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2004-12-28 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Steve White 2004-12-28 12:42:21 AM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Approaching Bam.

Posted by .com 2004-12-28 1:20:49 AM|| 2004-12-28 1:20:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 And Drudge gives this link to AP MyWay - total tops 42,000.

Posted by .com 2004-12-28 1:54:30 AM|| 2004-12-28 1:54:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 BTW, King Bumibol of Thailand's grandson (half American) was jet-skiing, off Phuket I think they said, and was killed. I'd say it's a safe bet that the King "gets it" regards this disaster - and would've guessed he would, anyway. He's quite old, now, but for a King thingy, he was an ace. Anyway, there will certainly not be any detached authoritarian view of the disaster in Thailand from anyone in power.

Posted by .com 2004-12-28 4:44:26 AM|| 2004-12-28 4:44:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 9am EST, new numbers 39,000 - 44,000

Posted by Jealet Omereting8242 2004-12-28 8:58:45 AM|| 2004-12-28 8:58:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 you can probably double that

Posted by Frank G 2004-12-28 9:01:47 AM|| 2004-12-28 9:01:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 You can put it at 100,000 lost and probably still won't count or account for everybody.

Many of those lost were in small, poor villages by the coast. Probably most of them had no relatives inland who will look for them, and probably none of them had ID. We'll never know the true extent of the loss of human life.

And the economic losses will haunt these countries for years.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-12-28 1:31:37 PM|| 2004-12-28 1:31:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Barbara - And I can't wait for the breaking news story coming out of Islam that the Jooo DeepSea Submersible The Lion of Zion was spotted off Sumatra only 3 days before The Day After Tomorrow event... I'll bet Al Jizz gets the scoop...

Posted by .com 2004-12-28 1:39:06 PM|| 2004-12-28 1:39:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 The loss in human lives could have been reduced, to a degree, if an Indian Ocean based early warning system had been in place.

The death toll has it stands right now are only known, reported bodies. Some islands have yet to report.

After another week or so the totals may very well reach 75.000 to 100.000. Many of those will be people who were pulled out to sea and not accounted for.

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-12-28 3:44:51 PM|| 2004-12-28 3:44:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 When I was at lunch the estimated totals were at 49,000, according to Fox. They're probably higher than that now.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-12-28 3:54:22 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-12-28 3:54:22 PM|| Front Page Top

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