[eccentric]

Where are they getting these "death count" numbers? Actual bodies? Missing reports? Empty villages? I realize that we will never know a real count but I still want it to be somewhat accurate.

prayers

[OldFriend]

Getting the numbers from Zogby, of course.

[theFIRMbss]

>Where are they getting these "death count" numbers?

I'm sure these events
were awful, but probably
now the Third World knows

that the countries with
the highest death tolls will get
the most aid dollars.

They've no incentive
to distribute completely
"accurate" numbers . . .

[spetznaz]

Where are they getting these "death count" numbers? Actual bodies? Missing reports? Empty villages? I realize that we will never know a real count but I still want it to be somewhat accurate.

Based on the following picture below (WARNING: THE PICTURE IS VERY GRAPHIC) it can be safe to assume that the death toll is quite substantial. This is just one small section of a small beach. If you add the other coastal areas, as well as the areas further inland; and then look at the other nations and islands affected (for example the Maldive islands were 3/4 underwater when it struck), then it is easy to see how the figures could come up.

We need to pray that secondary deaths are prevented. With the way things are over there water-borned diseases like cholera and dysentry could kill many more than the actual tsunami strike(especially cholera, which is such a big killer in so-called '3rd world nations' that i couldn't even begin to put it in words).

May the Lord help them.