Condolences to the victims of the Indonesia quake

[Piratecat]

Tarchon, Sebastian, please give it a rest. This is not the place to argue semantics.

Aggeman, please let us know if you hear from your friends.

 

[Uzumaki]

I have a friend in Thailand, too. He's from there originally, moved here 10 years ago, and went back to visit his family this month. Bad timing. I don't know how I can reach him. I dodn't suppose there's a list of the missing anywhere? If it would even be possible to accurately compile one... :\

 

[Sebastian Francis]

Tarchon, Sebastian, please give it a rest. This is not the place to argue semantics.

I apologize.

My thoughts and prayers continue to go out to the families struck by this tragedy. It's tough feeling so powerless, as I'm sure most of us do, when something like that happens to others. :\

 

[johnsemlak]

Aggeman, please let us know if you hear from your friends.

It appears that there were especially a large number of Skandinavians among the western tourists in the affected areas.

Of course, those numbers will pale in comparison with the number of local victims.

 

[Klaus]

Thailand is the only country where the tourist victims outnumber the local victims by a ratio of 3:1.

On another note, it seems there will be a tsunami warning system in the Indic Ocean working in the next couple of years. Australia has offered the technology.

 

[MonsterMash]

Terrible to see this, a few years ago I went on vacation to Sri Lanka and seeing some of the places I went to devastated like that is just horrifying. Hope that the relief efforts can get things to people soon, before any disease epidemics break out.

I suspect just the initial death toll will be over 100,000 even before the additional deaths caused by injuries, lack of safe water and food supplies.

 

[Numion]

Thailand is the only country where the tourist victims outnumber the local victims by a ratio of 3:1.

On another note, it seems there will be a tsunami warning system in the Indic Ocean working in the next couple of years. Australia has offered the technology.

Lets close the barn door after the horses have fled. Next time will be in a couple of generations, hopefully it'll still be working and funded then.

The news here are pretty concerned that all finns (a couple of hundred) get back to finland, or that the bodies are found etc .. much less important, IMO, than tending for those who are dirt poor and have to stay there.

 

[AGGEMAM]

Well, it's official. One of my friends have been found dead in Phuket, Thailand.

Michael John Duffy, 1960-2004, rest in peace mate, you will surely be missed.

The two other of my friends are also pressumed dead but their bodies have not been found yet so there's still hope for them.

 

[Klaus]

AGGEMAN, my sympathies to you and to Michael's family.

 

[johnsemlak]

AGGEMAM

The words just don't come to me right now. My deepest sympathies as well. Keep up hope.