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| Free Store.
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8/28/2008 6:02 PM
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This is rotten..No where is it truly safe on the Globe anymore
What's your opinion?
BIHAR, India (CNN) -- Everywhere one looked, desperation stared back.
On the faces of the men huddled on rooftops, waving wildly to draw the attention of passing helicopters. In the sight of the women struggling through chest-high waters, pleading for a spot on crowded rescue boats. In the frightened eyes of children as bloated carcasses of cows, goats and dogs floated by.
The hopelessness stretched for miles Thursday in this destitute northeast Indian state, caught in the midst of the worst flooding in decades.
And with heavy rainfall forecast for the next two days, officials worry that the situation will get worse. Much worse.
By Thursday, 47 deaths had been reported, the government said.
Another 2.6 million people in 1,600 villages have been affected, thousands of them marooned on thin strips of dry land peeking out from cloudy brown waters of the swollen Kosi River.
Indians call it the "River of Sorrow." Every summer, from June to September, the relentless monsoon rains cause the Kosi to overflow, bringing untold misery.
But something more is to blame for this week's calamity.
About a week ago, the river, which eventually empties in the Hindu-revered Ganges, burst its embankment upstream in Nepal.
Water gushed through the breach so forcefully that the river changed course altogether. It plowed a new channel about 75 miles (120 kilometers) east of its river bed.
It swallowed entire villages -- areas unaccustomed to water that deep.
The result: the worst flooding in 80 years in this landlocked, rural state.
"Flood is understatement," Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar told reporters. "It's a disaster."
Government agencies, nongovernmental organizations and good Samaritans have begun doing what they can: using motorboats to rescue stranded residents, for example, or dropping thousands of food packets from the sky.
The scale of the disaster is overwhelming. About half the state is under water -- a submerged area the size of the entire U.S. state of Delaware.
The waters have damaged roads and railroads, making it difficult to reach the hardest hit. Phone lines are down, the power is out.
Kumar pleaded with residents to seek higher ground.
Those who could afford it, did.
One man told CNN-IBN that he scrounged together 2,000 rupees ($45) to pay a boatman to ferry his family across.
"We agreed on 2,000 (rupees) and he upped it to 2,700 ($61) just like that," he said. "What can I do? I paid him."
But many others stayed put. Nine-hundred-million Indians survive on less than 85 rupees ($2) a day, a British government study found this year.
Many of them live in Bihar, the poorest state in India. They have nowhere to go.
"It's raining here. People are on rooftops begging to be rescued," said CNN's Bharati Naik while touring some of the affected area Thursday. "(There are) not enough boats. Villagers are crying and extremely frustrated."
Officials worry that in coming days, stranded residents may take to drinking the contaminated river water, raising fears of an epidemic.
"There is no water to drink," one man told CNN-IBN, CNN's sister network in India. "We are hungry. We're thirsty. We have to drink something."
A local construction company recruited villagers to supply packets of food to flood-hit neighbors. One such villager told CNN he has supplies lasting 15 days.
"Then it's all up to God as water levels are rising," he said.
Roshan Kumar, a teacher from one of the flooded villages, arrived at an army base to seek help for his neighbors.
About 30,000 people are stranded, he told CNN. The army said it's doing all it can.
Meanwhile, the water level in many areas continues to rise even as hope, among many, is beginning to falter.
Kawshalya Devi spent the last two days waiting by the side of a highway. She and her eldest son escaped the flood waters. But in the commotion, she lost track of her husband and younger son, she told CNN-IBN.
"This is all I have. Just this," Devi wailed, pointing to the dry spot where she sat. "Everything else is gone. I have had everything robbed from me."
[link to www.cnn.com]
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"Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain; and regard your neighbor's loss as your own loss."
Tai Shang Kan Ying P'ien |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 458575
8/28/2008 6:14 PM | | Re: 2.6 million affected by massive flood | Quote |
Sad, SAd,SAD....... and we worry about what presodent the tptb will select for the herd.....what these people face is REAL LIVE TIME.... |
| Free Store.
User ID: 147033
8/28/2008 6:52 PM
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By the look of the responses, I would say you are right on..I'm sad too and at the non emotional crowd here..
Basically STS
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"Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain; and regard your neighbor's loss as your own loss."
Tai Shang Kan Ying P'ien |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 492660
8/28/2008 6:54 PM | | Re: 2.6 million affected by massive flood | Quote |
its a yearly thing there. |
| the politicultologist
User ID: 321697
8/28/2008 6:55 PM | | Re: 2.6 million affected by massive flood | Quote |
Wouldn't they have known it was coming and evacuated? |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 458575
8/28/2008 6:59 PM | | Re: 2.6 million affected by massive flood | Quote |
Read the article.....this is not a normal happening....a dam broke in Tibet....that caused the river to make a new path.....these people were caught un aware. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 482701
8/28/2008 6:59 PM | | Re: 2.6 million affected by massive flood | Quote |
Do you think that if the tptb were not busy hoarding and squandering the wealth of their people, that more wealth would be available to lift more people out of misery? What is happening in India is horrific, without a doubt, but what is happening here with our leadership has a huge influence on how the people of the world can respond to such natural disasters.
There was a thread here while back that said the U.S. is consuming 80% of the entire worlds savings. Where is that going? If that wealth was not being sucked up by just one country, there would be so much more to go around. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 492841
8/28/2008 7:08 PM | | Re: 2.6 million affected by massive flood | Quote |
In the past disasters of this scale
or magnitude resulted in an outpouring
of aid from other countries.
With trillions of dollars committed
to waging war there simply isnt the money
in the kitty in western nations to
supply aid to other nations.
Granted there are extremely wealthy
people and organisations (first worlders)
in India who could today supply the
much needed aid to their own people.
Are they sitting on their hands
in this instance ? |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 490986
8/28/2008 7:22 PM | | Re: 2.6 million affected by massive flood | Quote |
Nice coorelation between the most populace state and the condition of the economic status. Hmmmm, the most people in the poorest state? Gee, can't be. This is natures way of thinning the herd... |
| Free Store.
User ID: 145518
8/28/2008 8:00 PM
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Better responses
Misery knows no limit..I am committed to misery
If you can't be there to help, at least let your soul and the world know that you care
It means alot..God Bless those who are crying right now!
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"Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain; and regard your neighbor's loss as your own loss."
Tai Shang Kan Ying P'ien |
| Canuck 
User ID: 492902
8/28/2008 9:58 PM
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Those poor people. . . while we in the west worry about the stock market, the price of gas and all kinds of shit that is really meaningless they have no homes no food or water. What has humanity come to that we can sit back and not feel for others who suffer? Is it that we have become desensitized or immune to the pain and suffering of others.
Free Store, this is the first I have heard of this flooding in India. . . haven't been on the computer much lately and I do not watch TV. My heart is heavy . . . at the thought of this suffering and misery, I will send prayers and healing to those so far away.
Canuck
“I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as fraud.”
CARL JUNG IN 1919
"The power of accurate observation is often called cynicism by those who don't have it." - George Bernard Shaw |
| TEXAS UNCENSORED
User ID: 492886
8/29/2008 12:45 AM | | Re: 2.6 million affected by massive flood | Quote |
It isn't that people don't feel for others, or these in their crisis. It's just that we have to feel for ourselves and our own first, and many of us are hurting. Many of us , right now, are facing catastrophic storms headed our way, and the season has more to come.
We are worried about having roofs above us, walls around us, running water, electricity, who will need to be rescued, how many will have to evacuate, and how many bodies we will find in the aftermath.
And, these same people have faced job cuts, pay cuts, gas to get to work they can't afford, no dental or health care, crime that keeps them from walking to neighborhood stores and parks, disappearing retirement, and so much more.
These same people were the first to give during Katrina and Rita, and are still helping these evacuees recover.
You can't give your heart out to everyone on the planet. It will suck the life out of you. But you can give and care about your own. Only then will we have the resources, and the strength of heart to do for others. |
| Free Store.
User ID: 146804
8/29/2008 1:01 AM
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I know Texas Uncensored. I was thinking that as I was making the thread
The Slaves have No time to look up even..
When the working class hero as we all are has a moment then each day to feel more for the other working class hero and through a computer even.
It is darn good meds for The soul and cuts down on personal/physical problems
I'm struggling barely to feed my family and someone is laying in the ditch do I keep driving?
I'm glad you responded there Texas Uncensored
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"Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain; and regard your neighbor's loss as your own loss."
Tai Shang Kan Ying P'ien |
| urantian
User ID: 492941
8/29/2008 1:22 AM | | Re: 2.6 million affected by massive flood | Quote |
ALL WILL NOT LOST. EVERYONE IS OF GOD AND IN GOD"S HEART.
MONJORONSON: Yes. As we have said in the past, the decimation of the human species is not initiated by God, by Christ Michael or Machiventa…or anyone else. It is an aspect of over population of the world, and it was said that this is inevitable. It is much like going down the highway and not seeing the rock on the highway at night. You hit the rock and break your wheel and come to the side of the road and need to be rescued. And so, it was not planned on your part, and although the rock was brought into existence by the Creator, the Creator did not cause this to happen personally to you, it is simply one of the accidents of time that happens in the travels of life.
It is no accident either that I am here; it is no accident that the Correcting Time is upon your planet; it is no accident that the Teaching Mission informs you and teaches you. And it is no accident that these things coincide. It is as easy to predict the decimation of the human species, as it is to predict that there will eventually be rain, that there will be sunshine, that the sun will rise tomorrow and on subsequent days—it is predictable. It is easily predictable in the large actuarial scope of the capacity of Christ Michael and many of us. It is simply looking ahead; and as you look ahead into the future, you make plans.
So too, plans were made long ago for the Correcting Time, for the correcting of the times in the past, where there was default and betrayal on your planet. When these things occurred, it immediately became obvious to Christ Michael that rectitude must be made, that there would be some action to assist those souls and mortals who had come into the world and passed into death, to those who are living, and to those who come in the future—none of you are forgotten! No generation is forgotten! Plans and alternatives, options, were made for every generation, once the default and betrayals occurred. A Creator Son immediately knows that in the eons of time for that planet, after justice is served, that then these programs can be fully brought to bear upon the populations of your world.
And although your world has been in quarantine for so many, many thousands of years, you are not forgotten! No one is ever forgotten—options are made for each individual, each generation, each nation, each population. Each era has its own special, peculiar and particular service plan for it. It was a “sadness upon our hearts,” (please put that in quotes,) [to] feel your pain of isolation, and immense spiritual loneliness, to know that you were alone. And, although you do not understand intellectually, rationally why you feel alone as an individual in that time of quarantine, none-the-less, you at the far, deeper, infinite, existential level of your soul, feel that—you “know it”—and many of you have cried silently, tears of anguish in that loneliness.
And now, friends, you are now no longer lonely; you are no longer without guidance; you are no longer without the presence of us—we are here! The Correcting Time is upon you. We have a mighty challenge now—not ahead of us, but now—this “now,” this moment. So understanding that the decimation of your species will occur, it will occur before what we call “The New Era.” This is the time of reorganization of societies, of your organizations, of your philosophies, your reorganizations of your religions, the reorganization of all your civilizations.
No nation, no community, and no family will be unaware of this. Just as the Spirit of Truth touched the hearts and minds of the Apostles—it felt like a wind in their face and they were rocked on their feet—they felt it in their being. So, too, will each individual fully understand and realize the awakening of this New Era, for they will feel it personally. It will be like standing on the other side of the door, when I am there and I pound on the door, asking you to open it. You will feel the door shudder; it will be that real to you. As we have said, no individual will be left untouched, no one will be left unknowing; everyone will be required to make that morally infinite or immortal decision to join or not to join. Those who are hesitant, they are accepted; those who refuse, there is tolerance and allowance; those who refuse again and again, of course, will have made their own decision for the infinity of time and their “erasure” from the records of time in the universe.
But the New Era has much to give and much to offer.
[link to luisprada.com] |
| The Lone Ranger
Guardian of actual "Truth"!!
User ID: 475827
8/29/2008 2:16 AM
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Not such a bad thread. Natural earth clamities have always existed....even beyond recorded history. But Mr FrEaKy your "STS" reference to other GLPers is way off base Old Timer. That shit could be applied to the entire population of the world....could it not?
PS: I am still watching!!
Life Is But A Dream!!
Therefore, "'Tis better to have dreamed and lost than never to have dreamed at all." |
| The Lone Ranger
Guardian of actual "Truth"!!
User ID: 475827
8/29/2008 2:54 AM
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Mr FrEaKy  gave you a Five Star for this thread......only because I felt sorry for you and your normal thread "1 STAR" rating.
Very STO don't ya think?
Life Is But A Dream!!
Therefore, "'Tis better to have dreamed and lost than never to have dreamed at all." |
| Free Store.
User ID: 146804
8/29/2008 3:11 AM
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Yup Ive never talked to a New Z Lander before and thank God I never want to meet one
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"Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain; and regard your neighbor's loss as your own loss."
Tai Shang Kan Ying P'ien |
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