[smag499]

So just how high will this go, and how credible will the numbers be?

[rightwinggoth]

Mind-numbing. 0_o

[SF Republican]

That number is 100,000 not 1,000,000

[cmsgop]

So many little Islands wiped out......

[sbelew]

From article:

"The confusion over the number of dead is worst in the case of slums where a large number of people are also floating population in search of jobs. "

Worst...wording...ever

[sukhoi-30mki]

From what Ive read,the death toll in India(including the Andaman & Nicobar island chain) is around 12,500 to 13,000.Aerial surveys of most islands in the chain have been conducted & damage in many islands has been found to be neglected.

This report honestly sounds disgusting as a number of volunteer organisations & NGOs are heading the relief operations,not the Govt.

[GraniteStateConservative]

That's one way to decrease demand on the supply of critical natural resources.

[RetiredArmy]

They will never come close to having an accurate count. They don't exactly have census takers going door-to-door over there. Those families have bunches of kids and no records are accurately kept in those villages. So, they are only making guesses based on best guesses.

[ProudVet77]

I find a million to be rather high. But while that number would seem staggering now, it would be paltry if the bad guys ever detonate a nuke in LA or SF or NYC.

[MineralMan]

That's a difficult question. Since many of the areas affected appear to have been completely wiped out, the 1,000,000 figure is not beyond the range of possibility.

Many areas which were once populated have not even been entered yet. You may remember that, in Florida, some communities were completely shut off from communication for several days. It's much more primitive where this tsunami struck.

We'll never have a truly accurate count, because many bodies will never be found. In addition, records of the inhabitants of many of these regions are incomplete and are now missing, so we may not even know who lived there, or how many.

A million isn't beyond the realm of possibility.

[Mr. Lucky]

The guess contained in the title of your thread does not appear in the source article. <

[BikerNYC]

The article indicates that the number of dead may go up to 1,00,000. What does that mean? Is there an extra "," or is there a zero missing?

[Between the Lines]

The coastal regions of these areas also have a high concentration of poor along the coast who were also the main victims of tsunami's fury.

I did not know that tsunamis discriminated against people according to income. And if they did, you would think it would be the rich who's homes and playgrounds line the shores, which they would target.

[lindor]

100,000 or 1,000,000, it's still a frightful number. It seems only a few days ago the number was at 3,000. Only God will know the final toll.

[chilepepper]

some of the frightening pictures that are cropping up make this all too possible.

[smag499]

OK, Ok, Check my thread: I asked:

So just how high will this go, and how credible will the numbers be?

So is this article saying 100,000 or 1,000,000?

I should have left the 1,000,000 out even though I THINK that is what they meant.

[FreedomSurge]

Based on the Lancets estimate of 100,000 Iraqi civilian deaths based on a sample of 63 confirmed deaths, the final estimate will be whatever number most fits the political objectives of the MSM.

[NautiNurse]

Title is not the original, one million does not appear in the article.

[Prost1]

Here is a link of various disasters in history, including natural....

http://www.geocities.com/dtmcbride/hist/disasters-war.html

Puts things in perspective.

War, terror, disasters...next come famine, plague, disease...and Bush doesn't respond quickly enough!

[KidGlock]

1,00,000?????

I think that might be 100,000.

[Admin Moderator]

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