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Our second internet friend from Indonesia is ok (physically at least). That was good news.
We did find out a friends SIL who lived in that area of Thailand (but her family was from somewhere else in Thailand) hasn't been able to reach anyone she knows. I'm sure her family is thankful she's in the US though.
It's so hard to comprehend this. What I'm not sure is how long did it take from the quake for the wave to arrive on shore? Didn't anyone see the HUGE wave? Or was it just so unexpected?
The hardest thing is there really isn't anyone to blame - 9/11 was caused by someone (planes just don't fly into buildings) so there is someone to hate for the whole thing, plus it has turned out there were smaller problems that had they been fixed would have saved a few more people. I don't think they had strict building codes in many of the places where the Tsunami was, but the idea probably never occured to them (how far inland did the wave go?)
I don't think anything would happen on the US east coast beaches but it does make me a tiny bit nervous about going to the beach over the summer. I guess we are more likely to get a hurricane here and those we tend to have a bit of advance notice on (sometimes the path may veer from the expected, but still people had at least 24-48 hours to leave as a rule).
We did find out a friends SIL who lived in that area of Thailand (but her family was from somewhere else in Thailand) hasn't been able to reach anyone she knows. I'm sure her family is thankful she's in the US though.
It's so hard to comprehend this. What I'm not sure is how long did it take from the quake for the wave to arrive on shore? Didn't anyone see the HUGE wave? Or was it just so unexpected?
The hardest thing is there really isn't anyone to blame - 9/11 was caused by someone (planes just don't fly into buildings) so there is someone to hate for the whole thing, plus it has turned out there were smaller problems that had they been fixed would have saved a few more people. I don't think they had strict building codes in many of the places where the Tsunami was, but the idea probably never occured to them (how far inland did the wave go?)
I don't think anything would happen on the US east coast beaches but it does make me a tiny bit nervous about going to the beach over the summer. I guess we are more likely to get a hurricane here and those we tend to have a bit of advance notice on (sometimes the path may veer from the expected, but still people had at least 24-48 hours to leave as a rule).
