Prayers 4 the Earthquake & Tidal Wave S.E. Asia victims

MIKE BURN

There were 28,000 new dead bodies found in Indonesia today alone, making the death toll exceeding 130,000 overall.

droolymutt

This is serious.

These suffering people and Motherless children need help badly....

Please, if you can...

Here's a link where you can help out online.....

Red Cross

Please.... - do all you can to help them...

droolymutt

And Mike?

Please let Werner know that Ken is wishing him every possible ounce of strength to help Sophie..

If there's anything he needs, you have my private email..

Chaz Spaz · Joined: 22 Jul 2004 Posts: 67

Quote:
Tsunami death toll tops 116,000

The death toll from Sunday's tsunamis jumped sharply today to over 116,000 after Indonesia reported nearly 80,000 people were killed in that country alone. Emergency workers said that in some parts of Indonesia's Aceh province as many as one in four people are dead.

It's a terrible disaster and I think the diseases are bound to arise with even more fatalities in the weeks ahead. My sons friend's grandfather has a plantation in Sri Lanka, no word from him yet.

MIKE BURN

Thanks Droolymutt, I passed over what you said to Werner and his family.

Here are two pictures which show how CLUELESS the tourists were, facing the first Tsunami wave.................

These people had no chance.

markhewer · Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 246

Mike,

Please tell Werner he and his family are in my thoughts and prayers at this most difficult time. I can't even imagine what they are going through right now.

bbchris

Was sent these links for actual tourist videos of the Tsunami:

video.contemporaryinsanity.org/

rod steel global · Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 636

some of these people made it,

they was in the news moments ago

(the 3 on the top rightside )

half his family was out in the boat, and they all made it.

®od

[Don't looks like a link]

MIKE BURN

Good to know that there are also miracles to report, like the baby from Russia which was found yesterday offshore lying and surviving on a air mattress near a beach in Phuket/Thailand.

A few miles up north from the same location new dead tourist bodies were found:

In Indonesia the power of nature and the destruction is beyond any experience:

Seismic Anamoly · Joined: 22 Aug 2002 Posts: 3039

I can't even imagine what thoughts were going through whomever's head was on that defenseless boat.....that's got to be 60 feet high or better....

And the tourists.....my God.......

MIKE BURN

The Tsunamis obviously had different 'faces' in the struck regions, depending on the angle and the type of beach/shore.

In Thailand the Tsunamis came rather like 'small' waves, but with incredible speed and impact incl. unbelievable high rising water with some delay (like in a bathtub) creating extreme currents nearly nobody was able to escape.

Have you seen this small video?

There you get an idea about how powerful and 'biblical' the flooding was in Indonesia.

markhewer · Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 246

Incredible pictures Mike!

I found this site which has a lot of info on the physics of a tsunami...

tsunami info

in which I read that "In the Pacific Ocean, where the typical water depth is about 4000 m, a tsunami travels at about 200 m/s, or over 700 km/hr." That explains the devastation. How could anyone escape such a force of nature? Absolutely horrific!

Edited by: markhewer at: 1/5/05 20:55

Netjams · Joined: 27 Dec 2001 Posts: 2308

Wow!

MIKE BURN

In the Indonesian city Lhok Nga, 20 kilometers north of Banda Aceh, today more than 5,000 dead bodies were discovered.

In the local river, uncountable numbers of additional dead bodies are floating.

Australia and New-Zealand stopped public life for one minute of silence.

MIKE BURN

Tsunami deaths soar past 212,000

Wednesday, January 19, 2005 Posted: 10:34 AM EST (1534 GMT)

JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- The Indonesian Health Ministry said Wednesday that the December 26 earthquake and tsunami killed 166,320 people in Indonesia, jumping the regional death toll for the disaster to 212,611.