May God have mercy on those people.
8.9? WOW.
This is BIG!
Sadly, early estimates in natural disasters are always underestimated. I hope that this will be an exception to the rule.
What a mess. Hope our interests are safe and sound out there. Anyone know what assets we have deployed in that area of the world?
My gosh. That is a big one. I was in SF in ,89 for the 7.1 and I thought that it was BIG!!! each .1 is 10 times bigger WOW.
God Bless ...
Here in Washington state, there are signs all over near the coast about tsunami evacuation routes.
If and when a tsunami hits, the first dude on the road will be some old geezer driving a 65 Rambler, he will make it halfway up the road before he blows a rod, and everyone behind him will be wishin they invested in a rubber raft.
They won't get hit by the tidal wave.
But about that time, Mt. St. Helens will do, as all beautiful women do on occasion, wake up with a really bad attitude.
Not one of the 24/7 cables nor one of the majors is covering.
I can't imagine a more terrifying natural disaster, one that knows no season and that gives you no warning cues from your immediate environment, coming out of the clear blue.
Send in FEMA.
Don't want that along route 101.....
Change/edit article to read "3200", not "2200"
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20041226/D877A2A00.html
Hooboy There's going to be allot of Christian missionaries from America in this, on top of it all.
Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, all affected by the tidal wave, thousands killed in each location.
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&tab=wn&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=+tidal+wave&btnG=Search+News
I wonder if Diego Garcia was hit?
FoxNews just reported death toll at 3,500 and probably rising.
I can imagine quite a few fishing vessels have been caught up in the resulting tsunamis. CNN reported 40 foot waves.
Reuters just reported over 6,000 dead.
RealPlayer version of live TV news out of Thailand.
rtsp://203.147.61.37/encoder/live.rm
It is in English. General news, not just on the disaster.
MSPlayer version [but I can't get it to stay connected]
mms://203.144.166.27/nationchannel
8.9 mag, full moon alert