UN: 24 dead, 70,000 homeless in Chad flooding

I found this article regarding the flooding in Chad (Africa) really interesting because it had a lot to do with the first chapter of the book.  The floods in Chad left 70,000 people without shelter and the threat of cholera has become dangerously high.  The book talked about LDCs and how they react to natural disasters and I think this article represented this well.  More than 77,000 acres of crops were destroyed and many of the underdevoloped roads have been washed away and are now unpassable to aid workers so much of the aid relief now has to be airlifted to poverty stricen survivors.  It makes you wonder as to how much devastion would have occured if such flooding had taken place in an area in the midwestern United States or somewhere in Europe?



http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/09/12/chad.flooding/index.html