Tsunami toll tops 100,000

[YogsVR4]

Now the cinic in me is wondering how long before the TV movie, Discovery Specials and other documentries of this tragedy come out.

[DGB454]

I understand that Phisor(sp?) matched the initial U.S. aid dollar amount. $35,000,000.00. Good for them. Now if the rest of the drug companies would do the same with their huge profits that would be great.

[fredjacksonsan]

Originally Posted by YogsVR4

Now the cinic in me is wondering how long before the TV movie, Discovery Specials and other documentries of this tragedy come out.

I can see it now: "Movie of the Week" on some major network.

Just let it be, have some respect.

[dirtydx]

death toll soars to more than 114,000.

[fredjacksonsan]

Man....

[dirtydx]

Originally Posted by taranaki

for those who are having difficulty understanding the scale of the disaster, and why the body count is still rising,check out this picture.

warning - extreme graphic

http://img138.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img1...iita4ft4zq.jpg

taranaki do you still have access to this picture?

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Originally Posted by my3rdskyline

who the fuck is jet li?

Your joking right? If not, have you ever seen Lethal Weapon 4? Craddle to the grave (complete crap) or Hero?

[fredjacksonsan]

Found on another forum, person that was in Maldives:

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posted 28th December 2004 11:18 Maldives

We operated to Male on Christmas day and were staying on a tiny island 40 mins by boat from Male, in the south Atoll.

The island was one of 3 connected by wooden jettys. We arrived at about 0100 local and had a moonlight stroll on a pristine idyllic beach. We were staying on the west side of the island, less than 20 feet from the sea edge.(consider it takes 20 seconds to reach the other side).

0610 I woke up with my bed shaking - confused as to what was happening but then realised it must have been a tremor. Went back to sleep.

Woke up 0900 local, pottered around, opened the door and saw a wall of water coming towards me. Tried to close the door behind me but it got wrenched out of my hand. At this stage the water was up to our thighs.

To cut a long story short, this happened about 3 times and a significant amount of time was spent up a tree - both myself and the pilots. We went over to the east side of the island and the destruction was horrendous. Everybody had been having breakfast on the veranda overhanging the sea when the wave smashed into them. Obviously, we were much more sheltered on the west side and as a result very, very lucky. The violence of the wave had totally destroyed the jettys connecting the islands.

We had to stay on the island - no power, running water, sanitation. No boat could get in or out to the island because of the reef and surrounding debris. We were finally evacuated at 0700 yesterday morning.

We still are not sure of injuries/deaths on our island, it did appear, however, that everybody was ok thank god but they were still doing head counts when we left. This is something I will never forget - even though what I saw was calm compared to what the poor people in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh etc experienced. The enormity of what has happened is staggering and something that will affect me for a long time yet.

The 2 boys with me were fab. The resort workers were amazing - they still managed to feed us and look after us even after all the destruction.

Our aircraft was fine - the water had gone about halfway up the landing gear but no damage done.

My thoughts are with ALL those people who have been affected by this, crew or otherwise, however they have been affected.

A sad, sad time.
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[TRD2000]

Originally Posted by -Davo

Officially, the worst national disaster in world recorded history.

If our planet is capable of this in a seconds, it can be a lot worse in the future, claiming 10's of milllions of lives, like in the day after tomorrow.


I'm building a bunker!

btw, death toll is now 75,000

worse than mt vesuvius and pompei? and probaby atlantia... if it's real

[KustmAce]

This is unreal.

[twospirits]

I agree with Taranaki about the Jet Li story. But he is not the only major star/celebrity that has been talked about in the media. There was this super model that survided and the media is all over it like white on rice. Its patethic, over 114,000 dead (as of this morning ) and all they talk about is the supermodel, Jet Li, give me a break.

Another thing that pissed me off was the fact that some media guy (can't remember who) actually had the nerve to compare it to the tragic event of 911. Are we that arrogant (like the rest of the world loves to think of us) that we actually are comparing over 114, 000 lost lives to 3000. Damn.

Hey taranaki, I can't see the image, I ago get an error message.

Originally Posted by YogsVR4

Now the cinic in me is wondering how long before the TV movie, Discovery Specials and other documentries of this tragedy come out.

Shoot they started already. I believe it was ABC that showned something last night in fact.

Originally Posted by TRD2000

worse than mt vesuvius and pompei? and probaby atlantia... if it's real

Don't you mean Atlantis?

Originally Posted by DGB454

I understand that Phisor(sp?) matched the initial U.S. aid dollar amount. $35,000,000.00. Good for them. Now if the rest of the drug companies would do the same with their huge profits that would be great.

Its Pfizor, Inc. Good for them, I am proud of them, especially being a NY based company. Its quite pitiful that one company can send 35 million while one of the richest countries in the world (the US) is only contributing 35 and yet Spain is sending 65 million. Go figure.

[freakray]

Originally Posted by twospirits

Its Pfizor, Inc.

[twospirits]

Okay you got me there. I should have spell checked the quote.

TS out (taking speeling klasses)

[taranaki]

Originally Posted by my3rdskyline

i get a 403 when I click on that link. If that's your server change the permissions on the Tsunam directory.

heavy traffic has forced the site to close off the link

here's the same picture,mirrored.


http://img138.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img1...iita4ft4zq.jpg

Again...be warned,it's graphic.

[dirtydx]

thanks taranaki