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>>Well, as I said, the quake/tsunami of Japan was what >>made me think about it, walking the streets of DC and >>seeing the tour-groups of foreigners. >> >>But sadly, there are large scale disasters all over >>the place and time: Joplin, Haiti, major quakes in >>Iran and Turkey, monsoons in India... >> >>...and even 'small' and 'minor' disasters to those >>involved; even if it's just one or two people in a car >>accident, for an orphan left behind? I'd think it's >>pretty disastrous. > >G'day > >It's not that hard to do, one of the minor characters >in my story Finding Home (posted in Oct 2010) at SOL >has her back story come out fairly early. We meet her >a couple of years after the event as a 16 year old, >and her Uncle tells us she was in the hair dressers >getting her hair done and was doing as told, waiting >for her mother to come back and collect her after >shopping. Some hours later one of the staff is worried >she's still sitting around and makes some enquiries - >whole family killed when a walkway collapses at a >local mall and the police have to take her into care >while the find her nearest relative. > >It's a sort of cameo role she has for a little while, >but is shows what can happen and how people just sit >around until the news finds them. > >Regards, > >Ernest

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