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Non Tool Forum => The Break Room => Topic started by: Whoey on December 23, 2018, 11:58:23 AM

Title: Tsunami in Indonesia
Post by: Whoey on December 23, 2018, 11:58:23 AM: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46663158

Hope all our members and their families are safe
Title: Re: Tsunami in Indonesia
Post by: SteveC on December 23, 2018, 09:25:03 PM: Quote from: Whoey on December 23, 2018, 11:58:23 AM
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46663158

Hope all our members and their families are safe

+1 :tu:
Title: Re: Tsunami in Indonesia
Post by: Syncop8r on December 23, 2018, 09:35:22 PM: +2 At least 222 dead. :cry:
Title: Re: Tsunami in Indonesia
Post by: Smashie on December 24, 2018, 10:45:35 PM: +3 After all I spent the first few years of my life in Jakarta :salute:
Title: Re: Tsunami in Indonesia
Post by: Nix on December 24, 2018, 11:43:23 PM: Terrible event. My sympathies to Indonesia!
Title: Re: Tsunami in Indonesia
Post by: Top-Gear-24 on December 25, 2018, 12:18:33 AM: Quote from: SteveC on December 23, 2018, 09:25:03 PM
Quote from: Whoey on December 23, 2018, 11:58:23 AM
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46663158

Hope all our members and their families are safe

+1 :tu:

Quote from: Nix on December 24, 2018, 11:43:23 PM
Terrible event. My sympathies to Indonesia!

+1

Our thoughts go out to those affected by this tragedy ...
Title: Re: Tsunami in Indonesia
Post by: ToolJoe on December 25, 2018, 07:28:15 PM: The footage of the band playing on a stage right on the beach and the wave comes and tears it apart was terrifying :o
Title: Re: Tsunami in Indonesia
Post by: Syncop8r on December 25, 2018, 08:49:49 PM: I'm trying to remember who our Indonesian members are...
Title: Re: Tsunami in Indonesia
Post by: ThundahBeagle on December 25, 2018, 09:43:03 PM: Good Lord!

God help them. Can all of our Indonesian members chime in to let us know they are OK and what help might be given?
Title: Re: Tsunami in Indonesia
Post by: Whoey on December 25, 2018, 09:55:09 PM: There was a news story about the band, singer survived, bassist and manager dead, and drummer & guitarist still missing or something along those lines. Very tragic
Title: Re: Tsunami in Indonesia
Post by: Syncop8r on December 25, 2018, 10:04:18 PM: Quote from: Syncop8r on December 25, 2018, 08:49:49 PM
I'm trying to remember who our Indonesian members are...
jaya_man... but I think he has posted since then.
Title: Re: Tsunami in Indonesia
Post by: Alan K. on December 27, 2018, 02:29:33 AM: It has been reported that this tsunami was not started by an earthquake so there was no seismic activity warning. It was started by a volcanic eruption causing a landslide. There should have been a tidal surge warning, but the warning device had been vandalized. If they ever find whoever vandalized the warning device the person or people responsible should be charged with murder.
Title: Re: Tsunami in Indonesia
Post by: ddogu on December 27, 2018, 09:15:31 AM: AFAIK the tidal warning systems are farther away, out in the ocean but the volcano (thus, the source of the waves) are much closer to the shore. So, even if the system was intact, I wonder how useful it would have been :/

This is sad... I've been to Koh Phiphi Island in Thailand and still remember the warning and information signs pointing to the escape paths in case of a tsunami. Just the thought of it gives shivers down my spine...