Day: December 27, 2004

BREAKING: March 28, 2005 – New Southeast Asia Quake, 8.2 Mag. Tsunami Threat, Evacuations.

View an animation showing the creation of the Southeast Asia Tsunami. (requires QuickTime)

More: Here’s another.

BREAKING: March 28, 2005 – New Southeast Asia Quake, 8.2 Mag. Tsunami Threat, Evacuations.

“My Christmas Vacation – Pong, his friend Joy and I went to Phuket for Christmas. The Tidal wave hit on our third day there.”

This from a guy in Phuket who witnessed the tsunami hit. His pictures are posted here (if you are prompted for a password, it is – abc123). His weblog is here.

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BREAKING: March 28, 2005 – New Southeast Asia Quake, 8.2 Mag. Tsunami Threat, Evacuations.

A new blog is up containing information about helping the victims of the tragedy in Southeast Asia.

Not when it is strong enough to move islands up to 66 feet!

Amazing stories:

20 day old Baby survives tidal wave, found floating on mattress.
Video of killer tsunami wave.
Bloggers provide eyewitness accounts.
Tragedy everywhere.

Note to George:  Vicodin and Wine won’t help. You’re not funny anymore.

If I didn’t know any better, I’d think Viktor Yanukovich was taking advice from Democrats in my home state of Washington.

Via The Australian:

ACTRESS and singer Liza Minnelli was taken to hospital after falling out of bed and hitting her head in the early hours, People magazine reported today.

Good Lord, there are so many possible punch lines for this story…

When you gotta go, you gotta go.

Via ABCNews:

The extraordinary loss of life from Sunday’s earthquake and tsunami waves is prompting Asian governments to consider developing a more comprehensive and effective warning system. Officials in Thailand issued the only warnings of the impending disaster, but broadcasts beamed to tourist resorts in the country’s south underestimated the threat and a Web site caution was not posted until three hours after the first waves hit.

Huh? Asian governments are considering development of a better warning system? What, the death of tens of thousands of people doesn’t warrant anything more than consideration? A day late and a dollar short, as usual. This is such a typical example of government bureaucracy after a cataclysmic tragedy.

Unbelievable.

Via CNN:

A comment Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made during a Christmas Eve address to U.S. troops in Baghdad has sparked new conspiracy theories about the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

In his remarks, Rumsfeld referred to the “the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania.”

A Pentagon spokesman insisted that Rumsfeld simply misspoke, but Internet conspiracy theorists seized on the reference to the plane having been shot down.

“Was it a slip of the tongue? Was it an error? Or was it the truth, finally being dropped on the public more than three years after the tragedy” asked a posting on the Web site WorldNetDaily.com.

Conspiracy dweebs.