Tragedy in Asia

[omniscient]

Over 40,000 dead now.

[!EEK]

http://www.m90.org/view_image.php?image_id=1431

You've probably seen this...but I post it anyway.
The guy taping is speaking Dutch from the Nederlands, I don't understand everything because of their accent but basically he is just descrbing the situation; autos getting carried by the flood, stairs breaking, etc...

[gevo]

You are racist.

you are an extreme-extremist.

[XxgoeyxX]

Highest figure I've seen so far put it at 27,000. I will not be surprised though if by the end of the week the death toll is officially 60,000+.

You were right pyunik. I just heard on the news that its up to 52,000+. I cant even put to words how I feel right now.

[ArmoBarbi]

I was surprised at half that. I cant believe it keeps going up. I wonder how long it will take and how much it will cost to rebuild everything.

[ArmoBarbi]

I have heard about this a few times. Do you think it could be some sort of superior sense of hearing? There must have been serious vibrations with all of this happening.

[!EEK]

Birds tend to fly low when they know there is storm/rain comming because usually it's at that time that some flying insects go out...

I love national geographic


You've heard that in the island of Sri Lanka the military has found 3000 villagers on a hill? They thought they were all dead because the village was devastated.

Those people managed to take shelter on a little piece of land.....

[!EEK]

Well, when it's rainy and bright, those flying insects are feeding on the ground and fly low on the grass and thats why birds are flying low too, they love insects.....but hey..thats a little off topic.....


The indian sea hasn't got anything to stop those tsunamies thats why the death toll is so high.......Those are, for the most part, beautiful islands and they need their charme in order to attract tourisme..(75% of the economy of most of these islands)...so a 20meter high wall wouldn't be appropriate.........

I was thinking, why not dig a really deep trench on the beaches , close it with an automated blast wall so that when there are those big waves, it'll pour into the hole and lose alot of its momentum.....the blast wall might even stand vertically for even more defensive capabilities....

I think (why not?) this might work, and besides, it's totally invisible, the island keeps it paradisiac feeling

[ArmoBarbi]

Vibrations are heard, although not always consciously. The change of pressure idea for birds is interesting. It seems like something they could check and at least rule out, if anything.

Vartan, I dont think they can afford anything like that even if they wanted to.

You know there are different kinds of barriors that they can put out in the water. People use these on private property, it should be affordable for a whole country or continent. Im not saying they could do the job, but maybe something on their principle could be created for this case?

[dstyle]

Wow 125,000, wow. Sad.