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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Death toll reaches 100,000
2004-12-30
Posted by:Fred

#4  Mojo, I don't think there will be much in the way of phone calls from the little coastal villages. Nobody left to make the call, and anyway, what phone?
Posted by: trailing wife   2004-12-30 5:36:10 PM  

#3  Posted at 1:30AM this morning when all other sources were quoting between 65,000 and 70,000.
Posted by: .com   2004-12-30 4:14:27 PM  

#2  It will go much higher. Right now, it's just counting the big places with phones and such. Wait till the counts from all the tiny little coastal villages start coming in...
Posted by: mojo   2004-12-30 4:10:07 PM  

#1  That's one big-assed jump in the toll. I do not doubt that it will reach 100,000, but this smells like Egeland Mathematics.
Posted by: .com   2004-12-30 1:29:22 AM  

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