stupid tidal wave

[R33Hesh]

i knw this post got NOTHING TO do with skylines nor cars for that matter. but i hope u'll heard abt the tidal that hit south asia. i knw there are few lankasn and indians in this form. hope all your families are okay and doing fine.. more 13,000 ppl died in sri lanka, and still counting and about 4500 ppl died in india.. .. sad 2 days after xams..

[inark]

I believe that funky is sri lankan and at the moment is in NSW. I know that his mum and dad?? are in NSW so heopfully this wont be a sad holiday for him or his family or anyone else on this forum for that matter.

It truely is a tragedy and one that should really have been a lot less severe if the countries other than Sumatra were warned as there was a 2 hour gap between the time it hit sumatra and the time it hit Sri Lanka and the other cournties.

[Downforce]

Apparently the death count is at 24,000 people and rising. The Tsunami was caused by an under-sea earthquake registering 9 on the richter scale.

[DRiFT!]

  R33Hesh said:

i knw this post got NOTHING TO do with skylines nor cars for that matter. but i hope u'll heard abt the tidal that hit south asia. i knw there are few lankasn and indians in this form. hope all your families are okay and doing fine.. more 13,000 ppl died in sri lanka, and still counting and about 4500 ppl died in india.. .. sad 2 days after xams..

Thats why we have a news section. Theres allready a thread in there. Anyway was 24,000 yesturday, sure its more by now.

[YOYO]

25000 at last count

[SS8_Gohan]

i thought they were saying it was 25,000 ALONE just from the Banda Aceh region, as they don't have any details from that area yet? Apparently the wave went 2km's inland...

sad day indeed

[foznice]

family in malaysia are ok, but the news says that there was minor damage in areas close to them.... phew

[SS8_Gohan]

ooooooooo replica SRV, Mayer has 3 of them

i got fam in malaysia, but K.L. ... too far inland.

[GroundRun]

Yeah I got some family in Malaysia as well, but they are all ok. Hope everything starts getting better, a lot of ppl affected in many diff. countries.

[funkymonkey]

when I heard penang was hit I was soooo thankful to god that my gf had left from penang with her family a few days before as she was holidaying there a couple of days before christmas... she rang me to ask me if I knew anyone affected, and all I could say was "thank god I've still got ya".

As for me n my fam its been a good christmas, no one that we know are directly affected. Apparently there's been a bit of mild flooding on the street outside our old house in colombo. My fam is mostly based on the western side of Sri Lanka which wasn't so badly hit.

Was wierd tho, we were all pretty amazed how ALL the lankans were workin together, disregarding the civil war that just seems to have passed. I guess it takes an act of nature to point out how small we are in the grand scheme of things and that its pretty stupid to be in a civil war over such a small island. Hope the feeling brings together all its people.

[Downforce]

death toll is at 68,000 ?? wtf!

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=25324

[Horus]

On the radio today I heard the death toll was at 100,000+

[JET-RB]

that's unbeleivable 100,000?

I'll be heading down to the Maldives mid Feb for my honeymoon, Just got news from the resort that it sustained no damage...thank god...My future in-laws just made the payment last week, there was a great chance that he wouldn't of been able to get a refund, if the resort had been destroyed.

Now I'm a bit worried if somethin happens when we're over there, cause we'll be in the huts that or on the water. Hopefully it'll be sweet I just wanna enjoy my honeymoon.

my heart goes out to the people who are suffering

[SS8_Gohan]

death toll is likely to be 100k+ as the worst areas haven't even been reached yet (banda aceh) - and some small islands they were saying the ENITRE populations might have been killed

[S15200sxbroda]

please everyone donate to CARE Australia. this is once chance to show the real meaning of christmas.

[Driver]

yer my family is donating,

these people had close to nothing be4 the wave..

[inark]

did i hear right that australia only donated 10m???

even NZ which has the population of Melbourne donated 5m

[funkymonkey]

au = 35m

us = 45m

apparently the UN called the US stingy coz they only donated 19m at first lol.

[Goon]

australia was considered most generous in relative to population size.

[inark]

they werent originally.... i think they were given some persuasion cause at first they only donated 10m.

bloody america... had to dip into the kentucky fried make'n everyone fat fund