Devastating. I heard on the news they had about an hour or two fromt he time of the quake to the waves. I heard there was little or no warning to the people, and that is just wrong.
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Asian Tsunami Kills 12,300, Many More Homeless
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Originally posted by shaolinstyleeThat is nuts...
23 THOUSAND!
wow, that is a small city.
And 11,000 in just Sri Lanka.I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
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It will go up as the sea gives back what it took.Experienced Community organizer. Yeah, let's choose him to run the free world. It will be historic. What could possibly go wrong...
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Steve, yeah, I was just referring to Sri Lanka alone. They reported that, including the tamil rebels, there is something like 11,500.
Really a pity. Wonder what, if anything, will be the lingering results of this when I (hopefully) travel there next fall.
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no more numbers
I am not going to try to keep up or post any more numbers, because I don't think any of the news services have it right or anyone will ever know the truth how many really died from this.I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
"Life can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade."
"I would just like to say that after all these years of heavy drinking, bright lights and late nights, I still don't need glasses. I drink right out of the bottle."
"Whatever guy said that money don't buy you pleasure didn't know where to go shopping"
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I heard there was little or no warning to the people, and that is just wrong.
Here's video. You can see what happened to people on beaches. I didn't know how to make a direct link to the video, but scroll down the page a little and you'll see the link.
tsunami hitting resort
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We called our friends in Thailand again. Things are supposedly returning to some sort of normalcy already. Because Phuket is mountainous, only parts of it got hit badly, such as Patong, Kata, and Karon. Further up the coast, where many people have been buying "beachfront" land because it's too expensive in Phuket, there was far more devastation. Khao Lak got hit really hard. It sits flat, surrounded by mountains, and is a new, burgeoning community, full of Swedes, who go there to escape the cold in Sweden. The people of Phuket are sending a lot of relief supplies to the Khao Lak area now. Lot's of deaths up there. Phuket actually survived this fairly well, considering how the rest of the region got slammed.Experienced Community organizer. Yeah, let's choose him to run the free world. It will be historic. What could possibly go wrong...
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Cholera and typhus are common after disasters such as these, because of poor sanitation, and infected drinking water. Parasites, depending upon the region, can become prevalent due to disruption of natural drinking supplies and movement of populations.Originally posted by dogchow108They're saying now the number of dead can possibly multiply due to infectious disease. Care for any comentary on post-tidal wave disease outbreaks? where would the diseases be coming from, or is it simply a case of the water making it easier to grow and spread?Experienced Community organizer. Yeah, let's choose him to run the free world. It will be historic. What could possibly go wrong...
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