Dear Lord

That's the only reaction I have right now to reading the latest from the Sri Lanka disaster. While I know that these numbers tend to rise and fall, the idea of 50,000 lives gone is just horrifying. I don't think that I'd need two hands to detail the number of times that I've been in an area with that many people at once, and trying to consider that number of dead gives me the serious willies. As if that weren't enough, this business of unexploded mines floating around the area is just making me sick.