The Guardian: 230 reported dead, as rescue efforts continue
With collapsed buildings and time running out, the search for survivors continues in Mexico City. Crews race to save survivors. Mexicans have a common goal, and the search for survivors goes on. Assistance is flowing in from the USA, Israel and elsewhere, but time is the enemy.
AoSHQ/J.J. Sefton: Mexico search for survivors, Puerto Rico starts to recover, Mueller and the Deep State do what they do... and Rescue K911 Dog Rescuers
WSJ: Hundreds of people still missing after Mexico City's earthquake
CNBC: Puerto Rico's power grid destroyed by Hurricane Maria
When your capital city is built on a lake and a swamp (as opposed to ours which is a swamp), you have to expect these things. Trained dogs are your best shot, I read.
ReplyDeletePS Y'know the buildings that hold up best? Those old adobe churches built 500 years ago constructed from poles held together with rawhide.
Take that, Frank Lloyd Wrong.
Mexico City is mushy. The flex of poles and rawhide does work for lateral forces. But Frank Lloyd Wrong? Actually Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel in Tokyo rode out a major earthquake just fine (it fell to rising real estate prices later on).
DeleteJust making a point about how good the old ways often were.
DeleteFrank's buildings sometimes leaked and lacked closets and other idiosyncratic things Wright was into, but for the most part they were well designed and constructed. He built his stuff to last. His work was at the tail end of the era of hand craftsmanship on homes for more mass production we see now.
DeleteI was out enjoying lunch yesterday with my wife at a restaurant new to us. It's a small neighborhood place. Above the bar, a big screen TV, out of place with the rest of the décor, was showing CNN. Initially, CNN has on a round table of pearl clutchers upset that Trump is still talking about carrying out his campaign promise to end Obamacare. This is news to CNN, but its not the only news. In the lower right hand corner is a postage stamp showing live coverage of rescues in Mexico after the earthquake (see, they care).
ReplyDeleteA few minutes later, the religious round table gets word the Messiah is giving a speech, so the big screen is changed to Obama talking at a Bill Gates funded conference that's paying Obama $400,000. The speech, displayed in closed caption, sounds like any other keynote conference speech you ever heard. Meanwhile, the postage stamp drama of Mexicans fighting to save lives is joined by another postage stamp above it showing a satellite view of Maria crossing over Puerto Rico. Alas, CNN keeps on the big screen the news of the Messiah speaking.
Finally, we are finishing our lunch and paying off the tab. Also, CNN's religious meeting finally got what they wanted: The Messiah is upset about Trump ending Obamacare. NEWS! Shsss, Messiah is still speaking, so just post it to the Chiron (but make the Chiron three times bigger than normal). Not being discussed is the postage stamp images of rescuers in Mexico frantic to free survivors from the rubble, which now is split screened to show Mexican authority giving a press conference update. Interesting stuff, but not particular news to CNN. Also above the postage stamp is that other postage stamp, Maria is still spinning across Puerto Rico, but that's like the same news from a week ago, so no discussion of it either.
Seemed like nothing eventful happened yesterday.
This. Is. CNN.
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