12-25-2004, 11:25 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Lethbridge
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Man every time I hear stories of earthquakes or tornadoes etc. I am glad I live in a place where we do not have these natural disasters that can strike and kill at any moment.
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12-26-2004, 02:35 AM
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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What does that mean?
Hey, the Indonesians (where the epicenter may be from) are mainly Muslim. Maybe he doesn't like terrorists either. :P
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12-26-2004, 04:43 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Section 218
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Yeah, if anything it seems like he is mad at those who do NOT support gay marriage and not the other way around! lol...
Poor poor Thailand beach huts.... i hope they are all okay, each and everyone of them... ohhhh, sooo perfect.... 
Claeren.
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12-26-2004, 06:34 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Section 218
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This is actually REALLY sad... 4500 dead and counting.
Many places i know very well were completely devestated.
Stories of tourist snorkelers being dragged along the very sharp coral as the water rushed out of the bays before being slammed on to the beaches (and usually kiled or at least severly injured).
Stories of divers being thrown into the rocks at high speeds, killing them.
Stories of beach bungalows and their occupants literally disappearing into the ocean...
Koh phi phi in particular, with Phuket and Krabi provincial area also hit hard...
So sad...
Claeren.
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12-26-2004, 11:54 AM
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Has lived the dream!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Where I lay my head is home...
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Classified now as an 8.9 a quake so large it apparently even disturbed the earth rotation. 8000 dead and counting.
And it always seems to be the poor countries that get it the worst. Perhaps it's just because their housing isn't as safe though. In any case, very very sad.
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12-26-2004, 01:07 PM
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Calgary...Alberta, Canada
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I also have a co-worker travelling through Thailand. I hope he's okay.
This is a horrible tragedy. I think it's going to be tens of thousands dead before too long.
If you're able to, please donate to the Canadian Red Cross as they are the most effective method in which to help.
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12-26-2004, 01:16 PM
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Calgary...Alberta, Canada
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We may curse our bad luck that it's sounds like its; who's sounds like whose; they're sounds like their (and there); and you're sounds like your. But if we are grown-ups who have been through full-time education, we have no excuse for muddling them up.
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12-26-2004, 01:28 PM
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In Your MCP
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Watching Hot Dog Hans
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Death toll climbing....over 11000 reported HERE
Insane.
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12-26-2004, 02:55 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Singapore
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Wow, incredibly tragic. People killed in Somalia after an earthquake in Indonesia... crazy.
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12-26-2004, 04:51 PM
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First Line Centre
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I have a cousin who was staying in a hut on a beach in Thailand...Haven't heard anything yet but I imagine communication isn't easy right now.
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12-26-2004, 06:20 PM
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Franchise Player
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It really is frightening and yet magnificent at the same time, and it really puts things in perspective. People in mass losing what little they actually did own in a matter of seconds.
Jam I really hope your cousin is allright.
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12-27-2004, 09:20 AM
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Calgary...Alberta, Canada
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This is just getting worse and worse...now 25000+ dead.
The videos of these "walls of water" hitting land is unbelievable.
It could turn out to be the worst natural disaster of our lifetime.
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We may curse our bad luck that it's sounds like its; who's sounds like whose; they're sounds like their (and there); and you're sounds like your. But if we are grown-ups who have been through full-time education, we have no excuse for muddling them up.
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12-27-2004, 09:31 AM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Calgary
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Those pictures are insane, I can't imagine sitting on the beach with that hitting with no notice, unbelievable.
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 Hey, those are some good cheese fires.
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12-27-2004, 09:40 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Section 218
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The wave can travel at 800kph+ and is usually barely more then a swell until just before it hits the island and is forced up the ocean floor towards the shore. Then it slows dramatically and can hit land in various different ways depending on the topography of the ground, and the speed and mass of the water. In many cases this time around it SEEMS to have come in as a rapidly rising tide that flooded the land from 2 feet to 5 feet and then a lull and then a huge upsurge with a rise of up to 30 or 40 feet. That lull seems to have led a lot of people to relax for a moment thinking that was 'it', only to be shocked and caught off guard a few moments later by the additional million tons of water crashing down on them.
Talk about being caught off guard, eh? Thinking it is over to only find out it is just beginning... 
Claeren.
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12-27-2004, 10:29 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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12-27-2004, 01:11 PM
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CP Pontiff
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: A pasture out by Millarville
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Quote:
Originally posted by The Goon@Dec 27 2004, 04:20 PM
This is just getting worse and worse...now 25000+ dead.
The videos of these "walls of water" hitting land is unbelievable.
It could turn out to be the worst natural disaster of our lifetime.
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Its still catching up to the 30,000 plus who died in Bam, Iran earlier this year in an earthquake.
Cowperson
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12-27-2004, 01:39 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: not lurking
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Quote:
Originally posted by Cowperson+Dec 27 2004, 01:11 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Cowperson @ Dec 27 2004, 01:11 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-The Goon@Dec 27 2004, 04:20 PM
This is just getting worse and worse...now 25000+ dead.
The videos of these "walls of water" hitting land is unbelievable.
It could turn out to be the worst natural disaster of our lifetime.
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Its still catching up to the 30,000 plus who died in Bam, Iran earlier this year in an earthquake.
Cowperson [/b][/quote]
It's a horrible feeling to be talking about lost human lives in such large numbers. But this one could go a lot higher, given that many of the victims were swept out to sea; it'll probably be weeks before we have any sort of accurate death count. Indonesia, for example, has reported 4500 deaths, but government officials suspect that they could have as many as 20,000 dead in Aceh alone. I had initially heard that there were about a dozen people killed in Somalia. They're now saying that hundreds have been killed there, most of them fisherman.
Apparently there are still minor aftershocks today, so this might not be done yet. Frightening stuff.
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12-27-2004, 01:48 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Section 218
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Quote:
Originally posted by Cowperson+Dec 27 2004, 01:11 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Cowperson @ Dec 27 2004, 01:11 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-The Goon@Dec 27 2004, 04:20 PM
This is just getting worse and worse...now 25000+ dead.
The videos of these "walls of water" hitting land is unbelievable.
It could turn out to be the worst natural disaster of our lifetime.
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Its still catching up to the 30,000 plus who died in Bam, Iran earlier this year in an earthquake.
Cowperson [/b][/quote]
Actually EXACTLY one year ago....
Claeren.
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12-28-2004, 07:10 AM
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Franchise Player
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Yahoo News is reporting 44,000 dead.
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12-28-2004, 11:18 AM
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CP Pontiff
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: A pasture out by Millarville
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"Death On A Mass Scale - Trying To Fathom Unimaginable Numbers" - Washington Post today.
One-third of the dead are children.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6760042/
Cowperson
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