A tragedy of biblical proportions
Posted : December 29, 2004 at 8:30 am [America/Los_Angeles]
Swirling ocean swells are seen along the flooded coast of Kalutara, Sri Lanka
in an image taken by DigitalGlobe’s QuickBird satellite shortly after
the area was hit by a Tsunami on December 26, 2004.
I would not be at all surprised that we will be on 100,000 (deaths) when we know what has happened on the Andaman and Nicobar islands…
- Peter Rees of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Children could account for up to a third of the dead…
- Carol Bellamy, UNICEF Executive Director
… everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
- George Santayana
Sitting here in the comforts of my apartment in US, it is somewhat difficult to grasp the biblical dimensions of this tragedy. However, one only has to look at these numbers above, see the pictures floating around in the blogosphere and read news items like “Quake may have altered Earth’s rotation” or “Quake rattles earth orbit, alters Asia’s map, say US geophysicists” and you start getting some sense of what was unleased on Sunday Dec. 26th, 2004.
And to think that around the same time when Mother Nature was unleashing her wrath, I was busy bitching about my stupid sore throat and how I seriosuly thought that was the “..worst thing that can happen to anybody”.
- Anand
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