LIST OF COUNTRIES GIVING USA AID AND $$ FOR HURRICANE SANDY

What you call a desaster seems to many people in the world to be a media-hyped hysteria, a mix of a terrible storm, wooden huts built at the oceans edge on hundreds of kilometers of beach areas where no one in his right mind should build a house and expect it to last, antique electric power lines built in the cheapest way possible on wooden poles in one of the richest couzntries on earth in one of the most densely populated areas of the US east coast, a system of transporting electricity hard to find anymore in any other developed country, people having no idea of natures forces anymore and a gouvernment which is using this storm for its own agenda.

See, Germany regularly is affected by flooding and storms. In 2002 the water levels at the Elbe river surge were 10 to 12 meters. *That* is flooding on an epic level. The four Rhine river floodings of Cologne in the 20th century with water levels up to 12 meters were on an epic level. The Hamburg storm flood of 1962 with water levels of 6 meters above high tide sea level 200 kilometers inland from the north sea was epic.

What you experience is not epic. it is a sad anmd terrible natural desaster of a larger scale in a large highly populated area most vulnerable due to settling large urban areas at the wrong places and poor and mostly cheaply maintained housing and infrastructure, completely overhyped by the media.

OIn the worst days of WWII, when Berlin was raided by bombs day and night, the city mostly in ruins, the Russians approaching, 4 million poeple plus 1 million refugees managing to survive somehow the U-Bahn underground transport system was flooded so often that no one can count how often, and every time it was flooded it was freed of water in a mere few hours again whilst bombs were falling and the whole city was a mess of fire, death and destruction. The public transport system functioned quite perfect throughout the war no matter what. Such a situation can be called epic.

And if you wish to find an example of what "epic" is: Have a look at the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. And how that city managed to get over that *real desaster* in no time.

Sandy is extensively covered in Polish News for the past few days. Victims of hurricane are included in prayers of the faithful during church masses. Poland is eager to help their American friends even thought President Obama deceived them with missile defense program to make his enemy Putin happy. Politics are on the back burner. It’s about human to human aid. Blessings and well wishes to all affected by this disaster. Please, stay strong!

you just brought tears to my eyes. thanks for understanding. and yea, americans who pay attention know what obama has done to poland and with god's help that wrong will be righted in the next election. peace my friend and thank you so much.