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Fearful of New Quakes, Chinese Pitch Tents

Posted May 22, 08 11:01 AM CDT in World 

(Newser) – Across Chengdu, the capital of China's earthquake-struck Sichuan province, citizens are camping out in tents in public parks, riverbanks, and even on the sides of the roads. But many of the tent-dwellers haven't lost their homes, reports the Wall Street Journal. Rather, they're reluctant to return to their high-rise apartments, fearful of aftershocks.

"I've fully mentally prepared to stay outside for a long time," said one middle-class resident of Chengdu, whose large tent houses seven and includes a twin bed. For campers like her, clean water and sanitation can be obtained just by returning home. But in poorer neighborhoods, tent-dwellers are lining up 40 deep to use toilets, and Chinese authorities are worrying about public health.

Source Wall Street Journal

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China's national flag flies at half-mast as local residents afraid of aftershocks set up tents at the sports ground of Sichuan University in Chengdu.   (AP Photo/Color China Photo)
A boy looks out from a tent at a camp set up for earthquake evacuees in Anxian, in China's southwest Sichuan province, Wednesday, May 21, 2008.   (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
With a banner reading "Fight against Quake" on display, a woman fans her child inside a tent at a camp set up for earthquake evacuees in Anxian, in China's southwest Sichuan province, Wednesday, May 21,...   (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
An elderly man eats his meal inside a tent at a camp set up for earthquake evacuees in Hanwang, Sichuan province, China, Tuesday, May 20, 2008.   (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
A woman, left, cries as she consoles her relative who survived the earthquake from the devastated Wenchuan county after they air lifted at the Phoenix airbase in Chengdu in China's southwest Sichuan province,...   (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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