$4,457 is the new total of funds raised. The Sister City, Posoltega website has been off line for a long time and our brave leader, Barbara Seitz is doggedly trying to figure out what happened. A newsletter is going out this weekend and Isaac Salazar, who is from Posoltega and lives here in Bloomington, is planning to do a music event as a fundraiser. Hopefully the committee will soon be back on its feet. Between the downturn in the economy and the higher price of food ( and everything else), we have been brought to our knees.
Barbara and I returned to Posoltega within a week after the mudslide that killed about 5,000 residents in Posoltega in 1998. I remember being amazed at the power of water and mud. That mudslide was nothing compared to what we are seeing in the videos of the tsunami in Japan. There is an old saying that "nature has a way of taking thing away from you".
I remember that there was a guy there who had a 'cadaver dog' and he took it all over the worst part of the mudslide area. After a couple of days he said that the dog had found all of the bodies and that we need not go looking in the areas he had searched. We went anyway, and found 11 more bodies. Apparently, the smell of death was so prevalent that the dog just gave up and the handler thought the dog just couldn't smell more death. In fact, there was so much smell of death that the dog didn't know which way to go. It will be the same in Japan after a while. The Nicaragua mudslide area was turned into a national forest and the people were told that they shouldn't live there again. They probably are living there anyway. Do you think that the people of Japan, or New Orleans, for that matter will do much different? Hopefully. I don't know what I would do if I were in their shoes (huaraches).
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