Prayers up for the victims...
Sad to hear this. And the toll will undoubtedly rise.
Prayers up for all involved and hurting. From my previous post:
“Unfortunately, the Indonesian authorities lifted the Tsunami warning 34 minutes after issuing it which probably increased the death toll.”
Please forgive my cynicism, but how long will it be before we are told that global warming caused the quake and/or tsunami?
I mapped them on Google. Palu is at the backside of a long skinny bay, like a canal.
KI wonder if the same thing happened this time as in the 2004 tsunami. Supposedly before it hit, all animals that were loose left the coast and headed to high ground.
The first time I actually grasped what a tsunami was and what it did was the one that hit Thailand. But it was the Japanese tsunami that brought it all home to me. The sirens, the water just getting higher and higher, surely it’s got to stop rising, but no, more water, more debris etc. And then the water sweeping everything back to sea.
Sulawesi is the island formerly known as Celebes.