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Tuesday, March 29 Earthquake
I was sitting at my local Cuban joint yesterday, picking at a churasco steak salad, sorta my Latin-Atkins thing, when the owner.. my pal Manny screamed, “Have you heard the news! Another Tsunami is coming!” It was just too terrible to fathom. All that unprecedented death and horror. Those poor people just beginning to put their lives together and another cruel joke from the universe racing their way.. I heard later on, that the tsunamis had not come and at first felt a sign of relief. Then the death tolls began. I believe there are 2,000 reported dead in Indonesia as I write this. The image of panic stricken people running for their lives, people searching through rubble to find their loved ones. It’s all so terribly, horribly familiar now. This killer earthquake, an 8.7 erupted.. piercing through the first waves of peace and recovery from a stricken land and covering it with pain and anguish, death and loss. Just three months after the “Killer Waves” decimated so many, many, lives. How could whatever higher power it is that controls the universe be so cruel? I can’t imagine the terror that must have raced through the hearts of these people when the first warnings of another tsunami were in effect. Posttraumatic stress in full swing. “Here we go again,” so many must have cried. I will not even pretend to understand or fathom how so many must have felt. What I understand is this massive earthquake happened on the same fault line as the one in December that triggered the terrible Tsunamis. I can only hope, that this fault line is done with its rampage. 174,000 people were killed on Dec. 26. To add to this death toll, three months later, is just a sadness that is beyond reason. I only hope that peace, serenity and an end to bad times comes to these people and comes soon. I sit here in my warm apartment; safe, dry and comfortable. I think I will cease to bitch about anything today. What, do I really have to complain about? Turn on the news right now and then ask yourself…what do you really have to complain about?
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