After what I've seen today on TV, my heart just breaks and I find myself in tears. This is just horrible. One hour would have saved more than half the people killed. It's awful.

Cindy

Your link to some video is dead or redirected to avoid the "slashdot" effect .... http://media.militaryphotos.net/tsunami/

Well, thank God, the fellow in that wave (photo, here) survived...some guy on a porch nearby grabbed the guy in the wave and lifted him to safety.

News and videos - http://www.jiwa-merdeka.net

I've been rounding up a bunch of video and photos of the actual wave itself and posting them on .:DataWhat?:.

Can't they swim?

I agree with matt, it's rediculous that they al died from drowning. GET SOME WATER WINGS OU LOSERS!

CANT THOSE SKINNY LITTLE ASIANS SWIM CHRIST FUCKING GUCS!IM TIRED! SUCK MY DICK ASIAN WHORE!I KILL MORE KITTENS MASTURBATING THEN YOU SHORT QUEERS!RAWR!Ill tap ASIAN MAN ASSHOLE LIKE A KEG RAR BEASTMAN RAWARR!GIVE ME MY NEEDLE CACK BACK NOW FUVK YOU I WANT A BJ WHORe!

WHATS SO HARD ABOUT SWIMMING I AGREE WITH STEVEN MY ASSHOLE BUDDY (HE HAS A PUNCTURED ASSHOLELOLS)
BUY SOME WATER WINGS OR HAVE MY MOM BUY THEM CAUSE IM GHETTO GS COME HERE STEVEN AND OPEN WIDE!i STILL WANT A bj ASIAN HOOKERS ILL HAVE MY MOM PAY!

-MATT PALMER "NEEDLE CACK PACKED FUDGE" BROWN

ASIAN wHORE i SAid NOW!MOM BRING ME MY DOEIRTARS

What the problem with Matt Plamer & Scrawny Chinkerts ? There were lot of people died on that day ..... You still can give such comment ? I want to see you swim there if you can..... You sure fuvking drown also man. God bless you !

The people who posted comments about "why can't they swim" are both ignorant and stupid. Nothing more needs to be said.

of course they can swim... freakin A they're surrounded by water... the prob is the strength of the current! havent you heard from all those wilderness guys in AMERICA that only 3 feet of water going fast enough can knock you sideways in millisecond... dood how the hell do you swim against that? you should tell all thsoe ppl who fall into canals that they should have swam as well, wasting those rescuers' time and see what reaction you get...

try swmming with a 33ft wave hitting you with the force of a moving train. Ignorant little bastards. Fools like you make Osama justified in his actions

Bastards, let me see you swim against a water with a current strong enough to carry cars. Dumbheads.

Well lets get this thing straight? We should help as much as possible? give give give? O i see lets help out these musliums so that they live to kill us later...ya thats the right thing to do who can argue against that!
get your heads out of your ass fellow americans.
the muslium religion calls for anyone not muslium to be slain plain and simple- if you don't believe me just read the kuran. i've read some of it.
believe me if the situation was reversed see who would come to our aid! ya there are a few countries out there that would help. but that is strictly for show..after all they know were there bread is buttered.

To Just Me,

sorry for the off topic, what verse of kuran you read until gave you such perspective ?

To Dollah and ALL,

Check out prophetofdoom.net

Anybody who can read can understand from the koran that there is no middle ground for "Allah" - you either believe whatever the lone prophet Mohammed says Allah said, or you must die. This is no religion of peace; it is a cluster of situational ethics that allow its followers to lie and kill in the manner of attaining any goal by any means.
What has "Allah" or Islam ever done for anyone or any country? Let's see the proof! Just like socialism and communism, wherever Islam prevails, people are enslaved, poor, or worse, killed by the so called "clerics" who are unwilling to martyr themselves. Their sheep do that for them; if a harem of virgins is waiting, the leaders should be the first ones to strap on the sticks. And the muslim masses should be celebrating whenever one blows themselves up if they really believe what Mohammed said. But they don't and they won't. What a joke!
I have friends who are muslim, that I love, but this going-through-the-motions belief system and these "clerics" that instigate hate ruin life for many. There is no joy in Islam - it is a dead end.

Dear Just Me,

Prophetofdoom.net, theQuran.com and several other such web sites are Completely misleading and simply a back-twist of mind. I have been surfing thru islamic web-sites and 75% of the web-sites i have seen contain gibberish in the name of Islam.
I feel sorry to see western media painting ridiculously-biased picture of Muslims and Islam and intentionally creating hatred.

No need to start an argument over this. I respect yr opinion. But please do make sure that u have seen all sides of the picture (read the Whole Quran in a Proper mosque) before formulating an opinion.

From History: Islam in South Asia prevailed not because of the Sword but because of the Love and Kindness of the Sufis and Saints who travelled from Arab to this region. I am not a regular visitor of this website, wont come back again, but u can save my words and find references if u r really interested in gaining un-biased knowledge of the religion.

Laslty Sir, Jews, Christians and Muslims, v all believe in the Same God. As far as yr point of Islam-spreading-hatred is concerned, well,unfortunately, this is not true. Muslims can marry Christian (Refer: Quran & Hadiths). Under Muslim regime, minorities in South Asia, Middle East and Europe (under Muslim Rule) used to live in peace. There is so much to clarify, so much to tell, but i doubt u'll be willing to listen.

Anyways, have loads of work to do and yr mail has already frustrated me. Y do u guyz hate clerics so much? how many clerics do u know personally? Cant u ppl simply shut off the TV, the shit-filled newspapers and bogus websites and meet the muslims personally, have sum chat and get an unbiased opinion? ....
anyways ... God Bless u and guide u to the rite path. byez

When they told me amercians are ignorant lots,i didnt buy it.After visitin this blog on asians died cos they dont know swimmin...most of the people killed were fishermen..and educated(hopefully) fool like you cant understand what a tsunami means...all u can do is watch WWF and fondle yourself.

dear stupid "just me" and friends...
do you know how many people from usa died there...?

About swim capabilites in Sri Lanka.
It's true that most of the local population over there indeed can't swim. That's because the ocean is very turbulent so it's nearly impossible to swim even on a calm day. Tourists that came there swim in pools which poor locals can't access of course.

This is one sad, embarrassing set of comments.

When I read the comments from certain americans here it makes me understand why most of the planet hates you people. How can you talk about people dying the way you do? The only good thing about Osama Bin Laden is that at least the threat of being killed abroad keeps trash like you safe at home in the USA and away from the rest of us.

To the people who say "Why didn't the people just swim away?", as well as to the people who say "Those people are just fools!" :-)

I was in Hawaii in 2003, and while on the beach - a "small" 5 foot or so (I guess?) wave came to where I was - and broke right there... Let me assure you I swim *VERY* well - yet this wave (which seperated me and my wife for about 20 seconds) was *so strong* it pushed me INTO the sand on the beach floor - and KEPT me there for a good 40 seconds. I was only in an area that is knee deep or so in water.

I was completely and totally helpless - like someone was pushing me into the sand.

When I first saw this wave coming - I told my wife Joanne to run - because we both knew it was quite larger than the other waves, and it seemed to be moving faster. You just cannot outrun it... and this was a small wave by comparison - tiny even.

Bottom line, we were both ok, and I had sand all over my face (and eyes ugh) for the whole day.

That is on a measly 5 foot wave... Imagine a 30 foot wave - slamming into shore at much much higher speed - and you honestly think you can swim against that? The current of the wave would be enough to push you down and keep you down until you were dead - simple as that.

BTW: For those who say "These idiots! Dont they realize that the water was too strong to swim against?"

Keep in mind that most news organizations (cnn etc) show 'milder' videos of the disaster - which do not capture the raw enormous power of these waves which struck.

I hope that we can make more donation as can as posible. Please help the victim, everyone want to be perfect but no one is perfect. We cannot predict that thing. We hope all people over the world must have awareness about the bad thing that we don't know when and where it can be happen anytime.

Asia’s tsunami death toll soared above 126,000 on Friday as millions struggled to find food and clean water and persistent rumours of new giant waves sent many fleeing inland in panic.
400,000 terkorban --

Tiada tanda-tanda kehidupan di beberapa penempatan di Acheh

Jumlah korban di Acheh, wilayah yang paling dahsyat terjejas akibat bencana gempa bumi dan ombak besar tsunami Ahad lepas, dipercayai boleh mencecah 400,000 orang - lapan kali ganda daripada perangkaan yang diperoleh sekarang.

To the racists who are making swim comments....it's called SWIFTWATER...you(yes, even white America) cannot swim out of it!

And i agree with friends who are embarassed of some of our ol' USA peeps with idiot comments like this.

Most people in Europe didn't understand the re-election of G.W.Bush - reading the anti-muslim and "can't-swim"-comments here makes it a lot easier to grasp.
Thanks for the insight
Good luck for 2005

PLEASE, SHOW SOME RESPECT TO THE HUMAN RACE, WHERE OBVIOUSLY YOU GUYS DO NOT BELONG. IF YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY, WHY DON'T YOU GROW UP AND TRY TO ENJOY UR LIVES INSTEAD OF WRITING DOWN SO MUCH GARBAGE???? U R PROBABLY KIDS, NO IDEA ABOUT ANYTHING, AND MOMMY IS CALLING YOU FOR DINNER, RIGHT??? YOU DESERVE YOUR GOVERNMENT. ACTUALLY I WISH U WERE THERE TO SWIMM UR WAY OUT. GET REAL. GROW UP. STOP BEING A POO POO HEAD!!!!!!!!!!!

Sven,

Stick to the issue. 120k dead and rising. I think it best to spend our energy and thoughts on how to help. Wether it be a small donation or prayer. Anything helps.

The idiot comments made by the "can't they swim?" guys were meant to get people, like you, worked up. If you waste your time on that, then you've give them exactly what they want: YOUR ATTENTION. If you insult an entire country based on the comments of two or three people, then your ignorance is no less then theirs. Remember that every country has its heroes and fools. Germany is no different. Look to the history books... you will find that Germany has had it share of fools as well. Just ask the Jewish people about it and they will name a few.

I mean, if it were just one or two knuckleheads I wouldn't give them the attention they desire. But this is a sizable minority on this thread, spewing the most hateful, heartless ignorant garbage I can imagine.

Jeezm pete's! Happy freakin' New Year!

Vincit, my dear friend,
that Germany had – and still has – it’s share of idiots and scumbags is definitely undisputed (well... at least by some *g*) but – as you might have noticed – it wasn’t Germans who posted these little wisdoms about asian whores, short queers and christian-slaying-muslim-monsters and so it seems a little far fetched to respond with an attack against dumbheads in any other country or even the universal dumbhead as such, wouldn’t it?

...apart from that: Praying instead of paying attention might be at least part of the problem.
Thumbs up for a better 2005
Outta here
S.
:)

Happy New Year to everyone. Keep your thoughts and prayers where they belong, and concentrate on what matters. Try not to let mindless children who would make the above comments get you. Sounds to me like a cry for attention that needs to be ignored. Hope everyone has a safe night tonight and is careful driving home.
Bye