Spare a thought..

Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 0

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4125481.stm

I've been round most of those places pretty recently - lovely part of the world.. this shit is rough..

Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2004 8:05 pm

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ShockedHoly $hit a Moment of Silence R.I.P all.

Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2004 9:34 pm

I just saw this on the news. My heart is in my throat. It's hard to imagine such a disaster. Shocked

Kai Lover Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 522

i saw it earlier today on the news, i cant even imagine what those people went thru, absolute tragedy, may their souls rest in peace

Kai Regular Joined: 24 May 2004 Posts: 108

Damn

Its never nice to see that sort of news, especialy at christmas.

It makes you appreciate life and fragile it really is.

Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 3:45 am

My brother was in Phuket just a few weeks ago (went on a south east asian trip for 6 months) - my mum is counting his blessings right now..

Rough shit.. I guess this is proof we're fucking up the environment..

Kai Admirer Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 442

i was on holiday in Thailand's Phi Phi and the surrounding islands myself last month. Shocked

condolences to all those lost in this unfortunate tragedy. Crying or Very sad

Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 4:09 am

afandiewinter @ Mon Dec 27, 2004 1:57 pm wrote:

i was on holiday in Thailand's Phi Phi and the surrounding islands myself last month. Shocked

condolences to all those lost in this unfortunate tragedy. Crying or Very sad

There was a full moon party last night as well, I wonder what would have happened there?

Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 6:47 am

Can you believe they are now calling it a 6.0, thats just crazy.

Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 6:57 am

A 6.0? It's a 9.0 from all reports I've seen..

Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 7:17 am

yea it was a 9.0...worst in 40 years

thats crazy. try and imagine a wall of water coming at you, where the fuck would you run too... Shocked

its sad

Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 7:27 am

Eyewitness accounts

I'm in a town called Unawatuna, which is on the south coast of Sri Lanka.

We didn't feel the earthquake here so there was no warning at all.

Then at about 10:00 this morning our time a huge wave suddenly hit the beach.

We were still in bed in a ground floor room right on the beachfront when we suddenly heard some shouts from outside.

Then the water started coming under the door. Within a few seconds it was touching the window.

We very quickly scrambled to get out as the windows started to cave in and glass shattered everywhere.

We swam out of the room neck deep in water, forcing our way through the tables and chairs in the restaurant and up into a tree.

But within about 30 seconds that tree collapsed as well and we were thrust back into the water where we had to try and keep our heads above the water line.

We were swept along for a few hundred metres, trying to dodge the motorcycles, refrigerators, cars and other debris that were coming with us.

Finally, about 300m inshore, we managed to get hold of a pillar, which we held onto until the waters just gradually began to subside.

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the rest can be read Here

Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 7:55 am

I hope that every nation capable of helping sends aid where it's needed...

Video Master Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1815

very sad situation, and at christmas of all things... damn it!

Video Master Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1815

more than 15,000 dead at this point. may they rest in peace.

Sad

Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 4:28 pm

fuck this sucks Mad

Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 10:25 pm

Yeah I really feel for all those people...and the Dutch who are still missing there. like 13 of them.

Team XLink Moderator Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1215

dfunked @ Mon Dec 27, 2004 5:09 am wrote:

afandiewinter @ Mon Dec 27, 2004 1:57 pm wrote:

i was on holiday in Thailand's Phi Phi and the surrounding islands myself last month. Shocked

condolences to all those lost in this unfortunate tragedy. Crying or Very sad

There was a full moon party last night as well, I wonder what would have happened there?

If I'm not mistaken, the full moon party's (at least the original ones) are on Koh Phangan, which is an island on the east coast. So, luckily, they aren't affected by this tragedy otherwise I think the toll would've been much higher..

Still 30.000 missing on some island for the coast of sumatra/sri lanka (can't recall which one).

Terrible.

Team XLink Administrator Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 4061

BBC now saying toll could be as high as 24000. bad shit man......

Video Master Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1815

some tv stations are predicting that the death toll may total 57 thousand people when everything is said and done.