On May 18, 4:56 am, PaPaPeng <PaPaP...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Of all the good news from a bad situation this is what I find most
> heartening
> [Bogdan said he was surprised to find the locals, especially factory
> workers, were well-organized. ]
> People did not panic nor were they unable to help themselves.
>
> German tourist found well in remote village after quake
> + - 09:14, May 18, 2008
>
> http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/6413064.html
>
> A German tourist missing for five days has told Xinhua how villagers
> in an isolated community cared for him for five days after the
> southwest China earthquake.
>
> Brakus Bogdan, 62, was initially re****ted to have been pulled alive
> from quake debris, but he had in fact been safe and well, staying in
> Taoguan village, near the epicenter of the quake in Wenchuan County.
>
> Bogdan was located early on Thursday, but soldiers from the People's
> Liberation Army were only able to evacuate him from the village on
> Saturday, 114 hours after the quake.
>
> "I am totally fine. Nothing is wrong with me," the climber with the
> Munich-based Hauser Travel Agency told Xinhua by phone.
>
> He was traveling with translator Xu Jianming and driver Gao Wei in a
> four-wheeled drive vehicle across a bridge when the quake happened.
>
> "As a mountaineer, I have run into many dangerous situations, but
> never a quake like this," he said.
>
> He recalled seeing stones falling on to the road and then the dust.
> "Everything started to move," he said. "It was like hell, like an
> atomic bomb, like a movie, like the end of the world."
>
> After about 10 minutes, the tremor died down, and they escaped from
> the vehicle and climbed over a large pile of landslide debris. Ahead
> they found the small village.
>
> "In the village there was an industrial park, where some buildings
> were badly destroyed," said Bogdan.
>
> A girl came over to them with bread, water and meat. She later took
> the travelers into a factory building where many local people were
> sheltering.
>
> Bogdan said he was surprised to find the locals, especially factory
> workers, were well-organized.
>
> During the five days, he said local people provided food and drinking
> water. At night, they went back to sleep in the vehicle.
>
> "These people were very, very helpful. They asked us to eat whenever
> meals were ready. They asked my translator to tell me that everything
> would be okay," he said.
>
> He felt at a loss when he saw the women crying over dead relatives.
>
> Two days later, troops came to the village to check conditions and
> left food and water.
>
> "It was very dangerous for the military to arrive there where
> aftershocks and landslides were still occurring now and then."
>
> The trio, all in good condition, have been moved to a tent at the
> military disaster relief headquarters in the county seat, north of
> Taoguan village and about 90 minutes away by car.
>
> The first thing Bogdan did after his relocation was contacting his
> wife. "When she heard my voice, she cried," he said, adding that over
> the past days, his wife and their only son had been trying desperately
> to locate him through friends in contact with China.
>
> "She asked me to fly back to Germany as soon as possible." Bogdan, who
> has been in Sichuan since April 14, later also phoned the German
> Embassy in Beijing.
>
> Wang Kai, an officer in charge of communications with the Chengdu
> Military Command, said rescuers would trans****t them to Sichuan
> provincial capital, Chengdu, when a suitable vehicle became available.
>
> Leaving Taoguan village, Bogdan, who has traveled to China ten times,
> promised villagers he would try to visit them again later this year.
>
> "I was so touched by these people," he said. "They were so
> kind-hearted, so open, so nice that I would like to come and visit
> again, maybe with other German tourists."
>
> Source: Xinhua
You're saying that, wow, even third world Chinese behave in ways
blacks in first world America do not. Quite amazing!! As RichAsianKid
posted before:
Perhaps one of the best illustrations of how Americans blacks
differ from NE Asians is how people in New Orleans reacted post-
Katrina vs how people in Kobe City reacted post-Kobe earthquake.
(1) Emergency Response:
The Japanese response was tardy and widely criticized. Re****ts
indicate that it was 2 hours before the Prime minister was briefed
(!), and it took the Governor of the region 4 hours (!!) to ask for
the Self-Defence Force.
In contrast, though widely criticized for being tardy, President
George W. Bush declared a state of emergency in Louisiana, Alabama,
and Mississippi two days before the hurricane made landfall. The
National Weather Service's New Orleans/Baton Rouge office issued a
vividly-worded bulletin predicting that the area would be
"uninhabitable for weeks" after "devastating damage" caused by
Katrina, which at that time rivaled the intensity of Hurricane
Camille.
(2) Devastation:
1995 Kobe: 6400 deaths, financial cost $US 200 billion
2005 Katrina: 1800 deaths, financial cost $US 80 billion
(3) Aftermath:
a. Kobe:
Yamaguchi-gumi, a Japanese **Organized Crime Syndicate**, pitches in
to Help Victims of the Kobe Earthquake. Japanese gangsters affiliated
with the Yamaguchi-gumi's headquarters in Kobe have started providing
vital relief aid to earthquake victims. Since the quake struck on
January 17th, some 200 people have lined up at the group's
headquarters for food, powdered milk, paper diapers and drinking
water. One victim commented that ''by taking over what is normally the
government's job, they have show 'giri' (faithfulness) and
'ninjo' (warm heartedness).'
b. New Orleans:
People are shooting at the rescue helicopters in New Orleans.
Re****ts of rampant muggings, rapes, murders, and riots
And....
Looters need beer!
http://i17.tinypic.com/2jayx5j.jpg
Looters need even more beer!!
http://i16.tinypic.com/2yz0ld0.jpg
(Don't get me wrong, beer's cool, but do you really need that much?)
But really, do looters need clothing items in the sweltering heat?
http://i13.tinypic.com/2ugfj2o.jpg
http://i11.tinypic.com/4hrmirm.jpg
And even the COPS join in!
**Cops** looting stores in New Orleans
http://tinyurl.com/6ccvgr
Disasters can bring out the best and worst in people.
Kobe brought out the best in Japanese Japan. Katrina brought out the
worst in black America.
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