Help Habitat for Humanity build recovery housing for the Asia tsunami victims

Disaster Response: "Habitat's Disaster Response Office works to rebuild the future for victims of war and natural disasters worldwide. Disaster Response empowers and works with families in building recovery housing, with the goal of putting communities back on their feet and helping them stay there."

Heebie gee-gees

Guardian Unlimited > The Guardian > Heebie gee-gees: "A huge chunk of the Cumbre Vieja volcano, on the Canary Island of La Palma, is on the move. In 1949, this mass of rock - perhaps as large as the Isle of Man - dropped 4 metres seawards and stopped. Monitoring in the mid-90s suggested that it was continuing to creep downslope, though only at a centimetre or so a year. At some time, however, and we don't have a clue when, the landslide will plunge into the north Atlantic, generating gigantic tsunamis - sea waves likely to be 50 metres high or more - that will devastate the Caribbean and eastern United States, as well as the Canaries themselves, southern Europe and western Africa."

Last related entries: "Nature 'mankind's greatest threat'" (August 11 04)

See also: "Heat waves set to become 'brutal'" (August 17 04)

Help Christian Aid help tsunami areas

ChristianAid.org: "Native missionaries are rushing to rescue victims in Sri Lanka, India, Andaman Islands, Thailand, and Indonesia. Financial help is urgently needed. Christian Aid is seeking special gifts for indigenous missions located in all of the coastal areas affected by the floods."

~Tidal Wave~

The Boxing Day 8.9 earthquake and resulting tidal wave disasters in our region where we have never expected such a calamity really seem apocalyptic. 22,000 dead and counting! If only they knew that the freaky receding of the waters was a warning to flee to high land.

Is the sky falling? See the Aug 11 post, Nature 'mankind's greatest threat' (http://jilldownhill.blogspot.com/2004/08/nature-mankinds-gravest-threat.html).