Chelsea Avery- Assignment 7

On September 28, 1887, the Yellow River flooded, killing 1.5 million people. I wonder how many people today even know that happened. Imagine everyone who lives in the state of Kentucky today standing in a line. Every third person is killed. That's a huge number of people but today, no one even remembers. Around the time of the event, I'm sure it was well known in China. And maybe today in a history class, Chinese students take notes over the events. But worldwide? No one really remembers those people. I don't even remember if we mentioned this event in my World History class last year. It probably had no effect on anyone living outside of Asia.
This event has had no effect on my life today other than the thoughts it has provoked. In the century following our deaths, no one will even remember our names. Well, maybe someone will and I'm sure the U.S. census will know our names but they won't know who we were as people. So to those 1.5 million people, rest in peace from this American teenage girl writing her blog post 129 years later.