Revolution, Eruption, Earthquake and Tsunami

[andrawes76]

I have found it to be quite remarkable and coincidental that all these things are going on right now. NO I am not a Nostradamus believer. I think the world will survive another million years (with or without human beings) but its been a crazy few weeks. My uncle (who is an Egyptian Christian from Alexandria) was in Egypt at the onset of the coup. He went there to relax after chemo. He told me that he has been having the time of his life seeing all thats going on there. His wife (my aunt) is in Hawaii and watched an eruption and has been scared into higher ground because of the earthquake. My sister (who lives in San Fran) just got back two days ago from Japan. All I can say is that I am happy to be in Austin, TX right now but certainly concerned for the millions of affected people in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt and Japan. Lets toast to them sometime this weekend and give them a secret prayer from bacchus and whoever or whatever higher being you worship. Cheers, Alex

[winoweenie]

Youse have certainly covered all the erupting areas. Hopefully there's a light in the future. Have been busy too. WW

[TheEngineer]

The Statistician in us will say that all of these things are in fact coincidental and that really only because of 24 hour news and a heavily populated coastal line that we notice all these things. But we can help but be human and try to find the trends in this. I agree, seems like lots of stuff lately. Major earthquakes recently in Haiti, Chile, New Zealand and now this.

[Thomas]

Yesterday, while driving to my radiation treatment office I heard the Japan news. Suddenly, I got a feeling of impending doom for the world.

Until then, and until the crackdown in Lybia, I had been building great hope for the direction of the Middle East. After having lived in Iran for 2 years in the 1970s, I've always held a special sense of relationship to the Middle and Near East.

[andrawes76]

As have I Thomas, I lived in Tunisia for 9 years and was there during the Bourghiba vs. Ben Ali coup d'etat. I am proud of the fact that their country people are taking the initiative to press for change. Power is certainly in the numbers.

[Thomas]

Alex,

I'm sure you know the special relationship that the Middle East--and Tunisia (Carthage)--had with wine...

[andrawes76]

Thomas, I do. In fact I have a lot of ancient roman wine jugs, cups, roman lamps. All original. It is a magical country/place.