Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010...5:24 am

Disaster

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This isn’t about screen printing, but I can’t help but comment.

The earthquake in Chile

is nearly incomprehensible.

Santiago, Chile has extensive damage.

Santiago is three hundred miles from the epicenter of

the quake. Th at is like

a quake in Philadelphia causing extensive damage in Boston.

I can’ t fa

thom that.

There are an estimated 500,000 homes in ruins. That is every s ingle home

in Boston. Then that is every single home in Boston again!

I spent some time in Chile. There is tremendous damage to a little town called Curico.

Again it is closer than Santiago to the quake center, but it isn’ t really wha

t you normally would call close.

Earthquake damage in Curico, Chile. Not even that close to the epicenter. I was there a couple years ago and cannot imagine this happening to a pretty poor town already.

Earthquake damage in Curico, Chile.

It is not even that close to the epicenter.

I was there a couple years ago and cannot imagine this happening to a community that was struggling even before the disaster.

I’m looking into what charities will be the best to help with this.

For now I would recommend Doctors Without Borders  (doctorswithoutborders.com) who always do a good job and spend their money wisely.

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