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If you have any access to the Internet and see this post from the quake area Please let us know if you are OK...
The death toll is up from 500 to 1500, pretty horrific
You know this things make you realise how tiny we really are in the hands of mother nature!
The toll keeps rising, up to 9,500 now and yes it does show you how small even the largest fish is in the grand scheme of things.
lots of WebmasterWorld folk down that part of the world
Shak
A terrible thing, my thoughts are with them.
Why do these things always happen in places that have the least resources to deal with it. Very sad.
[neic.usgs.gov...]
July 27 1976, Tangshan, China earthquake 255,000 dead by official accounts.
Quake measured 7.5 on Richter scale.
Estimated death toll as high as 655,000.
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One good way to donate online is through the international redcrosss website .Thanks
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I was in Bangkok and did not feel anything, have been glued to the TV ever since.
Hope everyone here is well whether you live in the area or were there on holiday etc.
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Just to be picky but they weren't tidal waves but Tsunami CNN taught me the difference.
Not good.
I have posted a link to the red cross on a couple of websites, I encourage others to do the same for the next few days.
cool bright sunday morning early 6:30s
On the sea beach...
children playing with there pets... dogs ......daily joggers walking and excercising......sea beach full of people as its sunday and its hoiday...and suddenly a 150 feet high wave comes ........gushes every thing which comes in its way.....takes every one who was on the beach into the .....sea...ruining every thing whatever coming into its way.......and ..
Yup it was horrible. Me , my friends and fiancee where on its direct path. We had gone to our friends beach house to celebrate one of our friends birthday on 25th. We partied and lots of them crashed by 3 AM 26th. I and three more friends went and sat on the beach around 4 am and kept enjoying out drinks. We watched the sunrise and at around 7 Am called it quits to join the rest of our sleeping friends. One of my friends took the beach buggy and went for a long ride. 15 min after he returned the sea started rising up coming till the walls. My Fiancee woke me up, I staggered to the tree house which overlooked the sea. I could see the sea water right till the wall. (The wall was around 100 ft away from the beach). And as i was tired i just went back to sleep!
And around 9:30 a tidal wave managed to crash through, destroying the wall that was 8 ft high and almost a feet thick!.
By then everyone was awake and we made a beeline to the gate which was around 1/2 KM away from the sea. We stopped there and started having our own picnic. I logged on to the net and learned about the quakes.
We thought the worst was over when another wave came crashing through ripping away whatever wall was remaining and carrying along with it boulders and stones used to construct the wall. A few of my friends who had been too overconfident to venture into the sea where frantically trying to get away from the wave.
luckily they managed too and the wave stopped some 50 ft away from the gate where we had camped.
After it receded we went to check on what had been damaged. We found stones, debris and half a feet of mud covering the whole place.
A few fishermen from the nearby fishing hamlet came and told of how 20 kids from their community were swept away. The Beach house is just 1/2 Km away from a 5 star beach resort called the Fisherman's Cove. Seems one of my friend's friend lost his wife and two children there. Apparently they were holidaying there. And the mother had decided to take the kids to the beach for playing there. They were swept off.
We hurried home from there. I went home to check that everything was alright (My house too is close to the beach) Luckily my locality was spared with only structural damage to houses on the coast. But again in the nearby fishing hamlet the story was the same as one near the beach house.
But luckily none of whom i knew were injured. The thing was the majority of the people, and when i say the majority i mean around 95% , were from the fishing hamlets. Bodies were strewn everywhere on the second biggest sea in the world, The Marina.
That night i sent everyone on my house (my aged granmom, sis and mom & Pop) to my fiancee house which is quite far from the sea. Stayed back to keep a check.
But the death toll in chennai is not as high as people here stated. In chennai around 1500 to 2000 max. The thing is, the maximum the wave came inland was 1/2 a KM in deserted places and were stopped within a 100 mt in populated places. The height of the wave was 12-20ft. And after impact they would have come to the shoulder level max.
The deaths were in my opinion a charecterstic of our inpreparedness and failure of advanced warning. Considering the fact that waves never came inland like it did in Indonesia (6 km) the no of dead is too high.
Most of the people dead were kids and aged persons who could not have fought the waves.
This is going to be a sad New Year indeed. But i still thank god that it could have been worse. Coz if waves had struck here as the way they did in Indonesia, the count would have been a hundred fold higher.
And already jobless people tucked away safe in their houses far away from the sea have started spreading rumors.
I receive atleast a msg a day stating that There was a earth quake in Australia, china etc etc and that there is a impending tsunami 100 ft high and advicing us to get out of its path, or that of an impending earthquake. Every time I check on the net to confirm the story only to find they are baseless rumors. But still people are pretty tensed up to believe it and abandon their house.
It will take a long time for things to settle down completely here. But things are starting to settle down.
And already jobless people tucked away safe in their houses far away from the sea have started spreading rumors.I receive atleast a msg a day stating that There was a earth quake in Australia, china etc etc and that there is a impending tsunami 100 ft high and advicing us to get out of its path, or that of an impending earthquake. Every time I check on the net to confirm the story only to find they are baseless rumors. But still people are pretty tensed up to believe it and abandon their house.
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Glad to know you are safe
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Me too!
So far eight kids who go to my daughters school here in Bangkok are known to have died in southern Thailand.
I went to give blood at the Chula hospital and they said "no thanks". There has been such a reaction to the disaster that they have enough blood!
No , i was not there but heard stories from friends in chennai! ...
Anyway glad that you are safe and wish you a prosperous and fun filled 2005
A couple of friends who were caught up in it all have just returned from the area and were interviewed by the local paper. One of them commented that while they were lucky to survive, they were also fortunate that they could just leave and go home. The surviving locals in India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia etc. are far less fortunate. A sobering thought.
I realise why might be a strange question but there are many parts of Asia which are unaffected.
Ps. Why is this thread not in the Active thread?
Laura and I have made our donation, yet I could hardly see thru my tears as I plugged in the information. Not so much knowing I was helping as it was the feeling I have that we can ONLY do this much...
