Attachment
If a butterfly flaps its wings in Beijing and a plane falls from the sky in New York, who is sneezing where, to make multi-storey buildings collapse in Asia?
First there was the 13-storey Lotus Riverside apartment building in Minhang, Shanghai, China, that simply fell over. Fortunately it was before anyone had occupied the building. It was being excavated to cater for an underground garage. The original developers’ company has been shut down while the government investigates the matter. Prospective home owners are demonstrating against the unfair compensation they have received.
In Minhang’s residential area, the No. 9 building complex of Zhongxiang Longbowan, has been slowly been receding for the past month. The back part of the building has risen above the ground by 2.5 cm, while the remainder of the building has sunk downwards almost 10 cm. This is an increase of 6 cm in just four weeks and people are still residing in the building. Even though it has been reported to the authorities, no one appears to be attempting to do anything about solving the problem.
Then a five storied building toppled into raging flood waters in the Taitung country. This followed the deadly Typhoon Morakot, which hit Taiwan, causing a mudslide that buried an entire village, while the inhabitants were sleeping. Approximately 4 - 600 people are still missing. “A part of the mountain above us just fell on the village", said one shocked survivor.
With Typhoon Morakot dumping up to 80 inches of rain over the weekend Taiwan is experiencing the worst flooding in fifty years. The waves reached heights of 26 feet, as around 2,000 houses collapsed.
Causing the evacuation of nearly 1 million people Typhoon Morakot swept on into China. The typhoon had already killed 22 people in the Philippines. Five apartment buildings collapsed in China, as a result of Tyhpoon Morakot.
Further north Japan was slammed with Tyhpoon Etau, killing 12 people, with 10 still missing.
Dr Wendy Stenberg-Tendys and her husband are CEO's of YouMe Support Foundation (http://youmesupport.org) provides high school education grants for children who are without hope. A chance to fulfill their dreams at whatever level they chose to. Take a few minutes to check it out at Win A Resort (http://winaresort.com)
Feel free to contact Wendy on admin@youmesupport.org
Photo:
http://www.prlog.org/
