Terrible disaster in Asia

[xenophobe]

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A very horrible act of Mother Nature... [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[vwall]

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Man, thats a tragedy!
God be with those lost souls and their faimlies!

[zx12r]

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yep...i'm in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia right now. I don't remember putting it Papua New Guinea. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]. I would be surprised if anyone log on from PNG. Bali is quite far from Acheh, the center of the quake. Kuala Lumpur is nearer but the tremor only makes some people nauseas..especially women.

[VitaminG]

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Terrible, terrible news. It's been all over the networks here all day. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[GodOfRhythm]

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9.0 on Richter?! That is gigantic!

I never thought the deathtoll would rise this high. I just hope sufficient rescue efforts can be undertaken to help any survivors.

[Crankdaddy]

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Heard word from my coworkers. They're fine, their families are fine.

They were actually supposed to be in that resort on Phuket that got washed out to sea...they decided to stay with the girl's grandmother a couple more days. How's that for dodging the proverbial bullet?

[Tetsuo]

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Crank good to hear I know Phuket got hit real bad... That interior designer from Chicago his report was freaking insane getting ripped out of your cabin.... Wow

[Shawn Lutz]

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oh' my Lord....23,000 people and counting....God Bless

[GodOfRhythm]

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23000 already? .....

[IrfaanSE801]

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Good to hear they're ok Crank, I heard 23,000 people killed and figured the odds of someone anyone of us might know just jumped. That's just a sickening number of people, so sad

[AfterForever]

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there are also victims in Afrika..

[Guest]

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Sad, very sad to say the least and the number of fatalities is mind boggling at minimum...

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Pat

[lerxstcat]

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I have a feeling the death toll is much higher than any of us will ever know, but the official count will go much higher. These are some densely populated coastal areas as far as both cities and lagre numbers of small villagesgo. It's those in the villages we may never get an accurate count of.God rest the dead, and God help the survivors. They're dealing with the loss of everyone they loved and everything they had, and resources to help them are probably stretched pretty thin.This happened a year to the day from the earthquake in Bam, Iran that killed smething like 25,000 people. The Kobe, Japan earthquake of 1995 that killed 5,000 in a well-prepared naion like Japan, was one year to the day from the Northridge quake of Jan. 17, 1994, which only killed about 60 people, that only because it was 4:31AM.If it had happened 2-3 hours later, thousands may have died on or under collapsed freeway overpasses and in subsequent traffic accidents. It's interesting how these dates align; I wonder if they're coincidence or if a pattern will one day be seen? I'd like to think one day we'll be able to give a couple hours' notice of these quakes and tsunamis so people can run for the hills or for an open field where nothing can fall on them.

[Tooling]

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These are the types of things that should remind us of how good we have it....I've been whining about the SLATQH I've been waiting so long for and then the problems when I got it...pretty insignificant in the grand scheme of things. My heart goes out to all those poor folks.

[Tetsuo]

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They can warn of Tsunami's in most cases by a couple hours but quakes they seem stuck on....