Thursday, September 15, 2005

Katrina vs Mumbai ??

Like many of you must have received, I also rcvd following in a fwd mail ...

inches of rain in new orleans due to hurricane katrina... 18
inches of rain in mumbai (July 27th).... 37.1

population of new orleans... 484,674
population of mumbai.... 12,622,500

deaths in new orleans within 48 hours of katrina...100
deaths in mumbai within 48hours of rain.. 37.

number of people to be evacuated in new orleans... entire city..wohh
number of people evacuated in mumbai...10,000

Cases of shooting and violence in new orleans...Countless
Cases of shooting and violence in mumbai.. NONE

Time taken for US army to reach new orleans... 48hours
Time taken for Indian army and navy to reach mumbai...12hours

status 48hours later...new orleans is still waiting for relief, armyand electricty
status 48hours later..mumbai is back on its feet and is business is asusual

USA...world's most developed nation
India...JUST A DEVELOPING NATION..

I don't know how far this is factual, didn't even bother to find it out.
We all know hurricane is lot more than torrential rains that happened in Mumbai,

First of all whether these 2 events are comparable ?
If you see number of deaths in US due to Katrina
and the devastation in New Orleans, this comparison doesn't sound correct.
However, only good thing in India is there were no major cases of starting a loot in such natural calamities (except a few in 1994 Maharashtra earthquake ). Irony is US is being offered help from countries it doesn't have diplomatic relations with... in the name of humanity!

Also, if you analyze overall handling by FEMA esp. sacking piece, you can very well say that US has been a bit too busy in trying to take control over world instead its own people!

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