{"id":2257,"date":"2008-05-05T12:34:31","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T12:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/05\/05\/the-latest-obscenely-underrepo\/"},"modified":"2008-05-05T12:34:31","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T12:34:31","slug":"the-latest-obscenely-underrepo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/05\/the-latest-obscenely-underrepo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latest Obscenely Underreported Natural Disaster:  10,000 &#8211; 15,000 Dead in Cyclone Nargis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is in Myanmar, where a repressive military government has yet to allow relief workers mustering now in nearby Thailand to enter the country to lend assistance.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-a97f484693eec79ed339ecb6b178f899-Screenshot-12.png?w=604\" alt=\"i-a97f484693eec79ed339ecb6b178f899-Screenshot-12.png\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><!--more-->Cyclone Nargis made land fall Saturday in southern Myanmar in the vicinity of Labutta with sustained winds of up to 120 mph.  It is only now being reported to any significant degree, even though it was clear that this would be a major disaster even before land fall.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Reports are coming out of the delta coast, particularly the Irrawaddy region, that in some villages up to 95 percent of houses have been destroyed,&#8221; said Matthew Cochrane at the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies&#8217; Geneva headquarters.&#8221;Widespread destruction is obviously making it more difficult to get aid to people who need it most,&#8221; said Michael Annear, regional disaster management coordinator for the federation.The situation in the countryside remained unclear because of poor communications and roads left impassable by the storm.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/24459578\/\">source<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/intersection\/2008\/05\/cyclone_nargis_death_toll_coul.php\">The Intersection<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/05\/05\/myanmar.cyclone\/index.html\">CNN<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/24459578\/\">MSNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is in Myanmar, where a repressive military government has yet to allow relief workers mustering now in nearby Thailand to enter the country to lend assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[120,97],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-Ap","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}