Text 7285, 46 rader
Skriven 2005-01-10 13:11:20 av John Hull (1:123/789.0)
   Kommentar till text 7270 av Björn Forsström (2:203/614.61)
Ärende: Thailand
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Björn Forsström -> John Hull wrote:

 JH>> Let's get a few things straight here.  First, a preliminary warning
 BF> about
 JH>> potential tsunami activity was issued, and everybody ignored it, so
 BF> this
 JH>> tragedy is the fault of those governements at least in part.

 BF>  From what we hear, a warning was issued but ignored since they didn't
want
 BF> to scare the tourists and even if they had listned, how should they do
 BF> to warn every town and beach in such a big area?
 BF> Very new videos from Malaysia shows that the fist quake did raze a lot of
 BF> buildings and when they tryed to rescue those who got traped the
flood-wave
 BF> came and swept the remains away in matters of minute's.

So, because they didn't want to discomfit a bunch of tourists, they didn't
bother to issue a warning.  It doesn't matter if they could've warned everybody
or not.  ANY WARNING AT ALL would have saved thousands of lives.  Instead the
callous bastards just let it happen, and now they have the unmitigated gall to
castigate the US for not giving enough aid!

Screw 'em all!

 JH>> Secondly,
 JH>> statistically, there is just as great a chance for a wave to hit the
 JH>> Dominican Republic as there is for one to hit Indonesia again. Such an
 JH>> event could happen at anytime and anyplace in either the Atlantic
 BF> or the
 JH>> Pacific.

 BF> I know. It's even more dangerous to drive a car.

 JH>> And third, the water didn't get 20 miles inland anywhere in
 JH>> Indonesia.  Even the tidal wave from Krakatoa, the largest ever
 BF> recorded
 JH>> in history only went 4.5 miles inland.

 BF> Sorry. I wrote 20 m and that's about 22 yards, not miles.

We don't measure by meters.  We use inches, feet, yards, and miles, and this
echo originates in the US, so use those instead the metric system.

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