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jack
02-Jan-2005 19:34
Thanks of information. whooh..I can't select right words just now. It should have been horrible. I tried to think those things mentally but it was insuperable. I wish The God would ease thier live who lost familiars, besides them who lost thier only means of livelihood. Can you tell me.. Does any kind of insurance countervail if a person lost everything he got. For example a woman on TV told to interviewer that she had two hotels on the coast and both was destroyed up to stone base. How(in hell)can she breed herself and her possible family now ?
I gotta go now.. eveything good to you :)
devastated
02-Jan-2005 02:08
Jack, This is the view out to sea from the island, full of debris and boats collecting bodies. The waves were over 20' high crashing into the foreshore and then sudden rushes of hostile surging destructive water, pushing forward, destroying in its path, and gathering debris as it went, this combination was what maimed and fatally injured those in its path. No one can imagine the ferocity or horrendous fury of nature at its worst.
But to try to put it into prospective for you - think fire hose with its immense force and then put yourself 1' in front of it and see how long you stand up for and when within the first few seconds you are knocked to the ground, measure the distance it pushes you, and all the time you cannot get air into your lungs because of the woshing water hurtling you and submerging you. If you can mentally image this, then add the force to factor 20 or more and this is what people in the wake of Sunday's tsunami wave contended with. Not once but 4 times within a short time span.
jack
29-Dec-2004 23:52
Is this sea or a ground covered by water? that's unbeliveble how strong forces nature have got. is it true that the wave, which was desctructive, was only 60 cm high? but the biggest part of it was under the sealevel? Do I have understood right?
