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Large Collection of Amateur Tsunami Videos - Asia, Video
Compiled here...Update: Well, this thread has kind of meandered off into somewhat of an unfocused direction, so I thought I'd post something useful - Tsunami relief information, which the folks at Google have collected (links to relief orgs for donations, news links, etc).
Also, not to minimize the terrible tradegy of the tsunami, but the following should put a different perspective of things for most people: On an average day, pre-tsunami, 25,000 people a day, and over 9 million a year are dying from hunger. May all the assistance possible reach the tsunami survivors, but I hope that the ongoing "catastrophes", which get very little everyday attention (and equate to larger numbers of suffering), are not forgotten about either...visit The Hunger Site and give if you have any extra (from the research I've done, they have one of the better "efficiency percentages" around, in terms of having your money pay for actual aid vs. administrative costs).
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Thanks for posting the link to those horrific videos. They tell the stories much better that the stills in newspapers and TV coverage which focuses on the now. Jerry FearPosted by: Jerry | December 30, 2004 04:24 PM
Who can argue with someone who thinks that the corporate owned mainstream media rules...Watch the videos. Don't watch them. I didn't realize videos of big waves were so offensive. Don't ever go to a surfing contest, Jerry - you'd be mighty offended.
Posted by: Caleb | December 30, 2004 06:26 PM
Sorry Caleb, missed the humor. I don't think 135,000+ people dying has much in common with surfing.Posted by: Jerry | December 31, 2004 03:57 PM
For the life of me I can't understand what offends you about people learning more about what caused so many people to die. Maybe you know what a tsunami looks like from start to finish, and how it destroys things, but not everybody does. Reading a newspaper or looking at a "still" does not give me the same understanding of how this whole catastrophe was possible, as did watching footage - especially in terms of how it was possible for so few people to anticipate what was coming (the worst thing about tsunamis may be their stealth - everyone in the videos appeared to be enjoying watching a couple large, but not mind-numbingly-large, waves come in, and then in the span of 10 seconds they were running for safety. A tsunami's bite is apparently worse than its bark).Posted by: Caleb | January 1, 2005 10:35 AM
actually it depends on where you were located when the tsunami hit. I dont see it displayed much, but there is a damn good vid from a house in Band Aceh, where the epicenter of quake hit...the vid shot by katc is truly the most graphic one out there I've seen. the town looked like it was apart of the churning ocean durning a storm. It's incredible what those people went through, and how they survived. Water had to be over 25 foot deep.Posted by: randy | January 2, 2005 05:07 AM
you can download limewire, and type in under vids, "katc" and you will get the vid from band aceh. It will make your skin crawl. I almost don't see how the person filming it survived.Posted by: randy | January 2, 2005 05:10 AM
no imagino como las personas pudieron soportar esta tragedia.Posted by: claudia | January 2, 2005 09:19 AM
The last I heard was that the number of children who die each day needlessly of hunger, diarrheal diseases, and the like is actually closer to 30K. Numbers via UNICEF. And you can bet it's just gotten massively worse, since there is no sanitation, and therefore cholera and other problems are now proliferating.Claudia, es una tragedia mas que nosotros imaginanos. Quiza estan los corazones de todo que persevaran en un amor mayor? (Sorry if my espanol is a bit rusty) It is definitely a wakeup call for many. "Ask not for whom the bell tolls - it tolls for thee."
Posted by: RW | January 2, 2005 05:38 PM
