December 28, 200421 yr We used to have a member on the boards from Tenifere in the Canary Islands, Spain.
December 28, 200421 yr Death Toll now approaching 59,000. This is certain to go higher over the coming weeks as many will die from disease. :confused
December 28, 200421 yr We used to have a member on the boards from Tenifere in the Canary Islands, Spain. 643914[/snapback] i've got some relatives from the canary islands. i was mentally torn when i met a couple of my female cousins from there. so hot, but so wrong.
December 28, 200421 yr We used to have a member on the boards from Tenifere in the Canary Islands, Spain. 643914[/snapback] i've got few relatives from the canary islands. i was mentally torn when i met a couple of my female cousins from there. so hot, but so wrong. 643926[/snapback] Pics? :confused
December 28, 200421 yr We used to have a member on the boards from Tenifere in the Canary Islands, Spain. 643914[/snapback] i've got some relatives from the canary islands. i was mentally torn when i met a couple of my female cousins from there. so hot, but so wrong. 643926[/snapback] :mischief How distant are they? 2nd, 3rd, 4th? lol j/k
December 28, 200421 yr We used to have a member on the boards from Tenifere in the Canary Islands, Spain. 643914[/snapback] i've got some relatives from the canary islands. i was mentally torn when i met a couple of my female cousins from there. so hot, but so wrong. 643926[/snapback] :mischief How distant are they? 2nd, 3rd, 4th? lol j/k 643932[/snapback] Agreed, and not j/k :plain
December 29, 200421 yr http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/news/articl...3428612,00.html Naples woman recalls deadly quake of 1964 By ANNE MARIE APOLLO, amapollo@naplesnews.com December 28, 2004 The first time Cathy Harris accessed the Internet, she had one thing on her mind. Harris immediately signed up for e-mails alerting her to earthquakes. Any time the Richter scale moved past 5.5, she wanted to know. So Harris didn't have to turn on her TV over the weekend to find out Asia fell victim to devastation caused by a quake that measured 9.0 this weekend. She doesn't need newscasters or the pictures flashing there to tell her what nature can do. She's seen it firsthand. In March 1964, Harris survived the second strongest earthquake ever recorded, a 9.2 blast on the Richter scale that hit near Prince William Sound. At age 8, she watched the forests outside the window of a neighbor's Anchorage home roll and undulate like a sheet being thrown over a bed. She smelled for days the reek of sulfur that rose out of cracks in the earth and walked over ground that liquefied it shook so hard. "It looked like Dante's Inferno and it smelled like it, too," she remembered. The news coming out of Asia is all too familiar for Harris, who moved to the area five years ago from Alaska. Buildings and streets destroyed. Colossal waves washing in over the devastation and carrying homes and people out into the water. People missing and buried alive. In Asia, more than 22,000 people are reported dead with countless others injured or homeless. Tsunamis in coastal areas washed ashore with no warning. From her office in Bonita Springs on Monday, Harris recalled the summer after the Alaska quake, when she and other neighborhood children play-acted burials and remembrance ceremonies, mimicking what they had seen their parents do all spring. Her neighbor at the time, Wilma Goldmann, now 78, watched them from her windows. Visiting her own daughter in Pine Island this week, Goldmann said everyone tried to keep an eye on the children to see how the quake affected them. But, she said, there was little to tell them other than earthquakes sometimes happened, and Harris said everyone just moved on. Each person who lived through the quake has a story about it though, many just like hers, she said. Harris had been visiting another neighbor with her mother that evening, and the group of two women and three children was gathered in the living room, watching Fireball XL5. A rumble lasting maybe 30 seconds struck first, offering no hint of what would come next. "And then it hit and it hit big," Harris said. Huddled together on a davenport that rolled around the room, Harris and her mother watched for five minutes as the earth moved in waves outside. Cars on the driveway rolled above the windows, then dipped below. Telephone poles heaved and pieces of window and other glass flew through the air. On the floor, the neighbor's child knelt in the glass on the floor and prayed for the shaking to stop, blood running down her legs. It was Good Friday. Not far away, Goldmann clung to her kitchen sink and recited the Lord's prayer. She and her husband scrambled for their five children. Her daughter, Sandra Traub of Pine Island, rocked in her crib, only three months old. The family tried to get out of the house, fruitlessly. "Everyone was on the floor by the back door," Goldmann said. "It knocked you over." Cabinets on the wall opened and shut on their own accord around the room, banging open on one side then falling shut on the other, she said. When the ground finally rested, everyone in both houses was safe, though both families lost their chimneys. Others weren't as lucky. Goldmann said some people just disappeared into cracks in the ground and were never seen again. Deaths as far away as Oregon and California were attributed to the quake's aftermath; 125 people died, with 110 of those deaths attributed to the massive waves of the tsunamis that followed, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. An earthquake on that scale doesn't just end, Harris said. Though more sparsely populated than areas in Asia hit by the most recent quake, what buildings Anchorage did have were crippled, by both the big quake and dozens of smaller ones that followed. Entire streets of houses slipped away in landslides. Aftershocks lasted all night, as both families huddled in piles in front of their woodstoves for warmth and comfort, and then for months after. Survivors were left unsure of when or how strongly the next quake would strike. The shaking was so near to constant, Goldmann awoke months later visiting her sister in Wisconsin, convinced temblors were hitting there, too. Forty years later, Harris doesn't take for granted whether it could happen again. "In a minute, God can pick you up and throw you across a room," she said.
December 29, 200421 yr Author 27,000 dead in both Sri Lanka and Indonesia alone. Death toll up to 63,000 and if they don't get there quick, estimates show it may double because of disease. They still don't know how many were killed in Somalia. Death toll is still rising,
December 29, 200421 yr 32,000 dead in Indonesia according to the BBC World Service. They got to the Ache region to count.
December 29, 200421 yr omg this is insane. i cant watch this s*** anymore, its unreal. 63,000 dead and who knows where that number will eventually end up. this is so sad.
December 29, 200421 yr My family is originally from the Canary Islands, That volcano has not been over-active. They fear it may blow its top off like Mt. St. Helens and that it could collapse into the ocean causing a huge tidal wave and tsunami. That would be quite bad. 643865[/snapback] on a side note...canary islanders are funny. at least here in san antonio where they think they are the greatest breed every to call the city home. quite hilarious. 643894[/snapback] It's a general Spaniard and Euro thing. They think they are somehow Supreme in many of those countries. :lol
December 29, 200421 yr omg this is insane. i cant watch this s*** anymore, its unreal. 63,000 dead and who knows where that number will eventually end up. this is so sad. 644086[/snapback] Yeah, the last number is going to have 6 digits
December 29, 200421 yr My family is originally from the Canary Islands, That volcano has not been over-active. They fear it may blow its top off like Mt. St. Helens and that it could collapse into the ocean causing a huge tidal wave and tsunami. That would be quite bad. 643865[/snapback] on a side note...canary islanders are funny. at least here in san antonio where they think they are the greatest breed every to call the city home. quite hilarious. 643894[/snapback] It's a general Spaniard and Euro thing. They think they are somehow Supreme in many of those countries. :lol
December 29, 200421 yr CNN USA is currently airing CNN International's coverage. They will through the night except for the West Coast repeat of Admin King Live which will have its own coverage.
December 29, 200421 yr Video report from Australia's ninemsn news Most of the report is wide screen video and may take a bit to load.
December 29, 200421 yr The estimated number of victims of Sunday's tsunami, triggered by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, has now surpassed 68,000. Link
December 29, 200421 yr Phoney story, but its so hilarous I had to post it. From aljazeera.com :lol : The U.S. knew about the tsunami 12/28/2004 7:00:00 PM GMT By AlClick A house in Indonesia's Aceh Besar district is damaged after a tsunami hit Sumatra. International ocean monitors predicted that a tsunami would likely follow the deadly earthquake that hit the Indian Ocean on Sunday. But they didn?t know who to inform. "We put out a bulletin within 20 minutes, technically as fast as we could do it," said Jeff LaDouce, an official in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. LaDouce noted that they e-mailed Indonesian officials, but said that he wasn?t aware what happened after they sent the e-mails. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center is an international system of monitoring stations stationed in Hawaii. It monitors the Pacific and warn nearby countries of any expected disasters. But the problem with Sunday?s deadly earthquake is that the Indian Ocean isn?t guarded by such systems. The Atlantic Ocean isn?t monitored because there are comparatively few earthquakes there. LaDouce said that there are plans to establish a warning system in the Caribbean after a volcanic collapse on the island of Montserrat resulted in a tsunami last year. "Sumatra has an ample history of great earthquakes, which makes the lack of a tsunami warning system in the Indian Ocean all the more tragic," said geologist Brian Atwater of the U.S. Geological Survey. "Everyone knew Sumatra was a loaded gun." Asian officials on Monday, particularly in India, discussed proposals to coordinate efforts to set up a warning system that monitors the Indian Ocean. "It's a people problem, not a technology problem," said geophysicist Teng-fong Wong of the State University of New York-Stony Brook. "Governments just have to cooperate." The monitors that detect tsunami surges have been available for decades. They sense and record water heights and transmit measurements throughout the Pacific network. False alarms are common and can affect the speed with which bulletins can be released. A false alarm in Hawaii in 1986 caused at least $30 million in evacuation costs. LaDouce said that warning systems wouldn?t be useful without proper evacuation plans, given how fast a tsunami can travel. Tsunami waves hit Sumatra minutes after the earthquake and struck Thailand within sixty minutes. "Even if you give the tourist resorts in Thailand a half-hour's notice, it is no easy matter to evacuate vast swaths of coastland," he said. "You have to plan and train people. And then do it all over again." Oceanographer Bruce Jaffe suggested that "There was enough time from the quake (in Sumatra) to when the tsunami hit for people to walk away from the beach," "If there had been a warning system in place, coastal areas in Thailand and Sri Lanka could have been evacuated." said Jaffe, who is affiliated with the U.S. Geological Survey.
December 29, 200421 yr Author Death toll in Indonesia is up to 45,000+. Total toll is up to 80,000 and still rising.
December 29, 200421 yr Expect the final number to be anywhere around 110-120,000 644351[/snapback] Drudge reported the Death toll to have reach 100,000 and its still rising, the death toll will be much higher than that. On a lighter note, no serious numbers of animal deaths have been reported. Animals can somehow tell the future and left. :o
December 29, 200421 yr Primetime Report: Tsunami Disaster Tonight at 10 on ABC http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=368809&page=1
December 29, 200421 yr I'm sure there are sick people in this country doing a gambling pool on the amount of deaths.
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