towns declared cemeteries

I can't seem to find the words to express the deep pain reading just the headline caused me. With all that the world has suffered in the past few months, why should this seem worse? I don't know, but it is. These people and their entire towns are gone. Obliterated. It is now as if they never existed. Is this yet another way to devalue an ethnic group's life?

All around us, the physical world seems to be failing us, maybe even attacking us. Despite the fact that my rational mind understands that there are no logical reasons for this happening, I search for logical reasons why it should stop... or at least stop in some places... Guatemala has had enough, so has Pakistan.

Somehow doubly cruel for weather/environmental catastrophes to befall the poorest in the world... it makes it awfully hard to believe in any higher being, at least not one to whom one could appeal in times of need. If these are acts of god, then how can asking that same god to help be logical?

This surely doesn't seem like an intelligent design.