Posted on 12/28/2004 5:10:05 AM PST by jimbo123
No, it was months ago that I saw her on F&F.
True. I hate to use the quote by Stalin that one death is a tragedy 1 million deaths a statistic but it applies. On 9/11 3000 dead is beyond most of us to comprehend but when it became known that two Freepers (Barbara Olsen and John Moran)were among the dead it home to many here.
this appears like a story for New York about one of their models who lives there....I assume London is talking about Atlee.
i don't think it has anything to do with race or ethnicity or "brown people" or "impoverished people".
there were plenty of tourists as well who died in these resort coastal areas who were not brown or impoverished.
my family fears a wealthy gem dealer we know in Sri Lanka whose office was built right on the SW coast on a pier may be one of them.
there are many facets to this tragedy.
the children's plight is of course without a doubt the worst but celebrities do get noticed.
if it were Tyra Banks or Naomi Campbell, they would get the same notice...maybe more since they are slightly higher up the name-recognition chain.
why so many freepers must always take a sanctimonious self righteous morally superior posture over any slight instance that may involve one speck of the issue of race is ridiculous to me. they sound like pandering Dems.
If this is the future of conservatism, then we are screwed. Race, Race, Race, Race, Race......I feel good about myself...Validate me....Please....I feel yer race...it's my fault...blah, blah, blah, schmlah.
The left has won on this one.
what I find the biggest story is that in some cases, we knew around the world for 2-5 hours that this quake had occured and no warnings were issued for tsunamis which were likely inevitable.
maybe some geo-astute here can enlighten me.
Start here for information about this tsunami and others as well.
If it was me, I'd not need any warning *LOL*
So, you are suggesting this event was a contemporary Sodom & Gommorah? Interesting.
TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 002
PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
ISSUED AT 0204Z 26 DEC 2004
THIS BULLETIN IS FOR ALL AREAS OF THE PACIFIC BASIN EXCEPT ALASKA - BRITISH COLUMBIA - WASHINGTON - OREGON - CALIFORNIA.
.................. TSUNAMI INFORMATION BULLETIN ..................
ATTENTION: NOTE REVISED MAGNITUDE.
THIS MESSAGE IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY. THERE IS NO TSUNAMI WARNING OR WATCH IN EFFECT.
AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS
ORIGIN TIME - 0059Z 26 DEC 2004
COORDINATES - 3.4 NORTH 95.7 EAST
LOCATION - OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
MAGNITUDE - 8.5
EVALUATION
REVISED MAGNITUDE BASED ON ANALYSIS OF MANTLE WAVES. THIS EARTHQUAKE IS LOCATED OUTSIDE THE PACIFIC. NO DESTRUCTIVE TSUNAMI THREAT EXISTS FOR THE PACIFIC BASIN BASED ON HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI DATA.
THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF A TSUNAMI NEAR THE EPICENTER.
THIS WILL BE THE ONLY BULLETIN ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT UNLESS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BECOMES AVAILABLE.
THE WEST COAST/ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER WILL ISSUE BULLETINS FOR ALASKA - BRITISH COLUMBIA - WASHINGTON - OREGON - CALIFORNIA.
I was listening to the radio this morning & the death toll has risen to over 60,000. It is really difficult to wrap my mind around that huge of a number.
People don't realize just how big these numbers really are... You're absolutely right. You can't "wrap your mind around" something like this. You hear the number, but it doesn't quite register.
I was recently working at one of the largest coal fired powerplants in the US, and when I was walking near a "pulverizer," I noticed a display that was alternating between 61 and 62. It indicated that the pulverizer was processing between 61 and 62 tons of coal an hour. When I asked if that supplied one or both furnaces, the fuel operator started laughing... Each furnace has 7 pulverizers feeding it, and they use approximately 10,000 tons of coal every 24 hours! While I could understand 1 ton, or 65 tons, or even the 135 or so tons that a single coal carrier holds, looking at a 1 ton pile of coal, and then associating that with the number 10,000 is one damn big pile of rock!
The thought of 60,000 (and far more) dead people, each one with a life, a story, and with people who love them, being lost in an instant is a sobering thought.
Mark
The toll of this tragedy on supermodels and hot swedish chicks is more than I can bear...
Very well said. It's disheartening to see so many freepers display outrage over the story.
the children's plight is of course without a doubt the worstIn the Indian Times coverage of the event, there is a story of a woman who lost all 7 of her children. Another women lost all 4 of her children and her husband.
Lived happy, died probably not so happy.
awful....
Did you see the video clip on Fox that showed a story about a train being hit by a wave in Shrilanka? Just awful. About 1500 killed instantly. Didn't have a chance.
Worst natural disaster of the century. So far.
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