What can you say about 120,000 dead?
AP:
Another zone where officials have hardly begun to get a sense of the human cost was India's remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, just northwest of Sumatra, where entire villages were wiped out. With only 400 bodies found so far, the region's administrator said Thursday that 10,000 people were missing.
Survivors who reached the archipelago's main city, Port Blair, said they had not eaten for two days and people had to contend with hungry crocodiles that were washed ashore. "Two or three crocodiles started coming toward us," said Sister Charity, a 32-year-old nun, decribing her rescue from a small island by the navy. "The navy officers had to fire their revolvers to ward off the crocodiles to protect us."
You know, I'm going about my little life, throwing fits about stupid shit like traffic and forgetting to balance my checking account, and meanwhile hungry, grieving people are staving off crocodiles in the midst of a disaster that makes Krakatoa look like a garden party.
Doctors Without Borders
American Red Cross
Unicef
Or whomever you like