Re: Tsunami in Asia
Posted by Kiwi Phil:<br />I have let this reply slide for a few days as i felt this disaster was not measurable.<br />I feel we should realise that this natural disaster may end up in being the largest natural disaster in human history.<br />News, (if you can call it that), from Indonesia, is that Ache, or maybe best described as the W coast of Sumartra, is completely devestated with no means of teams, even in helicopters, being able to investigate. Aerial recce reports there is nothing left of coastal towns. To date, they just can't find anything up that coastal strip.<br />You have to put it in perspective too. That coast may be over half the length of your entire Eastern Seaboard, and that is only 1 of many countries hit.<br />Then there are countries such as Somalia in Africa. No body has yet been able to get there to acces anything. They may never get there.<br />Another long term problem is that most coastal areas are fertile agricultural land, and that has all be polluted.<br />Sea Six and KaGee.I don't wish to start a bun-fight, but I feel you may be a little hasty in your remarks re donations. These victims had next to nothing to start with, and millions face disease and starvation. We as humans are going to have to assist them just to stay alive.<br />I believe countries not effected by this tradgedy will end up spending billions of $ in aid, as this is not like any Hurricane or Land based Earthquake. This is really really big, and it is just going to grow bigger.<br /><br />Cheers<br />Phillip<br /><br />Thank you Phil, for shedding some light on the size of area affected by this enormous disaster and the logistics involved in bringing aid and relief to these most unfortunate of our fellow man.<br />A cataclysm of unprecedented magnitude without doubt.
