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This was the 1st wave of 6 I wonder what happened to this lot here.



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"Gavin Staples" wrote in message
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http://www.theage.com.au/ftimages/20...344978599.html

This was the 1st wave of 6 I wonder what happened to this lot here.

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...274363,00.html

I dread to think.

Jon.

"Jon O'Rourke" wrote in message


"Gavin Staples" wrote in message
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http://www.theage.com.au/ftimages/20...344978599.html
This was the 1st wave of 6 I wonder what happened to this lot here.
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...274363,00.html

The water was not so much high as that the coast was so low. Such waves
occur 1 every 10 seconds up here in a storm. But up here in the highter
latitudes we are used to high tides 6 or 7 times higher than that. And
our sea shores have developed to suit. We have berms piled up out of
years of drifts and storm and vegetation. Or where that has been
replaced, by sea walls.



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"Gavin Staples" wrote in message
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http://www.theage.com.au/ftimages/20...344978599.html
This was the 1st wave of 6 I wonder what happened to this lot here.
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...274363,00.html

The water was not so much high as that the coast was so low. Such waves
occur 1 every 10 seconds up here in a storm. But up here in the highter
latitudes we are used to high tides 6 or 7 times higher than that. And
our sea shores have developed to suit. We have berms piled up out of
years of drifts and storm and vegetation. Or where that has been
replaced, by sea walls.





I know what you mean Mike, but in that part of the world they seldom get
waves higher than a short pair of socks. I believe the latter waves were
very much bigger - and this was in Thailand. The other countries got much
larger ones. I have seen some of the film clips and it is really
distressing.

Gavin.

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 17:14:08 -0000, Gavin Staples wrote:

http://www.theage.com.au/ftimages/20...344978599.html

This was the 1st wave of 6 I wonder what happened to this lot here.

If they are really strong swimmers with some surfing experience they
just might have survived, very slim chance though.

More images to bring home the sheer scale of this event:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/New...es.php3?img_id
=16775

http://makeashorterlink.com/?S29C1422A

Note the resolution of the images and read the text...

Also look at the DigitalGlobe images of Banda Aceh:

http://www.digitalglobe.com/tsunami_gallery.html

City? What City?

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"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message
ll.com...
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 17:14:08 -0000, Gavin Staples wrote:

http://www.theage.com.au/ftimages/20...344978599.html

This was the 1st wave of 6 I wonder what happened to this lot here.

If they are really strong swimmers with some surfing experience they
just might have survived, very slim chance though.

More images to bring home the sheer scale of this event:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/New...es.php3?img_id
=16775

http://makeashorterlink.com/?S29C1422A

Note the resolution of the images and read the text...

Also look at the DigitalGlobe images of Banda Aceh:

http://www.digitalglobe.com/tsunami_gallery.html

City? What City?

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It just beggars belief.

Interesting that some of the Sri Lankan images show large vortices forming in the beach area as
the water retreated,would have finished off any boat or persons who had survived the initial wave
:-(.
Relieved to hear Joe Hunt is OK BTW,

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Gavin Staples wrote:
http://www.theage.com.au/ftimages/20...344978599.html

This was the 1st wave of 6 I wonder what happened to this lot here.

I saw a report in the Telewag the other day - they were Swedish (? I
think) tourists - they were OK, apart from being bruised and
shaken...the lady running towards the waves was the mother, desperately
trying to get her family away from the tsunami...luckily for this
family, they survived.

Paul.