I heard about the Sumatran earthquake/tsunami in the morning and decided to tune in CNN to see what was happening. It was a bit surreal. There was a natural disaster that started about 6PM yesterday, our time; thousands of people are dead, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands are directly affected by it. An entire region of the globe is affected and CNN is giving the Midwest airport travel snafu more coverage. We feel so sorry for the little girl who can’t get to Disney World. (Well, that will teach them to use a cheap airline that can’t even stress test its computer systems.)

I also noticed that the American media didn’t seem to be on top of the issue. The only online news resource I found that was updating the news through the day was Reuters. The others didn’t mention it or just noted that something had happened. While Reuters had the death toll over 10,000, CNN was still reporting 4,000. Of course, it is a holiday weekend so no one may be working. We’ll see what they say tomorrow. It looked pretty horrific, what images I have seen.