South Korea Continues to Calculate Damage and Death Caused by Typhoon Hinnamnor
I just don’t understand why people cannot just stay inside and wait until the storm passes. It seems every typhoon the casualty are caused by people not bunkering down inside:
Three people were found dead and eight others went missing in South Korea after Typhoon Hinnamnor passed by the southern part of the country Tuesday, authorities said.
Pohang city officials said seven people were reported to be out of contact after entering the inundated underground parking lot of an apartment building in the city at around 6:30 a.m. to remove their cars.
Rescuers are currently carrying out an operation to drain the parking garage and find those missing.
A 66-year-old woman who was unaccounted for after entering the underground parking garage of another apartment building in Pohang in the morning was found dead six hours later, the officials said.
Yonhap
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Tragic; but you’re right, GI. They were probably old enough to know better. But that’s no comfort to family and friends.
I guess we all need to make sure we’re not putting stuff we can replace (even as expensive as a car) over the value of a human life, especially our own.
May the Lord comfort the grieving.
How many times does this happen a year:
– Korean can’t swim
– Korean goes to river
– Korean drinks soju
– Korean goes in river that is waist deep in all but one spot
– Korean drowns
– American shows up and can only get into knee-deep water in roped-off area while wearing a life vest and listening to the constantly blowing whistle of a crabby old rule enforcer
I’m not sure of what attraction dark and scary water offers to people who can’t swim but it must be the same thing your half cup of beer offers to flys between the time you pass out and noon.
Well, guess what? Expensive cars are more important than you, setnaffa.