Perfect Disasters

Is it imagination or is it real that natural disasters lately are more frequent, more destructive and more deadlier ?
Together with the internet and live TV feeds, the severity of these extreme weather events are dramatised, something not seen in this lifetime.


The 2004 tsunami killed more than 200,000 people lining the India Ocean. Tsunami of such a scale has not been recorded since modern times.


In 2005 hurricane Katrina incapacitated New Orleans, killing 1800 residents, something beyond the wildest imagination happening to the jazz capital of the world. Katrina was described as the most destructive hurricane ever to make landfall.


And the 2008 Sichuan earthquake flattened thousands of buildings and killed 70,000 people mostly children.


Nargis was a severe tropical cyclone that caused the worst natural disaster in the recorded history of Myanmar.
The cyclone made landfall on May 2, 2008, causing catastrophic destruction and at least 146,000 deaths with thousands more people still missing.


This year 2009 saw typhoon Morakot sweeping through Taiwan burying hillside villages as it leaves a trail of destruction.

Beside loss of lives, the economic losses are expected to to hit US$65 billion annually. As the climate changes, more extreme weather events can be expected. And all we can do is wait. There is absolutely nothing human beings can do to prevent them from happening.