A Different Perspective

The BBC World News has an article on a Typhoon in China which was on the same order of magnitude as Katrina was here.

This is the first I've heard of it. China moved about a million people out of the storms way (another, more recent article that I read (but lost the link to) says 2.5 million), and the death toll is less than 600.

Centralized country governments CAN move efficiently and effectively in the face of on-coming disaster. Just, apparently, not ours.

(And for the record, I'm not saying we should be more like China, for anyone who wants to step up and say "See: Liam's just a commie liberal who idolizes the Chinese government". I'm not, and I don't. But this is an example of a disaster response done RIGHT (or at least, less wrong) and comparisons deserve to be drawn.)

Liam.