This Has To Be The Greatest Disaster Ever In The World

jjgold · Dec 30, 2004

Nothing ever like this, I think they have not even got to villages and other remote areas that are just gone all together.

Does anyone know how far this thing actually stretched??

Forget all the wasted money in Iraq, let our heros now go to Asia and send all the billions to these countries where people like us and let Iraq just crumble and they all can go kill each other.

Do The right thing George

WorldNumberOne · Dec 30, 2004

death toll including those that will die from disease will probably top 1/2 million.

complete villages vanished.

they probably think the end of the world has come..

lander · Dec 30, 2004

Great post JJ. Guys like Bush and GameFarce do not support sending aid to "brown or yellow" people, but I hope the real Americans will prevail and show unprecedented support and compassion.

GreenDoberman · Dec 30, 2004

Everyone should see the before and after pictures of entire cities. It is absolutely sickening.

SmoothKG · Dec 30, 2004

Hey JJ , Bush would never send the troops over there because of the lack of oil in the region. I bet Chaney is licking his chops though at the idea of sending some contracting work that way.

winkyduck · Dec 30, 2004

greatest natural disaster, maybe

The Holocaust will be tough to "bump" out of #1

might also put the 2 A-bombs we dropped on Japan above this, too - not so much for the number of people it killed - but what it did to those who lived - f****d up a lot of people's insides leading to deformed kids and all

regardless - this is pure tragedy - the kind we normally only see in schlocky hollywood "disaster" movies - not the stuff that is "real"

Noreaga+ · Dec 30, 2004

winky I dont think you completely understand what the phrase "natural disaster" means.

kidslick · Dec 30, 2004

just heard on msnbc indonesia a town that they still have not been able to get to

maybe 400,000 dead.......

also china had a flood.......not sure of the dates..
over 3 million died......

Journeyman · Dec 30, 2004

Its uncomprehendable...This reminds me of that movie a few years ago....it just goes to show anything can happen, everyday is a gift.

Holysmoke+ · Dec 30, 2004

jjgold said:
Nothing ever like this, I think they have not even got to villages and other remote areas that are just gone all together.

Does anyone know how far this thing actually stretched??

Forget all the wasted money in Iraq, let our heros now go to Asia and send all the billions to these countries where people like us and let Iraq just crumble and they all can go kill each other.

Do The right thing George

Actually the flood Noah endured was the greatest disaster but this is certainly a horrific event.

winkyduck · Dec 30, 2004

Noreaga said:
winky I dont think you completely understand what the phrase "natural disaster" means.

and looking at the title of this thread - WHERE is the word "natural"? i only see "disaster" - nothing about natural or other

DarrylParsons · Dec 30, 2004

Winky,

The Holocaust was not number 1. The USSR under Stalin murdered over 60 million, and even Red China knocked off over 35 million. Hitler's total killings were "only" 20.9 million. For more details, see:

http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM

Of course of these three mass-murdering regimes, Hitler's got about 99% of the media attention, so it's no wonder many think it was #1. But if you consider the ethnical representations in the media industry, the reason for the distortion becomes a lot clearer.

SportSavant · Dec 30, 2004

There is an article in the local paper here about other NATURAL disasters that were greater than this one aswell.....

$$$ wise this TSUNAMI is expected to cost 14 BILLION dollars.....

Hurricane ANDREW in 1992 cost 27 BILLION dollars.... (of course no where near the life was lost).....

In 1556 an earthquaque in CHINA killed 1 million people.....

In 1976 an earthquake in CHINA killed 300 000 to 600 000 people.....

TheGeneral+ · Dec 30, 2004

When will it next erupt?
Scientist have discovered that the ground in Yellowstone if 74cm higher than in was in 1923 - indicating a massive swelling underneath the park. The reservoir is filling with magma at an alarming rate. The volcano erupts with a near-clockwork cycle of every 600,000 years. The last eruption was more than 640,000 years ago - we are overdue for annihilation.

What would be the effect of an eruption?
Immediately before the eruption, there would be large earthquakes in the Yellowstone region. The ground would swell further with most of Yellowstone being uplifted. One earthquake would finally break the layer of rock that holds the magma in - and all the pressure the Earth can build up in 640,000 years would be unleashed in a cataclysmic event.

Magma would be flung 50 kilometres into the atmosphere. Within a thousand kilometres virtually all life would be killed by falling ash, lava flows and the sheer explosive force of the eruption. Volcanic ash would coat places as far away as Iowa and the Gulf of Mexico. One thousand cubic kilometres of lava would pour out of the volcano, enough to coat the whole of the USA with a layer 5 inches thick. The explosion would have a force 2,500 times that of Mount St. Helens. It would be the loudest noise heard by man for 75,000 years, the time of the last super volcano eruption. Within minutes of the eruption tens of thousands would be dead.

The long-term effects would be even more devastating. The thousands of cubic kilometres of ash that would shoot into the atmosphere could block out light from the sun, making global temperatures plummet. This is called a nuclear winter. As during the Sumatra eruption a large percentage of the world's plant life would be killed by the ash and drop in temperature. Also, virtually the entire of the grain harvest of the Great Plains would disappear in hours, as it would be coated in ash. Similar effects around the world would cause massive food shortages. If the temperatures plummet by the 21 degrees they did after the Sumatra eruption the Yellowstone super volcano eruption could truly be an extinction level event.

armageddononline.tripod.com/volcano.htm

Journeyman · Dec 30, 2004

Well that was just what I needed to read General..Thanks

Elephant · Dec 30, 2004

Here in this one pic there must be hundreds dead, This will go way over 100,000 dead. WARNING THIS IS A VERY GRAPHIC PIC

http://img145.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img145&image=ruumiita4ft.jpg

WorldNumberOne · Dec 30, 2004

You werent kidding .

That is stomach turning.

jjgold · Dec 30, 2004

That just shows the devastation, those pics were very graphic and telling

BaseballGuy · Dec 30, 2004

I hope that the govt people over there will install a warning system after this mess. How many deaths does it take to install a much needed warning system. If a warning system was in place people could have gone inland. Without a warning system they are just sitting ducks.

Every wonder why a hurricane that hits Haiti kills thousands but that same hurricane hits the U.S and only causes 15 deaths?

I feel really sorry for all who have died.

G-D rest their souls.

NickyDeuces · Dec 30, 2004

I'm of the belief those who perished are at peace. It's the survivors who are devastated. They're in urgent need of help. And the World is rallying to the cause.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/12/28/tsunami.aidsites/