8.9 Earthquake near Indonesia 1000's are dead - Page 2

Malone Brown · #11 12-26-2004, 09:55 PM

Hey,
I was in Thailand during this. I has my bags all packed and was heading to the airport when we seen a huge comotion down at the beach so my girlfriend and I went down to see what was up. The water rose quite a bit and flushed away all the beach chairs etc., so we took some pictures. Soon after we seen a huge wave comming in and everyone started screaming and running. We took off throught the town trying to outrun the water. Some old Thai man was nice enough to let us hop in his pick -up truck and took us up to the mountains where we stayed for about 5 hours till the water went down.

It was an extremely scary experience to say the least. The worst thing is that watching BBC afterwards, we saw that they listed about 240 people dead in Thailand as a result. While we were still in Thailand, a Thai man was translating the local news for us and said that well over a thousand people have died, and hundreds of diving tourists were still missing. He told us that the government will probably not give out the true number of casualties because it will hurt tourism (which apparently they did not after seeing the BBC broadcast.)

It was a very frightening scene, we had our camera out before the whole thing happened so we got some pictures of the whole ordeal while we were running away, maybe I'll post them later if anyone's interested in seeing them. I was a terrible thing to happen to this beautiful country.

Malone

fsuplayer · #12 12-26-2004, 11:59 PM

That sounds awful, i cant imagine what that was like.

glad to hear you didnt get hurt however. if you ever get around to posting them, i would be interested in seeing the pictures.
I am very sorry this happened to you.

good luck to you.

fsuplayer

BottlesOf · #13 12-27-2004, 01:25 AM

Sawgrass...awesome....

BusterStacks · #14 12-27-2004, 01:29 AM

man, i hope this doesn't happen to a place that matters to the world.

fsuplayer · #15 12-27-2004, 02:22 AM

I used to be a member there, so gonores and I are playing there on tuesday, where he will get pwned (a one-time intentional misspelling) by the closing three holes.

hence the avatar and location.

billyjex · #16 12-27-2004, 05:08 AM

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man, i hope this doesn't happen to a place that matters to the world.

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Me and my Dad were talking about if an earthquake that big hit off the California coast (I'm about a mile from the ocean at my dad's place in central California.)

There's so many low, heavily populated coastal beaches all up and down the state, it'd be crazy.

Is there any video of the tidal waves? I can only imagine how crazy it must have been.

realwtf · #17 12-27-2004, 05:10 AM

That earthquake shook the world. Check out this page

here is the link

ChoicestHops · #18 12-27-2004, 05:18 AM

This is a terrible event. I feel sorry for the lives lost.

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It was a very frightening scene, we had our camera out before the whole thing happened so we got some pictures of the whole ordeal while we were running away, maybe I'll post them later if anyone's interested in seeing them. I was a terrible thing to happen to this beautiful country.

Malone

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I would like to see them.

AngryCola · #19 12-27-2004, 05:25 AM

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man, i hope this doesn't happen to a place that matters to the world.

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I'm not one to be overly sensitive, but this strikes me as a really cruel statement. I don't know anyone who died in these events, but my heart goes out to them.

They matter to me.

EDIT- Unless you were making fun of how most Americans don't give a sh1t about these kinds of things in other parts of the world. If that's what you were getting at, my apologies for being confused.

Legian · #20 12-27-2004, 07:01 AM