That links shows a dozen or so locations before and after the tsunami.
Posted by mothertree (Member # 4999) on :
Thanks for posting that. The first few it's hard to see what is so different, the next few are jaw dropping, and the last 10 my head just started to spin.
Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
Astounded. That's the one word I have to say, more will be worse.
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
Wow.
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
Man, Indonesia just got hammered. I mean, I knew it had, but those pics just brought it home.
Thanks for the link, Kat.
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
The images of Meulaboh were just heartbreaking. It's easy to not really pay attention when they tell you about it on the radio because it's just words--it's too abstract. They can say that whole villages were wiped out, and we can hear that and just think, "Huh, that sucks." But to actually see the images of what that looks like really takes this whole thing out of the abstract and drives into the mind that this is real.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
It's... dizzying...
Everything was washed away... the whole landscape was washed completely away...
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
I'm baffled at those shots where the water is still standing! It didn't even recede, it just took over some of those little islands and peninsulas. Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
It's so sad. But it reminds me of when, in Simtown, your town starts to go downhill. The houses go from looking nice and clean to being kinda dingy from far up.
Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
The same with SimCity 4.
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
Trish, the first few were pics of the water receding just before it hit.
Posted by BotaLadyG (Member # 7053) on :
I am in tears just from the magnitude of the devistation... Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
Well, at least now those who did not know - know. What flees in natue, comes back; sometimes with force.
Let us hope that what happened, if ever shall happen again, will be warned and somewhat protected against.
JH
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
That's heartbreaking.
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
Lady, thanks for posting the link.
Posted by Beanny (Member # 7109) on :
I am deeply sorry for the victims of the tsunami, but I wouldn't trust the pics 100%. There are many bored people in our world who have photoshop.
[ January 18, 2005, 05:11 AM: Message edited by: Beanny ]
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
As for the ones in the URL that Lady Jane presented, they are, in fact, real. Please, save your cynicism for when it's actually warranted.
Posted by Beanny (Member # 7109) on :
I wasn't criticizing this particular website, I was criticizing the general act of faking photos of disasters (i.e. Nine Eleven).
And I wasn't being cynical. I was being realistic.
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
quote: I wouldn't trust the pics 100%.
The way you phrased it, it looks like you're talking specifically about the pictures linked in this thread. Please phrase things more carefully in the future.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
" am deeply sorry for the victims of the tsunami, but I wouldn't trust the pics 100%."
Sounds like you are criticizing these pictures.
Yes, people do fake pictures and get some kind of strange thrill from doing so. However, if you watched anything on the news, you would see the actual result of the tsunami on the land, people, and buildings it devastated.
Posted by WheatPuppet (Member # 5142) on :
That's stunning... the last pictures showed how arbitrary the damage was. Certain houses would survive, while the ones next door would be completely gone.
The one that I found most striking was that of the mosque. It's such a beautiful structure before, and it was surrounded by hundreds of houses. Now it looks so dingy, and all the houses are gone.
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Posted by ctm (Member # 6525) on :
Thanks for the link, Lady. My kids and I just looked at the pictures and it really, for the first time, brought it all home for me. I'll be upping my contribution to the relief effort...
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