1,100 Dead in Bangladesh

AP news alerts say 1,100 are dead after a "cyclone" in Bangladesh.

Led us to a discussion of what a cyclone actually was. It's a hurricane on the western hemisphere.

 

Wow. That's such a densely populated country that any minor natural disaster kills hundreds. And this, by all accounts, was no minor natural disaster ...

 

A cyclone is any low-pressure system; what we call a hurricane in the Atantic and Eastern Pacific is a typhoon in the Western Pacific and a tropical cyclone in the Indian Ocean and around Australia.

 

That death toll lept from 500-some to more than 1,000 pretty quickly. I hate to think where it might further leap as they find people.

 

Thanks for the clarification. We had no idea except that it was similar to a tornado. Someone went to wikipedia and looked it up.

 

Blame Bush.
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Bush would just blame Nagin and Blanco and heap more praise on Brownie while strumming his gee-tar.

 

Didn't take long.

 

I neglected the blue font.

 

I was talking about the jokes in general.