Wow 2

The death toll has gone up to almost 24,000 people dead in the wake of the giant earthquake in the Indian Ocean. Those people are more than a number and a statistic, though, they are fellow human beings with lives of their own. They had families and friends who cared about them. They loved, worked, cried, and laughed. They were just like you and I, but they are now gone. Every disaster that we have had here in the United States pales in comparison to what those in southern Asia have experienced and it is difficult to fathom. Even the destruction of the multiple hurricanes that slammed into the southeastern United States earlier this year was nothing compared to the disasterous earthquake and tsunamis that the Asian people have experienced. May God be with them.