22000 Dead.

[Jana]

The death toll this morning is now over 77,000 and the Red Cross is saying that it could top 100,000. :(

[JDM]

Then you have to account for disease like Cholera (I think there is another H in that word), and the local economies and food markets...

I hate to be a negative ass, but I wouldn't be suprised to see the overall outcome of this to top 150,000.

That would be like a Nuclear event erasing the city of Bloomington...

[JDM]

Matt D's video will make your stomach turn...

People die in his videos, just to warn you... But it is a "breathtaking" sight... Not a good "breathtaking" either...

[JET]

I was doing a little more reading. There was a guy that said the water pulled way back from the shore and left fish flopping on the sand. People ran out to get the fish because they don't have much food, then the wave came back in and washed them all away. It still seems surreal. It is definately a huge tragedy. With the threat of disease and all the dead still unaccounted for, I hope the total stops at 150,000. It could easily get much worse with all of the dead bodies contaminating the water supply.

[Matt D.]

Matt D's video will make your stomach turn...
Not so much that you see them die, but you see people get swept away and they're gone. Imagine a levee breaking from a flooded river and water rushing in with unstoppable force... That's what it looks like.

[JET]

One thing that I didn't think of before, what the hell happened to all of the boats that were over there?? I am sure there were ships in that area full of products.

[Matt D.]

One thing that I didn't think of before, what the hell happened to all of the boats that were over there?? I am sure there were ships in that area full of products.
The ones that were near shore were most likely beached. Anything in the water at the time probably felt a few 10 foot waves and then nothing.

[Raptor]

I was just watching CNN and one of the things that hit me was a video they showed of a neighborhood in shambles and all the dogs that survived that were waiting at the houses for the owners to come home. They all looked extremely sad and it just for some reason effected me a lot. The mass graves and makeshift morgues are so intense that it doesn't seem real at all.

[Jana]

My boss told me a story that she saw on the news of a couple that were out in the ocean a ways when the tsunami hit, and they did get much of it since it's worse at the coastline. But then when the wave came back out it was carrying all these people that were screaming and yelling for help. So they went around and picked up about 20 people, and then took a side boat (whatever it's called, maybe a lifeboat) and picked up about another 10-15 children. The couple said there where others out on boats, but they did nothing. That's was just amazing. I guess supposdly the people in the other boats weren't sure what happened and they were scared to pick up anybody. How could anyone just watch all those people screaming for help and not do a thing? It's stories like that, that make me mad.

[LightningGSX]

Not sure if you guys have seen this yet, but
http://www.digitalglobe.com/tsunami_gallery.html

These are satellite images of the sunami sites