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Panic before the storm (a terribly sad series of three pictures taken as the tsunami approaches)
Sydney Morning Herald ^ | 12/30/04

Posted on 12/30/2004 7:06:00 AM PST by dead

Tourists run for their lives as the first of six tsunamis starts to roll towards Hat Rai
Lay Beach, near Krabi in southern Thailand. One woman runs towards the waves.
Photo: AFP




The woman continues to run as the wave advances.
Photo: AFP




With the waves engulfing boats, the woman makes contact with her group. It is not known if they survived.
Photo: AFP


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To: jayef

Yes. Resignation. Well, at least if there is any comfort in any of this...they were together. Still cannot imagine what their thoughts were. Gosh it is so sad. So very sad. I think this series of photos so far is the most daunting. Knowing what is coming at you yet running to meet it head on while trying to reach your family.


321 posted on 12/30/2004 5:50:05 PM PST by cubreporter
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To: rwfromkansas
Ok, I found a video from Banda Aceh:

http://tsunami.nea-online.net/KATC.wmv

322 posted on 12/30/2004 5:52:19 PM PST by Justa (Politically Correct is morally wrong.)
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To: cyborg

Yup. Unfortunately, that poor family shown in these tsunami photos was in the same predicament as those caught in the upper floors of the WTC on 9/11. No escape.


323 posted on 12/30/2004 5:53:13 PM PST by Godebert
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To: Taliesan

There ya go. When your entire life in the form of family is in front of you and there is danger you run to them. She is a true mother running TOWARDS her family instead of trying to get away. I just feel terrible thinking about what she was thinking. Gosh.


324 posted on 12/30/2004 5:55:33 PM PST by cubreporter
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To: biggerten

On a clear bright day in Florida, when I go to the beach and I see whitecaps on the waves, I avoid them. The calmest most innocent looking waves knock me around VERY easily. I got scared a couple times from just one small wave...they knock me right down and I can see how easy it is to drown.....they are STRONG. I can't imagine how powerful a constant wave could be.


325 posted on 12/30/2004 5:56:59 PM PST by benice
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To: benice
"I can't imagine how powerful a constant wave could be."

Take a look at the before and after photos linked on post #306 and you won't have to imagine.

326 posted on 12/30/2004 6:02:41 PM PST by Godebert
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To: redheadtoo

Man, you are DENSE!


327 posted on 12/30/2004 6:09:23 PM PST by oldvike
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To: rwfromkansas

Thanks! ..been there, but I didn't want to take up their bandwidth by posting/linking pics directly from their site.
Unbelievable images.


328 posted on 12/30/2004 6:12:54 PM PST by two23
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To: rwfromkansas

Interesting, thanks.


329 posted on 12/30/2004 6:15:57 PM PST by Thud
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To: dead

Thanks dead. That was the type of photo I was looking for to display the terrain, but I kept finding only close ups of the formations and some beach pics(where you could still see that cliff). Looking at it from the air, I am left wondering if what we see in the bottom right of the tsunami pics(rock looking thing on the ground is the edge of that formation that is underwater in the left of the beach you mentioned--if so, wow, that water was way way out before it hit).


330 posted on 12/30/2004 6:31:57 PM PST by cupcakes
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To: rwfromkansas

My God, I don't see how anyone in Banda Aceh survived. The tsunami literally rolled over the whole town. Such devastating.


331 posted on 12/30/2004 6:36:55 PM PST by cupcakes
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To: Charles Martel
If that blue mound is a land mass, it's positioned like a breaker island, which *should* be taking the brunt of the tidal wave.

Actually when you have land mass on either side of a habor shore line, it actually funnels the force of the tsunami toward the beach, intensifying it.

332 posted on 12/30/2004 6:37:01 PM PST by Jorge
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To: Age of Reason

I did the same thing. Zooming in on that scene is gut-wrenching. The father is looking at his kids, most likely urging them to run like hell. The spray at their feet indicates they are sprinting as well as one can in surf.

He and the two nearest him are moving toward right of picture, toward the wife and mother, while the one at left is breaking straight for the camera position.

The other one appears to be foundering, almost turning around.

The seaward-running woman stops and looks head-on at the walls of water, near collapse in empty-armed frustration.

The height of the wave is horrifying when you see the man's head at its base in perspective, and overtaking the boats.

Although no one may ever know the fate of these people, the photographic evidence shows they were a good solid family.

God bless them, please.


333 posted on 12/30/2004 6:59:20 PM PST by Bars4Bill
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To: KoRn
What's most interesting to me is how far out the water line receded to.

That is what is amazing to me also.

334 posted on 12/30/2004 7:20:02 PM PST by Shortstop7
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To: dead
What is the NAME of this TSUMANI??
Shouldn't there be a name attached to it??

335 posted on 12/30/2004 7:24:52 PM PST by benice
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To: kidd
Think of it this way - on the other side of the wave front, there is no trough (as you would normally expect). The top of the wave is the new height of the ocean (for the next hour or so)

Wow........thanks for the perspective.

336 posted on 12/30/2004 7:34:32 PM PST by Shortstop7
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To: MikeinIraq
"...the Tsunami was only about 6-10 feet high...."

Try more like 20-30.........

337 posted on 12/30/2004 8:17:36 PM PST by RightOnline
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To: Bars4Bill

She realized she couldn't get to them before the wave killed them, and is saying goodbye.


338 posted on 12/30/2004 8:29:18 PM PST by Thud
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To: RightOnline

if you read further, I realized that I was transposing feet with meters....


339 posted on 12/30/2004 8:31:41 PM PST by MikefromOhio (11 days until I can leave Iraq and stop selling hot dogs in Baghdad....and boycotting boycotts)
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To: rwfromkansas

Inbelievable.....Can someone make the pictures a bit smaller and post side by side.


340 posted on 12/30/2004 8:32:27 PM PST by hoosiermama (prayers for all)
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