So are we... :( So beyond words now - especially when they talked about the children....

^---- *meanders to the beat of a different drum also*:cool:

*finds himself at the othere end of Lixie’s pew.*:lust:


Because of an avocation with geology, I was actually following the southern quake, of Christmas even, between Tazland and Auntie Artic, when I became aware and started this thread. The 8.1 number, means something to me and 8.9 REALLY meant something. ……. (and 9.0 means even more) Only by a few hours, was I aware that a significant event could be happening and titled this thread with the words “fragile” and “temporary”.

In spite of the fact that our species has done more than any before, to effect and screw-up the environment that WE are dependent on, it truly is NOT much of a notation in the biography of this tiny satellite of a common, garden variety star, in a galaxy of billions of stars, among BILLIONS of galaxies. It doesn’t know or give a shit that we crawled out of the slime with a million other electro-chemical reaction during a twinkle of star light. The planet belched! We just happened to be at a point in our own time when we could make note and communicate it to others like ourselves. Occasionally it will fart, like at Mount St. Helens or Krakatoa or Tambora or Pompey. The resulting effect on us is only notable BY us. It is completely undetectable in our universe.

This prospective is not gloomy or sad in any way.:) Rather it causes me to look at my kids and grand kids and my garbage man and my banker and my friends and my Pixies family and know….. NOW is all there is :D and WE is all we got man! :D :grope:

^ can I get an "amen", brothers & sisters...

After shock is hitting...and they say more tidal waves could be coming. Least they have a warning this time. I hope it's enough!

Unfortuantely, there were warnings which turned out to be false alarms and panicked some people still in the coastal areas. Ug.

Terrible. I had a nightmare about a tidal wave when I was young, if close my eyes I can still see it, it was incredibly sharp and realistic, I can remember holding my breath, and hte butterflies in my stomach - luckily, I woke up, for these people, the survivors, the worst is just beginning.

The earth and its power are truly something to behold. My heart goes out to all those effected my this event. It will take years to recover from this, and the survivers will carry this horror with them for the rest of there lives. But the human spirit is an amazing thing, and they will move on and slow get back to living and loving.

I think the last I heard put the current death toll at over 100,000. I just can't hardly imagine that. And they expect disease to almost double whatever the final number is.

Lord have mercy!

That is the equivalent of 9/11 happening everyday, for over 5 weeks and 4 days. :(

They've not yet talked about Myanmar (Burma), Madagascar or the most vulnerable of all, Bangladesh.

In Bangladesh, they lose a hundred thousand when 2 inches of rain falls on the wrong tide.

I suspect the toll will top a quarter of a million killed by water alone.

snuffed out......
 

[QUOTE=dicksbro]I think the last I heard put the current death toll at over 100,000. I just can't hardly imagine that. And they expect disease to almost double whatever the final number is.


things like this just boggle my mind the more you think the more it just doesn't make sense maybe we are living hell and there is a better place because i can't stop thinking of the kids washed away while jumping in waves one of my favorite things to do when i was young when we play with fire we DO get burned omg!!!!! head is spinning numbers don't translate but those hands reaching up out of the mud tells me a whole lot....... :mad: :eek: :hair: :confused: enjoy life when you can don't put off anything.

Very very sad

Oldfart,

According to the Beeb, Myanmar is only reporting 53 dead. However, 124,000 people have been confirmed dead around the rim of the Indian Ocean to date.

The UN has warned the final death toll is likely to be more than 150,000.

2004 will have a note in a book humans seldom enter. :(

My ex-husband is in Thailand right now & sent this email:

Well, there are tremendous relief efforts going on here, the international community, the army and all. We are finding that we were so fortunate to have escaped the Tsuanmi as it destroyed All the seaside resorts that we were used to going to. so, we have changed our daily patterns, and staying away from the ocean.