K-atastrophe

Whether it’s Ketsana or Katrina, human suffering are the same: things and people once so attached are now gone.

Loss.

Grief.

Anger (at governmental slow responses).

After Katrina, I went to the refugee shelters in Houston to hand out free calling cards.

I remember the cover of TIME showing lines of cars leaving Houston of what was thought to be the second leg of Katrina.

Ketsana, after devastating Manila, went on to  Da Nang, Vietnam‘s fourth largest city,  and claimed almost 100 lives.

Typhoon and tornado, hurricane and hurry-up to get out-of-town (evacuation).

All of the sudden, it’s you showing up on the Evening News. The viewers become the viewed.

(as of this edit, Indonesian quake claimed 777 lives while Typhoon Haiyan is sweeping over the Philippines).

I watched those film footage of the Boat People dying at sea back in 1981, and off we (…