Posted on 12/26/2004 5:35:21 AM PST by Truth666
http://nbc10.feedroom.com/iframeset.jsp?ord=462542
Hit the 'More' button til you see the story titled "Tsunami on Tape'
You might want to read the thread I started just before the worst tsunami ever recorded in the history of mankind - may be now you will understand what I meant - Last survivor of 'Christmas truce' tells of his sorrow - 666 path : 1914-1942- 2004
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1307843/posts
I was in Phi Phi and Phuket several times and I can't believe what happened. Are there any links to actual pictures of Phi phi island? Does anyone know from which site the wave came over Phi Phi?
See photos of Koh Phi Phi here, in the second page
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308548/posts
Have any of you any news of Sarah Bent and Robert Rowbottom, They stayed in charlie's on Phi Phi
http://img24.exs.cx/img24/8831/piclostimage3gd.jpg
Do any of you recognise her, Or sarah if you are ok, please contact home,
Love and thougths are you,
Year 2 Travel and tourism buddies x x x
This is Sarah, if anyone has any news then please get in contact, Thanks
i'm speechless.
I am praying for you and your loved ones. I hope you will find them safe and sound. This is just beyond belief--utter sadness!
hi Truth
was on that page - couldnt find anything....
Tsunami and the Swedish Foreign Minister!!!
When the Swedish Foreign Minister, Laila Freivalds got told about the Tsunami disaster here in Sweden, she did what every normal Minister would do, she went to watch an.......OPERA!!??
What follows here is what the Government did when they got told about the disaster. Phuket and Koh Lak is two of the biggest tourist destinations for Swedes in the world. Only in Phuket there is 10.000-30.000 swedes at any given time. I hope you understand my English.
(Swedish time!)
3 AM: The wave hit the coast of Thailand
4 AM: Staff at the swedish embassy in Bangkok phones "UD" (Department of Foreign Affairs) in Stockholm, when they hear that buildings are collapsing in Phuket and Koh Lak.
7 AM:State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Hans Dahlgren are told about the disaster
At this time there is well know that hundreds are dead and approx 15000 swedes are in the area that got hit. The Ambassador in Bankok decides to open a small embassy in Phuket for the victims. By this time the Foreign Minister, Laila Freivalds still dont know anything about this, because she havent followed the news in the morning
10:30 AM: Laila Freivalds is informed after a call to her cellphone. Instead of going straight to work and start making phonecalls and make arrangments to get our citizens back..she decides to work from... HOME!!!
7 PM (approx): Reports says that its a minimum of 10.000 dead, a few minutes later Laila Freivalds decides to go and see "Snäll Rebel" an opera in the Boulevardtheater in Stockholm that lasted for 1½ hour, according to herself she really didnt "feel" for it but she had booked the tickets a long time ago so she felt she had to go!!!! This was ok with the Pressecretary as long as she could recive SMS messeges on her cellphone(the sound could be turned off). After the show she talked to her staff over the phone 2-3 times before she went home.
9 AM: The Foreign Ministers chair at the office is still empty because she decides to come in late for work.
10:30 AM: She finally shows up at work (31,5 hours after the wave hit the coasts of Thailand)
One of her assistants who plays a keyroll in the department is on familyholiday in southern Sweden (approx 1 hour flight from the office) decides to stay where he is because he is on holiday and arrives at the office 2,5 day after the disaster
Laila Freivald later arrived in Phuket to see with her own eyes what happend, (she hugged a couple of tourists and went home again..bless her). She said that the Swedish government should had done something 1 day earlier.
IS this the way its been in all countrys that lost citizens in the tragic tsunami?
We have to search websites from all over the world for missing persons because the Government dont think anyone else but the victims should read the list the government has!!!
Its very tragic what happend...but how our Government is reacting is scary!!!
List of UNPRECEDENTED events in the History of Mankind that took place in 2004
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1311838/posts
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