It’s hard to grasp the numbers we’re hearing from the tsunami disaster, numbers that seem to be mounting each time my web browser refreshes the front page of whatever newspaper site I have up. So Lis Riba compares American cities with census populations under the current death toll: Berkeley, CA, Athens, GA, Charleston, SC, Cambridge, Ma, and Albany, NY to name a few. And it’s likely to get worse. "Greater than the population of Somerville," she writes. "Completely wiped out. Words fail me."
Simply horrific.
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