Big shit in Thailand

Who wants high resolution satellite photos of the area?!?
(Kalutara beach, Sri Lanka)

Here you go:
Before
http://wardonia.no-ip.info/misc_pics/2004_wave_disaster/srilanka_kalutara_beach_jan1_2004_dg.jpg
http://wardonia.no-ip.info/misc_pics/2004_wave_disaster/srilanka_kalutara_beach2_jan1_2004_dg.jpg
http://wardonia.no-ip.info/misc_pic...rilanka_kalutara_beforeflood_jan1_2004_dg.jpg
http://wardonia.no-ip.info/misc_pics/2004_wave_disaster/srilanka_kalutara_ov_jan1_2004_dg.jpg

After
http://wardonia.no-ip.info/misc_pics/2004_wave_disaster/srilanka_kalutara_beach_dec26_2004_dg.jpg
http://wardonia.no-ip.info/misc_pics/2004_wave_disaster/srilanka_kalutara_beach2_dec26_2004_dg.jpg
http://wardonia.no-ip.info/misc_pic...lanka_kalutara_beachcloseup_dec26_2004_dg.jpg
http://wardonia.no-ip.info/misc_pics/2004_wave_disaster/srilanka_kalutara_flood_dec26_2004_dg.jpg
http://wardonia.no-ip.info/misc_pics/2004_wave_disaster/srilanka_kalutara_ov_dec26_2004_dg.jpg

After a bit of resizing (the two pictures weren’t the same scale), I managed to make this nifty gif of the two overview pictures.
Try and guess which frame is before and which one is after:
2004_wave_disaster.gif
 
Are they taken at the same time of day though? The colouring seems to make up most of the difference you can actually make out.
 
Well, it could have been caused by the water receding from the land mass with all the mud reflection more sunlight and thus, brighter. Still it seems that the lighting is a bit off.
 
Rosh: we've had several reporters report from Pukhet, so I'm pretty sure that one at least has been counted into the death toll.

BBC News is now reporting 114,000 dead, and I know that many are still missing.

Ironically, there are only 5 official Dutch deaths, and in Thailand 30 are missing. Nothing big for us Dutchies, but Asia has been hit really hard. I especially feel sorry for Indonesia: it seemed to have been going better over the past few years, after many years of Dutch oppression and then dictatorship, and now they are hit with this. The government has issued a statement that it'll take at least 5 years to rebuild the areas that have been hit.
 
now reporting between 116.000 & 120.000 btw

you should also know that in some parts, the water reached inland up to 20 KILOMETERS!

thats f*ckin' huge...
 
ATI sucks because of their Linux drivers, yeah.
Bloody last driver release said 'You can now move your mouse in X' (or an equicalent phrase). So now I can actually do something besides looking at the screen? Whoa.
 
Sander said:
ATI sucks because of their Linux drivers, yeah.
Bloody last driver release said 'You can now move your mouse in X' (or an equicalent phrase). So now I can actually do something besides looking at the screen? Whoa.
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And that fits in this topic how?
 
Because I misposted, apparently. Odd. I am absolutely positive I used the post button in the computer trouble. Ah well. Could a random admin/mod move it there?
 
They now said that about 2500 swedes are missing. This is the biggest disaster in Sweden since Charles XII, probably.
 
2500 missing 50 or so dead and I heard a speech from Göran Persson saying they believe it to be 1000 or so dead Swedish.
I have friends down there as we speak who were in bangkok as it happened after having been on one of the flooded beaches like 2 days earlier.
 
Baboon said:
They now said that about 2500 swedes are missing. This is the biggest disaster in Sweden since Charles XII, probably.
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Sander said:
Ironically, there are only 5 official Dutch deaths, and in Thailand 30 are missing.
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Arrrgghhh!
This pisses me off so much (not just from the Swedes or Dutchies though, from us Brits and probably every other country in the world). Why do a handful of deaths from your country mean so much when compared to the hundred thousand plus foreigners dead?
Apparently a lot, seeing as how BBC news has spent almost as much time following the 26 (yes, only just over two dozen) dead and however many missing Britons as it has reporting on the massive casualties and even more massive numbers of missing locals.

What I am pleased about is how well the charity campaign is doing. A charity campaign set up for this (composing most of the major British charities) has raised (IIRC) about £20M so far, including £10M overnight from when it was first announced. At least people seem to be willing to help, rather than just watching it on TV. The (British) government has also pledged £50 million/
 
I don't care about them more, it's just the main focus of the news over here, and for Sweden, that IS a lot. Just informing you as you might not know, is all. Stop making stupid assumptions.

The charity campaign seems too soon, when everything is still in total chaos.
 
Baboon said:
I don't care about them more, it's just the main focus of the news over here, and for Sweden, that IS a lot. Just informing you as you might not know, is all. Stop making stupid assumptions.
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I didn't mean you, I meant your news. Which I assume has been focussing on them from your comment and from how the British news has been with our missing/dead. That was the only assumption I made.
The charity campaign seems too soon, when everything is still in total chaos.
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Why? Do you think the money will "go off"? :?
They need the money ASAP, whetehr it will be used immediately or in the near future.

Damn, I also just realised I donated far more than I can afford (which is essentially nothing). Well, at least I got that "warm feeling" inside me.
 
Big T said:
This pisses me off so much (not just from the Swedes or Dutchies though, from us Brits and probably every other country in the world). Why do a handful of deaths from your country mean so much when compared to the hundred thousand plus foreigners dead?
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I in a previous post said:
It never ceases to amaze me how people equate news evaluation with human evaluation.
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There has certainly been no shortage of moralizing in editorials and blogs as well. Every day people are in misery all over the world, and they certainly won't stop because of this, but for now everyone has to be absolutely heartbroken about this thing and donate whatever the state didn't already take from them in order to qualify as human beings. Everyone's free to do and think what they want, it's the holier then thou attitude that gets to me.

Edit: I don't mean to belittle anyone's act of charity or to point fingers and I apologize if I gave that impression.
 
I did some research, and contrary to what some people might believe, the biggest natural disaster in the history was a Huang Ho flood in China, when 900,000 people drowned. Is that cool or what?
 
Depends what you mean by "longer period of time". I don't consider one or two days very long.
 
Per said:
I in a previous post said:
It never ceases to amaze me how people equate news evaluation with human evaluation.
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I am amazed at how many people consider "The Media" to be a large, ominous organisation completely independant of people's views.
The media show what A) they feel is important.
and B) what they think the public finds important.

Also, quoting yourself does nothing but inflate your sense of self importance. :D
 
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