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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.
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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.
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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. Posts: 6415 | Registered: Jul 2000
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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.
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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.
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For the fake ones, you can go to to Snopes.
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.
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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.
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" 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.
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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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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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