Monday, April 26, 2010

disasters strike

sunday night a mountain sheared, and the mountain top slid onto a main highway near taipei. right now construction crews are using earthmovers to move all that soil, in order to determine the number of casualties. they are all likely to be dead by now, from lack of air, if not from the impact of hundreds of tons dropping on them. on the news though, is that a lot of the construction contractors that the government has brought in (because they own the earthmovers) are about to stop work, because the government will not pay them to cover their operating costs. WTF?

and during my talk at itri, an earthquake (6.9) hit off the coast of eastern taiwan. no much damage, since eastern taiwan is largely unpopulated.

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