Posted on 12/29/2004 12:57:51 PM PST by Dallas59
I think you're probably right about that. From what I've heard, this tsunami, while predicted by such entities as NOAA, came as a complete, and horrifying, surprise to the locals. In that sense, the pic of the wall of water breaking in front of the wall of people is a ghastly photo.
See my post 99.
See my post 45, I believe those are more like grimaces.
See post 99 for more on that particular pic.
Unbelievable!
Can you imagine what the 30 foot wave looked like. Man oh man....
The 2 photos by John Russell, is he a reporter or a bystander? I ask because I know a John Russell who is visiting Thailand with his family and we are wondering if he was in that area at the time and if he is ok. He was visiting with his wife's family in the highlands, but might have been in the area.
Some of them look like they are smiling like they don't realize what is really happening. Guess I'd be the same way.
In my misspent college days, my friends and I got intoxicated via a small variety of means, and drove to the Jersey shore to watch hurricane Gloria.
We were standing near a sea wall as a huge wave collapsed it. Four of us ran like hell, laughing at the fifth as he got barreled over by the wave.
At the time, you’re thinking “It’s just a big-ass wave!” but upon sober reflection later, you realize that it was a pretty stupid place to be. It was still kinda funny though. The dope should have ran faster.
Nope. It wouldn't be near as bad. The energy in that earthquake was 100's of times greater than the entire nuclear stockpile on earth.
Go study your physics....
There's no way I could fathom the death and destruction until seeing these pics. I truly am now speechless.
I hope your friend did take them, as they imply he got away OK.
Wow. I just noted the comparison between those two pictures. In the second shot, where are all the people?!
Too hard to imagine. Just a nightmare. Thank God I hope some of them didn't know what hit them.
Yeah, I understand the curiousity, particularly if one didn't know what was coming next. But to walk a mile out into an empty Tampa Bay???!!!....At some point it will refill, and could do so with deadly quickness. Was anyone killed by their curiosity in Tampa?
My thoughts, precisely. The sight of the ocean receding thousands of meters would have scared the bejeebers out of me.
In your pictures (post 99) it looks like the gal in the red shirt was at the front of the pack as they ran back (I think that's her just above the dark van passanger door).
In the second photo she has just made it past the dark van - which is now pushed at an angle by the water. I wonder if any of those vehicles or people made it?
The pic with the mom and baby...the baby is alive...
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