Natural Disasters

Ive been feeling so depressed lately. I really dont know how to deal with all that is happening in the world. Every since I was watching TV last saturday night. Im coming home from a concert so happy and I turn on the tv and I hear 10,000 people dead in Pakistan. How fast it happened. I read in the paper this morning theres more then 35,000 dead now and tens of thousands injured. There are two million people homeless. Most of these people cannot be reached or will not be reached in time to save them because they live in remote villages. They fear of disease out breaks. Soon it will be winter there and they have fierce winters. What will happen to all these people. And why is it that people are nto affected by this. Ive even spoken to people that are happy about it. I dont understand, people have lost their lives, their families, thier children, how can anyone be happy about this.

Is this mother natures way of dealing with over population.

I was reading about some of the natural disasters that have occurred. This information came from www.cbc.ca.

July 28, 1976 - The world's most devastating quake of the 20th century (magnitude 7.8) hit the sleeping city of Tangshan, in northeast China. The official death toll was 242,000. But some unofficial estimates put the actual number of dead as high as 655,000.

May 22, 1927 - A magnitude 7.9 quake near Xining, China, killed 200,000

Dec. 16, 1920 - China was also the site for the world's third-deadliest quake of the 20th century. An estimated 200,000 died when a magnitude 8.6 temblor hit Gansu, triggering massive landslides.

Nov. 13, 1970 - A cyclone in the Ganges Delta killed at least 300,000 in Bangladesh

1921 - A Soviet famine in 1921 began with a drought that caused massive crop failures. The initial death toll was greatly magnified when Lenin refused to acknowledge the famine and sent no aid. The Soviets later estimated that 5.1 million died.

What about this one:
The bubonic plague ("The Black Death") that spread through Europe beginning in 1348 wiped out an estimated one-third of humanity, about 25 million people.

The list goes on and on ofcourse.

AT least I live in a country where I dont have to worry about these natural disaster. I can be thankful for that. I think all Canadians should think about this when we are outside this winter complaining about the cold. We are all truely blessed.