Posted on 12/30/2004 7:06:00 AM PST by dead
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.
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.
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.
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.
Take a look at the before and after photos linked on post #306 and you won't have to imagine.
Man, you are DENSE!
Thanks! ..been there, but I didn't want to take up their bandwidth by posting/linking pics directly from their site.
Unbelievable images.
Interesting, thanks.
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).
My God, I don't see how anyone in Banda Aceh survived. The tsunami literally rolled over the whole town. Such devastating.
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.
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.
That is what is amazing to me also.
Wow........thanks for the perspective.
Try more like 20-30.........
She realized she couldn't get to them before the wave killed them, and is saying goodbye.
if you read further, I realized that I was transposing feet with meters....
Inbelievable.....Can someone make the pictures a bit smaller and post side by side.
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