23,700 dead in South Asia

*cqb101* · 12-27-2004, 12:26 PM

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6754820/?GT1=5936

Mother nature can be so cruel.

*Anarky* · 12-27-2004, 12:45 PM

Best thing is, I know people who are currently down there. Fortunately they were on the "other side" of Thailand, they're okay. but it was a shock, I tell you.

**Jo Dawn** · 12-27-2004, 12:47 PM

*bows head* It's so sad... But it does make you appreciate how fragile life actually IS. Makes you thankful for what you have, and know how easily it can all so quickly be taken away.

...My guy is gonna go to one of those places next month. He was supposed to be there January 3rd. I'm trying to think, but there was a possibility, I believe, that he was supposed to be there in December, actually...

...Wow...

*damnhooligan* · 12-27-2004, 12:48 PM

I find it pretty impossible to imagine how grand the loss of life is. I know a fair number of people down there (mostly Sri Lanka) but presently, I've been unable to contact them all but one. Scary, scary feeling.

**Nturtle** · 12-27-2004, 12:57 PM

It reminds us of how fragile life is in light of the forces of nature. Prayers for those there now.

*Anarky* · 12-27-2004, 01:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by damnhooligan

I find it pretty impossible to imagine how grand the loss of life is. I know a fair number of people down there (mostly Sri Lanka) but presently, I've been unable to contact them all but one. Scary, scary feeling.

Somehow empty... God, I was so worried. and you should've heard my boss (the female one). She almost died yesterday.

**Barkworm** · 12-27-2004, 02:49 PM

A family I know in Kerala has to move out of their house because of this. All my relatives are fine though.

Ra · 12-28-2004, 02:32 AM

as much i love water, all i can do is watch in amazment and fear

Brinatello · 12-28-2004, 03:14 AM

I watched the 11 o'clock news tonight to hear the death toll has now rose up to 40,000. We all literally sat in horror as they showed amature video clips of the water wiping everything out and then the footage of all the bodies lying dead. Life is very precious and it can easily get swept away in the blink of an eye. Right now, San Diego is in for a big storm and we're expected to have flash flooding. We're okay in the inland areas, but I have family that lives in Mission Beach. It's all very scary, indeed.

*That Matt Guy* · 12-28-2004, 03:19 AM

Can you imagine if this kind of thing hit North America? Or Europe? Holy crap what a nightmare that would be. Asia gets the worst disasters tsunamis, typhoons, and earthquakes all the time. Poor souls.

**Barkworm** · 12-28-2004, 04:01 AM

Seriously. The last time I was in India we had a couple of small earth quakes. My little cousins were scared as hell.

Jason · 12-28-2004, 04:41 AM

I was totally shocked when I seen this on the news. It's like something you'd see in a disaster movie but you'd never expect to happen in real life.

Those 'home videos' where people were looking out of their windows were kind of disturbing to watch since they made the whole thing so much more real. So many people have lost friends and familys, I seen one guy on the news who last lost like 20 relatives - basically all of his family and he was the only survivor except all he had (home, family) is now gone.
According to this article the death toll could be as high as 55,000 and as up to 1.5 million people have lost their homes. I guess it's hard to build any sort of building that could take that kind of abuse. It actually makes my kind of wary since I live right next the sea. Even though it's unlikely that something like that will ever happen over here it still does send chills down my spine.

*Dr. Doom* · 12-28-2004, 07:51 AM

40-50,000 is a dusturbingly large number of people to just....not be there anymore....Just think about that for a while. 40-50,000 people, just gone, like that. That's the enire town I live in and then some, all dead at once. I can't imagine how much work a coroner would hafta do after this.

Just....insane. All of it.

*Anarky* · 12-28-2004, 03:43 PM

40-50000 is about 8 to 9 times the people that live in my town. That's insane.

By the way. I had two interesting chats with my coworker (female) and a guy I know on the bus (male)

Anarky: Terrible, eh?
guy on the bus: The pedophiles dead? That's a good thing
A: Yeah, it would be if it only hit the pedophiles...
G: But the others are guilty too, they let themselves do something like that. They prostitute their children.
A: That's insane! YOu can't just blame people for their fate.
...

Coworker: I wonder if there is a way of getting away from a Tsunami
Anarky: My geography teacher once told me, that you sheould get out on the sea as far as you can.
C: Why would you want to do that? you're running away from a tidal wave...
A: Well, I remember it like this: When a wave is hitting the shore it's not water carreied from A to B but kinetic energy that is transported from A to B. Therefore the wave only builds up when the water gets shallow.
....

People are slowly about to miss the point. They should stop making such a big fuss about it, and leave the analyses aside. Just hit us with the facts. Otherwise people tend to get ignorant of the many people dead.

**azure turtle** · 12-29-2004, 12:50 AM

I just read another article on this disaster, and the death toll is now over 55,000 people. So unbelievable and so sad... I even heard that one tiny island got hit by tidal waves on opposite sides, and that all the people on that island (mainly tourists staying in resorts) are gone. This is definitely one of the most tragic events caused by mother nature...

**Jo Dawn** · 12-29-2004, 12:59 AM

It's completely horrifying... and humbling.

*Dr. Doom* · 12-29-2004, 04:29 AM

probably the worst natural disaster ever......correct me if I'm wrong.....this is the highest death toll for anything non-war related that I can remember. I don't even think 9/11 was anywhere near this......and I doubt there were that many people on the Titanic...

Brinatello · 12-29-2004, 05:59 AM

Again, at work, I walked past the breakroom table and found the front page of the Union Tribune. A photo was taken on one of the beaches of rows upon rows of dead bodies. I grimaced to the picture and put the paper back down. Yeah, I'm not quite sure of the death toll off-hand with 9/11 or Titanic, but both were nowhere near as high as this one. In fact, you'd have to combine the two just to compare! Ugh, just plain awful and so sad.

*Anarky* · 12-29-2004, 10:50 AM

9/11 took about 6500 lives
The Titanic killed 1436 people (IIRC)

So even both together are not even close to the tsunami.

I today read in a newspaper (BLICK, the swiss national enquiror with a bit of a right-ish touch) "I saw dead Swiss people". yeah, so what? There's about 54950 other casualties to mourn. And the article sounded like "There was this swiss guy, lying there... dead. Oh, yeah, I thought I'd seen some 2000 dead Thais lying around somewhere too." Bloody newspapers.

**Jo Dawn** · 12-29-2004, 11:21 AM

It's topped 60,000 now... might surpass 100,000.

...It's inconcieveable how that many people can be just... gone. It really makes you think.

I do have ONE problem with the way newspapers are handling this... there was this big thing because some actor or model survived. Well, I'm happy for her, but shouldn't there be a big thing for ANYone who survivied this??\

Not just because she was famous.

12-27-2004, 12:26 PM	#1
cqb101 Cinephile Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Salem, MA Posts: 8,489	23,700 dead in South Asia http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6754820/?GT1=5936 Mother nature can be so cruel. __________________ Facebook

12-27-2004, 12:45 PM	#2
Anarky Outlaw Hero Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Tannhauser Gate Posts: 4,867	Best thing is, I know people who are currently down there. Fortunately they were on the "other side" of Thailand, they're okay. but it was a shock, I tell you. __________________ Because it's... I dunno... brutal.

12-27-2004, 12:47 PM	#3
Jo Dawn Inactive Moderator Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Authority On All Things Don Posts: 5,190	bows head It's so sad... But it does make you appreciate how fragile life actually IS. Makes you thankful for what you have, and know how easily it can all so quickly be taken away. ...My guy is gonna go to one of those places next month. He was supposed to be there January 3rd. I'm trying to think, but there was a possibility, I believe, that he was supposed to be there in December, actually... ...Wow... __________________

12-27-2004, 12:48 PM	#4
damnhooligan Mad Scientist Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Dorksville, USA Posts: 1,745	I find it pretty impossible to imagine how grand the loss of life is. I know a fair number of people down there (mostly Sri Lanka) but presently, I've been unable to contact them all but one. Scary, scary feeling. __________________

12-27-2004, 12:57 PM	#5
Nturtle Ninja Master Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Technodrome Airducts Posts: 5,215	It reminds us of how fragile life is in light of the forces of nature. Prayers for those there now. __________________ Fil rules. If Fil takes your 5 bucks then you should be eternally grateful that Fil would even borrow your money. Fil.

12-27-2004, 02:49 PM	#7
Barkworm Draconian leftist ruler Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Germany Posts: 6,761	A family I know in Kerala has to move out of their house because of this. All my relatives are fine though. __________________ Make ****, not kill!

12-28-2004, 02:32 AM	#8
Ra It's my desire? Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: In your pants. Posts: 4,441	so many people... as much i love water, all i can do is watch in amazment and fear __________________ "So. The whole lot of you against little old me? How retarded."

12-28-2004, 03:14 AM	#9
Brinatello Hench Mutant Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Escondido, CA Posts: 446	I watched the 11 o'clock news tonight to hear the death toll has now rose up to 40,000. We all literally sat in horror as they showed amature video clips of the water wiping everything out and then the footage of all the bodies lying dead. Life is very precious and it can easily get swept away in the blink of an eye. Right now, San Diego is in for a big storm and we're expected to have flash flooding. We're okay in the inland areas, but I have family that lives in Mission Beach. It's all very scary, indeed.

12-28-2004, 03:19 AM	#10
That Matt Guy Honey Bunches Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Lone Star State Posts: 5,840	Can you imagine if this kind of thing hit North America? Or Europe? Holy crap what a nightmare that would be. Asia gets the worst disasters tsunamis, typhoons, and earthquakes all the time. Poor souls.

12-28-2004, 04:01 AM	#11
Barkworm Draconian leftist ruler Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Germany Posts: 6,761	Seriously. The last time I was in India we had a couple of small earth quakes. My little cousins were scared as hell. __________________ Make ****, not kill!

12-28-2004, 04:41 AM	#12
Jason Foot Soldier Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 184	I was totally shocked when I seen this on the news. It's like something you'd see in a disaster movie but you'd never expect to happen in real life. Those 'home videos' where people were looking out of their windows were kind of disturbing to watch since they made the whole thing so much more real. So many people have lost friends and familys, I seen one guy on the news who last lost like 20 relatives - basically all of his family and he was the only survivor except all he had (home, family) is now gone. According to this article the death toll could be as high as 55,000 and as up to 1.5 million people have lost their homes. I guess it's hard to build any sort of building that could take that kind of abuse. It actually makes my kind of wary since I live right next the sea. Even though it's unlikely that something like that will ever happen over here it still does send chills down my spine.

12-28-2004, 07:51 AM	#13
Dr. Doom Allons-y! Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Castle Doom Posts: 4,535	40-50,000 is a dusturbingly large number of people to just....not be there anymore....Just think about that for a while. 40-50,000 people, just gone, like that. That's the enire town I live in and then some, all dead at once. I can't imagine how much work a coroner would hafta do after this. Just....insane. All of it. __________________ I love you, Pickle.

12-28-2004, 03:43 PM	#14
Anarky Outlaw Hero Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Tannhauser Gate Posts: 4,867	40-50000 is about 8 to 9 times the people that live in my town. That's insane. By the way. I had two interesting chats with my coworker (female) and a guy I know on the bus (male) Anarky: Terrible, eh? guy on the bus: The pedophiles dead? That's a good thing A: Yeah, it would be if it only hit the pedophiles... G: But the others are guilty too, they let themselves do something like that. They prostitute their children. A: That's insane! YOu can't just blame people for their fate. ... Coworker: I wonder if there is a way of getting away from a Tsunami Anarky: My geography teacher once told me, that you sheould get out on the sea as far as you can. C: Why would you want to do that? you're running away from a tidal wave... A: Well, I remember it like this: When a wave is hitting the shore it's not water carreied from A to B but kinetic energy that is transported from A to B. Therefore the wave only builds up when the water gets shallow. .... People are slowly about to miss the point. They should stop making such a big fuss about it, and leave the analyses aside. Just hit us with the facts. Otherwise people tend to get ignorant of the many people dead. __________________ Because it's... I dunno... brutal.

12-29-2004, 12:50 AM	#15
azure turtle Mango Lovin' Mutant Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 9,453	I just read another article on this disaster, and the death toll is now over 55,000 people. So unbelievable and so sad... I even heard that one tiny island got hit by tidal waves on opposite sides, and that all the people on that island (mainly tourists staying in resorts) are gone. This is definitely one of the most tragic events caused by mother nature... __________________ "God, I love being a turtle!" Want to meet the only blue ninja turtle in existence? Come visit me at my Lair!

12-29-2004, 12:59 AM	#16
Jo Dawn Inactive Moderator Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Authority On All Things Don Posts: 5,190	It's completely horrifying... and humbling. __________________

12-29-2004, 04:29 AM	#17
Dr. Doom Allons-y! Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Castle Doom Posts: 4,535	probably the worst natural disaster ever......correct me if I'm wrong.....this is the highest death toll for anything non-war related that I can remember. I don't even think 9/11 was anywhere near this......and I doubt there were that many people on the Titanic... __________________ I love you, Pickle.

12-29-2004, 05:59 AM	#18
Brinatello Hench Mutant Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Escondido, CA Posts: 446	Again, at work, I walked past the breakroom table and found the front page of the Union Tribune. A photo was taken on one of the beaches of rows upon rows of dead bodies. I grimaced to the picture and put the paper back down. Yeah, I'm not quite sure of the death toll off-hand with 9/11 or Titanic, but both were nowhere near as high as this one. In fact, you'd have to combine the two just to compare! Ugh, just plain awful and so sad.

12-29-2004, 10:50 AM	#19
Anarky Outlaw Hero Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Tannhauser Gate Posts: 4,867	9/11 took about 6500 lives The Titanic killed 1436 people (IIRC) So even both together are not even close to the tsunami. I today read in a newspaper (BLICK, the swiss national enquiror with a bit of a right-ish touch) "I saw dead Swiss people". yeah, so what? There's about 54950 other casualties to mourn. And the article sounded like "There was this swiss guy, lying there... dead. Oh, yeah, I thought I'd seen some 2000 dead Thais lying around somewhere too." Bloody newspapers. __________________ Because it's... I dunno... brutal.

12-29-2004, 11:21 AM	#20
Jo Dawn Inactive Moderator Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Authority On All Things Don Posts: 5,190	It's topped 60,000 now... might surpass 100,000. ...It's inconcieveable how that many people can be just... gone. It really makes you think. I do have ONE problem with the way newspapers are handling this... there was this big thing because some actor or model survived. Well, I'm happy for her, but shouldn't there be a big thing for ANYone who survivied this??\ Not just because she was famous. __________________