FRIDAY 26th DECEMBER

BAM!

I woke up to the Lady crying. Her father's home city had been reduced to rubble and smoke. Bam in Iran had been hit by a an earhtquake. Her father left came home from work when he found the news and we searched in vain for news on the TV. CNN and the other US news channels were just pathetic with picking the story up. I had to lool at BBC's website to get up to day news. How many were dead? 10,000? 50,000?

Later The Lady's uncle came in whaling - they had lost an uncle, an aunt and a cousin - luckily his brother and nephew were found alive - having been in a brick constructed house.

People came to pay their respects, then more people. The Lady's father didn't know what to say or how to react. CNN were as useless as ever and Iran TV just played sad music to video tape of the new reality of Bam.

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