FUCKING HUGE ASS TSUNAMI

[Mr. Blonde]

Didnt this happen like...2 days ago? I mean I havent been on much but I figure someone would have it upin here by now...i'm too lazy to provide a news story, but if you havent heard of it youi should probably get the fuck outta that rock.

note: i'm really really hoping somebody didnt already post about this in another category.

[ninjaface]

I hadn't heard anything about a tsunami until reading this post, so I checked it out. Apparently, the Sri Lanka area was hit by a huge tsunami. The death toll is said to be around 44,000 people in 11 different countries. Here's a link to yahoo news.. Just click on the link that says "Amateur Footage Shows Tsunami Hitting Resort (AP)".

[George Sherman]

thats not all I read something about their being a huge a earthquake too. Its kinda frightening seeing all these natural disasters happenming all of a sudden especially after George Bush is re-elected. If you know what I mean.

[Orgazmo]

Current death toll = 125,000...

News story here claims that death toll may reach 400,000 in Indonesia alone...

I suggest reading it...really puts into perspective how big this thing really was (if putting it into perspective is even possible).

[George Sherman]

Wow, I seriously think that this is the begining of the end my friends.

[silver and cold]

My moms best friend and her family are over there, and they cant fly home till Feb.

[ninjaface]

I read that the US was going to give something like $10 Million for relief efforts. A little while ago, the BBC website says the US increased its pledge to $350 Million.

Also, as far as disasters go, this one is climbing the charts.

NATURAL DISASTERS
2004 Asian quake disaster - toll so far exceeds 110,000
2003 earthquake in Bam, Iran - official casualty figure is 26,271
1976 Earthquake in Tangshan, China, kills 242,000
1970 Cyclone in Bangladesh kills 500,000
1923 Tokyo earthquake kills 140,000
1887 China's Yellow River breaks its banks in Huayan Kou killing 900,000
1896 Tsunami kills 27,000 in Japan
1815 Volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora on Indonesia's Sumbawa Island kills 90,000
1556 Earthquake in China's Shaanxi, Shanxi and Henan provinces kills an estimated 830,000

[Zanny]

On the point of the amount of money the US is giving pisses me off. First off we send 35 million, and other countries call us stingy. The world to me seems slightly hypocritical seeing how we are suppose to come to the aid of a country that harbors terrorist knowingly. That what it has come down to all these countries hate the US so much but when they need north american money were stingy when we dont send over enough. Frankly, and i know this is insensitive to the situation, indonesia should go fuck itself. Would they be so quick to help the US if it had a problem....no they wouldnt.

[farawayfromhere]

One of my best friends and her family are over in Thialand right now vacationing. They were there about three days before the earthquake happened, their area is evidently alright but I guess you go 30 miles away from their beach and its Hell on Earth. Its unbelievable the way this thing is unfolding. Earthquake results in Tsunami, bad water from tsunami results in illness, causing even more death. If I had enough money, I would love to go over there and help ou.

[Orgazmo]

As the tsunami death toll flirts with 225k, the survivors have a new problem...

Source

Tsunami Survivors Live in Fear of Ghosts

By RUNGRAWEE C. PINYORAT, Associated Press Writer

PHUKET, Thailand - Since the tsunami, taxi driver Wiwat Sakuldee is afraid of the dark and won't go near the beach. Like a lot of Thais on this resort island, he believes many of the disaster's victims have become restless spirits who haunt the streets after sunset.

Traditional beliefs and spooky gossip are fueling ghost stories along the Asian coastlines where thousands were swept away. In Indonesia, a student saw a shadowy human shape enter a house, only to find the door locked and no one around. Villagers in Sri Lanka hear cries for help from the ocean.

Ghost sightings are the talk of the town in the beach resorts of southern Thailand, where some 5,300 people are listed as dead — a third of them foreigners — and 3,144 others are missing.

In Phuket, Wiwat said he dreads working at night now, and he keeps away from the beaches.

Wiwat shudders in retelling a story making the rounds about a Phuket driver who recently picked up Western tourists in his tuk-tuk, one of Thailand's trademark three-wheeled, open-air taxis.

"Ten of them got in when the ride started, but there were only two left when it ended at Kata Beach," Wiwat said. "The driver was so scared he ran away. If any Westerners ask me for a ride to the beaches, or even one of the streets that run near it, I won't go."

Thais don't necessarily consider ghosts malevolent, but more an unpleasant reminder of death and the possibility that unsettled spirits could lead to bad luck.

In keeping with local Buddhist and Chinese traditions, monks are holding rituals to lay the wandering spirits of tsunami victims to rest. The ceremonies vary from simple prayers and incense burning to elaborate Chinese rituals during which replicas of money, clothing and other items are burned to provide spirits the things they might need in the next world.

In Banda Aceh, the devastated capital of Indonesia's hard-hit Aceh province, residents living on the banks of the Kruengdhoi River say they heard cries of "Help!" from beneath the water every evening for two weeks after the Dec. 26 disaster. Soldiers have recovered dozens of bodies from the debris-clogged waterway.

Adek, 22, a recently graduated university student, said he was going to pray at a mosque on the river's banks when he saw two spirits. One appeared to be the owner of a home who went in but faded into a shadow. Adek said he followed but found the door locked and no one in sight.

"The spirits aren't settled because they haven't met their families," said Adek, who like many Indonesians uses only one name.

In eastern Sri Lanka, villagers in Kalmunai report still hearing voices shouting for help.

"They say the voices are heard the loudest close to the sea," said the Rev. Clement Annadas, a Roman Catholic priest.

More than a third of the 31,000 people who died in Sri Lanka lived in the Ampara region, where Kalmunai is. There have even been several requiem Masses to pray for the repose of victims even though Catholicism doesn't believe the souls of dead people walk the Earth, Annadas said.

Mawarale Baddiya, a Buddhist priest, also told of people living in fear of spirits. He recounted a story about a woman sleeping in a temple in the southern Sri Lankan town of Beruwela who recently got up screaming and tearing her hair out.

"She had felt her neighbor, who was drowned in the tsunami, pulling her with the waves," he said. "All these people have been severely traumatized by their experience with the tsunami and are unlikely to forget about it for a very long time."

In Thailand, even people who don't believe in ghosts are asking for rituals to lay the dead to rest. They say that to survive, Thailand's resorts must win back tourists, including visitors from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore, where such beliefs are widespread.

Pairoj Chaiwat, manager of a department store in Phuket where 33 bodies were recovered from its basement supermarket, said he doesn't believe in ghosts, but the building's owners had Buddhist monks honor the dead there so neighborhood people won't be afraid to come once the store reopens.

Dr. Thaveesilp Wisanuyothin, spokesman for the Thai Health Ministry's mental health department, said worries about ghosts are common after natural disasters in the region.

With such a shocking event, "you will begin to worry and be alert all the time. Even if only a leaf drops, you could be frightened," he said.

Ceremonies to put the spirits of the dead to rest can be "a good healing method that is part of our culture," he said.

[ninjaface]

Here's some tsunami victims. (pic of dead people)

[Niger Angelus]

Wow. That is, __________. Wow. That would just be terrifying.

[Orgazmo]

Originally posted by ninjaface:
Here's some tsunami victims. (pic of dead people)

That'd make a good gigapixel image.

[ninjaface]

Find the bloated house cat?

EDIT: Joke

Q: Why don't people in Thailand take baths?
A: Because they wash up on shore.

Q: How do you stop a huge tsunami?
A: Throw 150,000+ asians at it.

[ January 23, 2005, 10:28 PM: Message edited by: ninjaface ]

[ninjaface]

ooops... before this post is deleted for being a shitty accident, read those jokes in my last post.

[ January 24, 2005, 11:17 PM: Message edited by: ninjaface ]

[the Butcher]

If you noticed, every one of those disasters happened in Asia. You know what? I'm not too worried, it looks like nature hates those dark-skinned poor people more than us. Which is quite funny actually, because we are the ones who destroy nature everyday for corporate expansion. Ha. Ironic, isn't it bitches?

[St. Anky]

and the asians are like, "america's gonna get nuked soon. those bitches."

[ProfessorNumber]

Originally posted by ninjaface:
Q: How do you stop a huge tsunami?
A: Throw 150,000+ asians at it.[/QB]

Hahahaha!! That is fucking hilarious! If you thought of that one yourself, you are my new hero.

Anyway, I say fuck the Tsunami victims. Or rather, fuck their stupid government. America extends a helping hand to them, full of money, and what do they do? They basically tell us, "Hey, you will give us your fucking money, but your soldiers who are working with the relief effort cannot be armed even though we harbor terrorists, and your military planes cannot fly in our airspace. Thanks, and close the door on the way out fuckers."

Honestly, I say we take back every fucking penny and spend it on domestic problems, like landslides. They won't let our soldiers, who are there to help, carry a weapon? And, then to ad more insult to it, they won't let our pilots fly training missions over their land? Fuck those stupid Indonesian cunts. I hope another tsunami washes their stupid country off the face of the earth. And, then Godzilla would swim down to their sunken rubble and take a huge shit right on their stupid ass country.

[St. Anky]

of course they're not going to let our soldiers carry a weapon. our soldiers seem to have this trigger happy personality and this tendency towards mowing down crowds of innocent women and children.

[ninjaface]

I was talking to one of my friends about how most of the big disasters fuck the asians. He said the next big disaster in America will be when California breaks off from the continent. Then it got me thinking.. how much of California will break off? Will the entire thing break off or just half? And if half breaks off, will they rename it? I think after all the dust settled and they cleaned up the dead bodies and rubble.. it could be quite the marketing opportunity. But we wouldn't get any help from other countries.. so that would suck. We'd have to use all our own money to recover. And if Arnold was still governor, he could probably name the island like a movie. California 2: The Island. As an island, the tourism industry would be huge. There would be more beaches which would mean more beach front property which would mean a boom in the real estate industry. Invest in construction companies and Real Estate companies in/near California.

The island could also become a prison. Like in Escape From L.A. So that would be cool..

[Ironic Mustache]

Well this is fucking weird... I was just talking about this earlier today. California will break off at the border and stay the exact same shape it is. Here's a flash documentary about it in case there are still questions.

[Ironic Mustache]

Posting the video would probably help:

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/endofworld.html