[whataretheysaying] Mary Madigan: The Burmese tragedy..

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Posted by Mary Madigan:
The Burmese tragedy..
http://whataretheysaying.powerblogs.com/posts/1210108615.shtml


   Alan Sullivan [1]describes the damage:

   [2]cyclone 

     [3]From a Daily Mail article, the side by side images show the
     Irrawaddy delta immediately before and after the passage of cyclone
     Nargis. Look closely. The red box marks Rangoon. Notice the brown
     areas south and southwest of the capitol in the âbeforeâ shot.
     These are probably expanses of rice paddy awaiting the seasonal
     rains. Now they are flooded blue with salt water that has not
     returned to the sea....Because the storm moved from west to east,
     the delta was hit with onshore wind immediately in advance of the
     eye. It was a perfect worst-case scenario, as though Katrina had
     come directly ashore on the Mississippi Delta and driven straight
     over New Orleans. That too could have killed 60,000. But looking at
     the scale of the floods, and considering the density of the Burmese
     population, I wonder whether the casualty estimate might still be
     low.

   More [4]here..

References

   1. http://www.seablogger.com/?p=10687
   2. http://www.seablogger.com/?p=10687
   3. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=564119&in_page_id=1811
   4. http://seablogger.com/