Weekly Post

The cyclone that hit Myanmar a couple days ago is becoming more devastating as time continues and the death toll increases. I first read this story yesterday morning and it was said that 4,000 people were killed, 3,000 were missing, and 10,000 were estimated to have been killed. Yet, only 24 hours later the death toll has increased to 22,000 with an estimate of 41,000 to have been killed. These are drastically different than numbers within just 24 hours. I asked myself how can we get such different numbers within such a short amount of time? Our media and intelligence is so great yet we are unable to make a correct hypothesis of such a devestating storm? It still boggles my mind; are we in denial? do we want to rush the story and sart saying numbers which are completely wrong?

This isn't the first time which the numbers are totally off from the beginning. When the tsunami hit in 2004, we heard devastating numbers yet it continued to increase day after day. No one was prepared for hundreds of thousands to have been killed.

So I am still left with the question, how can we be so wrong and impatient to release numbers that are nothing close to what the outcome is? How is our intelligence so far off?

Lastly, I have not heard yet about this cyclone on whether or not the people of Myanmar were warned. Being that it is a cyclone, which is very similar to a hurricane, they must have known a storm was coming. Like Katrina, I could understand how people would stay thinking they could outlast the weather, yet for 41,000 people estimated to be killed, did they have warning? This is a topic that I have not read in articles, and hope for the media to touch on.

This was a horrible storm that mother nature has put on the people of Myanmar and hopefully the rest of the world will continue to come to their aid. And I hope the numbers stop increasing and I will keep the people of Myanmar in my heart.