QuoteL'AQUILA, Italy – A powerful earthquake in mountainous central Italy knocked down whole blocks of buildings early Monday as residents slept, killing at least 91 people in the country's deadliest quake in nearly three decades. Tens of thousands were homeless and 1,500 were injured.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_italy_earthquake
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Death toll at 150 by now.
Damn. If some of those towns are anything like Assisi (which is further north, but sounds like some of the descriptions I'm hearing), there will be a huge cultural loss in addition to the loss of life.
Quote from: Caliga on April 06, 2009, 01:57:59 PM
Damn. If some of those towns are anything like Assisi (which is further north, but sounds like some of the descriptions I'm hearing), there will be a huge cultural loss in addition to the loss of life.
You mean like in the Assisi earthquake a couple years back?
Yeah. I was in Assisi a few years after that and you could still see quite a bit of damage, but I don't remember any damage to the basilica of St. Francis.
Apparently Berlusconi commented on the now homeless people: "You have to take it like a camping weekend." A true father to his people. Cake>bread.
Yeah, Berlusconi can be amusing when he is causing embarrassment at some summit or other but the joke wears a bit thin when some real leadership would be useful.
Quote from: Syt on April 06, 2009, 01:55:46 PM
Death toll at 150 by now.
Guess all those moped helmets didn't come in handy after all.
The death toll is up to 235 :(
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30083979/
Quote from: Syt on April 06, 2009, 01:58:52 PM
Quote from: Caliga on April 06, 2009, 01:57:59 PM
Damn. If some of those towns are anything like Assisi (which is further north, but sounds like some of the descriptions I'm hearing), there will be a huge cultural loss in addition to the loss of life.
You mean like in the Assisi earthquake a couple years back?
If by "a couple" you mean 1997, yes.