Posted on 12/30/2004 5:48:14 AM PST by IAF ThunderPilot
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) -- The death toll from last weekend's earthquake-tsunami catastrophe rose to more than 114,000 on Thursday as Indonesia uncovered more and more dead from ravaged Sumatra island, where pilots dropped food to remote villages still unreached by rescue workers. A false alarm that new killer waves were about to hit sparked panic in India, Sri Lanka and Thailand...
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TSUNAMI?SITE=WYCHE&SECTION=HOME
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Notice that the earthquake in Iran that killed over 25,000 poeple occured in December 26, 2003 and the corrent one in SE Asia occured also in December 26!
Forecast of earthquakes- WHEN?
with all due respect, I don't think this is much more than mere coincidence.
that having been said, it would be nice if we could detect warning signs...
prayers
Meanwhile the UN monitors Alpine snow packs for ski resorts.
I think we can start calling it an apocolypse.
Ping for prayers!
there's going to be some real whining here at home when the new york city democrats return to work and notice that some of their brethern are missing from their slick south seas escapes from the cold.
bill clinton will hafta go 'round and minister to these folks' needs.
It may be impossible to ever determine the fate of some of these poor folk.
Kinda puts the Scott Peterson case into perspective, doesn't it?
"I think we can start calling it an apocolypse."
I think you are right...
May their souls rest in peace.
Amen
Islam in action, poor uneducated filthy stinking third world countries savaged by weather.
That being said, God bless all.
I have'nt stopped.
Sorrow, pain, grief... words don't seem big enough for this tragedy.
Getting the numbers from Zogby, of course.
The deliberate misrepresentation of the situation in Indonesia and the other affected people is partly our own fault for not educating outselves.
Maybe Al Gore was right?
when will man declare war on nature instead of trying to appease it...
there is nothing man can do, that the earth cannot "undo"...
i pray for the lost souls and the good people of the region and for the distribution of the care packages sent.
but for the grace of god goes the united states...
now there is talk of instituting a coastal tax to fund detection system for the east and west coasts...
more spending equals more taxing
teeman
I thought the Tamil Tigers were in India? The Islamists(terrorists) are in Indonesia.
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