Biggest earthquake in 40 years hits Southeast Asia

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie

Dont eat that steak, save the money and give it to the victims.

I will do both. I can afford it,

Then give twice as much.

[DanS]

I will do both.

And I will do all three. I can afford it.

[Arrian]

I'll eat some babies too, Chemical Ollie. It's cheap here in Amerika, you know.

I went with a donation to the Red Cross (International Response). And my company will match it, which is always nice.

-Arrian

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Arrian
I'll eat some babies too, Chemical Ollie. It's cheap here in Amerika, you know.

I went with a donation to the Red Cross (International Response). And my company will match it, which is always nice.

-Arrian

Good for you.

[Arrian]

I wouldn't have mentioned it, except for CO's irritating post.

-Arrian

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Arrian
I wouldn't have mentioned it, except for CO's irritating post.

-Arrian

I was not being sarcastic. I really meant it. I will need to consult with QOTM. We'll probably give through the American Jewish World Service, but thats not settled.

[Arrian]

Now that I've figured out the employee donation match thingy at work, I'm more inclined to give... it's nice to know that if I give $50, it's actually gonna be $100. I've gotta get my fiancee to start using it too. She gives from home, pledging to all sorts of organizations that MUST be on the company's approved list, but never AFAIK makes the company match them.

-Arrian

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by DanS
This isn't even close to true. US business shut down for much of a week. There have been reductions in travel for several years since. Extra security costs are required going forward. Add it up and be amazed.

I was referring strictly to property damage, which is the only indicator we have so far from the Indian Ocean earthquake, and is true. It's far too early to imagine what the ultimate economic cost of the disaster we be, since it happened, oh, 3 days ago. And even there it's a pretty difficult task to assume what is a direct result of the disaster and what may have just be coincidental to it.

The fact that the tsunamis have wiped out 100,000+ people alone is enough to make the scale of the tragedy dwarf anything else I've seen in my lifetime. This is poised to be over 4 times worse in magnitude than the Bam quake in terms of the death toll. This catastrophe has left a mark on the region which will be felt for generations.

[Arrian]

Yep, "loss of use" property damage (from an insurance perspective, loss of use falls under the PD definition) is something that you figure out later on.

But... whatever. 100,000 people.

-Arrian

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Interesting story:

YALA NATIONAL PARK, Sri Lanka - Wildlife officials in Sri Lanka expressed surprise Wednesday that they found no evidence of large-scale animal deaths from the weekend's massive tsunami — indicating that animals may have sensed the wave coming and fled to higher ground.

An Associated Press photographer who flew over Sri Lanka's Yala National Park in an air force helicopter saw abundant wildlife, including elephants, buffalo, deer, and not a single animal corpse.

Floodwaters from the tsunami swept into the park, uprooting trees and toppling cars onto their roofs — one red car even ended up on top of a huge tree — but the animals apparently were not harmed and may have sought out high ground, said Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne, whose Jetwing Eco Holidays ran a hotel in the park.

"This is very interesting. I am finding bodies of humans, but I have yet to see a dead animal," said Wijeyeratne, whose hotel in the park was totally destroyed in Sunday's tidal surge.

"Maybe what we think is true, that animals have a sixth sense," Wijeyeratne said.

Yala, Sri Lanka's largest wildlife reserve, is home to 200 Asian Elephants, crocodile, wild boar, water buffalo and gray langur monkeys. The park also has Asia's highest concentration of leopards. The Yala reserve covers an area of 391 square miles, but only 56 square miles are open to tourists.

The human death toll in Sri Lanka surpassed 21,000. Forty foreigners were among 200 people in Yala who were killed.

[Sandman]

A friend of mine was in holiday in Thailand; luckily he's safe.

I saw a picture in the Times today of half a dozen dead animals washed up on a beach. Then I looked closer and saw that they were humans, western tourists in swimming costumes, stiff and discoloured by death.

Then on the BBC today I saw a reporter walking down a four lane street in a large town in Indonesia, debris and dead bodies piled everywhere.

Horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


I was referring strictly to property damage, which is the only indicator we have so far from the Indian Ocean earthquake, and is true. It's far too early to imagine what the ultimate economic cost of the disaster we be, since it happened, oh, 3 days ago. And even there it's a pretty difficult task to assume what is a direct result of the disaster and what may have just be coincidental to it.

The fact that the tsunamis have wiped out 100,000+ people alone is enough to make the scale of the tragedy dwarf anything else I've seen in my lifetime. This is poised to be over 4 times worse in magnitude than the Bam quake in terms of the death toll. This catastrophe has left a mark on the region which will be felt for generations.

Well, we do have the Rwandan Genocide (1 million), the Sudan and Congo wars (minimum 2 million for each) in the last 11 years.

[laurentius]

Originally posted by alva

with 14 already confirmed dead primarily in Thailand

Well, on the bright side, the world has lost several pedophiles the last couple of days.

Nah, there werent many Belgian casualities. I guess you dont have to travel to Thailand. Hows your dungeon btw?

[Tripledoc]

Regarding the animals.

I wonder what would happen if humans learned to use their sixth sense. I am sure it is there. It is just buried very deep by all this constant conditioning.

[Az]

Well, we do have the Rwandan Genocide (1 million), the Sudan and Congo wars (minimum 2 million for each) in the last 11 years.

I haven't seen it on the news, ergo it didn't happen.