What happened in Derna, Libya, on Sunday is absolutely horrific. It looks like anyone living in a building near the riverbank is dead, because I don't see how you survive having the block of flats you're in liquidated around you. I can't comprehend the streets where you live just turning to mud and ruin in the blink of an eye, a click of your fingers and oop, the first day of Passchendaele just happened.
I don't really have anything insightful to say, it's just something I wanted to express but I don't like bringing up things this morbid face-to-face with people. As you two are neither face-to-face nor people it's not an issue here.
The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami is mostly forgotten these days, but it killed more than 220,000 people and made nearly two million people homeless. Massive areas of Indonesia were just obliterated. Water is a motherfucker.
Apparently the two rival governments of Libya are in talks to help each other sort this out. I didn't even know Libya had two conflicting governments. It's something that hasn't been in the news for a while. But I do wonder if any of those slave markets got washed away.
I don't think you can say it's been forgotten. People who were alive and following the news back then still remember it vividly. It's just been a while.
I actually gave 50 quid to the International Red Cross back then.
