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erilynIt was first day back after all the public holidays and stuff, and we're behind now (we have strict weekly deadlines, though luckily this week isn't a pay week, next week will be a nightmare).
But we heard that a co-worker, who is holidaying in Thailand, has been in touch with her family, and she's ok. She was on a boat between Phuket and Pee Pee Island when the tsunami hit, and they were far enough out or something that they were safe, which is amazingly lucky as both places were devastated. But the numbers of dead just keep climbing and climbing, current estimates are up to 75,000. They still haven't heard at all from Simeulue, an island off Sumatra (or some of the others). It had a population of at least 60,000. A third of the population in parts of the Nicobar Islands are gone. 21,000 in Sri Lanka. Whole hotels with virtually no survivors in Thailand. There are no words really, and yet I keep watching the news and reading the papers, hoping to comprehend the incomprehensible.
But we heard that a co-worker, who is holidaying in Thailand, has been in touch with her family, and she's ok. She was on a boat between Phuket and Pee Pee Island when the tsunami hit, and they were far enough out or something that they were safe, which is amazingly lucky as both places were devastated. But the numbers of dead just keep climbing and climbing, current estimates are up to 75,000. They still haven't heard at all from Simeulue, an island off Sumatra (or some of the others). It had a population of at least 60,000. A third of the population in parts of the Nicobar Islands are gone. 21,000 in Sri Lanka. Whole hotels with virtually no survivors in Thailand. There are no words really, and yet I keep watching the news and reading the papers, hoping to comprehend the incomprehensible.
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Date: 2004-12-30 08:46 am (UTC)