First of all, I'm fine!
If you've been following the news alerts from China, especially on CNN, then you may have been a bit misinformed of the location of the earthquake that hit the other day. The first reports were of an earthquake in Beijing.
True it was a 7.8 quake, but the epicenter was actually in a city named Wenchuan, in the Sichuan Provence. this is about 1000miles south of Beijing. None of us here at my work felt a thing although some people reported feeling some of the tremors. We have a production facility near that city, but everyone was evacuated and accounted for with no injuries.
In my opinion the news media really needs to clean up their act. They seem to be so intent on being the "First On The Scene" and way short on accuracy of reporting! They also only seem to know about 4 cities in China and over use them as reference points: Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tibet. If anything happens remotely near any of these places they act as if it happened right in the heart of the city.
Also it was actually the Tibetan fault that slipped and cause the quake, Karma perhaps! ;-)
So whenever watching the news these days please keep in mind that they are always trying to sensationalize things (excitement sells, not necessarily the truth!), and you need to check the sources because they certainly are not anymore!
Well here goes nothing, The site is up and going! No particular theme for us, we'll just kind of wing it as we go. Hope you enjoy!
3 comments:
How very true you are thunder .the news only tells us want they want us to here. Least of all the truth. The truth never did sell. Sensationalism sex and drama now that what sells S T E B ps.thanks for the clarification .
STEB - Hey man, I didn't even know that it had happened until I got a call from Lightnin to make sure I was OK!
Thunder, tell Lightning that things are shakin' here too! We have an offer on Dad's house. I tried calling your cell to see what she thought, but couldn't reach ya'll. Anyway, I went ahead and made a counter offer and am waiting to hear back from Geoff. He said he was showing the house again tonight to a prospective buyer and that another person was also interested in it. So things sound pretty good. If you get this and she wants to call me tomorrow, have her call my cell after 4 our time. Hope you all are having a good time.
LDC
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