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Irene


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OMG! Over 20,000 people are being reported dead now. Holy Crappola! Those poor people.

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My dad told me as soon as I got up yesterday morning. It's so tragic. I can't imagine what those families must be going through.

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has anyone seen footage or a photo of the "wall of water" they keep describing? It's SO scary!


I was actually thinking of going to the Maldives for my honeymoon in 3 months....glad I changed my plans!


 



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Awful.  I saw a picture on the front of the WashPost site today of a woman crying over the body of her dead little boy.  On the radio (NPR) they talked about children out on the beach when the tsunamis came up... so terrible.  Then they were talking about how relatives in this country or wherever can't get in touch with family over there and have no idea of the fate of their loved ones.  It's absolute chaos.  The worst part is, the number is too big to even be fathomable.  Putting a human face on it like that woman's and thinking that hers is just one of so many sad stories...

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I share office space with some people who have an office in Sri Lanka, and they said a lot of people there go away to the coast on the weekends, so there were more people in the worst-hit area than there would be if this had happened during the week.  It's so awful to think about.

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I saw some pretty amazing footage of the tsunami on comcast.net


http://www.comcast.net/providers/fan/popup2.html?v=25523396&pl=25508659.xml&config=/providers/fan/config/default.xml


So awful.  It truly made me sad to hear the news yesterday and even sadder after I saw this. 



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so sad..


what a grim reminder of our mortality...and how we have absolutely no control over when and how we or our loved ones die..


 



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It's really sad and devastating. I'm worried because one of my best friends from college lives in East Java in Indonesia, it's not near the epicenter, but it's close and I think where she lives was affected in some way by the tsunamis.  I hope that her and her husband is alright.  Please say a prayer for them and the others who are affected by this disaster.

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Kenneth Cole

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it's horrible. my dad's family luckily is out of madras, but still has friends there.

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That is so sad...they said entire villages were destroyed. They also had no system in place to alert people in rural areas.

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That is so sad.  The amount of people that have died is unfathomable.  Has anyone seen any pictures on the news of the huge wave? 


 


 



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So sad.....I can't even imagine how horrifying that must have been.



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My family has vacationed in Phuket in the past and I've just been watching the news and I'm so sad...my entire extended family is in Thailand and so far I haven't heard any bad news and I really hope I don't...

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Does anybody know what we can do to help. I really would like to know, this is just awful.

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Originally posted by: ladysi78250
"Does anybody know what we can do to help. I really would like to know, this is just awful."

just a few ways to donate:


http://www.savethechildren.org/emergencies/asia_overview.asp?StationPub=hp_asia_overview&ArticleID=&NewsID=



http://www.wfp.org/index.asp?section=4


http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

http://www.ifrc.org/index.asp


more info:


http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com/ 


http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/12/27/quake.aidsites/index.html


 



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Kenneth Cole

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THe amount of people that have died is up to 44,000.  Holy crap!!!

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Kenneth Cole

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This is soooo sad!

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I cannot even imagine the devastation!  I have a friend that was scuba diving when the actual tsunami hit - we got an email from her saying that she was alright and is scheduled to come home Monday if the airport is still intact.  Scary!

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An addition to mizzle's list of charities: Direct Relief (http://www.directrelief.org/index.html) is another great organization; over 99% of all donations go to relief efforts (as opposed to administrative or fundraising costs).



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Irene


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Death toll number is now at nearly 80,000.

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