One week after this (check
One week after this (check out the death toll of 60 in the CNN article 6 hours later!)
gd: hey.
dj: hi!
dj: what's up
gd: hey
dj: we're in a humid windowless room,
dj: where we always are.
gd: what r u doing up?
dj: talk about sweatshop!
dj: we are coding.
gd: that's horrible!is it hot outside?
dj: i figure, why relax when i am poor when i can relax later rich
dj: just kidding
dj: it is hot during the day
dj: freezing at night, typical desert
gd: r u near where the earthquake was?
dj: about 750+ miles
dj: but it woke us up.
dj: i was actually about to write about it for randomwalks...
dj: anyway, as you may or may not know it was republic day, the biggest holiday of the year
gd: was it yer 1st earthquake?
dj: (no it was my 2nd...)
gd: what happens on republic day?
dj: there had been a lot of bomb threats, because it it a day to celebrate india's unity and military might
dj: anyway, you can figure out that for a lot of people in india that's problematic
dj: so there is always the threat of violence
dj: and when the earthquake woke us up at first i thought it was a bomb.
dj: and i thought mark and i were dead for sure.
gd: how scary!
dj: and when i figured out it was an earthquake (because I was in an SF earthquake once)
dj: I was relieved!
dj: and Mark was like, "oh, earthquake"
gd: that's funny.
dj: and I was up for like ten minutes and then i said, you know mark, i bet a couple hundred people just died around delhi
dj: little did i know!
dj: and then we went back to sleep
gd: yeah, it's really horrible.
dj: it's completely inconceivable.
dj: take hundreds of communities that are already impovershed well past anything we have ever seen in our lives
dj: and then destroy all their buildings, food sources, and 25% of the population
dj: it's unbelievable.