View Full Version : Asian death toll reaches 44,000
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In Galle, Sri Lanka, officials used a loudspeaker atop a fire engine to tell residents to place bodies on the road for collection. Muslim families used cooking utensils and even their bare hands to dig graves. Hindus in India, abandoning their tradition of burning bodies, held mass burials.
Some dark humor for you - recall the scene from Monty Python's "Holy Grail" where they repeatedly bang on the pot and call out "bring out your dead!"
A new danger emerged Tuesday: UNICEF said uprooted land mines in Sri Lanka threatened to kill or maim aid workers and survivors. ``Mines were ... washed out of known mine fields, so now we don't know where they are,'' said Ted Chaiban, the Sri Lanka chief of UNICEF.
Now that really sucks.... You're walking along looking for survivors then all of a sudden KABLAMMO!!
The streets in Banda Aceh were filled with overturned cars and rotting corpses. Shopping malls and office buildings lay in rubble, and thousands of homeless families huddled in mosques and schools.
...Adil was making sandcastles with his younger sister, Reeze, while Haalima sat in her home Sunday morning. Haalima said the girl ran to her complaining that waves had crushed their castles, then came screams and water entered the home. ``When we looked, there was no shore anymore and no Adil,'' she said.
...For most people around the shores across the region, the only warning Sunday of the disaster came when shallow coastal waters disappeared, sucked away by the approaching tsunami, before returning as a massive wall of water. The waves wiped out villages, lifted cars and boats, yanked children from the arms of parents and swept away beachgoers, scuba divers and fishermen.
...Hundreds of thousands have lost everything, and millions face a hazardous future because of polluted drinking water, a lack of sanitation and no health services, he said.
Ace195
12-28-2004, 12:42 PM
Dude, that completly sucks. Makes me wonder if the scenario in the movie day after tomorrow could really happen, maybe not the next ice age but the tornado's and whatnot.
Jonbo298
12-28-2004, 01:28 PM
Unfortunately, thats the way mother nature works. Sometimes nature tries to balance things out in the worst ways possible.
KillerGremlin
12-28-2004, 02:47 PM
The loss of 40,000 people so far is horrible, but I think it's even more horrible that these people did not have a warning in advance. The Tsunami that hit the coast was generated in the ocean several hours before it reached land, and it was moving 500mph by the time it hit the land. Most countries would have picked up the giant wave, and evacuated the coast. Thousands of lives would have been saved had the coast been evacuated, just an hour or two before the Tsunami hit.
But, it's just like Florida. If you live on The Ring Of Fire, or below Mt. St. Helens, don't be surprised if mother nature throws a curve ball in your direction. It's just like what I say about Florida: "You can build your houses back up next year, but don't be surprised or complaining after next hurricane season."
Hopefully someone gets the latest technology down there, so a tragedy like this never happens again. =/
Su-Yin
12-28-2004, 09:21 PM
current toll: 60000...:( sri lanka and southern india is in shambles...including all the tourist destinations....phuket...bali...smaller islands got completely washed away. i had relatives living in areas which got hit, but im glad theyre all alright. bodies are still floating up, bloated and in pieces. its really sad. Malaysia can finance its own medical help and rebuilding of the coastal area ...we have more than enough medical personel from around the country....but i feel the poorer countries which got hit really need our help. There are still after shocks every now and then. Its scary that things like that happen because ever since i was a child, i was taught in geography that malaysia is one of the very few countries which was free from natural disasters other than thunder storms or floods(we dont hzave quakes/typhoons/volcanos/etc.). The earthquake was from a neighbouring country and the tidal wave caused so many deaths in our nothern islands. Its a real shock to many malaysians cause things like that have never in history happened. i really pity the islands which solely rely on tourism to survive, its going to be hard to pick up the pieces
DeathsHand
12-28-2004, 09:34 PM
The loss of 40,000 people so far is horrible, but I think it's even more horrible that these people did not have a warning in advance.
The thing is, I heard people in the US DID pick up the wave and did warn that a tsunami could follow in the quake's wake, but even then, with there being no warning system in place for most of those countries (if not all), there was no way to get the message out to all the people...
They also say as a general thing, if you're ever near a coastline and a strong quake lasting more than 20 seconds occurs, it's a good idea to seek higher ground... (^-^
GameMaster
12-28-2004, 10:36 PM
At least the deaths are the result of natural causes instead of man-made. It's still sad. :(
Su-Yin
12-28-2004, 10:36 PM
i dont think they were expecting it at all.....
BlueFire
12-28-2004, 11:21 PM
This is quite the disaster. The sea is very unforgiving. I'm sure there are many restless souls about in those areas where so many have died. It's very depressing.
Happydude
12-28-2004, 11:38 PM
poor people...at least now the governemtn will look more into detection of natural disasters...it's a shame it hasn't in the past. R.I.P all those who have perished.
Blackmane
12-29-2004, 02:11 AM
The disease in these areas is going to be bad if they have that many bodies unattended. That has the potential to be more deadly than the Tsunamis...
Shadow_Link
12-29-2004, 09:03 AM
It's expected to rise over 70,000 :(
Jonbo298
12-29-2004, 10:30 AM
At least the deaths are the result of natural causes instead of man-made. It's still sad. :(
Actually, its a mixture of both. I heard that over the years, hotel resorts and whatnot have been moving closer to the coastline and with all the people who were moving closer to it, this is the result. So it was a natural cause with man made things (or just people in general) moving closer to the coastline.
Crash
12-29-2004, 11:24 AM
Death toll = 76,700... expected to be over 100,000 in the next couple days... yikes... that's a lot of people... did they find jet li yet or is he still missing?
Professor S
12-29-2004, 11:38 AM
Well all of these countries should feel much better now, as I just saw on TV that France has pledged $136,000 to the relief effort...
In case you didn't get it, that was DRIPPING with sarcasm. And people wonder why we hate France...
Crash
12-29-2004, 11:45 AM
Well all of these countries should feel much better now, as I just saw on TV that France has pledged $136,000 to the relief effort...
In case you didn't get it, that was DRIPPING with sarcasm. And people wonder why we hate France...
$136,000??? and they were making fun of the US's $20 Million
you could rebuild one of the ocean side bungalos for the $136,000.... wow good job france... :bowdown:
other horrible natural disasters
The Great Tangshan Earthquake, 1976
it was in china and killed over 240,000 people (some reports say 655,000 people dead, and 780,000 injured, dunno why the differences so big) .... I doubt this will top that...
it's easy for a lot of people to die in one area when it is so over crowded.
The Great China Earthquake of 1556
The worse natural disaster in recorded history, at least in terms of lives lost, was caused by an earthquake in Hausien in the Shensi Province of China in 1556. The earthquake devastated 98 counties and eight provinces of Central China. The destruction spanned an area of 500 miles, and in some counties the average death toll was 60 percent of the population. A total of 830,000 people lost their lives, most of them from the collapse of poorly constructed houses. The magnitude of this earthquake has been estimated to be from 8.0 to 8.3 on the Richter scale.
Whoa....We're up to 80,000...
Stonecutter
12-29-2004, 02:15 PM
Dude, that completly sucks. Makes me wonder if the scenario in the movie day after tomorrow could really happen, maybe not the next ice age but the tornado's and whatnot.
No.
Ace195
12-29-2004, 04:59 PM
Why thank you god, And I'd like to see your PhD on meterology now thankyou... Oh and crash, I did some looking Jet Li is safe and sound he reported into his agent and his family :)
Don't test SC, or he will pull out his Ph.D. I promise.
GT News
12-29-2004, 05:01 PM
Don't test SC, or he will pull out his Ph.D. I promise.
Ok I'll try not to do
test SC or he will pull out his Ph
too much.The ALICE chat robot can follow many things, like our discussion about test SC or he will pull out his Ph. But I did not get that.
Ok I'll try not to do
test SC or he will pull out his Ph
too much.The ALICE chat robot can follow many things, like our discussion about test SC or he will pull out his Ph. But I did not get that.
Which is why you don't have one. HAHA Ha ......Ha.
GameMaster
12-29-2004, 05:26 PM
Not only has the quake taken thousand of lives, but it may have also shortened days by a fraction of a second and caused the planet to wobble on its axis.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/12/29/quake.wobble.reut/index.html
Acebot44
12-29-2004, 08:44 PM
Here are some videos.....I was just thinking WOW the whole time...
1 (http://hosted.hytekhosting.us/tsunamis/patong_beach.wmv)
2 (http://hosted.hytekhosting.us/tsunamis/sri_lanka_tsunami.wmv)
3 (http://www.waveofdestruction.org/videos/www.waveofdestruction.org-Tsunami-wave-hits-beach.wmv)
4 (http://ish.cc/dan/ts/tsunamiphuket.wmv)
Why thank you god, And I'd like to see your PhD on meterology now thankyou... Oh and crash, I did some looking Jet Li is safe and sound he reported into his agent and his family :)
Stonecutter is right here. It will never happen.
Ace195
12-30-2004, 01:33 AM
Are you so sure? Who's to know what happens in the next tens of thousands of years ? I mean are you GOD ? You guys might be admin but really ? who knows ? So you saying it will never happen is wrong in itself. You never know we may cause the world to go into a self descruct phase.. God forbid and all because my kids and my kids kids don't deserve that..
Joeiss
12-30-2004, 03:46 AM
Holy ****, those videos were nuts!
Typhoid
12-30-2004, 04:24 AM
Actually, its a mixture of both. I heard that over the years, hotel resorts and whatnot have been moving closer to the coastline and with all the people who were moving closer to it, this is the result. So it was a natural cause with man made things (or just people in general) moving closer to the coastline.
Yes, so what..resorts are near the coast...that doesnt mean the earthquake, and Tsunami was man made. It just means people were in harms way. Like if an earthquake happens in San Fran, its not the fault of the people for making a city on a fault line.
$136,000??? and they were making fun of the US's $20 Million
Canada gave $40 million.
:D :p
And Yeah, those videos were insanely awesome.
KillerGremlin
12-30-2004, 05:21 AM
Are you so sure? Who's to know what happens in the next tens of thousands of years ? I mean are you GOD ? You guys might be admin but really ? who knows ? So you saying it will never happen is wrong in itself. You never know we may cause the world to go into a self descruct phase.. God forbid and all because my kids and my kids kids don't deserve that..
I don't want to start a religious debate, but until you have concrete evidence to prove the existance of god, don't be using him as support to defend a concept that transpired in one of the worst Hollywood blockbusters to come out in the last 10 years.
Canyarion
12-30-2004, 11:56 AM
I just want to say how grieved we are. :( The world is going down the drain, as the bible predicted.
You can't seriously believe the world is going down the drain because of one tsunami.
Happydude
12-30-2004, 12:25 PM
You can't seriously believe the world is going down the drain because of one tsunami.
he can believe what he wants.....as for it being logical and all, i wouldn't expect that either.
the videos are crazy...the one where the people were on the beach was kinda stupid...why would u be staind on the beach when u see something like that?
Crash
12-30-2004, 01:00 PM
after some of these videos, I can see how 115,000 are dead! wow
http://jlgolson.blogspot.com/2004/12/tsunami-video.html
Acebot44
12-31-2004, 03:25 AM
This is something that the guys over at the GameFAQs forums made up.....I'm going to hell for laughing at this......the Fresh Prince Phuket Parody...
I'd like to tell you a story all about how
I was neck deep in water and almost drowned
It'll only take a moment and you'll never forget
the time I got TSUNAMI'D in a town called Phuket.
On vacation in Asia, everything fine
My family and I, payin' the weather no mind
Chillin' out, maxin', relaxin', all cool
Then I saw the water churnin' in the motel pool
'Cause a couple of plates that were under the ground
Bumped into each other while they moved around
They started one little quake and we all went pale
'Cause it ranked a nine-point-oh on the Richter scale.
I swam and dived all through the 3rd world country
And the risin’ tides couldn’t swallow up me
I got on a raft and I got off the shore
I turned on my camera and said time to find a higher floor
Outta the water, yo this is still bad, drinking muddy water out of a broken glass
If this is what the people of Phuket livin’ like, Hmm this boy’s getting out tonight!
I whistled for a cab and when it came near
The driver was submerged like he'd dived off a pier
If anything I'd say that this cab was wet
but I thought yo forget it get me out'a Phuket!
I pulled up to Red Cross bout seven or eight
I yelled to the cabbie, "Yo, tidal swell, comin' lata"
Looked at my life preserver, I was finally set
Dove in my raft as the Captain of Phuket
GameMaster
12-31-2004, 03:36 AM
That was funny. :)
Happydude
12-31-2004, 04:27 AM
that's a nice one...
Joeiss
12-31-2004, 01:14 PM
Yeah, let's make fun of a huge natural disaster! Yeah!
:rolleyes:
I just want to say how grieved we are. :( The world is going down the drain, as the bible predicted. Every time a natural disaster occurs, the religious community comes up with this. I've been hearing it my whole life.
Joeiss
12-31-2004, 02:03 PM
Every time a natural disaster occurs, the religious community comes up with this. I've been hearing it my whole life.
One person says something and you generalize it to the whole religious community? Give me a break.
Crash
12-31-2004, 02:34 PM
so america pledges $350,000,000 to the effort over there... can't be one upped by britain now can we
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=4&u=/ap/20041231/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/tsunami_us
GameMaster
12-31-2004, 02:44 PM
When humans chose to industrialize our sacred Earth, God took away their sixth sense for detecting disaster. Ever since then, whenever a disaster has come upon us, humans get pwned to the max while the animal kingdom always prevails and escapes.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/12/30/quake.animals.reut/index.html
Happydude
12-31-2004, 02:58 PM
When humans chose to industrialize our sacred Earth, God took away their sixth sense for detecting disaster. Ever since then, whenever a disaster has come upon us, humans get pwned to the max while the animal kingdom always prevails and escapes.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/12/30/quake.animals.reut/index.html
wow...maybe we should all try to develop this sixth sense of ours :unsure:
Canyarion
12-31-2004, 04:14 PM
You can't seriously believe the world is going down the drain because of one tsunami.
Actually I read a short letter in a paper today, the guy said the world is going down because 20% of the (legal) firework in Holland is dangerous. :p
Typhoid
12-31-2004, 04:40 PM
When humans chose to industrialize our sacred Earth, God took away their sixth sense for detecting disaster. Ever since then, whenever a disaster has come upon us, humans get pwned to the max while the animal kingdom always prevails and escapes.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/12/30/quake.animals.reut/index.html
They....umm....did know about the diaster you know..
And animals escape becuse they arnt stupid and they dont stand on the beach to see the pretty 50 foot wave coming towards them.
KillerGremlin
12-31-2004, 09:03 PM
When humans chose to industrialize our sacred Earth, God took away their sixth sense for detecting disaster. Ever since then, whenever a disaster has come upon us, humans get pwned to the max while the animal kingdom always prevails and escapes.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/12/30/quake.animals.reut/index.html
What the hell are you talking about? Humans are the only species retarded enough to continue to build population upon population in the path of hurricanes, below volcanoes, and on fault lines. Animals stick to their habitat, and they survive.
Crash
12-31-2004, 09:17 PM
animals are smart... people aren't
in the movie deep impact, when the big tsunami is coming at new york city, birds flew away, and the water receeded before the wave hit.... same thing happened in indonesia except people stayed because they thought it looked cool....
anyone who saw that movie should know when to run away, and it isn't after you get waist deep in water!
Su-Yin
01-01-2005, 03:43 AM
celebrations for new years day was canceled last night...fireworks...lights....parties....were all called off in Malaysia. Prayers were held by mosques and temples throughout the night. Its a really sad way to usher in 2005.
Ace195
01-01-2005, 03:23 PM
Yeah that had to suck, I can't believe the president is taking money out of the DOD defense fund, I can understand he wants to make the rest of the world like the us again, However giving 350 million, WTF ? we could have given 150 million, I understand it's a terrible thing that happened but just beating all the rest of the countries in the race to say "Top this" actually pisses me off about bush..
I agree. We already fund nearly 60% of worldwide humanitarian relief. It is time the kindest world power in history gets some credit. And I'll await bashing...
Shadow_Link
01-01-2005, 08:53 PM
You're not supposed to give charity for credit...
Joeiss
01-01-2005, 09:02 PM
Canada gave 40 million, so USA's 350 million is great, considering they have 10 times the population as Canada.
KillerGremlin
01-01-2005, 09:25 PM
What does population have to do with anything? The US pitches billions of dollars away on things all the time. Albeit, some "investments" like the War In Iraq are our own fault, we give tons of relief money away yearly.
Ginkasa
01-01-2005, 09:53 PM
*cough*
Why don't we feel glad that the victims are receiving tons of support and care from many countries, and not fret about how much is coming from each country and why?
Just seems kind of... I don't know... petty...
*shrugs and walks away*
Joeiss
01-02-2005, 01:13 AM
What does population have to do with anything? The US pitches billions of dollars away on things all the time. Albeit, some "investments" like the War In Iraq are our own fault, we give tons of relief money away yearly.
All I did was compare America's donation to Canada's via population. Based on the population of the two counties, America's makes sense.
That's all I said man.
KillerGremlin
01-02-2005, 02:00 AM
Hahaha, calm down dude, I didn't mean to start anything. Sometimes though, it feels like people expect too much from the United States, even though we are the leading power behind basically every relief fund and donation ever set up.....
Blackmane
01-02-2005, 04:30 AM
It doesn't have everything to do with the money the government gives. Private companies and programs give huge amounts of money to these relief operations, and I think that is the way it should be. American people are very giving (I believe amazon.com got over 3 million dollars in a few hours through their website of private donations), and people should be allowed to give freely and let that money be used instead of a lot more being taxed out. I'm not saying the government shouldn't give anything, but it should be a minor amount compared to the contributions of the people.
Ace195
01-02-2005, 10:18 AM
I agree with you blackmane, you folks say that because of population we should give more, No, I don't agree.. Not out problem.. However, I do think the gov't should give some IE 100 million as a sorry you didn't run away from the big tidal wave type deal, and the rest should come from donations like the salvation army in the us does for homless people.. My local bank raised 168k in 2 months. So I mean if the entire us does it IT CAN BE DONE in a matter of hours. But as for not getting any credit because of it.. Being petty and what all... YOU GUYS BITCH BECAUSE WE DIDN'T GIVE ENOUGH NOW THERE GONNA BITCH BECAUSE WE DID ? WTF WE CANT WIN SO I SAY WE SHOULD STOP NOW AND QUIT WHILE WERE STILL BEHIND.
[edit] not saying you guys as in YOU guys but as in the nations as a whole. Srry.. No offense to anyone at GT unless you have a political agenda in your country of origion :)
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