OMG...Quote:
Originally Posted by hobbes
I thought they were back in the UK..
I hope they are alright if im wrong.
:(
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OMG...Quote:
Originally Posted by hobbes
I thought they were back in the UK..
I hope they are alright if im wrong.
:(
I've posted in R & C's; will forward any news.
Rikk is missing several friends from Phuket and other locales...
Wait, so they're in Thailand? Damn, where exactly in Thailand?
Is Sam's wife named Layla?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rat Faced
If so, his whereabouts are being checked by some of the members in R & C's already, so perhaps we'll hear something, hopefully positive...
His daughter's named Layla. Sam hasn't mentioned it so I assume everything is okay. If I remember rightly it was Bangkok where they lived anyway.
If it's Bangkok, they should be alright, right?
yeah :)Quote:
Originally Posted by cpt_azad
Well then lets hope they're in Bangkok and that they are alright.
could be banned from life and not just a stupid internet message board, guess that makes some people happy. :(
Sam's okay he's been on our board all day...he hasn't said anything so I'd assume everything is okay with him and his family.Quote:
Originally Posted by muchspl2
(and according to his profile he's not banned here. As I recall just before the change to vb he was put onto moderation but decided to stay away anyhow.)
what the hell are you talkin about much? that's not even funny
I thought he was still banned, I can't keep up, but some members take moderating a internet message board too seriously.
just saying.
Didn't know he was banned.
This is really pissing me off.. why cant the red cross or something just say they think 250k people are dead or something.. this is feeling like a basketball game.. I know these places are remote, but they must be able to come up with some number.
Well if they were just supposed to say it, it'd be lying because they would just pull a number out of their ass. Anyways, lets just wait and see what happens.
yea i guess, but you feel so awful and say to yourself.. shit 80,000 people are dead.. then the next day you feel worse cus 120,000 people are dead. I guess its more than i just want the number to stop rather than what the number it is.
I fear the grand tottal :(
I think everyone fears the grand total much, may god have mercy on every living being on this planet.
Well, invetibility is one son of a... anyways:
source: http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapc...ake/index.html
Quote:
Tsunami death toll tops 135,000
World Bank gives $250m, European nations boost pledges
JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- The world was stepping up efforts to aid millions of survivors of the devastating tsunami that swept across southern Asia as the death toll rose above 135,000.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan appealed for the international community to come together to help the victims, and several European nations said they were increasing their donations in response.
Britain boosted its pledge from $30 million to $95 million, and the World Bank added $250 million to the $250 million pledged by the international community.
Annan welcomed the aid and said even more would be needed. A donors conference is planned for January 11.
Canada has announced a debt moratorium for tsunami-affected countries, and other wealthy creditor nations are expected to follow suit.
Meanwhile, a U.S. delegation headed by Secretary of State Colin Powell and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush -- brother of President George W. Bush -- will travel to southern Asia Sunday to assess humanitarian needs.
"This is an unprecedented global catastrophe that requires an unprecedented global response," Annan said.
"It has registered deeply in the consciousness and conscience of the world as we seek to grasp the speed, the force and the magnitude with which it happened.
"The impact will be felt for a long time to come."
The regional death toll rose to 135,263 on Friday after Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka said 14,000 were killed in rebel-controlled areas in the north and east of the island.
Sri Lankan officials report at least 27,008 deaths in non-rebel-held areas, putting the island's total death toll at 41,008.
Indonesian officials said nearly 80,000 died on Sumatra, the island whose western coast was first hit by the massive wave triggered by Sunday's magnitude 9.0 underwater earthquake.
There are more than 4,000 dead in Thailand and at least 10,000 deaths in India.
India's toll is almost certain to rise as emergency teams reach the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, closer to the earthquake's epicenter. Few of the islands rise higher than 12 feet above sea level, and the southernmost islands were swamped by the tsunami.
Jan Egeland, the U.N.'s emergency relief coordinator, said the relief effort is monumental -- likely the largest and most expensive in history.
"We're still finding places in northern Sumatra and elsewhere where there are many, many dead," Egeland said.
In Sweden, flags will fly at half-staff Saturday as the nation observes a day of mourning for its 44 victims. Prime Minister Goeran Persson attended a memorial service Thursday in Stockholm with the royal family and said Sweden's toll could exceed 1,000.
There are 2,500 Swedes missing in Thailand, most of them backpackers believed to be in Phuket or Khao Lang.
With disaster assessment and aid teams still trying to assess remote areas, the scope of the disaster is still difficult to grasp.
Indonesian-based British conservationist Mike Griffiths flew over the western coast of Sumatra and said it was "like a nuclear blast has leveled the area."
Between Meulaboh and Chalang, about 60 miles north, no villages are left, he said. Calong, a town of 13,000, has "vaporized," he said.
John Budd, a spokesman for UNICEF in Indonesia, said the infrastructure damage in Aceh province in Sumatra's north has made distributing aid especially difficult.
"UNICEF has an office which could have easily started, but that office has been wrecked," he said.
The 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck about 7 a.m. Sunday (7 p.m. ET), knocking down buildings along the shore, up to Aceh's capital, Banda Aceh, on the northern point.
More than a million people in Sri Lanka were forced from their homes -- and nearly half of those no longer have homes.
Malaysia reported 66 deaths and six missing, but Deputy Prime Minister Mohamed Najib said flooding in the Pinang and Kedah states was extensive.
More dead were reported in Myanmar (formerly Burma), Bangladesh, Tanzania, Somalia and Kenya.
Thousands of the dead remain unidentified, and some officials said decomposition is making identification more difficult.
Me too :( ...up to 135,000 and still climbing.Quote:
Originally Posted by muchspl2
Atleast mankind knows when to care and help. This is one of those only times where every one on Earth feels for others that they do not know about.
More photos and videos of the horror
http://www.vikash.nl/tsunami/
And more child prostitutes? :no:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rat Faced
That'ds what I remember thailand for bifg scandls with child prostitutes and pedophiles a few years boanck.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v38/snorlax/X.jpg
Mine's bigger.
Size isn't everythingQuote:
Originally Posted by SnnY
:blink:
apparently. :ph34r:
what the hell are you talking about?
I don't know.
What are you talking about? :unsure:
god stop confusing me.
Yeah, this has got to stop, god. :angry:
Please stop.
Ahhh.... so this thread has turned to kiddies paradise, eh? Well done.
You know, a little bit of sensitivity won't go amiss here guys :)
What the hell are you talking about strangey?
1) It was harmlesss, no one was inulted. And no disrespect was meant.Quote:
Originally Posted by Strangelove
2) In the future, don't go digging the day after. It's just unnecessary.
agreed, nowhere in this thread was anyone insulted, and to do what you've done strangelove, just plain wrong.
Aid is finally arriving, a week later too. Looks like aid is in the billions now.
Hat's off to Japan.Quote:
Aid pledges top $2 billion
Pledges of international financial support for countries -- from Asia to Africa -- devastated by the Indian Ocean tsunamis have reached $2 billion.
The amount, which includes contributions from many countries and the World Bank, is larger than what was pledged following all of the other humanitarian emergencies worldwide in 2004, said U.N. emergency relief coordinator Jan Egeland.
Egeland said the United Nations needs cargo airplanes, 100 boats, several hundred trucks, 10 fully equipped base camps with staff support for the aid personnel and water treatment units.
Japan's prime minister said Saturday his country had increased its funding pledge to $500 million from $30 million.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan will attend a donor conference Thursday in Jakarta, Indonesia, the United Nations said Saturday. Afterward, he will visit stricken areas in the region, said U.N. spokesman Brendan Varma.
Annan will press for pledges then visit some of the tsunami-stricken areas in south Asia, Varma said.
Can't argue with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by cpt_azad
Now, are we talking Imperial billions (a million millions) or US billions (a thousand millions)?
hmmm, I think it's USD.
I grew up having it drummed into me that a billion was a million million. I still struggle a little with this 1000 million thing. :blink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Chewie UK
Yeah it irks me somewhat when our own politicians talk of billions in the 'new age' US definition; it sounds so much better when talking of NHS and education spending, eh?Quote:
Originally Posted by Biggles