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Heavy rains pound India; 163 killed over 4 days
LUCKNOW, India - Heavy rains continued to lash northern and eastern India with 49 people reported killed over the past two days as authorities rushed Tuesday to rescue hundreds of thousands trapped in their homes.
The latest reported deaths brought the toll of those killed by monsoon flooding to 163 over the last four days.
Most of the dead were from India's most populous northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where 32 people were killed by drowning, house collapses and electrocution since Monday, as most rivers in the state spilled their banks, state relief commissioner G.K. Tandon said Tuesday.
Another 70 people were killed over the weekend in the state and floods forced 200,000 people to flee their homes, Tandon said. The state government set up more than 2,000 relief camps across Uttar Pradesh to house the flood survivors.
In eastern Orissa state, the death toll over the last four days from heavy rains and flooding rose to 29, said chief secretary Ajit Kumar Tripathi. On Monday 17 people were reported to have died.
Authorities evacuated nearly 285,000 people since Friday and put them in 261 state-run relief camps, Tripathi told The Associated Press. Officials were trying to reach an addition 200,000 stranded villagers.
More rain is expected over the next few days and the state government has called in help from the Indian navy, Tripathi said, adding about 650 villages were inundated.
Three Indian air force helicopters were dropping food packages to stranded villagers and 1,300 motor and row boats were rescuing people in the worst hit districts.
Incessant monsoon precipitation caused the Mahanadi river to breach its banks in several places, causing the worst flooding in 26 years in Orissa state.
Another 32 people died in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh over the weekend, most buried by mudslides triggered by heavy rains, news reports said.
The latest floods came just a month after the monsoon-swollen Kosi river, a Ganges tributary that flows from Nepal to India, burst its banks and submerged nearly 1,000 villages in the impoverished northern Indian state of Bihar, killing at least 48 people and driving more than 1 million others from their homes.
The annual monsoon season, which runs from June to September, brings rains that are vital to agriculture in South Asia but also can cause massive destruction. - AP LUCKNOW, India - Heavy rains continued to lash northern and eastern India with 49 people reported killed over the past two days as aut... more -
Lord, Somebody Got Drowned
In the heart of the black community,and among some of the oldest neighborhoods in The City of West Palm Beach, at the intersection of Tamarind Avenue and 25th Street, sits a 1 1/2 acre lot containing the remains of some 674 unidentified men, women, and children; victims of The Great Okeechobee Hurricane. They were migrant farmers and laborers of western Palm Beach County. Mostly black people, they were segregated even in death and were interred without coffins, as wood was reserved for whites only.
Florida author Zora Neale Hurston described the mass burial in her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God: "... Don't let me ketch none uh y'all dumpin' white folks, and don't be wastin' no boxes on colored," a guard in the book says. "They's too hard tuh git ahold of right now."
In life, they helped turn a South Florida swamp into a booming tropical mecca. In death, they were pitched into a trench, and left to be ignored for three-quarters of a century, neglected and nearly forgotten. A sewer-treatment plant and slaughter house were built adjacent to the site and a road was paved over a section of the grave.
80 years later, community leaders since have come together and worked to have the site beautified and registered as a National Historic Landmark, insuring the site and the dignity of those who died in Florida's most deadly hurricane is preserved.
The September 16, 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane is the second most deadly storm in United States history. In total, the hurricane killed at least 4,078 people and caused around $100 million ($1 billion 2006 US dollars) in damages over the course of its path. In the heart of the black community,and among some of the oldest neighborhoods in The City of West Palm Beach, at the intersection of ... more -
Houston-Galveston could face major damage from Ike
HOUSTON - Gleaming skyscrapers, the nation's biggest refinery and NASA's Johnson Space Center lie in areas that could be vulnerable to wind and damaging floodwaters if Hurricane Ike crashes ashore as a major hurricane.
Forecasters expect the storm to make landfall this weekend somewhere between Corpus Christi and Houston, creating the potential for heavy punishment for Houston even if it's not hit directly.
Some forecasts say Ike could strengthen to a fearsome Category 4 hurricane with winds of at least 131 mph over the Gulf of Mexico, and emergency officials warned it could drive a storm surge as high as 18 feet.
If current projections of the storm's path hold up, the area surrounding Houston — home to about 4 million people — would be lashed by the eastern or "dirty" side of the storm, said meteorologist Jeff Masters, co-founder of San Francisco-based Weather Underground. This stronger side of the storm often packs heavy rains, walloping storm surge and tornadoes.
"I expect a lot of damage in Houston from this storm," said Masters, adding that Ike could cause a "huge storm surge" affecting at least 100 miles of the Texas coast.
Houston officials were expecting some flooding, the question is how much.
Patrick Trahan, spokesman for the city of Houston, told The Associated Press early Thursday that "based on the current forecast (we) would expect to see some flooding based solely on the surge in some low-lying areas."
Four counties south and east of Houston have announced mandatory or voluntary evacuations, and authorities began moving weak and chronically ill patients by bus to San Antonio, about 190 miles from Houston. About 1 million people live in the coastal counties between Corpus Christi and Galveston.
But no immediate evacuations were ordered in Harris County, which includes Houston.
The Galveston-Houston area could be on the edge of hurricane-force wind gusts, even if the storm makes land 100 miles to the southwest as some forecasts say is likely, said forecaster Joe Bartosik. Storm surges in the Houston-Galveston area could reach 10 to 14 feet in a Category 3 storm, and as much as 20 feet for a Category 4, said Bartosik, senior meteorologist with WeatherBug, a private weather company with 1,500 weather stations along the Gulf Coast.
The surge in Galveston Bay could push floodwaters into Houston, damaging areas that include the nation's biggest refinery and NASA's Johnson Space Center.
Diana Rangel, a lifelong resident of Freeport, which is under a mandatory evacuation order in Brazoria County, said it is better that she, her family and other residents on the Texas coast, leave.
"We don't want to get stuck out here (in flood waters)," she said Wednesday as she filled her car with gasoline at a convenience store in Freeport overrun with other vehicles waiting in line to fill up.
The oil and gas industry also watched the storm closely, fearing damage to the very heart of its operations.
Texas is home to 26 refineries that account for one-fourth of U.S. refining capacity, and most are clustered along the Gulf Coast in such places as Houston, Port Arthur and Corpus Christi. Exxon Mobil Corp.'s plant in Baytown, outside Houston, is the nation's largest refinery. Dow Chemical has a huge operation just north of Corpus Christi.
Refineries are built to withstand high winds, but flooding can disrupt operations and — as happened in Louisiana after Hurricane Gustav — power outages can shut down equipment for days or weeks. An extended shutdown could lead to higher gasoline prices.
At 5 a.m. EDT, Ike was a Category 2 storm with winds near 100 mph. It was about 620 miles east of Brownsville, Texas, and was moving west-northwest near 9 mph, after ravaging homes in Cuba and killing dozens of people in the Caribbean. HOUSTON - Gleaming skyscrapers, the nation's biggest refinery and NASA's Johnson Space Center lie in areas that could be vul... more -
And, Now for Hurricanes Hanna and Ike.
A busy Atlantic hurricane season moved into top gear as Hurricane Hanna developed near the Bahamas just as Gustav's winds and surge lashed New Orleans and the newly formed ninth storm of the year looked set to eventually threaten the United States or Caribbean.
The flurry of storms was the latest evidence that predictions for a busier than normal season were on the mark, and was worrisome news for U.S. oil and natural gas producers in the Gulf of Mexico, millions living in the Caribbean and on U.S. coasts, and farmers fearing flooded fields. At 7am this morning, Hurricane Hanna was packing maximum sustained winds of 80kmh and intensifying near Mayaguana Island in the southeastern Bahamas, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
The hurricane that forced the exodus of two million from New Orleans has made landfall west of the Louisiana city.
Hanna, which had meandered for days bewildering hurricane forecasters, was expected to churn northwest through the Bahamas before striking the U.S. East Coast between north Florida and the Carolinas.
Mayaguana, the most southeasterly of the Bahama islands, has a sparse population of about 1,000 people. Telephone contact with the island was not possible late on Monday.
The nearby Turks and Caicos Islands were also hit by heavy rain and strong winds as Hanna gathered pace.
"There's been no damage here so far," a resident of Grand Turk said. "But there is strong wind. ... I think the capital, Providenciales, is getting it worse than us."
Hanna was the fourth hurricane of the six-month season.
Atlantic storm seasons start on June 1 and usually peak on September 10 and have an average of 10 tropical storms, six of which strengthen into hurricanes with top sustained winds of at least 119 kmh.
The nine storms so far mean that this year is already way ahead of normal activity, even though forecasters say it is very unlikely to match record-busting 2005, when 28 storms formed, including Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans.
In addition to Hanna - and eventually posing perhaps a bigger menace - Tropical Storm Ike formed on Monday midway between Africa and the Caribbean and was expected to strengthen rapidly into a hurricane.
Behind Ike, a tropical wave was coming off the coast of West Africa and could develop into a tropical depression, the precursors to tropical storms and hurricanes.
By late afternoon, Ike was about 2,250 km east of the Leeward Islands and moving west at 16 mph, the hurricane center said.
Its top sustained winds of 85 kph were expected to reach hurricane strength within 36 hours.
Computer models used to forecast tropical storm tracks indicated Ike was likely to stick to a westerly path that would bring it just north of the island of Hispaniola, shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
The Miami-based hurricane center said Ike could be a "major" hurricane by then. Major hurricanes are those that rank at Category 3 and higher on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of storm intensity and are the most destructive.
Hurricane Katrina was a Category 3 when it came ashore near New Orleans, killing 1,500 people on the U.S. Gulf Coast. Hurricane Gustav was also a Category 3 on Monday shortly before landfall but it weakened as it landed.
Long-range track and intensity forecasts are subject to enormous error but some models suggested Ike could eventually dip to the south-southwest, potentially threatening Haiti, Cuba or the Gulf of Mexico where the United States produces 25 percent of its oil and 15 percent of its natural gas. A busy Atlantic hurricane season moved into top gear as Hurricane Hanna developed near the Bahamas just as Gustav's winds and sur... more -
Pumps keeping up with New Orleans flooding
By David Alexander
WASHINGTON, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Waves from Hurricane Gustav caused some flooding over the tops of levees in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, hard-hit during Hurricane Katrina three years ago, but city pumps were clearing the floodwaters, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said on Monday.
Maj. Gen. Don Riley, deputy commander of the engineers, said the hardest-hit areas were farther south in Louisiana near where Gustav came ashore earlier on Monday. Officials were concerned about heavier flooding in those regions and the possibility of erosion of levees and flood barriers, he said.
A full assessment of damage in the region was not expected to begin until Tuesday, Riley said in a briefing on hurricane damage by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
"We're very very concerned about flooding in southern Louisiana and overtopping of any (flood barrier) systems down there," Riley said. He added that the ones "we think are in the greatest danger are in south Lafourche Parish."
He said there were significant storm surges further east in Mississippi as well, with the town of Waveland experiencing some flooding of homes, as happened during Hurricane Katrina.
Gustav hit shore near Cocodrie, Louisiana, about 70 miles (115 km) southwest of New Orleans, as a Category 2 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity, one step below Katrina's strength when it made landfall.
The storm surge that reached up into New Orleans came to within a foot (30 cm) of the top of some levees, resulting in waves washing over into the interior of the city, Riley said.
"On the western side of Upper 9th Ward on the western side of the Inner Harbor Canal, you may have seen some overwash and flooding over the top of that, interior flooding which the city's pumps will keep up with," Riley said.
He confirmed reports that vessels had come unmoored in the Inner Harbor, but added "right now they are not endangering any flood walls or levees."
He said although waves washing over the tops of the levees in New Orleans and high water pressing the walls raised the potential for problems, officials were "confident in the resilience" of the levees rebuilt after Katrina.
"There's no question they have a safer system now than they did during Katrina," one official said of the levee system.
Asked how much the storm would set back the Corps of Engineers' project to restore and fortify the levees after Katrina, Riley said the New Orleans project was only about 25 percent finished and was due to be completed by 2011.
"What you saw in the Inner Harbor, those levees are fairly low, about 12 feet (3.7 metres)," he said. "We will inflate surge barriers in the future so that it won't even reach those levees and flood walls in the Inner Harbor. There's much work to do."
Up to 50,000 National Guards troops have been authorized by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to help following the hurricane, Maj. Bill Etter of the National Guard said.
"Right now as we talk we have just over 14,000 citizen soldiers and citizen airmen responding to the Gulf coast," he said, adding that number could be increased as needs arose.
Etter said the guard had evacuated 17,000 people from the region ahead of the storm. He said they had flown 65 air medical evacuation missions before the hurricane struck and had 87 helicopters ready to move into the area as soon as it subsided.
The guard was beginning 24-hour security patrols following the storm, he added. By David Alexander ... more -
1m displaced by floods in northern India
· 'National calamity' after Kosi bursts banks, says PM · Experts say corruption is largely responsible
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Man Presumed Dead in 1976 Found Alive
Darrell Johnson deals with the dead but is very much alive despite being presumed otherwise after a 1976 Colorado flood.
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Tarantulas and snakes lurk in Hurricane Dolly floodwaters
South Texans wading through Hurricane Dolly floodwaters to salvage homes and belongings now have another problem: the floodwaters are laced with stinging fire ants, snakes and tarantulas.
Sweet baby Jesus and all the angels. As if flooding wasn't enough for these poor folk. The creepiest animals alive are now lurking in the murky depths? Eek.
"You don't want to wade in this water," said state Health Services Commissioner David Lakey. "You don't want to play in this water. You want to stay out of this water."
Good advice, burly, reassuring American. Take heed, Texans. South Texans wading through Hurricane Dolly floodwaters to salvage homes and belongings now have another problem: the floodwaters are ... more -
Dam breaks might as well surf
New beach front property, in the middle of a city.
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La furia dell'acqua!
Agli inizi del 2001 la band valdostana losbastardos, dopo aver vissuto in prima persona il dramma dell’alluvione in Valle d’Aosta [14-15 ottobre 2000], decide di comporre un brano per esprimere le sensazioni provate in prima persona e quelle condivise con altri protagonisti dell’evento. Da questa commistione di ingredienti nasce il brano Fino in Fondo. Di lì a poco decidono di comune accordo con l’etichetta discografica Opere Buffe di trasmettere al pubblico anche l’aspetto visivo della catastrofe; viene così commissionata la realizzazione di un videoclip controcorrente che denunci il sempre più visibile rivoluzionarsi del clima e focalizzare l’attenzione sui problemi ambientali che hanno già colpito la Valle d’Aosta e potrebbero purtroppo avverarsi anche in altre zone a rischio.
Nel 2002 vede quindi la luce il videoclip musicale che, per volontà della band, mostra un meticoloso montaggio di immagini filmate da videoamatori che ritrae la potenza dell’acqua durante le giornate dell’alluvione del 2001 e i giorni seguenti senza mostrare immagini della band stessa per accentuare la drammaticità del messaggio e rispettare la sensibilità della popolazione colpita dalla tragedia.
Il videoclip è stato promosso dalla band e trasmesso per breve tempo su Rock TV ma ne è stata negata la presenza in rotazione su MTV.
L’opera è stata dedicata a coloro che non sono riusciti a salvarsi dalla catastrofe.
Testo e musica: losbastardos
Premiato per il miglior soggetto al M.E.I. di Faenza – Novembre 2002
Produzione artistica: Hairi Vogel
Produzione: Opere Buffe S.A.S
Montaggio e Post-Produzione: Federico Crosara – Maria Signorini (Pierrot e La rosa Bologna)
Immagini: Vito Angster – Eucardio Ottolenghi – Giulio Vuillermoz – Ugo Squinobal – Stefano Ceccon – Edy Colliard
Immagini di repertorio: AVI Presse – Protezione Civile – Regione Autonoma Valle d’Aosta
Immagini fotografiche: Davide Camisasca
Riversamenti: AVI Presse Agli inizi del 2001 la band valdostana losbastardos, dopo aver vissuto in prima persona il dramma dell’alluvione in Valle d’Aosta [14-... more -
Gay Mayonnaise?
Just one of the things Conor talks about in this week's media roundup. Also, Shaq disses Kobe and Tila Tequila gets all political. Just one of the things Conor talks about in this week's media roundup. Also, Shaq disses Kobe and Tila Tequila gets all political... more
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Flooding in Iowa caused by humans, not nature, according to experts
As the Cedar River rose higher and higher, and as he stacked sandbags along the levee protecting downtown Cedar Falls, Kamyar Enshayan, a college professor and City Council member, kept asking himself the same question: "What is going on?"
The river would eventually rise six feet higher than any flood on record. Farther downstream, in Cedar Rapids, the river would break the record by more than 11 feet.
Enshayan, director of an environmental center at the University of Northern Iowa, suspects that this natural disaster wasn't really all that natural. He points out that the heavy rains fell on a landscape radically reengineered by humans. Plowed fields have replaced tallgrass prairies. Fields have been meticulously drained with underground pipes. Streams and creeks have been straightened. Most of the wetlands are gone. Flood plains have been filled and developed. As the Cedar River rose higher and higher, and as he stacked sandbags along the levee protecting downtown Cedar Falls, Kamyar Enshayan... more -
One million flee Chinese floods
Flooding in China has already left 55 people dead and has forced one million people to flee their homes. The flooding has caused damage across nine provinces, including Sichuan which is still recovering from last months earthquake which claimed at least 70,000 lives. Flooding in China has already left 55 people dead and has forced one million people to flee their homes. The flooding has caused damag... more
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Flooding in the Midwest - 6 foot high flash flood traps people in shed...
Flooding in the Tri-States (Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois)
Thursday June 12, 2008
A look at flooding in four cities: Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Gays Mills, Wis., Potosi, Wis. and East Dubuque, Ill. Flooding in the Tri-States (Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois) Thursday June 12, 2008 ... more -
Iowa flood evacuations rise, losses seen in billions
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (Reuters) - Overflowing rivers in Iowa and other Midwest states forced evacuations and disrupted the region's economy on Friday with fears of worse to come from fragile levees and more rain.
A Cedar Rapids hospital was flooded and evacuated its patients after a levee break on the Cedar River turned the downtown area into a shallow lake. Thousands were forced to leave their homes in the worst Midwest flooding in 15 years.
"I don't know how much damage is done," said Latrina Walker, huddled at a shelter with her four children. "I'm just really scared right now."
Floodwaters inundated about 100 city blocks of Cedar Rapids, Iowa's second-largest city with 200,000 residents. Rescuers in boats picked up people who were stranded or had had ignored warnings to leave.
Officials in Des Moines city urged residents living near the rising Des Moines River to evacuate.
"We think that the levels are going to be at or very close to levee height," Mayor Frank Cownie said. "We're working like crazy to protect our property."
Iowa Gov. Chet Culver said the damage to his state could cost billions of dollars. Scores of bridges spanning nine overflowing rivers have been swept away or weakened.
"I have real concerns about our agricultural sector. I have toured the state and seen the devastation to our crops," Culver said. CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (Reuters) - Overflowing rivers in Iowa and other Midwest states forced evacuations and disrupted the region's ... more -
Upper Midwest flooding forces evacuations
Rising water from the Cedar River forced the evacuation of a downtown hospital Friday after residents of more than 3,000 homes fled for higher ground. A railroad bridge collapsed, and 400 city blocks were under water.
In Des Moines, 100 miles to the southeast, officials issued a voluntary evacuation order for much of downtown and other areas bordering the Des Moines River. Mayor Frank Cownie said the evacuations were an attempt "to err on the side of citizens and residents."
Des Moines is Iowa's capital and largest city, with about 190,000 residents. But the hardest-hit was Cedar Rapids, a city of 124,000 people.
Gov. Chet Culver declared 83 of the state's 99 counties to be state disaster areas, and nine rivers were at or above historic flood levels. Elsewhere in the upper Midwest, rivers and streams tipping their banks forced evacuations, closed roads, and even threatened drinking water.
The hospital's 176 patients, including about 30 patients in a nursing home facility at the hospital, were being evacuated to other hospitals in the region. The evacuation started late Thursday night and continued Friday morning in the city of 124,000 residents. Rising water from the Cedar River forced the evacuation of a downtown hospital Friday after residents of more than 3,000 homes fled fo... more -
1 Dead, 1 Missing in Indiana Flood
Massive flooding has hit Indiana after a series of heavy rains. Evacuations have been happening all over, and now some sad news comes out of Columbus.
"The Indiana Department of Homeland Security said Sunday morning that one person had died as a result of flooding, but did not immediately release details. That fatality was confirmed in Columbus."
I hope everyone in Indiana is safe. We're keeping you and your family in our thoughts, ocanada!
Midwest Flooding video clip from Yahoo! News channel on Yahoo! Video: http://video.yahoo.com/watch/2842138/8209615 Massive flooding has hit Indiana after a series of heavy rains. Evacuations have been happening all over, and now some sad news comes ... more -
China orders evacuation amid quake flood fears
Chinese authorities on Tuesday ordered the evacuation of 80,000 people as troops scrambled to hold back a dangerously swelling lake formed by this month's devastating earthquake.
As the death toll from the May 12 quake jumped to 67,000, state press said that emergency workers aimed to move the residents from their homes near the so-called "quake lake" by midnight (1600 GMT) on Tuesday.
Around 70,000 people were evacuated earlier from Beichuan County as concern rose that the lake - formed when the quake triggered landslides that blocked the Jian river - could overflow and surge downstream.
Heightening the sense of fear still stalking China's southwestern Sichuan province, a strong aftershock measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale rattled the area and was felt in the provincial capital Chengdu.
About 30 minutes later another aftershock measuring 5.7 shook neighbouring Shaanxi province, China's state news agency Xinhua reported.
Xinhua later said 420,000 houses had collapsed in Sichuan's Qingchuan County as a result of the aftershocks and 63 people there had been injured, six critically.
He Yongnian, former deputy director of the China Seismological Bureau, was quoted by Xinhua news agency as saying that aftershocks could "last for two or three months," complicating already difficult quake relief efforts.
Authorities have had to cope with thousands of aftershocks and a myriad of other dangers while trying to provide food, shelter and medical help for the millions left homeless across an area the size of South Korea.
In Beijing, cabinet spokesman Guo Weimin said the confirmed death toll stood at 67,183, with a further 20,790 missing.
One of the most urgent tasks now is trying to prevent the lake - one of 35 said to be at risk - spilling over and swamping an area that is home to some 1.3 million people.
Troops armed with dynamite are trying to blast channels through the debris blocking the river to reduce the level of the lake, thought to be holding some 130 million cubic metres of water.
Liu Ning, the water resources ministry's chief engineer who is supervising the operation, said people were being moved for their own safety.
"It's better for them to complain about the trouble that the evacuation would bring than to shed tears after the possible danger," he said.
The lake is inaccessible by road and the teams of soldiers, engineers and police had to hike through remote and mountainous terrain.
Li Huzhang, an engineer in the paramilitary People's Armed Police, said at least 50,000 cubic metres of debris would have to be removed but rescuers were aiming for 100,000 cubic metres to minimise the risk.
However, predictions of further rain threatened to make the operation more difficult and caused jitters among locals living in makeshift camps near their collapsed homes.
Wang Sumu, 42, said the tents were "hot like ovens" in direct sunlight and "when it rains, they will be even more unbearable."
The government said last week that just over 5.4 million people lost their homes. Many now live in tents or hastily erected units in temporary camps, but an untold number are still living without any shelter at all.
Another concern is the possible spread of disease in the disaster zone. A health ministry spokesman said Tuesday that mass emergency vaccinations would be carried out, but reported no major outbreaks thus far. Chinese authorities on Tuesday ordered the evacuation of 80,000 people as troops scrambled to hold back a dangerously swelling lake fo... more -
Frog Migration: Omen to China Earthquake Disaster | Weird Asia News
On May 5th, many Chinese locals noticed thousands of frogs on the move. They were seen traveling without fear of traffic as they crossed streets in mass floods. On May 5th, many Chinese locals noticed thousands of frogs on the move. They were seen traveling without fear of traffic as they cross... more
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The End of Poverty - The "Homework" of Our Generation
My name is Shawn and I used to be a graduate student at the University of Notre Dame. I was inspired to put graduate school on hold and leave the comforts of home behind and come to Bangladesh after meeting Dr. Jeffrey Sachs. Dr. Sachs is author of the book called "The End of Poverty". His message is simple: we can end poverty in our lifetime and it doesn't take drastic changes for that to happen. I've been here since the last week of June '07 trying to do my part to help the poorest of the poor. This the first of many videos documenting my experiences here.
I also run a blog at http://uncultured.com
I look forward to being able to share this with the Current.com community! My name is Shawn and I used to be a graduate student at the University of Notre Dame. I was inspired to put graduate school on hold an... more
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