[eccentric]

Meanwhile, an organization I know of personally has an outpost on the beach in Kerala, India. Members contacted them by phone from the US, gave them the head's up, and they saved every one of the 2500 people in their compound, even the pet elephants, which were guided upstairs into a strong building. "Dazzling display of Logic." ---Mr. Spock

Can you give us a clue as to who the geniuses are?

[Veto!]

Dazzling display of Logic." ---Mr. Spock

Apparently, considering the hundreds of vacationing Americans who might have received warnings from home by phone but did not.

My point, eccentric, was that many lives could have been saved by dazzling displays of logic from friends, families, and government agencies who might have just picked up phones and issued warnings without bureaucratic infrastructure in place. But they did not do so. What would your Mr Spock, whoever he is, say about that?