'I'm Still Scared' - Asia Remembers Tsunami That Killed 230,000

[TomSea]

'I'm Still Scared' - Asia Remembers Tsunami That Killed 230,000
Dec. 25, 2019, at 11:25 p.m.
By Prapan Chankaew

PHANG NGA, Thailand (Reuters) - Communities across Asia commemorated the more than 230,000 victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami on Thursday, the 15th anniversary of one of the world's most deadly disasters.

On the morning after Christmas Day in 2004, a 9.1 magnitude quake off northern Sumatra island triggered a tsunami with waves as high as 17.4 meters (57 feet) that swept over vulnerable coastal areas of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and nine other countries.

"It still haunts me … I can remember it all the time," said Suwannee Maliwan, 28, who lost both parents and five other relatives when the tsunami hit the Thai province of Phang Nga.

Read more at: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2019-12-25/230-000-people-lost-in-a-day-asia-remembers-devastating-tsunami

There have been deluges of Biblical proportions in the past but that was totally incomprehensible in destruction in modern times, at least. I've read of these things happening in the past.

[Fishrrman]

Wait until the Three Gorges dam fails...

[Neverdul]

Never, never, ever underestimate the power of water.


www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3pp-kFNnbs


www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF3BtgemJco

And when the tide suddenly, rapidly and inexplicitly goes out - run, run, run for higher ground because what goes out, comes back in with a vengeance.

And also remember that more people are killed in hurricanes by the storm surge (dying by drowning) than by wind.

Not long ago I watched a documentary about the bout the Galveston hurricane and one on the 1938 New England hurricane.

The PBS show American Experience also had a great documentary about the Johnstown flood, a devastating flood as the result of a dam break based in the book by David McCullough and narrated by him.