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KILLER WAVE PART I: First days... (WARNING, GRAPHIC PICTURES)
crushelits / varios sources | Jan. 03, 2005 | crushelits

Posted on 01/03/2005 8:16:57 AM PST by crushelits

THE TSUNAMI

PART I




TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: killer; sumatraquake; tsunami; wave
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To: crushelits

These pictures haunt me. Prayers for all the victims, so sad.


21 posted on 01/03/2005 8:34:02 AM PST by WV Mountain Mama (Umbilical cord blood, the stem cells that let everyone live!)
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To: MAWG
I don't think it is anyone's fault or doing, per se. Nature is far more powerful than man. Tsunamis and tidal waves like this have been changing coastlines and altering the geology of the world's shores for millions of years. This just happens to be one of the first times human life was lost in such numbers. Remember Krakatoa.
22 posted on 01/03/2005 8:34:42 AM PST by cwiz24
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A satellite image taken Dec. 29, 2004, shows an overview of Aceh province in the western Indonesian island of Sumatra. The area absorbed the double shock of the world's worst earthquake in 40 years coupled with the resulting catastrophic tsunami

BEFORE: This detailed view of the northern tip of the island was taken on Jan 10, 2003

AFTER: A photo taken of the same area on Jan. 29, 2004, shows the extreme destruction caused by the earthquake and tsunami. On Thursday, Indonesian officials issued a new death toll of nearly 80,000 for that country alone.

 

BEFORE: This detailed view of northern Banda Aceh was taken on Jan. 10, 2003

AFTER: News services on Thursday reported that pilots in Sumatra had discovered about 28,000
more dead in Banda Aceh while dropping food to remote villages still unreachable by rescue workers.

 

BEFORE: This detailed view of the island was taken by the IKONOS satellite on Jan. 10, 2003

AFTER: Some officials said there was dismal coordination among the Indonesian military, civilians and foreign governments. "We haven't gotten any help at all, nothing, said a resident who was camped out five miles from the airport in Banda Aceh.

 
BEFORE: This detailed view of the west of the island was taken on Jan. 10, 2003

AFTER: As of Thursday, several governments had pledged $500 million in emergency aid for stricken areas.

 
BEFORE: This detailed view of the west of the island was taken on Jan. 10, 2003

AFTER: On Wednesday, the Indonesian military finally reached the Sumatra town of Meulaboh, closest to the epicenter on the massive earthquake. A bulldozer dug a mass grave the size of a
swimming pool in which to pile corpses covered only by plastic sheets.


23 posted on 01/03/2005 8:35:56 AM PST by crushelits
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To: crushelits

Bump for later.


24 posted on 01/03/2005 8:37:46 AM PST by Born Conservative (Entertainment is a thing of the past, today we've got television - Archie Bunker)
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To: 7.62 x 51mm
Watch the response of the people. There you will see God.

Good always comes out of bad. I can't explain the large loss of life; its the mystery in which we may never find the answer.

25 posted on 01/03/2005 8:38:47 AM PST by Northern Yankee (Freedom Needs A Soldier!)
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To: crushelits

bttt


26 posted on 01/03/2005 8:38:57 AM PST by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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To: MAWG

This is not man's doing, it was an act of nature/God. If no one ever built on or populated areas that are prone to natural disasters, where would everyone live?


27 posted on 01/03/2005 8:40:03 AM PST by stuartcr
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To: crushelits

Just Damm!

The freaking LAND is gone!


28 posted on 01/03/2005 8:40:29 AM PST by null and void (I refuse to live my life as if someone, somewhere will be offended if I laugh...)
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To: Northern Yankee

Why do people find God only in the good things, ie the response of the people? Doesn't God have just as much to do with what happened, as in everything else?


29 posted on 01/03/2005 8:42:45 AM PST by stuartcr
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To: crushelits
Outstandingg job!

Thank you.

30 posted on 01/03/2005 8:43:28 AM PST by Northern Yankee (Freedom Needs A Soldier!)
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bookmark bump


31 posted on 01/03/2005 8:44:35 AM PST by ELS
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To: stuartcr
I think if we start blaming God for the deaths of hundreds of thousands then it soon becomes folly to believe in him at all.

I don't have an answer to this, nor does anyone.

I don't think God wills people to die. Nature plays a hand in this, and perhaps it just makes us realize how vulnerable we are to the whims of nature, and that we are not in complete control of our lives.

I just know that we don't have all the answers, but it is our faith that helps sustain us through these tragic times.

32 posted on 01/03/2005 8:50:06 AM PST by Northern Yankee (Freedom Needs A Soldier!)
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To: crushelits

Words fail....hopefully all the continuing prayers, and aid will help those millions who have been affected.

The satellite photos showing once lush farmland and areas that have been decimated are heartbreaking. Those who have survived, will not have their homes, their families or even the ability to grow their own food.


33 posted on 01/03/2005 8:52:33 AM PST by all4one (My thoughts and prayers are with our soldiers.....and their families)
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To: Northern Yankee

I don't see why it would be folly. I believe that ultimately God is responsible for all things, past, present and future...but I still believe in Him.



34 posted on 01/03/2005 9:00:03 AM PST by stuartcr
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For thus says the Lord, Who created the heavens, Who is God, Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain, Who formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord, and there is no other. I have not spoken in secret, In a dark place of the earth; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, 'Seek Me in vain'; I, the Lord, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

Assemble yourselves and come; Draw near together, You who have escaped from the nations, They have no knowledge, Who carry the wood of their carved image, And pray to a god that cannot save. Isaiah 45:18-20

Look to Me, and be saved, All you ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other. Isaiah 45:22


35 posted on 01/03/2005 9:01:49 AM PST by onward (Jesus - the name which is above every name)
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To: crushelits

So unreal, so sad, so devastating and heartbreaking.


36 posted on 01/03/2005 9:02:13 AM PST by Gal.5:1
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To: Aggie Mama

This helped me.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1312800/posts


37 posted on 01/03/2005 9:07:44 AM PST by mathluv
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And you will hear of wars and rumors of war. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet, For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Matthew 24:6-8


38 posted on 01/03/2005 9:28:45 AM PST by onward (He died for all, that those who live should live ... for Him who died for them and rose again.)
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To: crushelits

Having recently lost two children I so empathize with this man. God takes his own, but the rest of us must stay and grieve.

My prayers (and contributions soon) to the victims of this tragedy.

39 posted on 01/03/2005 9:29:53 AM PST by Smedley (I'm better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt. I mean not that fancy store bought dirt.)
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To: stuartcr
I think if we blamed God for the deaths of hundreds of thousands, then wouldn't we tend to blame him for anything that goes bad?

The biggest thing we have is free will. God certainly created this world, and is omnipresent rather than omnipotent. But it is up to us as to where or when we choose to believe in him.

I just believe that things happen that we can't understand, and it could become too simple to say its God's fault for these tragedies. (I don't think you're implying that at any rate...)

I think our faith is tested in times like these. How easy it would be to believe, if we never suffered hardship. The faith comes into being when times are not good.

40 posted on 01/03/2005 9:35:52 AM PST by Northern Yankee (Freedom Needs A Soldier!)
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