Dwellers clear remains of their houses at Meiyang Village in Zherong County, southeast China's Fujian Province. Typhoon Morakot has killed at least three people and caused direct economic loss of almost 2 billion RMB yuan (292 million U.S. dollars) in Fujian as of Wednesday afternoon, after a powerful landing in east China on Sunday.After attempting to receive whatever information we could from Bethany's in-China representative, we were told the following: "The typhoon hit the province, but the local government prepared well. The orphanage staff said that we do not need to worry because they have typhoons every year and know what to do. Thank you for checking." This is somewhat reassuring for us, as we were quite concerned about the state of things for the children, their orphanage, and the workers. We pray for their quick recovery efforts, and we hope that this will not affect our impending travel.
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Hi! My husband and I just found your blog by doing a google search and were so excited to find it because we are in the process of adopting a little special needs child from Fujian too! We sent in our letter of intent on 7-8-09, got our pre-approval on 7-14-09, and are STILL waiting for our LOA. We were excited to see that you guys just got yours, so hopefully we will get ours soon too. Anyway, I know we are complete strangers, but if you are like us, we love finding people in the middle of the same adventure that we are in so maybe you do too. If you want to follow our blog go to www.chrisandlaura.squarespace.com and login using: friendsandfamily and password: adoption, or send us an email at chrisandlaura96@msn.com. We'd love to chat. How fun to come across your blog!
As devastating and destructive it is, typhoons are forces of nature that we cannot control. We just have to prepare whenever this happens, prepare that we and our families could survive.
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