Tsunami

[phee]

from Rueters:

Tsunami Death Toll Climbs to 52,000

Nature can be very scary yes?

[JaneDead]

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[Ginevra]

It can be, yes. I'm very pleased to see the outpouring of help from various countries and the UN, however.

[phee]

This kinda thing never used to bug me until I had a child...

[JaneDead]

this sort of thing has always bugged me. but i have become even more sensitive to things after having my children.

[phee]

It gives me mental images taht send shutters down my spine.

[Marblez]

send shutters down my spine.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

That must hurt. >shudders<

I can only think Wow. I think nature wants a little respect again.

[Brenda Starrr]

I've ALWAYS been fascinated by natural disasters. However, it really breaks my heart the severe loss of life it can cause. I've seen firsthand a tornado, hurricane, rushing floodwaters, and an earthquake. Very scary.

[phee]

All at once??? wow!

[Brenda Starrr]

LMAO........ya fruit

[Black Sunday]

Unfortunately I heard that when it's all said and done there could be as many as 120,000 dead and 1 million homeless. This really sucks.

[Head Wreck]

indeed, think of the people that have had thier lives torn apart by this, after this expect a wake of poverty and desease after this.

i mean whole towns washed out to sea!? (buildings and all, thats why i never trust any wooden building)

[Brenda Starrr]

I can't imagine what these people are suffering right now.

[The_Dark]

wake of poverty and desease after this

It's India, this is a change?

[Head Wreck]

well its going to rise slightly now isnt it.

[Brenda Starrr]

I'm watching CNN, and the video is just mindblowing.

[Ginevra]

It's not just India. The tsunami also hit parts of Africa, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Maldives.

[phee]

I heard some people in Bosnia actually got killed from it!

[nodrew]

It actually hit Shri Lanka the hardest, I think the death toll just in that nation is between 22,000 - 27,000.

Personally I'd like to see some more information on where exactly the eartquake happened. It would be most interesting to study how the effects on the region directly surrounding that area. Like say any near by islands. Not to sound calloused by the effects, but from a scientific stand point, this type of thing is most interesting.

[nodrew]

Now here's a God Damn!! for you.... jeez

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?t...storyID=7195443

Apparently that quake was strong enough to cause the earth to rotate slightly faster.... Luckilly just a few micro seconds... but still...

and causing extra wobble in the earth's axis....

and cause nearby islands to shift postitons....

GOD DAMN!!

[phee]

I heard about that.. it's amazing

[nodrew]

Though suprisingly enough.... Sri Lanka has yet to find the corpse of a single animal.... They all seemed to know something was happening and fled.... weird.

[Ginevra]

Many people in California have noticed that family pets will act odd up to a couple of days before an earthquake. I believe they've even done studies on it, too.

As for the tsunami, they're starting the mass burials today. There's just no way to identify all the bodies in time. They're also looking for a lot of tourists, too. . . . including about 2,000 Scandanavians.

[Black Sunday]

Sadly in southern India they had a tractor picking up corpses and piling them in a landfill while their family members looked on. They couldn't gie these people proper burials, they had dispose of the bodies as quickly as possible because the dead bodies could cause further disease.

[Ginevra]

Way to go, USA.

Fear of another tsunami ran rampant through the areas that have already hit. As many know, there are typically "settling down" tremors that occur after an earthquake of this magnitude. Apparently, the fear was so great that people gathered up just a few things and started taking off in droves. Why?

I quote: India issued a tsunami warning at midday, but then hours later its science minister, Kapil Sibal, went on television to announce the warning was incorrect and based on information received from a U.S. research firm. [Source]

The death toll has now risen to well over 100,000. When one hears numbers like that, it's hard to make the connection that these were actual living, breathing human beings because that's how the media is breaking it down. From what I've seen, very few survival stories are getting through. Numbers and statistics are what keeps the media moving and moving they are.