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To: Tushar Patel who wrote (126263)	1/30/2001 12:56:05 PM
From: willcousa	Respond to of 186894

Thank-you for the links. The American Red Cross and the Salvation Army would both be deductible and will both certainly be on the scene.

To: Tushar Patel who wrote (126263)	1/30/2001 4:18:20 PM
From: Kushi Kullar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Tushar, What is a reliable organization to donate some money to? I'm glad your family is fine. Regards

To: Tushar Patel who wrote (126263)	2/1/2001 7:41:47 AM
From: Amy J	Respond to of 186894

RE: "OT: Earthquake I have close family " Hi Tushar, I'm glad your family is doing good. Thank you for the links. This disaster has made me realize how ill-prepared the world is with handling disasters mainly because the world lacks "portable cranes." Ahmedabad has only two cranes to do all this recovery work. The issue doesn't appear to be only money, but it's a lack of cranes because they were destroyed during the EQ. I would think the Relief organizations would invite a group of engineers (especially in earthquake-prone Silicon Valley) to figure out how to create portable cranes. It could plug a hole that currently seems to exist in these type of world-wide rescue initiatives. One of my contact's best friend lived in one of the 130 apartments that had completely collapsed in Ahmedabad. The rescue teams haven't even gotten to his building yet and it's been more than 100 hours (the critical point). The Swiss have been very helpful with their dogs (they bring two dogs to the rescue scene - the first dog ("sniffer") finds the person, the other dog (a black lab) gives the person water. Unfortunately, there just aren't enough dogs, not enough cranes and not enough relief workers to find the folks that are alive underneath the rubble. It's a race against time, and very unfortunately the resources are limited. Soon it'll be a race against a disease outbreak. And soon the tradeoff will be made between avoiding an outbreak by bulldozing a collapsed building (which I guess is how disease outbreak is perceived to be avoided) vs. spending more time to reach/rescue all the people alive underneath the rubble in these collapsed buildings. I fear that alive people will be bulldozed due to a lack of resources. Folks who think this problem (regarding insufficient cranes and sniffer dogs) is "isolated to India" and isn't a world issue, thus feel they may "ignore it", may want to think again. Cranes get destroyed during earthquakes and earthquakes can happen anywhere. It appears someone needs to develop some type of portable crane so the world at large may benefit, wherever the next disaster may occur. I know a lot of cities are not well-equipped to handle earthquakes in Calif. When I moved to Calif, I checked out which cities were properly equipped to handle disasters - and I discovered quite a few were not properly equipped. The city I live in is well-equipped and well-prepared and will probably end up helping other cities that aren't well-organized in their disaster planning and preparations. I wish I could remember all the cities that were ill-prepared, but there were a lot and the one that stands out in my mind was Woodside, mainly because I found it surprising that some of the greatest high-tech inventors would tolerate this with their own city. For the good of themselves (and for the good of Nasdaq), they should at least make an attempt to make their city better prepared. (Maybe they have already; it's been awhile since I last looked into the status of EQ preparedness in various cities). Best regards, Amy J