Explosion in Texas
Stella Tse & Others
20 April 2013
Stella Tse: Danny,
as Houston is at a fair distance
from West, Texas, I am sure you are okay, but you must feel for your fellow
Texans with what they are going through up there. It's been a horrific week for
the US, with the Boston bombings, the poisoned letters sent to Obama and a
sensator, and the Texas explosions.
Our
thoughts are with you all, our dear American friends.
Danny Li: Thank
you very much for your kind concern. I am safe.
West, TX is about 200 miles north of Houston so
we were not affected by the fertilizer plant explosions yesterday evening.
However, the force of the blast registered as a 2.1-magnitude earthquake on the
Richter scale has killed as many as 15 people, including three to five
volunteer firefighters, and injured about 160 people. The only relief to Texans
is that the explosion was not terrorist related.
This is indeed a sad week to Americans - the
recent incidents bring back the fearful feeling of the 911 tragedy 12 years ago
-- people worry about when and where the next attack will be.
Virginia Yip: Yes, what a horrific week on
the American soil.
Both bombing in Boston and explosion in Texas
were 2,3 days apart plus all the mail threats to the
government ... it is like a war zone.
My heart goes out to the victims in Boston and
Texas. Boston has a special place in my heart because my daughter has just
finished her master program at Boston U and we were there for her graduation
last year. It is such a beautiful city and boston
marathon is such a well known event that anybody would be there for
participation and cheering on. Both of my daughters are runners and they like
to run on different events. I can just imagine that they are among the
audiences watching and cheering.
When they announced the third victim that got
killed was a Boston U graduate student from China ... I got chill in my bones.
How can his or her family react to such a random act of terrorism.
ife is so fragile.... whenever I think about it, I
just want to hug my kids and my love ones a little tighter.
Well, my friends... we are all lucky to be
enjoying what we are doing now. Take a deep breath. Life will go on.
Dr. Hon: It is indeed one of the darkest week
for Americans. First the Boston bomb, then the explosion at the fertilizer
plant at West, Texas. On top of this, on Wednesday, a day described by Obama as
"a pretty shameful day for Americans", 41 Republicans andfour
Democrats, killed a bill to expand background checks for gun buyers.
Read this powerful letter by Gabrielle Giffords, a former
Arizona Democratic representative who was a victim of the Tucson shooting in
2011. She's a founder of Americans for Responsible Solutions which focuses on
gun violence. Support her at facebook.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/opinion/a-senate-in-the-gun-lobbys-grip.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0
Hope FBI manages to catch the second suspect of the Boston Tragedy.
It is believed that the first suspect was gunned down about 10 minutes ago.
Take care .