Earthquake

[KevanGuy]

QR77 said 55 thousand this morning. Unreal.

[Neeper]

Here's a video of a wave coming in with people on the beach. This is unreal.

http://dr.dk/pubs/nyheder/template/lib/wmm...publicationID=1

[Tron_fdc]

That's CRAZY. Were those cars floating down the street when he zoomed in? Unreal.

[HOZ]

This is an unprecident disaster. Number could very well reach 100,000 by the time it is all over.

Those islands where the earthquake hit India has reported 4000 dead and 30,000 missing. One airforce base has gone missing. 100 families have been swept away.

Disaster relief will be unprecidented as well. Disasters usually are located in a country/province/city. This is a continental disaster!

[KevanGuy]

63,000 so far.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?t...storyID=7195507

[I-Hate-Hulse]

Last year's swimsuit cover model apparently on the beach when the tsunami hit. Her Brit boyfriend was swept out to sea.

"Nemcova told the New York Daily News that she survived the tsunami, which has killed at least 33,000 people, by clinging to a palm tree for eight hours, despite a broken pelvis and internal injuries."

Link


I have a friend in Sri Lanka right now, luckily he was in Columbo on the other side of the island which was unaffected. Good thing, he can't swim for shiznit.

[nieuwy-89]

This is just unreal. My wife and I were in Phuket in February. I don't know what those people would do once the tsunami hit, there is literally no where to run or hide on the beaches. The video of the water rushing down the streets is chilling.

[KevanGuy]

http://www.dagbladet.no/download/tsunamiphuket.wmv

This video is pretty unreal. Its amazing how calm some people stay during a disaster.

[wittynickname]

Reuters is reporting 68,000 now.

[KevanGuy]

http://video.contemporaryinsanity.org/
This site has 4 videos but it seems pretty slow right now.

[I-Hate-Hulse]

Scientists have described this as a tsunami of a generation, and the way the death toll keeps ratcheting upwards it seems likely it will be close to 100,000 dead, with as much as 50% more from disease.

Reading all these links and coverage I couldn't help but wonder if I could do something in some small way. I found this, and will toss a few bucks I really don't have right now their way. Online payment available and tax receipts are issued on the spot.


Canadian Red Cross

[jimmy11]

Just made a contribution to the red cross from some of the money I got for Christmas. As mentioned above I'm sure anything would be appreciated, if you can spare it.

Ive known way to many people who ahve gone there or who were planning to go there...scary stuff

[Flame On]

It's strange how it's dawned on me that this is the biggest disaster I've ever seen and hopefully likely ever will. It's putting September 11th in the dust in terms of significance and scale. I'm trying to track a friend down in Singapore, which the Canadian Consulate tells me was not really affected which is good, though she could have gone off on any manor of trips and no word. Anyway, I can't believe the scale of this and the numbers in all areas, financial, death toll, infrastructure, will only climb.

[Cowperson]

Originally posted by Flame On@Dec 29 2004, 02:11 PM
It's strange how it's dawned on me that this is the biggest disaster I've ever seen and hopefully likely ever will. It's putting September 11th in the dust in terms of significance and scale. I'm trying to track a friend down in Singapore, which the Canadian Consulate tells me was not really affected which is good, though she could have gone off on any manor of trips and no word. Anyway, I can't believe the scale of this and the numbers in all areas, financial, death toll, infrastructure, will only climb.

Its interesting to note that within a few hundred metres to a few kilometres of shore in any of these places, everything is untouched and normal.

Unlike an earthquake which might destroy everything within hundreds of square kilometres, like we saw in Bam, Iran, that isn't the case with this disaster.

Animals appear to have seen it coming. There's lots of human corpses but zero animals.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,142822,00.html

Cowperson

[Bend it like Bourgeois]

Thanks to whoever provided the link to donate online.

My wife and I can't stop watching coverage but it makes you feel so helpless.

[nfotiu]

Originally posted by Flame On@Dec 29 2004, 02:11 PM
It's strange how it's dawned on me that this is the biggest disaster I've ever seen and hopefully likely ever will. It's putting September 11th in the dust in terms of significance and scale. I'm trying to track a friend down in Singapore, which the Canadian Consulate tells me was not really affected which is good, though she could have gone off on any manor of trips and no word. Anyway, I can't believe the scale of this and the numbers in all areas, financial, death toll, infrastructure, will only climb.

And CNN didn't even bother to break away with special report or anything on the day it happened.

[Cowperson]

Originally posted by nfotiu+Dec 29 2004, 05:17 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (nfotiu @ Dec 29 2004, 05:17 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Flame On@Dec 29 2004, 02:11 PM
It's strange how it's dawned on me that this is the biggest disaster I've ever seen and hopefully likely ever will. It's putting September 11th in the dust in terms of significance and scale. I'm trying to track a friend down in Singapore, which the Canadian Consulate tells me was not really affected which is good, though she could have gone off on any manor of trips and no word. Anyway, I can't believe the scale of this and the numbers in all areas, financial, death toll, infrastructure, will only climb.

And CNN didn't even bother to break away with special report or anything on the day it happened. [/b][/quote]
The best coverage was probably BBC World.

Second best, but not far behind, believe it or not, was FOX, the Anti-Christ channel now available in Canada. FOX was all over it in depth and at length right away.

I agree that CNN was asleep at the switch. Its like they gradually woke up to the fact it was a major story. In fairness, however, I believe they have multiple versions of themselves globally and may have given it wall-to-wall coverage in Asia for all we know.

Cowperson

[snappyk]

CNN is now reporting over 80,000 are dead, I think that this number will be well into the 100,000 beofre it is all done. Very very sad.

[Flame On]

Did you hear that (Sumatra was it?) one of the islands has actually moved by 36 meters due to the quake! In one of the range of mountains in the region, they're taller by 2 meters and the earth actually wobbled in it's rotation due to the quake. I heard on the radio that it was the energy of about 9000 odd atomic bombs going off.....damn right that'll make some wobble!

[RougeUnderoos]

Just read in the paper that the earth tilted 2.5 centimeters on it's axis and that a day will now be about 1/millionth of a second shorter than it was on Saturday.