Tsunami Caught On Camera In Thailand

[stevedeshazer]

Video Shows Tsunami Hitting Beach

link: http://www.nbc10.com/news/4026938/detail.html

[mark414]

1. oh damn

[imax2268]

2. dam...

that's something...

and to think that I was in Phuket just ten years ago...such a beautiful island...

[alexisfree]

3. can't see it..

maybe is my connection...

[stevedeshazer]

5. I had trouble at first, but it worked

Try the slideshow, if nothing else, it's just about as amazing.

[genieroze]

12. turn off your pop up blocker

[Warpy]

4. Tuned in for the noon weather

and saw footage of Sri Lanka, CBS affiliate. Perhaps they'll play it on the nightly propaganda hour.

The footage showed a wave coming onshore, going uphill, and traveling across a swimming pool full of absolutely still water. It was so fast that it didn't produce a single ripple on the pool surface.

It was a beautiful piece of film of a deadly phenomenon.

[beachgrl60]

6. Let them go NAKED!!!

Sound familiar??? I was in the hurricane ravaged Florida when Teresa made this bizarre statement! She certainly didn't endear herself to people there, did she??? I thought it was funny but residents there mother f**ked her all day for 2 weeks! I must have heard "We don't want that freak in the White House" about 1000 times!!!

[Fiona]

8. What ARE you going on about?

[beachgrl60]

11. you don't remember??

During one of the hurricanes, Teresa Heinz Kerry visited a church where people were packing up boxes to send to people in Florida that were hit by the hurricanes. They were sending water, non perishable foods and clothes. THKerry said "don't send clothes, send other things, just let them go naked!" Didn't go over too well!

[RedSock]

13. seems silly to ask but

LINK?

also i hope * talks about this so i can hear him pronounce "Phuket" like "fuck it"

[beachgrl60]

16. It was in September

during hurricanes. It was all over the internet, Cnn, msnbc. I'll look and find it. Maybe someone in Florida has the link, it's all they talked about down there when it happened!

[Bouncy Ball]

19. You got the context ALL wrong

but good try. The people she was packing boxes with were all concerned about clothes and were LEAVING OUT CLEAN BOTTLED WATER in favor of clothing.

HER point was that they needed WATER first and foremost, that clothes could be sent soon after, but not to sacrifice clean drinking water for CLOTHES.

She had a good point and it got twisted and turned by the mainstream media and now here you are repeating how the MEDIA and the RIGHT WING spun it, aren't you?

[trotsky]

27. Thank you for correcting the story, Bouncy Ball.

THK's statement was completely practical and showed concern for people's primary needs. Were I in that situation, I would much rather go naked than go without drinking water. And that goes for my kids, too.

Nice to smack down the right-wing spin wherever it appears. *ahem*

[Lisa]

21. actually, wasn't the relief effort for the Caribbean?

And the supplies weren't headed for Florida, but for the islands? News coverage reported that people in Haiti were most in need of clean water, immediately after the hurricanes hit.

I was at a disaster planning conference earlier in the year, and the Red Cross reps there said that unless there are concerns about hypothermia (very cold temperatures, etc.) they worry most about water and sanitation in the first few days after a disaster. Clothing and shelter come later -- people need water right away, and what usually happens with storms and flooding is that the treatment plants are damaged and surface sources are contaminated. Perhaps Mama T could have stated things a bit differently for the press, but the relief workers I've spoken with have said pretty much the same thing as she did.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

24. I heard that on Fox News, but other media didn't pick it up

:shrug:

[sandnsea]

26. Triage

From somebody who has actually lived in third world countries and been involved in relief efforts, hands on. Teresa knows how to be practical and prioritize. Water, food and medicine first. She's right, too bad Americans are so spoiled that the very idea of having to choose between water and an extra pair of pants is beyond their comprehension. Of course, too bad for Teresa that she didn't understand Americans would never have to make those choices, not even in the aftermath of four hurricanes.

[0rganism]

18. Strange, but true; THK did say this

Of course, our friendly newbie decided to omit the mitigating context, as I have no doubt numerous anti-Kerry talk show hosts found a way to do as well.

"Clothing is wonderful, but let them go naked for a while, at least the kids," said Heinz Kerry, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. "Water is necessary, and then generators, and then food, and then clothes."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-09-15-heinz-kerry_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA

[Bridget Burke]

10. So, you were hit on the head by some flying debris....

During one of the hurricanes.

Perhaps you'll recover someday.

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[genieroze]

15. No now we are stuck with the stepford wife. eom

[MrSlayer]

7. Pretty cool.

Pretty cool but not great. You'd think there would be better footage somewhere. I'd like to see what a 30 foot wall of water looks like.

[Squatch]

9. If the first slam isn't bad enough...

Bernoulli's theorem says that as an fluid flows through a constriction, it increases in velocity. So, all those alleys that are oriented parallel to the wave's direction served to funnel and then increase the velocity and force felt by peoples, buildings, cars, etc.

[beachgrl60]

17. Why don't they have the seismic buoys??

There everywhere in Hawaii! When it starts churning an air horn goes off over and over again to alert anyone nearby. It gives you 45 minutes of time to get away. It's not expensive.

[Bouncy Ball]

20. Then why don't you buy some for Thailand?

[Bridget Burke]

25. The area has never been prone to Tsunamis.

(Or is the plural Tsunami?) They're a well-known problem in the Pacific, so plans have been made.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

22. Not viewable by Mac users

:-(

[idiosyncratic]

23. Not even the slide show? That is what I looked at.

I have such a slow connection, I looked at the ten slides.

Then, I went back to the beginning and clicked forward through them fast. It was almost like a video. :)