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Tuesday, September 18, 2007 12:00 AM

Typhoon Wipha heads for Shanghai

1.6 million people have already been evacuated. Cue the climate-change/super-storm debate.
Andrew Leonard

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  • Tuesday, September 18, 2007 06:44 PM

    Living there

    Shanghai regularly gets huge and nasty floods.

    And the people brush it off without much care...huge winds and great rain make for fun nights of ma jong and bai jiu.

    How? A sense of comradeship, well built (cement not wood) houses and apartments, lots of rice and other foods stored up in the average fangzi and a history of (man-made) disasters because their 'city-state' is in China.

    The Katrina comparison is silly...

    The only thing that could wipe out Shanghai is a tsunami...as that was purely nature destroying lives while Katrina was nature plus some rotten 'human nature.' Get it?

    —JClarkd Read JClarkd's other letters

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