about the tsunami in south asia

horrible death toll in the whole area is now 58,000....

 

some news raise the total to 68,000
it is the worst disaster to struck the region
God help the needed

 

heard from other source says the death has risen to 70,000...

 

My paper heads the front page today with "every wave brings new bodies to shore"...

The count isn't over, and neither is the disaster... Gatsby, I hope you're okay!

 

Well, I'm still alive.

Singapore is pretty unhurt since "only" 200 of our number died and all appened to be on holiday in Thailand. We're quite lucky actually, since the whole of Singapore is very sheltered. (We haven't had a natural disaster as far as I can remember). Malaysia lies to the north, while Indonesia covers the other three directions. They're big peninsulas that show up on the world map (unlike us), so we didn't get hit after all. Our economy is very dependent on maritime shipping so it would have been disaster if we had been hit.

 

u singaporean? me too...

 

Great to hear!

For a European "south Asia" is just a large area and as far as I know anyone in it could have been hit by the disaster. I'm glad this is not entirely true...

Ray243: sorry, I didn't know that.

 

Ive just given my support to the "Red-cross", and i think whoever can spear some money should do the same.

Have any of you guy's seen the recent private-video in the news lately, where one can see it all happen ??


KBO

 

Tragic figure now stands at >100,000 death, likely to increase in subsequent days

 

yeap, between 117,000 to 125,000

 

In the first days the Dutch government reported about 30 Dutchmen missing; now the number is 500...

 

includes also 1000 germans, 500 from france and 500 from denmark

 

29 confirmed British dead
120,000+ people in one set of natural disasters... :cry:

It is heartening to see the governments & the people of the world donating so much money/goods/equipment/specialists to help.

 

I gave 50p to a charity box. I didn't think it would help much until somebody said to me:

"50p can feed a person for one day. Out there somewhere there is a person thankful of that money. They have food now, be it only for one day it is more than they would have had."

God bless all of those who give money, prayers, support or even just good thoughts.

 

Time also to unload all the Clothes my Kids have grown out off.

Me too, over the last 3 years I have gained 3 stones.

 

Stones?! That's even pre-Imperial system!

Death toll is still expected to rise even though most of the countries have simply stopped counting. It could be over 100,000 in Atyeh alone. The total now stands at 130,000... :cry:

 

A stone is 14 pounds Sorry. 3 x 14 42 pounds.

 

This disaster is truly of biblical proportions; those of us who believe, we really need to pray for those people.

 

the UN put the total to 150,000

 

I thought it sad to see some religious zealot nutcases proclaim this a punishment of God right away. I mean, 150,000 people died and their only comment is, "we'd better be careful or the next Tsunami wil be in the Atlantic"?!