5 million a year for 6 years, that's 27,000 per day, all right. |
| Posted by: Hupereger Clish6229 2005-01-02 3:56:00 PM |
| #1 I think of this in comparison to the German invasion of the Soviet Union, with similar levels of destruction along a 2,000 mile wide front. Someone once figured that roughly 25,000 people died daily for six years during WWII, with the numbers being much higher the last four years. How long did it take the Soviets to rebuild after 25,000,000 dead? |
| Posted by: Weird Al 2005-01-02 1:30:57 PM |