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I hope all of our friends in and around South Asia were not hurt in the Tsunami.
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I just heard about that this morning. I hope everybody is doing as well as they can. I heard there is an estimated body count of about 20,000 ![[Linked Image]](https://www.electrical-contractor.net/ubb/frown.gif)
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I know someone who was on vacation in Langkawi, Malaysia (an island just off the shore off the northwest end of Mayaysia, took a while to find it on a map) but apparently was not near the ocean when it happened. He and his family has to stay in the hotel for the moment. He had e-mail ability for a while after the event, but that might be out now.
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Interesting site Bjarney.
As details come to hand here, we are looking at a figure of at least 30,000 confirmed dead.
Also bear in mind that this disaster is still young and also that there is a chance of after-shocks, triggering more tsunami's(sp?).
I'm not sure about you, but I've never heard of a No.9 on the Richter Scale Quake before.
But it is a little un-settling here, as usually what happens, a place to the West of us gets a quake and we get one not long after, say a few days, but thankfully they have all been out to sea from here.
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I think we all have difficult to grasp how much damage water can do. Still a huge number of people remain missing, including scores of tourists. Let's hope these people have survived.
I got an e-mail from friends in Thailand Sunday along the lines of "We're ok, but the village we stayed in is no more". Must have been utterly frightening.
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Not intending to make light of anyone’s serious misfortune, but these appeared along the coastal roadway in Oregon and Washington about 5 years ago. Understandably on the west coast, they all point due east. ![[Linked Image from 6l6.net]](http://6L6.net/localuser/bjarn/ecn.P1551.tsunw.JPG)
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Even the one near Humptulips? (yes, there REALLY IS a town by that name!) Maybe it was more northeasterly... My memory ain't what it was a few years ago...
[This message has been edited by Sir Arcsalot (edited 12-28-2004).]
No wire bias here- I'm standing on neutral ground.
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Hello All, I'new to here. We've been hit hard in Thailand. Death toll of 1500+ and many villages got leveled. At Phi Phi Island(Our great tourist attraction), it's the worst
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