Posted on 12/30/2004 11:21:35 PM PST by crushelits
When a human being loses consciousness, the natural position of the floating body is face down.
I agree. There is a child in there rumble with his arms up. I can't even imagine what his last few minutes were like:(
Here is a link of the Tsunami at one location:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/tsunami
bump fer later
Is photo number 3(right side) the epicenter of the EQ ?
In pic #3 it looks like a crater to the left ???
Maybe impact ???
When you go to the drudge site and click on Video, it should take you to a mirror site. if it does, don't hit on the videos but hit on the guys who supplied them. It will take you to there direct sites and they play. I couldn't get the first site to play at all but the other way works pretty good.
God bless,
Scott
Bangladesh suffers periodic, deadly high tides, storm tides, whatever...and thousands die. We read about it in the press, but it happens repeatedly. Maybe at this point they're building some kind of barriers to the sea, but I don't really know.
That's reality. That's nature. Get used to it. I think people living comfortably in modern industrial societies have become too insulated from the facts of Life and Death.
Thanks. I did manage to get a couple to play. Just mind boggling. Overwhelming.
It certainly is, and the survivors will face starvation; all those checkerboard patterns are probably farms/rice paddies, and they are all gone. Hopefully they will get food in time; they need our help!!!
I agree. As I said, the decision to post it could have gone either way. In the end, I decided to go ahead. Those satellite photographs provided only one dimension of this terrible natural disaster. I provided another.
We lost 3,000 Americans on 9/11. The people of Southeast Asia and Somalia lost more then 30 times that number -- and their disaster relief networks are pathetic compared with ours.
I had the same experience the first time I saw it. At first it looked like a couple of acres of flotsam and driftwood. Then I began scrolling down and saw those rounded, smooth objects and I thought, "What are those?" Then I kept scrolling down and ... oh, my God.
God be with the people that lived through this...
Here is a good site for current information. It shows the toll at 160l :(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake#Casualty_summary
They should be reminded of the discrepency of their policy here versus showing graphic images of WTC 9/11, another event that should not be forgotten
I think they should show pictures. Because the media job is to keep us informed...9-11 also should of been shown/remembered more over the media. I do not understand that to this day.
ping
Ping for Amazing satellite photo's!!!
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