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2004-12-30 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Aceh Death Toll [alone] May Reach 80,000

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Posted by cingold 2004-12-30 3:20:06 AM|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This is an aerial view of the town of Meulaboh in Aceh province which was flattened by tidal waves on Sunday, photographed on Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2004.

Posted by cingold 2004-12-30 3:58:07 AM|| 2004-12-30 3:58:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 When I think of a Tidal wave,a wave is what I picture in my mind.But from what I've seen it is more like a flow.

Posted by Raptor 2004-12-30 8:44:16 AM|| 2004-12-30 8:44:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 ....and it keeps coming and coming. Its not a single wave in the sense we normally have of it. Its more like a flash flood. One minute nothing and then the water pours in and just keeps pouring in.

Posted by peggy 2004-12-30 9:22:01 AM|| 2004-12-30 9:22:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Just think of all the trouble Aceh was before this thing. Just think of the ignorant push to institute stricter Sharia and how we poked fun at these yokels.

It seems so completely irrelavant now, doesn't it?

What I wouldn't give to go back to that if it meant that this never happened.

Posted by peggy 2004-12-30 9:25:31 AM|| 2004-12-30 9:25:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 When I posted the first article about this earthquake, the death toll was nine. Zowie.

Posted by Seafarious 2004-12-30 9:51:09 AM|| 2004-12-30 9:51:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 The always graceful Peggy Noonan in today's Wall Street Journal:

"Not everyone distinguished himself. What to say of those who've latched on to the tragedy to promote their political agendas, from the U.N. official who raced to call the U.S. "stingy," to the global-warming crowd, to administration critics who jumped at the chance to call the president insensitive because he was vacationing in Texas and didn't voice his sympathy quickly enough? Such people are slyly asserting their own, higher sensitivity and getting credit for it, which is odd because what they're actually doing is using dead people to make cheap points."

Posted by Matt 2004-12-30 1:06:34 PM|| 2004-12-30 1:06:34 PM|| Front Page Top

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