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To: LindyBill who wrote (20979)	12/26/2003 10:17:20 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 793772

Looks like you are under mud This is the land of natural disasters – mudslides, earthquakes, typhoons, volcanoes, tidal waves, you name it, we get it. A large part of the problem is that poor migrants will settle anywhere, often in places people have usually stayed away from, for good reason. Part of the problem is logging and mining, often on a very primitive and disorganized level, but in a place where a typhoon can dump 20 inches of rain in a day, flash floods and mudslides are a reality no matter what anybody does. All you can do is keep people away from the vulnerable places. Looks like the Iranians got battered too. I wonder when they will learn that multistory buildings made of unreinforced cement blocks are deathtraps in earthquakes… seems like every quake that hits there has a death toll of thousands. Fortunately, we have no such troubles in the area where I live. Location, location, location….