{"id":617,"date":"2004-12-28T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-28T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/archives\/617"},"modified":"2004-12-28T20:42:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-28T15:12:00","slug":"death-toll-crosses-40000-across-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/death-toll-crosses-40000-across-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Toll Crosses 40000 Across Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img145.exs.cx\/my.php?loc=img145&#038;image=pic3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img145.exs.cx\/img145\/3962\/pic3.th.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"\/><\/a>Shankar from USA has this information on relief centers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;I also got an email from Raj <rajwaghray[at]gmail[dot]com> at the Chennai Art of Living group :<\/p>\n<p>We need relief following material for working out the rehab of the people from Srinivasapuram:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Old clothes, blankets, sheets etc.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Usable but old material such as utensils, buckets that one may want to discard.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Medicinces &#8211; mostly antibiotics such as Metrogyl, Novaclox, Cifran etc, pain killers &#8211; Brufen etc.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Non-perishable food items such as rice, dal etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Collections centres for the relief material are operating from the following addresses:<\/p>\n<p>Hamsapriya<br \/>C\/o Dr. T. Srinivasan<br \/>&#8220;Azhagar&#8221;<br \/>56, Poes Garden, Opp. Jaya TV<br \/>Phone: 24662486<\/p>\n<p>Annanagar Centre<br \/>Sonex Towers &#8211; 5th floor<br \/>2nd Ave, Annanagar.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img145.exs.cx\/my.php?loc=img145&#038;image=pic7.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img145.exs.cx\/img145\/4932\/pic7.th.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Nanda Kishore (nandasethuraman[at]gmail[dot]com) sent me more pictures. <a href=\"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/tsunami\">Check them out<\/a>. And thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/madmanweb.com\">Madman<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/shiokfood.com\">Shiok Food<\/a>, I discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/imageshack.us\">Imageshack &#8211; a free image hosting service<\/a> that allows me to host my images on their server. How does this help you may wonder. I save a lot on bandwidth. Images consume a lot of my bandwidth and yesterday I exhausted my month&#8217;s quota, in  a single day! Because I posted the entire album on my own site. It is another story that it was <a href=\"http:\/\/madmanweb.com\">Madman<\/a> that posted my site on metaphilter, and it was linked by NY Times&#8230; Phew! <br \/>Anyway, more updates: <br \/>The death toll has crossed 40000. I hate this. With one swift, devastating blow nature has erased these lives, crippled economies, and left hundreds of thousands homeless. Is it a rude reminder from above on the subject of who is the boss around here? Here goes the country-wide toll:<br \/>Sri Lanka 18,700<br \/>Indonesia 15,000<br \/>India 7,000<br \/>Thailand 1,500<br \/>Somalia 100<br \/>Malaysia 50<br \/>Maldives 50<br \/>Myanmar 30 <small>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/ndtv.com\">NDTV.com<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Despite the obvious attempt at dramatizing the disaster and the loss of life, NDTV&#8217;s correspondents did a good job. Barka and her crew, hats-off. 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