Asian earthquake and tsunamis kill 150,000.

Zeke Zabertini · Captain Joined: 13 Sep 2002 Posts: 4832

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&u=/ap/20041226/ap_on_re_as/indonesia_earthquake_31

Defiant · **Sun Dec 26, 2004 3:58 pm**

Merry Christmas to Asia! (sarcasm)

Ziona · **Sun Dec 26, 2004 10:27 pm**

Yea... My aunt and uncle have an exchange student from Thailand and we were scrambling to find out if her parents were killed in it. She just called them and they are fine, thank god. She's staying with us at our house today and tomorrow.

borgslayer · **Mon Dec 27, 2004 2:31 am**

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2004/tsunami.disaster/

The Death Toll has risen to 15,000 and will continue to rise. The Tsunami the quake made has killed people in Somalia, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, Burma, and Maldev(sp?).

Ziona · **Mon Dec 27, 2004 10:44 am**

Yea I was up last night looking at pictures. Guess they're finding dead bodies in trees cause the surge was 33 feet tall. That's horrible.

lionhead · **Mon Dec 27, 2004 12:03 pm**

A really good confirmation that God doesn't excist. because killing more than 10000 people after the borthday of your son is just plain wrong and cruel.

Merry Christmas my ass.

Founder · **Mon Dec 27, 2004 12:06 pm**

God doesn't control these events genius. Please think before you speak.

Jeff Miller · **Mon Dec 27, 2004 12:07 pm**

from what I heard it was 21,000 now

Ziona · **Mon Dec 27, 2004 1:45 pm**

Yea... some of hte pictures i have been seeing are so horrible. Bodies in trees and dead children. I feel so bad for those people.

Kyle Reese · **Mon Dec 27, 2004 3:31 pm**

I looked on Foxnews and now it says the death toll is near 24,000. It's like the Russian hostage crisis a few months ago. Every time I check, the death toll just keeps going up.

borgslayer · **Mon Dec 27, 2004 10:56 pm**

You know the sad thing is 10% of deaths were tourist from the UK, New Zealand, Austrialia, USA, and other countries.

Republican_Man · **Mon Dec 27, 2004 11:02 pm**

My God! I've only heard 5,000, but wow!

Ziona · **Mon Dec 27, 2004 11:22 pm**

Welll it didn't help that people were just relaxing on beaches and such. Thailand is a huge tourist loation. So when the tide went out, it sucked people out who were swimming and then when it came back in, it killed those on the beach.

An eyewitness said the sea was sucked out so far that it was not visible from the hotels and then it came back. 33 foot tidal wave. WoW.

borgslayer · **Mon Dec 27, 2004 11:36 pm**

They say some people who were submerged in the water from far away inland when the tsunami hit were dragged all the way to the ocean when the water resided.

They were also lots of dead fish in Malaysia because of this Tsunami. I saw a picture were large fish that would weight about 40-80 pounds were on the beaches like thousands of them all dead.

The saddest part is a lot of kids that were on the beach actually followed the water when it started to move away from the beach but then the water came back as this 3 story wave that came crashing down on them so it is really horrible.

Founder · **Mon Dec 27, 2004 11:38 pm**

Yeah. They said MANY kids died from this.

Ziona · **Mon Dec 27, 2004 11:39 pm**

A lot of hte dead are children and elderly because they couldn't hold onto anything. They were too weak to keep themselves attached to something. It's such a shame.

CJ Cregg · Commodore Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 1254

The death toll is at 44,000 now,

Republican_Man · **Tue Dec 28, 2004 2:50 pm**

What's the source? Either way, this is HORRIBLE!

Angeldust · **Tue Dec 28, 2004 3:08 pm**

This is terribly sad. I feel for all these people and their families.

Republican_Man · **Tue Dec 28, 2004 3:08 pm**

Angeldust · **Tue Dec 28, 2004 3:09 pm**

Once again, the Republican and the Liberal getting along. Whatever shall we do?

Seriously, I will be praying for them.

Republican_Man · **Tue Dec 28, 2004 3:12 pm**

Angeldust · **Tue Dec 28, 2004 3:19 pm**

Well. Well. Aren't we feeling unfriendly this evening?

Republican_Man · **Tue Dec 28, 2004 3:21 pm**

Angeldust · **Tue Dec 28, 2004 3:32 pm**

I didn't consider it spam. But my spam-o-meter is probably broken.

I read that the victim count was up to 20,000. Just saw it on a newspaper as I was walking by...