OT: Unfathomable losses

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80,000 dead with an expectation of 100,000 deaths in total. millions homeless. disease rampant. pictures of death, destruction, and suffering beyond imagination.

it's too much to believe. too much death, incomprehensible.

i'm rallying a donation drive at my workplace. Canada needs to get in gear. 40 million is a start.

In the name of God what has just happened?

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Dave Hahn said:
In the name of God what has just happened?

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As sad as it is Dave....
Nature just Wreaked Havoc! :( It's happened before and it will happen again as much as we may hate it. Hopefully there will be a warning system installed now and another catastrophe like this one will never happen again.
There's never enough money to fix things ahead of time but it is almost always found after a major disaster.:grumpy:

My heart goes out to the ones that are left. It's going to take a long time to rebuild I'm afraid and the ones with broken hearts will live with them forever.:(
 
i heard one man exclaim how he found his wife and daughter dead and that he was still looking for his younger daughter but was not hopeful. listening to him say how he didn't feel like eating.

another story where parents tried to hang onto their children but let them go when the water was rushing in and now they have to live with that.
 
with her husband and daughter in Indonesia. Haven't heard from her yet and we're all starting to worry. The state department hasn't been of much help.
I'd appreciate any good thoughts/prayers you all can throw Lusi's way.
Thanks
 
Sutcliffe said:
I'd appreciate any good thoughts/prayers you all can throw Lusi's way.
Thanks
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You've got it.

I can't think of what else to say about this. I still can't get my head around it. :(
 
I thought it would go 100,000 dead when I first heard and now it's 77+. If they can't stop the disease vectors look out.

US is criticized by UN as being stingy: UN out of US!

A 'device' in NY, HongKong, London, etc, will make this tidal wave seem small.

I heard today that the poor Asian countries may not be willing to pay for an early alert system since the next disaster could be a hundred years or more away.

I figure the shark population will explode and the fish supply dwindle in a couple years.

I wonder why a disaster of this magnitude, unlike 9-11 which brought people together, became a vehicle for US bashing? That's thoughtless and mean and ...what's the expression about the hunting style of a Cougar? An opportunistic killer? Something like that.

The Buddist temples are filled with dead bodies. I wonder, is that a place dead bodies have been before? Probably. It would make prayer there even more meaningful.

munk
 
Sutcliffe said:
with her husband and daughter in Indonesia. Haven't heard from her yet and we're all starting to worry. The state department hasn't been of much help.
I'd appreciate any good thoughts/prayers you all can throw Lusi's way.
Thanks
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My wife and daughter are in Jakarta (capital city of) Indonesia. That is on the end of the island of Java that is closest to the earthquake and they didn't even know anything happened until they watched the news. Java is the most densly populated island in the Indonesian archepelago and chances are good that they are there.
 
All my girlfriend's extended family lives in Thailand. Luckily, they live in Bangkok, on the other side of the peninsula. Everybody asks me if they're all right. It reminds me of when all her relatives called to make sure their family (in iowa) was all right after 9/11.

If nothing else, things like this make people suddenly care about people halfway across the world. Makes us realize that we're not really all that different. Or, for that matter, powerful.

This is a tragedy. My prayers and thoughts go with those who knew and loved the victims, and I hope disease can be halted asap.

Nam
 
yes you all are right, that sunami thing is more than most people can imagine. im watching it on the tube and am appaled. im also noticing that last week these same ones were burning american flags. this week, they are screeming for american aid. sure makes me happy the good old USA is my southern neighbor. god bless america!
 
Couldn't have happened in a worse place. There are more low lying islands in that part of the world than just about anywhere. Thousands of them. The last bit tidal wave I recall hearing much about was the one in Alaska back in the 60's. Fairbanks I think, about 1966. Fortunately that area was pretty unpopulated at the time, but this is huge in comparison. Almost 100,000 people! What a disaster.

N.
 
This is a horrible disaster. I just heard on the news this morning that the total number of dead has now reached 114,000. I think an ouch of prevention really could have saved thousands and thousands of lives. Look what it has done for hurricanes. 50 years ago a huge storm could wash away 1000s of people, now losing 20 people is considered a big loss here in the US. The most unnerving thing about this, to me anyway, is how many people actually walked to their own deaths. As human beings, especially tourists, we are drawn to the sea. When we see a bright blue sky and and big pretty wave we walk toward it. We never count on it pulling back only to recoil on top of us 30' higher. What a horrible way to go.
My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone of those people and especially to the families looking for some news. I truly hope it is good news they find.

Jake
 
We just found out we had a daughter over in that part of the country when the tsunami hit.:eek: Fortuantely Kay was in Burma that day instead of Thailand or we may have lost another of our kids.
Dayumed kids don't always let us know what they're up too, but maybe that's a good thing as we would be worried sick way too much of the time.:grumpy:
 
Thanks for all the kind thoughts. She was in the capitol and never in any danger. Getting out was a bit sticky but she and family are fine.
 
Did you guys hear about the extreme lack of dead animals found. Apparently they sensed it coming and bolted.

I find this absolutely amazing. I wonder what exactly their feeling was?? Can you imagine - sensing a tsunami about to hit :confused:

I believe this is one regard in which humankind has become too domesticated and out of touch with nature. We sense things after the TV tells us to.

~ B
 
Svashtar said:
Couldn't have happened in a worse place. There are more low lying islands in that part of the world than just about anywhere. Thousands of them. The last bit tidal wave I recall hearing much about was the one in Alaska back in the 60's. Fairbanks I think, about 1966. Fortunately that area was pretty unpopulated at the time, but this is huge in comparison. Almost 100,000 people! What a disaster.

N.
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i was stationed in Kodiak, AK in the late 60's/early 70's. you could still see the marks on the sides of the hills hundreds of feet up where the water got to. the entire town had gone except the russian church on the hill & the whore-house. (i talked to the local tribes there - as my family is part blackfoot i got along well with the inuit) a lot of them lost relatives who, wondering where the water had went to when the entire bay emptied, walked out to look at the junk on the seabed & got caught in the incoming wave, so i had a chill down my spine when this happened.

now, the 1st thing the UN did was bash the USA for not warning people there was a wave coming & call for an enquiry into our poor response, in spite of the fact we didn't have any sensors there & the local govt.s wanted to pinch pennies & not install them themselves. india has just announced they WILL be installing them.

the response by the UK & USA, and the rest of the world, including generous aid from the nepali people who have not enough themselves, has apparently been the fastest and biggest response to a huge tragedy the likes of which has not been seen in that area since krakatoa (or the rest of the world). the situation is too horrible for the UN fat cats to be playing politics and greed games. too many people need better. lets all do what we can to assist those in need without siphoning most of it into politician's private coffers like has happened to often in the past.
 
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