And I thought I was going to have a boring holiday...

 

Felt the Indonesia quake at 6 something in the morning... the wave hit around 9.30.

 

All in all, the situation here on Male is not too bad, as we have two breakwaters in addition to the reef for protection. Some of the other islands were not too lucky, with about 6 or 7 people reported dead already. Some property damage, destruction of food stores, the sort of thing that happens when a tidal wave washes over a low lying island.

 

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damn!!

thats madness. stay safe dude!

shit man, just saw it on the news etc... hope you're OK... i bet it's a huge mess there :/

Yeah, heard that on the radio this morning, thats a cracker of a quake, sad to hear so many people have died..

todays papaer says that people in africa were caught in the waves!! :lol:

Yeah, luckily, My island got off easy. The worst of the damage was limited wo within a few streets of the shore.

 

Other islands, however, not so lucky.

 

I am bloody exhausted. Spend half the day at one of the schools where clothing is being organised for for flood victims, and spent a few hours at the airport waiting for rellies to arrive.

 

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Eeek. One of my coworkers posted me on the CNN missing people page.

wow.. thats pretty crazy.

 

I'm glad the list isnt true tho !!

holy crap how many people have died in this thing already? i'm so glad you're safe hai :lol: lucky!

news this morn said 120, 000 and rising :sad:

it doubles every time i hear about it. and i don't even watch tv or listen to the radio. this is one huge disaster :lol:

Just got back from New Mexico, I was really worried!!! Called the Maldives emergency hotline to see if you were okay but since I don't have your Maldives address or phone number that wasn't very useful, and all they could tell me was that you weren't on the casualty list - yet.

 

Sri was also meant to go to Phuket next week, glad she wasn't already there...

 

Anyways, glad you're okay...

Thanks, guys.

 

The death toll here was around a 100, last time I checked, with around the same number missing. I've tuned out of the news as well. Thousands are still homeless, though, and sleeping on on the beach under sails, or have been evac'ed to the schools here. Sleeping on the beach might seem fun, except it's the wet season and it's raining. I tell you, there's gonna be a whole lot of miserable people out there...

Well the Aussies are already sending supplies and stuff everywhere, typical yanks got cut that the Aussies threw so much cash at it and have outdone everyone in that area now..

Quantas aid plane landed here the other day... But from what I hear, we have no means to store the stuff... distribution is being a problem.